Thursday, July 28

1:30 pm

Urban Form and Driving: Evidence from US Cities

Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

2:30 pm

Optimal City Structure

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Xiangliang Li, Yale University

3:45 pm

Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution

Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER

4:45 pm

The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures

Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER
Christopher Malloy, Harvard University
Quoc H. Nguyen

Friday, July 29

8:30 am

Building the City: Sunk Capital, Sequencing, and Institutional Frictions

J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics
Anthony Venables, University of Oxford
Tanner Regan, The George Washington University

9:30 am

The Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Remi Jedwab, The George Washington University
Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER

10:45 am

The Puzzle of Mistaken Millions: The MTA Surcharge and the Surge of Money onto MetroCards

Meiping Sun, Fordham University

11:30 am

Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America

Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau

12:15 pm

Measuring Cities with Google Streetview

Nikhil Naik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University