TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boustan,Leah Platt
AU  - Margo,Robert A.
AU  - Miller,Matthew M.
AU  - Reeves,James M.
AU  - Steil,Justin P.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2019; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The condominium structure, which facilitates ownership of units in multi-family buildings, was only introduced to the US during the 1960s. We ask whether the subsequent development of condominiums encouraged high-income households to move to central cities. Although we document a strong positive correlation between condominium density and resident income, this association is entirely driven by endogenous development of condos in areas otherwise attractive to high-income households. When we instrument for condo density using the passage of municipal regulations limiting condo conversions, we find little association between condo development and resident income, education or race
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w26170
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26170
ER  -