Does Airbnb Hurt Local Housing Markets? (Barron, Kung, Proserpio) on “Stuff I Keep Rereading”, a list by Malik Torres on TheLysts.
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Field
Urban / housing economics
Core idea
Uses data on Airbnb listings to see how platform growth links to rents and house prices.
Year
2021 (working paper versions earlier)
How dense
High – empirical strategy and robustness checks galore.
My take
Anytime someone says “Airbnb ruined housing” I mentally scroll through this one. Not perfect, but a nice blueprint for how to attack big policy questions with data.
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