A customized approach to high-opportunity housing
A customized search program helped low-income families find and move to good neighborhoods to raise their children.
Faculty
Christopher Palmer is the Albert and Jeanne Clear Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches corporate finance. His research focuses on how credit, real estate, and labor markets respond to periods of significant upheaval.
Palmer is also a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an Affiliate with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He previously taught real estate finance at the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Prior to graduate school, he consulted with Compass-Lexecon.
Palmer holds a BA in economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University and a PhD in economics from MIT.
Current Research Focus: Palmer's research focuses on how credit and real-estate markets respond to periods of significant upheaval. His current research projects evaluate policies designed to increase consumer attention to financial disclosures, improve retirement savings, reform the personal bankruptcy system, and improve federal housing vouchers.
Argyle, Bronson, Christopher John Palmer, and Taylor Nadauld (NBER Working Paper #26645). The Review of Financial Studies. Forthcoming. Data and Code. Slides. WSJ. Econimate Video. The Conversation. MarketWatch. NYU PhD Video.
Byrne, Shane, Kenneth Devine, Michael King,Yvonne McCarthy, and Christopher John Palmer (NBER Working Paper #31043), Working Paper. March 2023.
Liu, Haoyang, and Christopher John Palmer (NBER Working Paper #28926), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6395-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2021.
Palmer, Christopher John, Paul Adams, Redis Zaliauskas, and Stefan Hunt. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 141, No. 1 (2021): 122-147. WSJ. J-PAL Summary. The Economist. MarketWatch. Code. Slides.
Argyle, Bronson, Benjamin Iverson, Taylor Nadauld, and Christopher John Palmer (NBER Working Paper #28901), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6150-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2021.
Palmer, Christopher John, Jerry Hausman, Haoyang Liu, and Ye Luo. Econometrica Vol. 89, No. 2 (2021): 849–873. Data and Code.
A customized search program helped low-income families find and move to good neighborhoods to raise their children.
MIT Sloan School Professor Christopher Palmer partners with Seattle and King County Public Housing Authorities to pilot mobility program addressing the fading American Dream
"It is fantastic for current renters who basically have this wonderful insurance against very high rent increases in the future."
Chris Palmer talks about the effects of rent control in Cambridge during its 25-year implementation and in the aftermath of its repeal.