SI 2020 Urban Economics
Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer
July 23-24, 2020
on Zoom.us
| 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 |
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Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Implications |
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| Session II | ||||
| 10:00 am |
The Price of Protection: Landlord-Tenant Regulations and the Decline in Rental Affordability, 1960-2017 |
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The Price of Residential Land for Counties, ZIP codes, and Census Tracts in the United States |
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| Session III | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Neighborhood Choice, Information, and the Value of Amenities |
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The Microgeography of Housing Supply |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 1:40 pm |
Cities and Technology Cycles
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| 2:20 pm |
Spatial Economics for Granular Settings
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:10 pm |
The Returns to Serendipity: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley
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| 3:50 pm |
Social Proximity to Capital: Implications for Investors and Firms
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| 4:30 pm |
Social Capital and Labor Market Networks
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| 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
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| 9:10 am |
Immigrants, Industries, and Path Dependence
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| Session III: Urban Policy | ||||
| 10:00 am |
School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program
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| 10:40 am |
Is Spending on Schools Valuable and Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes
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| 11:20 am |
Learning about Homelessness Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
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| 12:00 pm |
Homeownership, Labor Supply, and Neighborhood Quality
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| 12:40 pm | Break | |||
| Session IV: Transportation | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity
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| 1:40 pm |
When Safety Messages Make Us Less Safe: Evidence from Traffic Fatality Messages
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| 2:20 pm |
National Transportation Networks, Market Access, and Regional Economic Growth
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| Session V: Developing World Cities | ||||
| 3:00 pm |
Enforcing Payment for Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi’s Slums
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| 3:40 pm |
Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies
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| 4:20 pm |
Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World
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| 5:00 pm |
Factor Allocation, Informality, and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City
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| 5:40 pm | Adjourn | |||
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FORMAT: ALL PRESENTERS HAVE 20 MINUTES ALL DISCUSSANTS HAVE 10 MINUTES |
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| Saturday, December 5 | ||||
| 4:15 pm |
Spatial Economics for Granular Settings |
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