housing

Political party turnover in a local election increased completion times of real estate projects in Mumbai

Zoning reform in São Paulo led to new building permits, modest price declines primarily benefitting the college-educated rich moving in from suburbs

Slum tenants face higher rents and lower investments when their landlord and chief share ethnicity, while gaining when their chief is a co-ethnic

Evidence from Latin America suggests that solely encouraging unattainable aspirations among poor households does not improve their welfare

Evidence from the housing market suggests inequality is being substantially underestimated in Egypt, by about 33%

Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.