Lena Edlund's research while affiliated with Columbia University and other places

... This resembles concerns about the impact of gentrification on inner city sorting, that is, displacements induced by a gain in attractiveness and economic prospects of a neighbourhood (e.g. Guerrieri et al., 2013;Lees et al., 2013;Edlund et al., 2015;Baum-Snow and Hartley, 2020). ...

... Henrich (2020) used analyses and figures of this paper, highlighted its main findings and prominently cited it in his comprehensive book. 4 The paper builds on studies in development economics that recognised the importance of kinship for economic prosperity (Cox and Fafchamps, 2008;La Ferrara, 2008;Hoff and Sen, 2016;Platteau, 2017;Edlund, 2018;Guirkinger and Platteau, 2020). For example, Platteau (2009; discussed the role of missionary activity on kin networks and development in Africa. ...

... Figure 1 summarizes the time-series and regional variation in real estate prices. The We also find large cross-sectional variation within states and even within metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), as documented by Edlund, Machado, and Sviatschi (2016) and Bogin, Doerner, and Larson (2019). For example, Figure 2 displays ZIP-level housing price returns for one particular metropolitan area (Atlanta) in 2008: the hardest-hit ZIP codes lost as much as 27%, while other nearby ZIP codes had negligible losses. ...

... First, teleworking affects the spatial structure of the city. In the absence of telecommuting, the city is gentrified -costly commuting means that skilled workers favor proximity to the city center (Edlund et al., 2015). For a small increase in the WFH share, the social structure of the city remains the same, but when the WFH share goes beyond a certain threshold, the skilled find it desirable to reside in the periphery where land is cheaper. ...

... 2 For example, fetal deaths are only reported in the USA if the gestation length exceeds 20 weeks, and reporting also varies by states [MacDorman and Kirmeyer (2007)]. 3 See also Mu and Zhang (2011); Almond et al. (2016); Ahsan and Maharaj (2018). 4 In the US, male fetuses have 7%-9% higher mortality rate than that of female fetuses [MacDorman and Kirmeyer (2007); ]. ...

... This result is confirmed by Bailey et al. (2012) and Ananat and Hungerman (2012) that find evidence of increased human capital investments due to early access to contraception, measured respectively as college enrolment and levels of education. Also, Edlund and Machado (2015) investigate the causal effect of increased access to contraception for minors on female educational outcomes. The authors exploit a change in marriage laws that allowed minors to access the pill and find a sizable and significant positive effect on the female probability of ever attending college, which increased by four percentage points, or 10 per cent. ...

... Individuals in same-sex relationships offer a unique case to test the relative explanatory power of socio-economic and gender models, not least when same-sex can be compared to different-sex couples. Empirical outcomes indicate that being in a same-sex relationship is a more important predictor of an equal division of labor than having similar incomes (Shechory & Ziv 2007;Solomon et al. 2005) and specialization is rare (Aldén et al. 2015). An often quoted rationale is that same-sex couples more strongly adhere to equity norms and are therefore more committed to dividing tasks equally (Ciano-Boyce & Shelley-Sireci 2003;Downing & Goldberg 2011;Kurdek 2007;Patterson 1995). ...

... Thus, young, unmarried men are often considered at the root of much mischief in society, whether it is sexual harassment of women or crime and theft or participation in agitations and protests. Studies in China by Lena Edlund 5 show a doubling of crime over two decades correlated to adverse sex ratios. Dreze and Khera 6 show a correlation between higher homicide rates and adverse sex ratios in India. ...

... Empirical evidence shows that inheritances form a significant part of wealth (e.g., Fessler and Schürz, 2018). However, studies on this mostly show that the probability of inheriting does not depend on gender in developed countries (e.g., Edlund and Kopczuk, 2009). ...

... Yet the more common type of "missing children" problem that arises when young children lose contact with their families has drawn much less scrutiny ( O'Connell Davidson, 2011 ;The State Council, 2011 ). While accurate reports are lacking, the number of missing children in China is estimated to range from tens of thousands 1 to hundreds of thousands a year, 2 and many of these children end up being trafficked into illegal adoptions ( Cai and Lavely, 2003 ;Liu et al., 2004 ;Zhang, 2006 ;Chen et al., 2015 ). Poverty has generally been identified as one of the key factors underlying this problem, which has long-lasting social and economic impacts 3 ( Dessy et al., 2005 ;Tamura, 2010 ;Anderson and Ray, 2010 ;Corno and Voena, 2019 ), but the number of missing children in China has remained high despite the country's rapid economic growth in recent decades. ...