Do households use home-ownership to insure themselves? Evidence across U.S. cities

Professional Gender Gaps Across US Cities

Gender imbalances in work environments have been a longstanding concern. Identifying the existence of such imbalances is key to designing policies to help overcome them. In this work, we study gender trends in employment across various dimensions in the United States. This is done by analyzing anonymous, aggregate statistics that were extracted from LinkedIn’s advertising platform. The data con...

Patterns of Second-Home Ownership in Chinese Cities

(Why) Do Prices Differ Across US Cities? Balassa-Samuelson Versus 42nd Street

Do Households Increase Their Savings When the Kids Leave Home?

Much of the disagreement over whether households are adequately prepared for retirement reflects differences in assumptions regarding the extent to which consumption declines when the kids leave home. If consumption declines substantially when the kids leave home, as some life-cycle models of retirement saving assume, households need to achieve lower replacement rates in retirement and need to ...

Consistency of Social Sensing Signatures Across Major US Cities

Previous studies have shown that Twitter users have biases to tweet from certain locations (locational bias) and during certain hours (temporal bias). We used three years of geo-located Twitter Data to quantify these biases and test our central hypothesis that Twitter users’ biases are consistent across US cities. Our results suggest that temporal and locational bias of Twitter users are incons...