Research

Work in progress

Aging and the Housing Market

 As populations age, the demand for housing is changing. In urban areas with a relatively fixed housing supply, older households "aging in place" can exacerbate housing shortages for younger families. This paper examines the impact of an aging population on the distribution of housing in Stockholm’s housing market. Using Swedish administrative data, I estimate a dynamic residential sorting model where households exhibit heterogeneous preferences for housing characteristics and face mobility frictions. The estimated model is used to examine whether the observed housing allocation reflects preferences or is constrained by moving costs, to quantify the distributional effects of an aging population, and to evaluate whether policy interventions such as property taxes and capital gains taxes can improve the match between family and home characteristics.

On Gentrification: Renovations of Rental Housing and Socioeconomic Sorting (with Matz Dahlberg and Per-Anders Edin)

Childhood Neighborhood Quality and School Outcomes: How and for Whom do Neighborhoods Matter? (with Matz Dahlberg, Torsten Santavirta, and Yaroslav Yakymovych)

College Major and Location Choices: Evaluating Policies to Enhance Student Mobility (with Petter Berg)

Immigrant Integration and Endogenous Local Amenities (with Adam Gill)