Highly skilled immigrants and local housing prices: Evidence from the H-1B visa lottery

Eli Beracha, Wintoki Babajide, Kim Emily and Xi Yaoyi

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Abstract: This study explores the extent to which highly skilled immigrants affect local housing prices by exploiting exogenous inflow of highly skilled immigrants to an area through the H-1B visa lottery program. Our results suggest that an influx of highly skilled and high-income immigrants increases the demand for housing. Specifically, our findings show that greater inflow of highly skilled immigrants leads to higher local housing price appreciation. This positive relationship between the influx of highly skilled immigrants and housing price appreciation is stronger in areas with faster overall population growth and in areas with inelastic land supply. However, additional findings show that the inflow of highly skilled workers does not significantly affect local rent prices.

Keywords: H-1B visa program; housing; housing appreciation; real estate return (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-01-01
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