SI 2025 Urban Economics
Organized by Rebecca Diamond, Jonathan I. Dingel, and Edward L. Glaeser
July 24-25, 2025
Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
FORMAT: For the 50-minute slots, 25 for the presenter, 12.5 for the discussant and 12.5 for Q&A. For the 20-minute slots, 15 for the presenter and 5 for Q&A.

Thursday, July 24

Morning Joint with Real Estate

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Short Presentations from Job Market Papers

Can We Rebuild a City? Zoning and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment (slides)

Vincent Rollet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Build What and for Whom? The Distributional Effects of Housing Supply

Lei Ma, University of Georgia

Diversifying the Suburbs: Rental Supply and Spatial Inequality

Konhee Chang, University of California, Berkeley

Housing Regulation and Neighborhood Sorting across the US

James D. Macek, University of Alberta

9:50 am

Break

10:00 am

Housing Affordability and the Mobility of Renters

Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
Abdollah Farhoodi, University of Toronto
Lu Han, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Joanna Venator, Boston College

10:50 am

The Distaste for Housing Density

Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Sean E. McCulloch, Brown University

Discussant:
Evan J. Soltas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

11:40 am

The Bronx is Burning: Urban Disinvestment Effects of the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements

Ingrid Ellen, New York University
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Wei You, Peking University

Discussant:
Parinitha R. Sastry, University of Pennsylvania

12:30 pm

Lunch

Urban Economics Meeting

1:30 pm

Inclusive Infrastructure: People versus Place

Clare A. Balboni, London School of Economics
Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
Caylee O'Connor, Stanford University

Discussant:
Allan Hsiao, Stanford University and NBER

2:20 pm

When Developers Hold Office: Shaping Housing Supply Through Local Politics

Ghizlen Ouasbaa, University of Barcelona
Albert Solé-Ollé, University of Barcelona
Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, University of Barcelona

Discussant:
Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

3:10 pm

Hidden Biases: Selective Advertising in the Rental Housing Market

Daniel E. Gold, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Lu Han, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Christopher Timmins, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

Discussant:
Katherine B. Coffman, Harvard University

4:00 pm

Break

4:15 pm

Dynamic Individuals, Static Neighborhoods: Migration and Earnings Changes in Poor Neighborhoods

Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Ethan Jenkins, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Evan E. Mast, University of Notre Dame
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Discussant:
Ingrid Ellen, New York University

5:05 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 25

7:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:00 am

Short Presentations

The Effect of Local Landlords on Rental Housing Prices and Returns

Peleg R. Samuels, Tel Aviv University

The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities

Anaïs Fabre, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Populations in Spatial Equilibrium

Patrick W. Farrell, Columbia University
Matthew Easton, Cornerstone Research

One Land, Many Promises: Assessing the Consequences of Unequal Childhood Location Effects

Hadar Avivi, Princeton University
Tslil Aloni, New York University

Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System

Pablo A. Valenzuela-Casasempere, Yale University

Social Ties and Residential Choice: Micro Evidence and Equilibrium Implications (slides)

Martin Koenen, Harvard University
Drew M. Johnston, Meta Platforms, Inc

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

The Geography of Life: Evidence from Copenhagen

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Ismir Mulalic, Copenhagen Business School
Caterina Soto Vieira, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Daniel M. Sturm, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Ludwig Straub, Harvard University and NBER

Session on Current Urban Policy Debates

11:00 am

A Longer-Run Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Opportunity Zones (slides)

Matthew Freedman, University of California, Irvine
Noah A. Kouchekinia, University of California, Irvine
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER

11:25 am

The Short-Run Effects of Congestion Pricing in New York City (slides)

Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Cody Cook, Yale University
Aboudy Kreidieh, Google Research
Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Neha Arora, Google Research
Freek van Sambeek, Stanford University
Andrew Tomkins, Google Research
Eray Turkel

11:50 am

The Impact of Temporary Rental Subsidies on Homelessness: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Grace Ortuzar, University of Notre Dame
David C. Phillips, University of Notre Dame
James X. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:05 pm

The Effects of Eviction on Children

Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Deniz Dutz, University of Chicago
John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Nicholas S. Mader, NORC at the University of Chicago
Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

1:55 pm

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications

Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Harrison Wheeler, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Jonathan Hall, The University of Alabama

2:45 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Segregation by Choice? Separating Preferences from Restrictions in Housing Markets

Milena Almagro, University of Chicago and NBER
Aradhya Sood, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER

3:50 pm

Sewers and Urbanization in the Developing World

Sean E. McCulloch, Brown University
Matthew P. Schaelling, Brown University
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
Toru Kitagawa, Brown University

Discussant:
Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER

4:40 pm

In-situ Upgrading or Population Relocation? Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Slum Renewal Policies (slides)

Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of California, Berkeley
Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile
Joaquin A. Urrego, Wake Forest University

Discussant:
Hector Blanco, Rutgers University

5:30 pm

Adjourn