SI 2017 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 27-28, 2017


Hotel Marlowe

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.,Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

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
Discussant: Tavneet Suri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
9:20 am
Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Georgia
Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston

Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation: 1988-2014
Discussant: Paul Peterson, Harvard University
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
Discussant: William Fischel, Dartmouth College
11:20 am
Yu Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Real Estate Booms and Endogenous Productivity Growth
Discussant: Yueran Ma, University of Chicago and NBER
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
Discussant: Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
1:50 pm
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Diego Puga, CEMFI

Urban Growth and its Aggregate Implications
Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
2:40 pm
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI

City Location and Economic Development
Discussant: Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
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
Discussant: Andrew Hillis, Harvard University
4:30 pm
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Glen Weyl, Microsoft
Dan Knoepfle, Uber

Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase
Discussant: Richard J. Arnott, University of California at Riverside
5:20 pm
Mark Long, University of California, Riverside
Robert Plotnick, University of Washington, Emeritus
Ekaterina S. Roshchina, University of Washington
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
Discussant: Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER
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
Discussant: Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
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
Discussant: Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
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
Discussant: Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
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
Discussant: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
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
Discussant: Bryce Steinberg, Brown University and NBER
1:00 pm
Adjourn and Lunch