SI 2016 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 28-29, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 28
1:30 pm	Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Urban Form and Driving: Evidence from US Cities
2:30 pm	Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER Xiangliang Li, Yale University Optimal City Structure
3:45 pm	Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
4:45 pm	Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER Christopher Malloy, Harvard University Quoc H. Nguyen The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures
Friday, July 29
8:30 am	J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics Anthony Venables, University of Oxford Tanner Regan, London School of Economics Building the City: Sunk Capital, Sequencing, and Institutional Frictions
9:30 am	Remi Jedwab, George Washington University Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER The Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010
10:45 am	Meiping Sun, Fordham University The Puzzle of Mistaken Millions: The MTA Surcharge and the Surge of Money onto MetroCards
11:30 am	Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America
12:15 pm	Nikhil Naik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University Measuring Cities with Google Streetview