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Do high housing prices crowd out young professionals?—Micro-evidence from China

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  • Yemin Ding
  • Lee Chin
  • Mengqiu Lu
  • Peidong Deng

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Motivated by the growing trend of young professionals flowing out of high-profile cities in China, this study examines whether high housing prices have a crowding-out effect on young professionals across 235 Chinese cities. Using a conditional logit model with multiple control variables related to the economy, the social environment, and city location, the results showed an inverted U-shaped relationship between a city’s house prices and young professionals’ potential migration into the city. We also performed a series of robustness checks and categorised the sample by gender, academic qualification, and marital status. The results indicated the same inverted U-shaped relationship, but with different extreme points for house prices across the sub-samples. The findings offer suggestions for Chinese local governments to attract young professionals by regulating housing prices in cities where prices surpass the extreme point.

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  • Yemin Ding & Lee Chin & Mengqiu Lu & Peidong Deng, 2023. "Do high housing prices crowd out young professionals?—Micro-evidence from China," Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 2142832-214, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:36:y:2023:i:2:p:2142832
    DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2142832
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