SI 2019 Urban Economics
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser
July 25-26, 2019
Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, July 24
6:00 pm
Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon)
Sponsored by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School and the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School
Thursday, July 25
7:50 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Real Estate Economics
8:20 am

The Current Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets: Evidence from a New Wharton Index

Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jacob A. Krimmel, Realtor.com

Discussant:
Ingrid Ellen, New York University
9:10 am

Affordable Housing and City Welfare

Jack Favilukis, University of British Columbia
Pierre G. Mabille, INSEAD
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am

The Long-Run Effects of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Composition (slides)

Morris Davis, Rutgers University
Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Discussant:
Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
11:10 am

Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients

Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Katherine O'Regan, New York University
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm

All Aboard: The Aggregate Effects of Port Development

Cesar Ducruet, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Discussant:
Stephen J. Redding, Stanford University and NBER
1:30 pm

In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities

Clare A. Balboni, London School of Economics

Discussant:
Denise Dipasquale, Harvard University
2:15 pm

Delineating Urban Areas Using Building Density

Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, INSEE
Pierre-Philippe Combes, University of Lyon and Sciences Po
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Laurent Gobillon, Paris School of Economics-CNRS

Discussant:
Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm

Infrastructure Costs

Leah Brooks, The George Washington University
Zachary Liscow, Yale University

Discussant:
Karen Dynan, Harvard University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Competition and Quality Gains: New Evidence from High-Speed Railways and Airlines

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Long Wang, Fudan University
Yang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Discussant:
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 26
7:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:00 am

Trickle-Down Housing Economics

Charles G. Nathanson, Michigan State University

Discussant:
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
8:50 am

Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Felipe Schwartzman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Discussant:
David Albouy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
9:40 am

Labor Market Polarization and The Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence

Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Eric Mengus, HEC Paris
Tomasz K. Michalski, HEC Paris

Discussant:
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, Center for Research in International Economics
10:30 am
Break
10:40 am

Can We Save the American Dream? A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of School Financing on Local Opportunities

Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego
Tatjana Kleineberg, The World Bank

Discussant:
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
11:30 am

Estimating Who Benefits From Productivity Growth: Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality

Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death

Remi Jedwab, The George Washington University
Noel D. Johnson, George Mason University
Mark Koyama, George Mason University

Discussant:
Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
1:50 pm

The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China

Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Wenquan Liang, Jinan University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Ran Song, National University of Singapore

Discussant:
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
2:40 pm

Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development

Nikita Melnikov, Nova School of Business and Economics
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, University of California, Berkeley
Maria M. Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
3:30 pm

Does Electrification Cause Industrial Development? Grid Expansion and Firm Turnover in Indonesia

Dana Kassem, University of Mannheim

Discussant:
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn