Vinicios Sant'Anna

📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —

with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.

Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

📣 Call for papers 📣

19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
October 3 - 4, 2025
Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head.

Please submit your paper by May 30.

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PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23.

Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.

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Are you an urban economist located in the Nordics or working with Nordic data?

You're in luck!

We are organizing the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics in Helsinki, Sept 8-9, 2025.

You can find the call for papers here:

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This is an amazing opportunity! I’m currently a postdoc here and can’t recommend it enough — Albert Saiz is a fantastic mentor.

If you are interested and have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Albert or me at uel@mit.edu.

Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate MIT - Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky

My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate!

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Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!

What better way to start using this platform than to tell you about our Visiting Program on Migration 🌐. Every month a migration expert visits LISER for a few days. Among other things, we made short videos about their latest research, check them out here 👇:
@liser.lu @liser-cb.bsky.social

June 23-27, 2025: Northwestern University Transportation Center - Northwestern University ITEA Annual School and Conference

Join us at the International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference & School at Northwestern University, June 23-27, 2025! Featuring keynote speaker Prof. Dave Donaldson (MIT). Submit your transportation economics research by Feb 28. Two paper prizes available!

Hello Bluesky, this is my first post! Had a great time at the 2025 AREUEA-ASSA Annual Conference with members of the MIT Urban Economics Lab and Uppsala Urban Lab.

A fantastic opportunity for PhD students or early-career faculty who study the economics of productivity

Especially R&D 🔬, immigration ✈️, infrastructure 🌉

I'm honored to be involved in these new NBER/Sloan Foundation fellowships—> www.nber.org/graduat...

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📢📢The Berlin School of Economics @BSE_Berlin will be recruiting PhD students in spatial economics 📢📢 (again). Still, time to apply before the 🧑‍🎄 break. See www.bqse.de for an overview of our activities in "spatial". Apply now & retweet! berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-programm...

Send them back? This paper studies the 1930s mass #repatriation of Mexicans & its effects on U.S. #housing markets.

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@cortesgustavos.bsky.social @vpsantanna.bsky.social #Economics #immigration

Excited to debut my new paper, "Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits,” joint with @cortesgustavos.bsky.social. We document that building permits predict financial market volatility across a century of U.S. economic history.
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Just under two weeks till the submission deadline for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Berlin conference. Please submit your papers or session proposals. Details here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu... #EconConf

I am a postdoc at MIT, and I do research in Urban-Spatial Econ, Housing & Real Estate, Trade, & applied micro.

Check out my other research projects: www.vpsantanna.com/research/

This paper contributes to understanding how natural disaster-induced migration shapes housing markets and the dimensions in which climate refugees differ from other migrants.

Importantly, these effects were primarily driven by migrants from more severely eroded areas, suggesting that migrants' economic vulnerability upon arrival was the key factor influencing housing these market outcomes.

Moreover, we find spillover effects, with non-migrant properties near Dust Bowl settlers also experiencing lower price appreciation.

Properties inhabited by Dust Bowl migrants experienced substantially lower price growth over the decade compared to similar addresses within the same small neighborhood inhabited by other internal migrants.

The paper studies how the influx of migrants fleeing the Dust Bowl affected housing dynamics in Los Angeles, the primary destination for these climate refugees. We find significant direct and spillover effects of Dust Bowl migration on Los Angeles housing markets.

In this paper, we investigate the impact of climate-induced migration on residential real estate markets. Specifically, we focus on the American Dust Bowl, a period of severe drought and dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains during the 1930s, forcing a mass exodus of residents.

Natural disasters have been increasing in intensity and frequency, displacing millions of people across the globe and pushing them to seek refuge elsewhere. How does the arrival of natural disaster-induced migrants shape neighborhoods and housing markets?

Title: Finding Home When Disaster Strikes: Dust Bowl Migration and Housing in Los Angeles Authors: Diogo Baerlocher, Gustavo Cortes, and Vinicios Sant'Anna Abstract: When natural disasters strike, the impact on housing markets can be far-reaching. This paper explores the unique dynamics of natural disaster-induced migration on the housing market, focusing on the 1930s Dust Bowl migration to Los Angeles—the top migrant destination. We use U.S. Census-linked and geocoded address data to document that the arrival of Dust Bowl migrants significantly impacted the city's housing market. We show that houses inhabited by Dust Bowl migrants had lower price growth over the decade. Critically, we uncover valuation spillovers within highly granular neighborhoods, where houses inhabited by non-migrants experienced lower price growth modulated by how close they were to Dust Bowl migrants. Our analysis of potential mechanisms suggests that these effects were primarily driven by the economic vulnerability of migrants rather than generalized discrimination. Our research contributes to understanding how natural disaster-induced migration shapes housing markets and the dimensions in which climate refugees differ from other migrants.

Excited to announce I am on the Job Market!

My #EconJMP (with @diogobaerlocher.bsky.social and Gustavo Cortes) studies how the influx of migrants displaced by natural disasters affects neighborhoods and housing markets, focusing on the 1930s American Dust Bowl.

Link: ssrn.com/abstract=502...

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on migration economics! Check it out: go.bsky.app/39gHy57
Feel free to nominate yourself or others to add to the list!

Hello Max! Could you please add me, too?

Okay, here is the start of the urban economics starter pack. Please send me more names and prod folks who haven't moved. @aaronsojourner.org can you add to your page?

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Also, for a nice urban/geography/regional mix, see the pack of @maxnathan.bsky.social.

We are now streaming!

Cities and Development Workshop 2024

Starting with Yue Yu's study of urbanization and road upgrading in Uganda.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpxB...

Deadline to submit to the AREUEA-ASSA PhD student poster session is this Friday 11/1!

We're organising the 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of #Migration on 22-23 May 2025 in Madrid!

Keynotes: Leah Boustan (Princeton) and Dean Yang (Michigan)

Submit your papers before January 26, 2025: tinyurl.com/y2cd98kk

Reposting the urban economics and economic geography starter pack for all you new BlueSky arrivals #EconSky 📉📈 #geosky

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