Laurent Gobillon

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(Decision) trees and (random) forests: Urban economics, historical data, and machine learning Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Clément Gorin, Yanos Zylberberg 17 November 2020 Applying machine learning to rich historical data sources provides the opportunity to draw novel insights for fields such as urban and spatial economics.

The access of immigrants to the homeownership market Assimilation of migrants can be measured in various ways, one such measure being their access to the homeownership market. This column argues that the evolution of homeownership rates of immigrants is a complex process, with important selection effects. In France, the homeownership rate among northern African immigrants lags behind not only that of natives, but also southern European immigrants.