SI 2017 Urban Economics
Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer
July 27-28, 2017
Hotel Marlowe
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.,Cambridge, MA
| Wednesday, July 26 | ||||
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |||
| Thursday, July 27 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Real Estate Economics | ||||
| 8:30 am |
Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Long-term Impacts of Slum Upgrading: Evidence from the Kampung Improvement Program in Indonesia
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| 9:20 am |
Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Georgia Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation: 1988-2014
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
H. Spencer Banzhaf, North Carolina State University and NBER Kyle Mangum, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Role of Zoning
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| 11:20 am |
Yu Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Real Estate Booms and Endogenous Productivity Growth
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
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| 1:50 pm |
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Diego Puga, CEMFI Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications
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| 2:40 pm |
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI City Location and Economic Development
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:40 pm |
Michael A. Bailey, Georgetown University Ruiqing Cao, Stockholm School of Economics Theresa Kuchler, New York University and NBER Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER Arlene Wong, Princeton University Measuring Social Connectedness
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| 4:30 pm |
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Glen Weyl, Microsoft Dan Knoepfle, Uber Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase
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| 5:20 pm |
Mark Long, University of California, Riverside Robert Plotnick, University of Washington, Emeritus Ekaterina S. Roshchina, Amazon.com Emma van Inwegen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jacob L. Vigdor, University of Washington and NBER Hilary Wething, Pennsylvania State University Estimating Effects of Minimum Wage Increases on Wages and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle
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| 6:10 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, July 28 | ||||
| Friday is at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Luis E. Quintero, Johns Hopkins University Mark Roberts, World Bank The Value of Urbanization for Development: Urban Wage Premia in Latin America and the Caribbean
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| 9:20 am |
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Yizhen Gu, Peking University Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Agha A. Akram, Lahore University of Management Sciences Shyamal Chowdhury, University of Sydney Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER General Equilibrium Effects of Emigration on the Rural Economy
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| 11:20 am |
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of California at Berkeley Stefano Polloni, Brown University Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, McGill University Subways and Urban Air Pollution
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| 12:10 pm |
Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University Identifying Neighborhood Effects among Firms: Evidence from Location Lotteries of the Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn and Lunch | |||