Does gentrification displace poor households? An ‘identification-via-interaction’ approach

Sevrin Waights

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Abstract: My theoretical model motivates an ‘identification-via-interaction’ (IvI) approach that separates the causal impact of gentrification on poor exits from endogenous channels. In the empirical analysis, I create a measure of gentrification as the increase in the share of neighbourhood residents who hold a university degree based on the UK Census for 1991, 2001 and 2011. Applying the IvI approach for a sample of private renters from the British Household Panel Survey, 1991–2008, I find that gentrification results in displacement. The IvI approach has general applications in estimating causal relationships where variables are highly endogenous.

Keywords: neighbourhood change; mobility; turnover; causality; cities; urban; housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 R21 R23 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-04-01
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