Do Evictions Cause Income Changes? An Instrumental Variables Approach

dc.contributor.advisor	Timmins, Christopher D
dc.contributor.advisor	Connolly, Michelle P
dc.contributor.author	Mok, Grace
dc.date.accessioned	2019-05-02T20:11:21Z
dc.date.available	2019-05-02T20:11:21Z
dc.date.issued	2019-04
dc.department	Economics
dc.description.abstract	Evictions are an important aspect of the affordable housing crisis facing low-income American renters. However, there has been little research quantifying the causal impact of evictions, which poses challenges for academics interested in understanding inequality and policy-makers interested in reducing it. Merging two datasets both new to the literature, I address this gap in the causal literature by using an instrumental variables strategy to examine the impact of evictions on household income over time in Durham, North Carolina. Exploiting gentrification-related evictions as an instrument, I find a 2.5% decrease in household income after eviction. This is a small, but significant decrease in income given that median household income for households at time of eviction is about $15,000.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18532
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	Eviction
dc.subject	Durham, North Carolina
dc.subject	Income
dc.subject	Urban economics
dc.subject	Housing
dc.subject	Gentrification
dc.title	Do Evictions Cause Income Changes? An Instrumental Variables Approach
dc.type	Honors thesis
duke.embargo.months	0

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