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Evicted from the Land of Opportunity: Evidence on Displacement from California Rent Control

We investigate the socioeconomic impacts of plausibly exogenous eviction from rent-controlled housing in California. Under the Ellis Act, landlords are allowed to evict all tenants from a building and withdraw it from the rental market. We assemble …

The Geography of Higher Education and the Spatial Propagation of Skill-Biased Technical Change

As states have diverged in their relative demand for skilled workers, the children born in these states have also diverged in their probability of graduating from college. We ask how much of this spatial divergence in college attainment can be …