@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2930},
      author = {Schwab, Clyde},
      title = {Gentrification in Berlin: A Novel Conceptually Driven  Quantitative Approach to Evaluating Anti-Displacement  Legislation},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {B.A.},
      address = {2021-06-11},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {As cities across the world have experienced urbanization  over the past several decades, gentrification, and its  accompanying social and economic tensions, has become one  of the most prominent issues in geography literature. As  affected citizens struggle to fight displacement and cities  coordinate policy responses, the academic community has  struggled to rigorously define and quantify gentrification  despite the substantial attention paid in popular media to  gentrification as an urban phenomenon (Preis et al, 2020).  Policy responses have also been varied, with cities using a  mix of rent controls, supply-side initiatives, and other  regulatory measures to mitigate — and sometimes encourage  —gentrification (Lees and Ley, 2008). Berlin has  experienced dramatic gentrification over the past two  decades, but policymakers have struggled to respond. In  this paper, I evaluate the effectiveness of   "Erhaltungsverordnungen", or preservation laws, an  as-of-yet unexamined method of slowing gentrification. To  do so, I develop a novel method of evaluating  gentrification using Dangschat's (1988) invasion-succession  model of gentrification and classify each LOR planning area  in Berlin (n=448) bi-yearly from 2001 to 2019 as being in  one of five stages of gentrification using demographic and  real-estate valuation data. With this data, I use a  multi-state survival analysis based on Therneau et al  (2020) and a multiple-group time variable treatment effect  difference-in-difference approach drawn from Callaway and  Sant'Anna (2020) to evaluate preservation laws. I extend  Callaway and Sant'Anna (2020) to evaluate the possibility  of spillover effects according to Butts (2021). I find no  indication of preservation legislation slowing  gentrification and that further research is necessary  because of the recency of the adoption of said legislation.  Broadly, this paper represents an exploratory analysis into  the possibility of more exactly measuring gentrification  throughout its course and utilizing said data for policy  interventions},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2930},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2930},
}