SI 2019 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 25-26, 2019

Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 24
6:00 pm
Dinner at Hotel Marlowe (Muse Salon)
Sponsored by the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School and the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School
Thursday, July 25
7:50 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Real Estate Economics
8:20 am
Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jacob A. Krimmel, Federal Reserve Board

The Current Local Regulatory Environment for Housing Markets: Evidence from a New Wharton Index
Discussant: Ingrid Ellen, New York University
9:10 am
Jack Favilukis, University of British Columbia
Pierre G. Mabille, INSEAD
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Affordable Housing and City Welfare
Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am
Morris Davis, Rutgers University
Jesse M. Gregory, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

The Long-Run Effects of Low-Income Housing on Neighborhood Composition (slides)
Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
11:10 am
Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Neighborhood Choice Among Housing Voucher Recipients
Discussant: Katherine O'Regan, New York University
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm
Cesar Ducruet, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

All Aboard: The Aggregate Effects of Port Development
Discussant: Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
1:30 pm
Clare A. Balboni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities
Discussant: Denise DiPasquale, City Research
2:15 pm
Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, INSEE
Pierre-Philippe Combes, University of Lyon and Sciences Po
Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Laurent Gobillon, Paris School of Economics-CNRS

Delineating Urban Areas Using Building Density
Discussant: Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Leah Brooks, George Washington University
Zachary Liscow, Yale University

Infrastructure Costs
Discussant: Karen Dynan, Harvard University
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Long Wang, Fudan University
Yang Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Competition and Quality Gains: New Evidence from High-Speed Railways and Airlines
Discussant: Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 26
7:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:00 am
Charles G. Nathanson, Northwestern University

Trickle-Down Housing Economics
Discussant: Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
8:50 am
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Felipe Schwartzman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution
Discussant: David Albouy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
9:40 am
Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Eric Mengus, HEC Paris
Tomasz K. Michalski, HEC Paris

Labor Market Polarization and The Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence
Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
10:30 am
Break
10:40 am
Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego
Tatjana Kleineberg, The World Bank

Can We Save the American Dream? A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of School Financing on Local Opportunities
Discussant: Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
11:30 am
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Estimating Who Benefits From Productivity Growth: Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
Discussant: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Remi Jedwab, George Washington University
Noel D. Johnson, George Mason University
Mark Koyama, George Mason University

Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death
Discussant: Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
1:50 pm
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Wenquan Liang, Jinan University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Ran Song, National University of Singapore

The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
Discussant: David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
2:40 pm
Nikita Melnikov, Nova School of Business and Economics
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, Stanford University
Maria M. Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER

Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development
Discussant: Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
3:30 pm
Dana Kassem, University of Mannheim

Does Electrification Cause Industrial Development? Grid Expansion and Firm Turnover in Indonesia
Discussant: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
4:20 pm
Adjourn