SI 2020 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 23-24, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 23
FORMAT: Each presenter will have 20 minutes to show the research, immediately followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. The moderator will invite presenters' co-authors to address audience questions in the Zoom chat while the presenter is presenting. The moderator may also voice one or two questions from the Zoom chat directly to the presenter during the presentation. During Q&A the moderator will select participants from the Zoom chat to voice their questions
Morning Session is Joint with Real Estate
Session I
9:00 am

Take the Q Train: Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects (slides)

Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Implications (slides)
Session II
10:00 am

The Price of Protection: Landlord-Tenant Regulations and the Decline in Rental Affordability, 1960-2017

The Price of Residential Land for Counties, ZIP codes, and Census Tracts in the United States (slides)
Session III
11:00 am

Neighborhood Choice, Information, and the Value of Amenities (slides)

The Microgeography of Housing Supply
12:00 pm
Round Table Discussion on COVID-19 and Cities
Ingrid Ellen, New York University
Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Kelsey Jack, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
Diego Puga, CEMFI
FORMAT: Each presenter will have 20 minutes (with the co-author responding on chat), discussants will have 10 minutes, the remaining 10 minutes will be for Q&A moderated by the organizer
Session I: The Economics of Agglomeration
1:00 pm

Productivity, Place, and Plants: Revisiting the Measurement
Discussant: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
1:40 pm

Cities and Technology Cycles
Discussant: Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
2:20 pm

Spatial Economics for Granular Settings
Discussant: Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:10 pm

The Returns to Serendipity: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley
Discussant: Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER
3:50 pm

Social Proximity to Capital: Implications for Investors and Firms
Discussant: Paul Gompers, Harvard University and NBER
4:30 pm

Social Capital and Labor Market Networks (slides)
Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
5:10 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 24
Session II: Urban History
8:30 am

Was the Arsenal of Democracy an Engine of Mobility? Public Investment and the Roots of Mid-century Manufacturing Opportunity
Discussant: Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
9:10 am

Immigrants, Industries, and Path Dependence
Discussant: Bitsy Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau (slides)
Session III: Urban Policy
10:00 am

School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
Discussant: Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
10:40 am

Is Spending on Schools Valuable and Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes
Discussant: Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:20 am

Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
Discussant: Brendan O'Flaherty, Columbia University (slides)
12:00 pm

Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality (slides)
Discussant: Denise Dipasquale, Harvard University
12:40 pm
Break
Session IV: Transportation
1:00 pm

Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity (slides)
Discussant: Jonathan Hall, Amazon, Inc.
1:40 pm

When Safety Messages Make Us Less Safe: Evidence from Traffic Fatality Messages (slides)
Discussant: Sam Peltzman, University of Chicago (slides)
2:20 pm

National Transportation Networks, Market Access, and Regional Economic Growth
Discussant: Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER (slides)
Session V: Developing World Cities
3:00 pm

Enforcing Payment for Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi’s Slums (slides)
Discussant: Bryce Steinberg, Brown University and NBER
3:40 pm

Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies
Discussant: Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University and NBER
4:20 pm

Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World
Discussant: Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm

Factor Allocation, Informality, and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City (slides)
Discussant: Clare A. Balboni, London School of Economics
5:40 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT: ALL PRESENTERS HAVE 20 MINUTES
ALL DISCUSSANTS HAVE 10 MINUTES
Saturday, December 5
4:15 pm

Spatial Economics for Granular Settings (slides)