SI 2021 Urban Economics
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser
July 29-30, 2021
on Zoom.us
Thursday, July 29
9:30 am
JMP (15 min per paper, 5 min Q&A)

Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions

Jacob Krimmel, Realtor.com

Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco

Kate M. Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau

The Effects of High-skilled Firm Entry on Incumbent Residents

Franklin Qian, UNC Kenan - Flagler Business School
Rose Tan, Stanford University
10:30 am
Session 1 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Neglected No More: Housing Markets, Mortgage Lending, and Sea Level Rise

Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona (slides)

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
Alberto Graziano, CaixaBank Research
Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University
Judit Montoriol-Garriga, CaixaBank Research
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Session 2 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform

Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania
Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University

Consumption Access and the Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity: Evidence from Smartphone Data

Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University
Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University
Stephen J. Redding, Stanford University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
1:00 pm
Session 3 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Quantifying Social Interactions Using Smartphone Data

Victor Couture, University of Toronto
Jonathan I. Dingel, Columbia University and NBER
Allison E. Green, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Does Geographically Adjusting Poverty Thresholds Improve Poverty Measurement and Program Targeting? (slides)

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
Brian Curran, University of Chicago

Politicians’ Neighborhoods: Where do they Live and does it Matter?

Olle Folke, Uppsala University
Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University
Linna Marten, Stockholm University
Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Session 4 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Is the Low Income Housing Tax Credit an Effective Policy for Increasing Neighborhood Income Diversity?

Therese McGuire, Northwestern University
Nathan Seegert, Northeastern University

The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity: Evidence from Federal Lending Cutoffs during COVID-19 (slides)

Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Benjamin G. Hyman, University of California, Los Angeles
Or Shachar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation

Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Reassessing the Property Tax

Christopher Berry, University of Chicago
5:15 pm
JMP 2 (15 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Homeless Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes (slides)

Elior Cohen, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Decoupling Homes and Schools: Assessing the Impact of Forced School Choice on Residential Change

Cora Wigger, Elon University

The Welfare Effect of Spatial Mismatch: Evidence From the New York Metropolitan Area

Xinle Pang, SUNY Buffalo
6:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 30
9:30 am
JMP 3 (15 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Great Expectations: Urban Development in 17th Century London

Jacob Field, Cambridge University
Yi Jie Gwee, The World Bank
Di Song Tan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Long-Distance Trade and Long-Term Persistence

Sebastian Ellingsen, University of Bristol

Urban Transit Infrastructure and Inequality: The Role of Access to Non-Tradable Goods and Services

Brandon Joel Tan, International Monetary Fund
Kwok Hao Lee, National University of Singapore
10:30 am
Session 5 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Spatial Production Networks (slides)

Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Federico Huneeus, Duke University
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University

A Unified Theory of Cities

Jacques-François Thisse, Université Catholique de Louvain (CORE)
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
Phillip Ushchev, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting

Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER
Andrew R. Waxman, University of Texas at Austin
Jing Wu, Tsinghua University
Tianli Xia, University of Rochester

Train to Opportunity: the Effect of Infrastructure on Intergenerational Mobility

Myra Mohnen, University of Ottawa
Jose-Alberto Guerra, Universidad de los Andes
Julian Costas-Fernandez, University College London
12:30 pm
Special Zipf Session

Felix Auerbach and Zipf’s Law for Cities

Diego Rybski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

The Effect of WWI Military Casualties on the Population Distribution in Germany (slides)

Antonio Ciccone, University of Mannheim
1:30 pm
Session 6 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

The Economic Geography of Global Warming

Jose Luis Cruz Alvarez, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER

Pollution in Ugandan Cities: Do Managers Avoid it or Adapt in Place? (slides)

Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER
Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
Nancy Lozano Gracia, The World Bank
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
Jeanne Sorin, University of Chicago

The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters

Brigitte Roth Tran, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Arthur A. van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
3:30 pm
Session 7 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Cities, Heterogeneous Fims, and Trade

Jan Bakker, Bocconi University
Alvaro Garcia Marin, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
Andrei V. Potlogea, The University of Edinburgh
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Yang Yang, International Monetary Fund

Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Simon Franklin, Queen Mary University of London
Clement Imbert, Sciences Po
Girum Abebe, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Carolina Mejia Mantilla, University of California, Los Angeles

Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Iffath Sharif, The World Bank
Maheshwor Shrestha, The World Bank

The Diffusion of Epichoric Scripts and Coinage in the Ancient Hellenic Poleis

Yuxian Chen, Brown University
Yannis M. Ioannides, Tufts University
5:30 pm
Adjourn