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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Summer Institute 2012

Economics of Real Estate & Local Public Finance

Joe Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, Todd Sinai, Organizers

July 25, 2012

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 24:

6:00 pm Group Dinner – Legal Sea Foods at Kendall Square

Wednesday, July 25
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER Ebonya Washington, Yale University and NBER Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Discussant: Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER
2:00 pm	Sebastian Galiani, Alvin Murphy, and Juan Pantano, Washington University in St. Louis Estimating Neighborhood Choice Models: Lessons from a Housing Assistance Experiment Discussant: Jeffrey Kling, Congressional Budget Office and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Daniel Chen, Duke University Susan Yeh, University of Pennsylvania Growth Under the Shadow of Expropriation? The Economic Impacts of Eminent Domain Discussant: William Fischel, Dartmouth College
4:30 pm	Adjourn