SI 2026 Urban Economics
Organized by Rebecca Diamond, Jonathan I. Dingel, and Edward L. Glaeser
July 30-31, 2026
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
FORMAT: For the 45-minute slots, 25 minutes for presenter, 10 for discussant, and 10 for Q&A. For the 25-minute slots, 20 for the presenter and 5 for Q&A.
Thursday, July 30
Joint with Real Estate through 2:20 pm
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Overlapping Jurisdictions and the Provision of Local Public Goods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Francesco Ruggieri, University of Virginia
8:55 am

Slum Redevelopments and Evictions in a Developing Megacity

Alishuba Philip, University of Zurich
9:20 am

Family Ties, Residential Location Choice, and Labor Supply

Hadar Avivi, University College London
Santiago Lacouture, University of Chicago
Felipe Lobel, Stanford University
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER

Discussant:
Laura Weiwu, University of California, Berkeley
10:05 am
Break
10:20 am

Racial Segregation, Landlords, and Urban Decay

Tom Nicholas, Harvard University
Christophe Spaenjers, University of Colorado Boulder

Discussant:
Aradhya Sood, University of Toronto
11:05 am

Zoning and the American Suburb

Ryan Gallagher, Northeastern Illinois University
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Tate Twinam, William & Mary

Discussant:
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
11:50 am
Lunch
12:50 pm

How Costly Is Permitting in Housing Development?

Evan J. Soltas, Princeton University and NBER
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
1:35 pm

Assessing Assessors

Huaizhi Chen, University of Texas at Dallas
Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Christopher Berry, The University of Chicago
2:20 pm
Break (end of joint session with Real Estate)
2:35 pm

Pathways into Homelessness

Pierre-Loup Beauregard, Université de Montréal
Victor Couture, University of Toronto
David A. Green, University of British Columbia
Jeffrey Hicks, University of Toronto
William Warburton, Elevate Consulting

Discussant:
Angela Wyse, Dartmouth College
3:20 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Children of Neighborhood Renewal: Long-Run Effects of a Revitalization Program

Emma Duchini, University of Essex
Catherine van der List, University of Essex

Discussant:
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
4:15 pm

Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Thomas B. Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Staiger, Harvard University
Laura Tach, Cornell University

Discussant:
Diego Daruich, University of Southern California
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 31
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Urban Costs around the World

Jordan Rosenthal-Kay, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
8:55 am

Conflict, Forced Displacement and Growth: Evidence from Uganda

Ayah Bohsali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
9:20 am

Dynamic Costs of Resource Shocks: Evidence from Cape Town’s Water Crisis

Emiliano Rinaldi, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Pol Simpson, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
9:45 am

Land Subsidence: Environmental Risk in Housing Markets in Mexico City

Lucy G. Hackett, University of California, Berkeley
Carolina Rodríguez Zamora, Banco de México
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Innovation Spillovers Within Firms and Within Cities

Zhao Jin, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Minghao Yang, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant:
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am

Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh

Ritam Chaurey, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Gaurav Nayyar, The World Bank
Siddharth Sharma, The World Bank
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

A Unified Urban Model With Non-Homothetic Housing Demand

Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, University of Geneva
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sciences Po
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Laurent Gobillon, Paris School of Economics-CNRS

Discussant:
Levi Crews, University of California, Los Angeles
1:45 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Road Pricing under Heterogeneity

Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Brad Ross, University of Pennsylvania
Adi Shany, Tel Aviv University
Itai Ater, Tel Aviv University

Discussant:
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
2:45 pm

Navigating Change: Google Maps, Real-Time Information, and Transit Ridership

Rhiannon Leigh Jerch, The University if Wisconsin-Madison
Andrea La Nauze, University of Queensland
Xinyi Peng, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Equilibrium Neglect and Political Feasibility

Bnaya Dreyfuss, Harvard University
4:10 pm

Competition and the Cost of U.S. Infrastructure

Lindsey Currier, Harvard University
4:35 pm

Churches and Local Economies

Max Pienkny, Northwestern University
Zane Kashner, Stanford University
5:00 pm
Adjourn