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Monday, July 22
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7:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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8:00 am
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Giovanni Peri, University of California at Davis
and NBER
Kevin Y. Shih, UC Davis
Chad Sparber, Colgate University
STEM
Workers, H1B Visas and Productivity in US Cities
Discussant: William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
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9:00 am
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Jeremiah Dittmar, American University
New
Media, Firms, Ideas, and Growth: European Cities After Gutenberg
Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:15 am
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Douglas Gollin, University of Oxford
Remi Jedwab, George
Washington University
Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston
Urbanization
with and without Industrialization
Discussant: Filipe R. Campante, Harvard University
and NBER
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11:15 am
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Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Jonathan I. Dingel, Columbia University
The Comparative
Advantage of Cities
Discussant Kurt Schmidheiny,
Universität Basel
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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Stephen B. Billings, University of North Carolina Charlotte
Erik Barry. Johnson
Localization and Co-Localization within a
Urban Area
Discussant: Scott Duke Kominers, University of
Chicago
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2:00 pm
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Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University and NBER
Urban Transport
Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of
Agglomeration Economies
Discussant: William Strange, University of Toronto
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3:00 pm
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David Albouy, University of Michigan and NBER
Bryan Stuart, University of Michigan
Urban
Population and Amenities
Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University
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4:00 pm
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Break
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4:15 pm
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Pierre-Philippe Combes, Aix-Marseille School of
Economics
Gilles Duranton, Wharton School
Laurent Gobillon, Institut
National d'Etudes Demographiques
The
Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Discussant: Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
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5:15 pm
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Peter Ganong, Harvard University
Robert Collinson, New York University
Incidence
and Price Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Vouchers
Discussant: Denise DiPasquale, City Research
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