Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18483

Offsetting the Earnings Disincentive in Public Housing: Evidence from a Behaviorally Informed Field Intervention

Holly Dykstra, Sofía Fernández Guerrico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18107

The Impact of the Chainsaw-Liberation on the Rental Housing Market in Buenos Aires

Martin Elfert, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18073

Can’t Buy Me Home: Beliefs, Facts, and Policy in the Housing Affordability Crisis

Alda Botelho Azevedo, Inês Gonçalves, João Pereira dos Santos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17868

Local Policy Misperceptions and Investment: Experimental Evidence from Firm Decision Makers

Sebastian Blesse, Florian Buhlmann, Philipp Heil, Davud Rostam-Afschar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17854

Building Without Income Mixing: Public Housing Quotas in France

Guillaume Chapelle, Laurent Gobillon, Benjamin Vignolles

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17715

Rural Employment Evolutions

Elena Faieta, Zhexin Feng, Michel Serafinelli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17633

Human Capital from Childhood Exposure to Homeownership: Evidence from Right-to-Buy

Richard Disney, John Gathergood, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17549

Measuring Quality of Life Under Spatial Frictions

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan H.W. Roth, Tobias Seidel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17403

Discrimination in the Austrian Rental Housing Market: The Effect of Information Concerning First and Second-Generation Immigrant Status

Doris Weichselbaumer, Hermann Riess

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2024, 66, 102030

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17359

Affordable Housing and Individual Labor Market Outcomes

Wolfgang Dauth, Andreas Mense, Matthias Wrede

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17021

To Improve Is to Change? The Effects of Risk Rating 2.0 on Flood Insurance Demand

Francesc Ortega, Ivan Petkov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16857

All That Glitters? Golden Visas and Real Estate

João Pereira dos Santos, Kristina Strohmaier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16726

Housing Costs, College Enrollment, and Student Mobility

Johannes Goehausen, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16713

What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments across the U.S.

Barbara Biasi, Julien Lafortune, David Schönholzer

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 18 February 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16603

The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility

L. Rachel Ngai, Kevin D. Sheedy

published in: International Economic Review, 2024, 65 (3), 1415-1440

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16572

High-Speed Railways and Firms Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Simone Robbiano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16533

Local Labor Markets with Non-homothetic Preferences

Gabriele Cardullo, Agnese Sechi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16501

Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement

Albert Saiz, Arianna Salazar-Miranda

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16436

The Evolution of Work from Home

José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (4), 23 - 50

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16418

Equal Price for Equal Place? Demand-Driven Racial Discrimination in the Housing Market

Anthony Lepinteur, Giorgia Menta, Sofie R. Waltl

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2025, 111, 104089.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16234

Pricing Neighborhoods

Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, Goya Razavi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16113

Unpacking Neighborhood Effects: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale Housing Program in Brazil

Carlos Alberto Belchior, Gustavo Gonzaga, Gabriel Ulyssea

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15986

Health Implications of Building Retrofits: Evidence from a Population-Wide Weatherization Program

Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15980

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun, Bledi Taska

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15959

Energy Price Shocks and the Demand for Energy-Efficient Housing: Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Nils Braakmann, Bahadir Dursun, Harry Pickard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15958

How Does Immigration Affect Housing Costs in Switzerland?

Fabienne Helfer, Volker Grossmann, Aderonke Osikominu

published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statisticsm 2023, 159, 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15896

Geographic Mobility over the Life-Cycle

Antonia Diaz, Álvaro Jáñez, Felix Wellschmied

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15855

Knocking It Down and Mixing It Up: The Impact of Public Housing Regenerations

Hector Blanco, Lorenzo Neri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15849

Do Elections Affect Immigration? Evidence From French Municipalities

Benoît Schmutz, Gregory Verdugo

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, 104803

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15835

In Need of a Roof: Pandemic and Housing Vulnerability

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2024, 7, 27 - 44

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15706

Short-Term Rental Bans and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Lisbon

Duarte Gonçalves, Susana Peralta, João Pereira dos Santos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15699

The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock

Sandro Heiniger, Winfried Koeniger, Michael Lechner

revised version published online as 'The heterogeneous response of real estate prices during the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 27 August 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15636

Health Shocks and Housing Downsizing: How Persistent Is 'Ageing in Place'?

Joan Costa-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto

published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 204, 490-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15481

House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data

Denis Gorea, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Marianna Kudlyak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15460

Testing for Discrimination in Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from the UK

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Tania Oliveira, Nikitha Rohith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15447

The Understated ‘Housing Shortage’ in the United States

Kevin Corinth, Hugo Dante

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15300

Real Estate Agent Earnings and Local Housing Prices

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Zichong (Tom) Qu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15296

How Does the Economic Uncertainty Affect Asset Prices under Normal and Financial Distress Times?

