SI 2015 Urban Economics
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser
July 20, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 20

8:00 am

Estimating the Local Productivity Spillovers from Science

Subhra Saha, University of California at Santa Cruz
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER

9:00 am

Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs Before, During, and After the Great Recession

Judith K. Hellerstein, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Mark J. Kutzbach, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER

10:15 am

Old and Young Politicians

Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University
Ugo Troiano, University of California, Riverside
Traviss Cassidy, The University of Alabama

11:15 am

Economic Development and the Spatial Allocation of Labor: Evidence from Indonesia

Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER

1:00 pm

Walled Cities in Late Imperial China

Yannis M. Ioannides, Tufts University
Junfu Zhang, Clark University

2:00 pm

Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India

Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania

3:00 pm

The Misallocation of Land and other Factors of Production in India

Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ejaz Ghani, The World Bank
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

4:15 pm

Pareto Improvements from Lexus Lanes: The Effects of Pricing a Portion of the Lanes on Congested Highways

Jonathan Hall, The University of Alabama

5:15 pm

Water, Health, and Wealth

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Bryce Steinberg, Brown University and NBER
Abraham Holland, Institute for Defense Analyses