
	Wednesday, July 25
6:00 pm	Dinner at the Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon)
	Thursday, July 26
7:50 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Real Estate Economics
8:20 am	Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities Max Löffler, University of Cologne Sebastian Siegloch, University of Mannheim Discussant: Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
9:10 am	The Welfare Implications of Urban Gentrification Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Jacob L. Vigdor, University of Washington and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:20 am	The Opportunity Atlas: Tract-Level Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S. Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maggie Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau Discussant: Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:10 am	Calling from the Outside: The Role of Networks in Residential Mobility Konstantin Buechel, University of Bern Maximilian Ehrlich, University of Bern Diego Puga, CEMFI Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Universitat de Barcelon and IEB Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	The Geography of Consumption Inequality Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER
1:50 pm	Skill-Biased Technical Change and Regional Convergence Elisa Giannone Discussant: Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI
2:40 pm	Location as an Asset Adrien G. Bilal, Harvard University and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
3:30 pm	Break
3:50 pm	In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World Douglas Gollin, Tufts University Martina Kirchberger, Trinity College Dublin David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER Discussant: David Albouy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
4:40 pm	Separating Selection From Spillover Effects: Using the Mode to Estimate the Return to City Size Stuart Rosenthal, Cornell University Hugo Jales, Syracuse University Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
5:30 pm	The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees (slides) Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego Mads Hejlesen, Aarhus University Conor Walsh, Columbia University Discussant: Linh T. Tô, Boston University
6:20 pm	Adjourn
	Friday, July 27
7:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:00 am	Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities Neeraj Baruah, London School of Economics J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics Cong Peng, London School of Economics Discussant: James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
8:50 am	The Revealed Preference of the Chinese Communist Party Leadership: Investing in Local Economic Development versus Rewarding Social Connections Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER Weizeng Sun, Central University of Finance and Economics Jianfeng Wu, Fudan University Siqi Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Discussant: Kairong Xiao, Columbia University and NBER
9:40 am	The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University Discussant: Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:40 am	Aspiration Adaptation in Resource Constrained Enviornments (slides) Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland and NBER Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile Discussant: Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania
11:30 am	The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics Discussant: William Strange, University of Toronto
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Transportation Capital and its Effects on the U.S. Economy: A General Equilibrium Approach (slides) Trevor S. Gallen, Purdue University Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution Discussant: Karen Dynan, Harvard University
1:50 pm	The Welfare Consequences of Formalizing Developing Country Cities: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment Michael D. Gechter, Pennsylvania State University Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:40 pm	Mobility and Congestion in Urban India Prottoy Akbar, Aalto University Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER Discussant: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
3:30 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Prottoy A. Akbar, Aalto University
David Albouy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Sam Asher, Imperial College Business School
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
Adrien Bilal, Harvard University and NBER
Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado
Leah Brooks, George Washington University
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Alex Chinco, Baruch College
Gareth Cook, Brown University
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia
Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Jorge De la Roca, University of Southern California
Anthony A. DeFusco, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Rajeev H. Dehejia, New York University and NBER
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Denise DiPasquale, City Research
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Karen Dynan, Harvard University
Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego
Maximilian Ehrlich, University of Bern
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Trevor S. Gallen, Purdue University
Camille Gardner, New York University
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Michael D. Gechter, Pennsylvania State University
Elisa Giannone, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of California at Berkeley
Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania
Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Mads Hejlesen, Aarhus University
J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER
Hugo Jales, Syracuse University
Rhiannon Leigh Jerch, The University if Wisconsin-Madison

Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
Martina Kirchberger, Trinity College Dublin
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER
Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
Michael Luca, Harvard University and NBER
Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Alvin Murphy, Arizona State University
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI
Nikhil Naik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
Raymond Owens III, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University and NBER
Stefano Polloni, Brown University
Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
Diego Puga, CEMFI
Luis E. Quintero, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Tristan Reed, The World Bank
Stuart Rosenthal, Cornell University
Amy Ellen Schwartz, University of Delaware
Sebastian Siegloch, University of Mannheim
Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER
William Strange, University of Toronto
Meiping Sun, Fordham University
Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University
Lin Tian, INSEAD
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
Linh T. Tô, Boston University
Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile
Stan Veuger, American Enterprise Institute
Jacob L. Vigdor, University of Washington and NBER
Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Universitat de Barcelon and IEB
Conor Walsh, Columbia University
William Wheaton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and NBER
Kairong Xiao, Columbia University and NBER
Junfu Zhang, Clark University
Siqi Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER