Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation

We are grateful to Fahad Algifari, Andrea Cerrato, Hongrui He, Shih-Hsuan Hsu, Luigi Roncoroni, John Ruf, and Serena Xu for excellent research assistance. We thank Drew Breunig, Nicholas Shailas, Stephanie De Leon, Elizabeth Cutrone, and the team at Precisely PlaceIQ for data access and helpful conversations. We thank Cody Cook for sharing his block-level income estimates. We thank Keith Chen, Pierre Magontier, and numerous seminar participants for helpful feedback. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Precisely PlaceIQ, NBER, nor CEPR. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2030056. This research was approved by the University of Chicago Institutional Review Board under protocol IRB20-0967 and the University of Pennsylvania under protocol 856399. Dingel thanks the Cohen and Keenoy Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for support. Handbury thanks the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton and the Dean's Research Fund for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.