Peer Reviewed Publications
- Are Americans Locked into Their Houses? The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on State-to-State Migration. Regional Science and Urban Economics.
- This study measures lock-in by using the share of non-prime households with negative equity, and utilizes that analysis to investigate state-to-state migration patterns during the recent housing bust. They find that mobility across states is reduced by house-lock by 2.7%.
- Voting with Their Feet: Relative Economic Conditions and State Migration Patterns. Regional Science and Urban Economics.
- This article details how economic conditions matter when determining migration. However, these factors vary in importance, and their importance also varies over time. During the past three decades, labor market conditions and per capita incomes have had the greatest impact on migration between states, while housing affordability has played a secondary role.