SI 2015 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 20, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 20
8:00 am
8:00 am
Subhra Saha, University of California at Santa Cruz
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau
Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER

Estimating the Local Productivity Spillovers from Science
9:00 am
9:00 am
Judith K. Hellerstein, University of Maryland and NBER
Mark J. Kutzbach, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER

Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs Before, During, and After the Great Recession
10:15 am
Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University
Ugo Troiano, University of California, Riverside
Traviss Cassidy, University of Alabama

Old and Young Politicians
11:15 am
11:15 am
Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER

Economic Development and the Spatial Allocation of Labor: Evidence from Indonesia
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
Yannis M. Ioannides, Tufts University
Junfu Zhang, Clark University

Walled Cities in Late Imperial China
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania

Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ejaz Ghani, The World Bank
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

The Misallocation of Land and other Factors of Production in India
4:15 pm
4:15 pm
Jonathan Hall, University of Toronto

Pareto Improvements from Lexus Lanes: The Effects of Pricing a Portion of the Lanes on Congested Highways
5:15 pm
5:15 pm
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Bryce Steinberg, Brown University and NBER
Abraham Holland, Institute for Defense Analyses

Water, Health, and Wealth