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Title: The Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Look at the Housing Market

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: This paper uses data from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses to study the impacts ofimmigration on local housing markets. Specifically, I use matched tract-level data from the twoCensuses to study the effects of changes in the number of immigrants on rental prices in a tract.Without other controls, the results indicate that tracts with larger inflows of immigrants between1990 and 2000 had slower rental price growth, with evidence of differential impacts for Hispanicand non-Hispanic immigrants. However, once controls are added for the changingsocioeconomic composition of tracts, the direct effects of immigrants fall in magnitude andbecome economically and statistically insignificant. These findings are consistent with previousresearch which argues that immigrants effects on the local housing market have to do more withtheir socioeconomic characteristics than with the fact that they are immigrants.

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Authors: Yi, Moises

Institution: University of California-Berkeley

Department: Economics

Advisor: David Card

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States