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Transportation Technology and Gentrification: Evidence from the entry of Ridesharing Services
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We analyze the staggered entry of rideshare services across U.S. metropolitan areas, estimating its effect on the spatial redistribution and real outcomes of residents. Ridesharing services gentrify urban areas-especially those with ex-ante lower housing values-causing housing prices to rise 9 percent, with the in-migration of rich-younger individuals more than offsetting the out-migration of incumbent residents and reduced in-migration of poorer individuals. Impact on incumbent residents is conditional on ex-ante homeownership. For homeowners, there is no displacement and a decline in delinquency rates. For non-homeowners, displacement and delinquency rates rise 11 percent and 42 percent, respectively. Our study emphasizes how the private provision of high-end transportation technologies can increase urbanization and exacerbate inequality.
- Subjects :
- Economics - General Economics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2409.15462
- Document Type :
- Working Paper