Mehmet Balcilar, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, Huseyin Ozdemir, Gurcan Aygun, Mark E. Wohar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15199

Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts

Lars Brausewetter, Stephan L. Thomsen, Johannes Trunzer

revised version published as 'Regional Supply and Demand Fundamentals in the German Housing Price Boom' in: German Economic Review, 2024, 25 (1), 1-36.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15025

Is There a Diminishing Value of Urban Amenities as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Aico van Vuuren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14842

A Convenient Representation of the Wealth Distribution and More Evidence on Homeownership and Wealth Inequality in Euro Area Countries

Martin Biewen, Stefan Glaisner, Rolf Kleimann

substantially revised version published as 'The shape of the wealth distribution and differences in wealth inequality across Euro area countries' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 23, 1–25,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14730

How Much Do Households Dislike Local Density? And Do Developers Fully Consider Their Preferences? Evidence from a Policy Change in Singapore

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Louisa Poco

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14238

COVID-19, Race, and Gender

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

published as 'JUE insight: COVID-19, race, and gender' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 141, 103484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14231

Cities and Tasks

Hans R.A. Koster, Ceren Ozgen

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 103386

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14195

Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14170

Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity

Wolter Hassink, Matteo Millone, Remco Mocking, Benedikt Vogt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13553

Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains

Matthew Gibson, Jamie Mullins

published as 'Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (6), 1069-1111.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13467

COVID-19, Race, and Redlining

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

published in: Covid Economics, 2020, 38, 129-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12806

Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining

Marianna Belloc, Paolo Naticchioni, Claudia Vittori

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (1), 25–50.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12656

Making Use of Home Equity: The Potential of Housing Wealth to Enhance Retirement Security

Jorge Miguel Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso, Robert Holzmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12474

Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12402

Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration

William Cochrane, Jacques Poot

published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225

Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12047

The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany

Kathleen Kürschner Rauck, Michael Kvasnicka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12007

Real Estate Prices and Corporate Investment: Theory and Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects across Firms

Denis Fougère, Rémy Lecat, Simon Ray

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019, 51(6), 1503-1546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11856

Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Sevrin Waights

published in: Urban Studies, 2022, 59 (2) 281-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11811

Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya

published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2020, 56 (5), 1581–1604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11810

The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Cityscape, 2019, 21 (2), 129-156.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11726

The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Josef Kjellander, Viktor Nilsson, Aico van Vuuren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11636

Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?

Michael J. Osei, John V. Winters

published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2019, 33(3), 212-219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11527

Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France

Gregory Verdugo, Sorana Toma

published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11497

Do House Prices Sink or Ride the Wave of Immigration?

Matthew P. Larkin, Zohid Askarov, Chris Doucouliagos, Chris Dubelaar, Maria Klona, Joshua Newton, T. D. Stanley, Andrea Vocino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11036

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10873

The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values

Stephen B. Billings, Kevin T. Schnepel

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 69 - 81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10614

Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies

Guy Johnson, David C. Ribar, Anna Zhu

published in: in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women and the Economy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10374

Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, 81 - 100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10373

The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (10), 2766–281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10336

Misalignment of Productivity and Wages across Regions? Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

François Rycx, Yves Saks, Ilan Tojerow

published in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (12), 1697-1707

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9899

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, I. P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing, Wei-Kang Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9862

How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9745

The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China

Shihe Fu, Yu Liao, Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9692

The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers

Stijn Baert, Bas van der Klaauw, Gijsbert van Lomwel

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e139 - e152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9502

Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado, Maria Micaela Sviatschi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9427

Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Nikos Askitas

published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423

Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8536

House Price Expectations

Geng Niu, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163

Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7027

The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7002

House Lock and Structural Unemployment

Robert G. Valletta

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 86–97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6503

Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities

Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 739–748

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6383

Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Daria Burnes, David Neumark, Michelle J. White

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6106

The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Christopher A. Neilson, Seth D. Zimmerman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 18-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6016

Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Octávio Figueiredo, Paulo Guimaraes, Douglas Woodward

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 1 - 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5895

Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5686

Immigration and Innovation

David C. Maré, Richard Fabling, Steven Stillman

published as 'Innovation and the Local Workforce' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2014, 93(1), 183–201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5557

Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France

Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz, Roland Rathelot, Mirna Safi

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 56-69.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4671

Directed Search in the Housing Market

James Albrecht, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016, 19, 218-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4573

Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4415

Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?

Jed Kolko, David Neumark

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4333

Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain

Libertad González, Francesc Ortega

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 37-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4308

Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4110

Making – or Picking – Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies

Douglas S. Noonan, Douglas J. Krupka

published in: Real Estate Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 379-407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3598

On Amenities, Natural Advantage and Agglomeration

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3370

The Stability of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in America

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3320

Empowerment Zones, Neighborhood Change and Owner Occupied Housing

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

revision published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2009, 39(4), 386-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3224

Wages, Rents and Heterogeneous Moving Costs

Douglas J. Krupka, Kwame Donaldson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3155

Ethnic Sorting in the Netherlands

Aslan Zorlu, Jan Latten

published in: Urban Studies, 2009, 46 (9), 1899-1923

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3129

House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence

Olympia Bover, Juan F. Jimeno