Konhee Chang

I study how frictions in housing markets shape spatial sorting and affordability, with a focus on U.S. rental markets. I am an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the Division of Research and Statistics.

PhD, UC Berkeley Haas, 2025
BA, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

Working Papers

Diversifying the Suburbs: Rental Supply and Spatial Inequality (Job Market Paper)

Works in Progress

Hacked: Misuse of Mortgages by Landlords (w/ Grace Choi)

Spatially Targeted Leverage Regulation and Rental Housing (w/ Jaeyeon Lee)

The Impacts of Refugee Influxes: Evidence from Administrative and Cellphone Data in Jordan (w/ Michael Gechter, Nick Tsivanidis, and Nathaniel Young)

Landlords (Price) Discriminate