As part of the 2025 Stone Inequality Seminar Series, join us for an engaging seminar with Hadar Avivi, a post-doctoral fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. Avivi will be presenting her paper, titled “One Land, Many Promises: Assessing the Consequences of Unequal Childhood Location Effects.”
Abstract
This paper estimates the causal effects of childhood residential location on the adult income of native-born Israeli children and the children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union and studies the consequences of location effect heterogeneity on the design and effectiveness of neighborhood recommendation policies. The causal effects of childhood location contribute substantial variability to the adult earnings of Israeli children. While the place effects of high-income immigrants and high-income natives are strongly correlated, location effects for low-income immigrants are uncorrelated with location effects for low-income natives. Guided by these findings, we develop a policy targeting framework aiming to recommend the top locations in Israel while incorporating the constraint that the policymaker cannot make ethnicity-dependent location recommendations. Using empirical Bayes tools, we find that targeting policies based on pooled population-wide averages yield inferior outcomes for immigrants. Robust targeting strategies designed to perform well against the least favorable sorting patterns reveal a set of 10 cities that are likely to benefit children of both groups.
Event Details
Date: March 4, 2025
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Location: Iona 533, 6000 Iona Dr, Vancouver, BC
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Hadar Avivi is a post-doctoral fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. Her research studies the causes and consequences of disparities, and intergenerational mobility. Beginning in September 2025, she will join the Department of Economics at University College London as an Assistant Professor. Hadar received her PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2024.