SI 2018 Urban Economics
Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer
July 26-27, 2018
Hotel Marlowe
Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Wednesday, July 25 | ||||
| 6:00 pm | Dinner at the Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon) | |||
| Thursday, July 26 | ||||
| 7:50 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning joint with Real Estate Economics | ||||
| 8:20 am |
Max Löffler, University of Cologne Sebastian Siegloch, University of Mannheim Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities
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| 9:10 am |
Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER The Welfare Implications of Urban Gentrification
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:20 am |
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maggie Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau The Opportunity Atlas: Tract-Level Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S.
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| 11:10 am |
Konstantin Buechel, University of Bern Maximilian Ehrlich, University of Bern Diego Puga, CEMFI Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Universitat de Barcelon and IEB Calling from the Outside: The Role of Networks in Residential Mobility
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| 12:00 n | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Geography of Consumption Inequality
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| 1:50 pm |
Elisa Giannone Skill-Biased Technical Change and Regional Convergence
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| 2:40 pm |
Adrien G. Bilal, Stanford University and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Location as an Asset
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:50 pm |
Douglas Gollin, Tufts University Martina Kirchberger, Trinity College Dublin David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World
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| 4:40 pm |
Stuart Rosenthal, Cornell University Hugo Jales, Syracuse University Separating Selection From Spillover Effects: Using the Mode to Estimate the Return to City Size
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| 5:30 pm |
Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego Mads Hejlesen, Aarhus University Conor Walsh, Columbia University The Return to Big City Experience: Evidence from Danish Refugees
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| 6:20 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, July 27 | ||||
| 7:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:00 am |
Neeraj Baruah, London School of Economics J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics Cong Peng, London School of Economics Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities
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| 8:50 am |
Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER Weizeng Sun, Central University of Finance and Economics Jianfeng Wu, Fudan University Siqi Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Revealed Preference of the Chinese Communist Party Leadership: Investing in Local Economic Development versus Rewarding Social Connections
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| 9:40 am |
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:40 am |
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland and NBER Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile Aspiration Adaptation in Resource Constrained Enviornments
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| 11:30 am |
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Trevor S. Gallen, Purdue University Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution Transportation Capital and its Effects on the U.S. Economy: A General Equilibrium Approach
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| 1:50 pm |
Michael D. Gechter, Pennsylvania State University Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley The Welfare Consequences of Formalizing Developing Country Cities: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment
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| 2:40 pm |
Prottoy Akbar, Aalto University Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER Mobility and Congestion in Urban India
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| 3:30 pm | Adjourn | |||