SI 2021 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 29-30, 2021

on Zoom.us

Thursday, July 29
9:30 am	JMP (15 min per paper, 5 min Q&A)
	Jacob Krimmel, Federal Reserve Board Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions
	Kate M. Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco
	Franklin Qian, University of North Carolina Rose Tan, Stanford University The Effects of High-skilled Firm Entry on Incumbent Residents
10:30 am	Session 1 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin - Madison Neglected No More: Housing Markets, Mortgage Lending, and Sea Level Rise
	Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER Alberto Graziano, CaixaBank Research Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University Judit Montoriol-Garriga, CaixaBank Research Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona (slides)
11:30 am	Break
11:45 am	Session 2 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
	Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Consumption Access and the Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity: Evidence from Smartphone Data
12:45 pm	Break
1:00 pm	Session 3 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER Allison E. Green, Princeton University Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Quantifying Social Interactions Using Smartphone Data
	Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
	Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER Derek Wu, University of Virginia Brian Curran, University of Chicago Does Geographically Adjusting Poverty Thresholds Improve Poverty Measurement and Program Targeting? (slides)
	Olle Folke, Uppsala University Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University Linna Marten, Stockholm University Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University Politicians’ Neighborhoods: Where do they Live and does it Matter?
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Session 4 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Therese McGuire, Northwestern University Nathan Seegert, University of Utah Is the Low Income Housing Tax Credit an Effective Policy for Increasing Neighborhood Income Diversity?
	Andrew Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Benjamin G. Hyman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Or Shachar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity: Evidence from Federal Lending Cutoffs during COVID-19 (slides)
	Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation
	Christopher Berry, University of Chicago Reassessing the Property Tax
5:15 pm	JMP 2 (15 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Elior Cohen, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Homeless Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes (slides)
	Cora Wigger, Elon University Decoupling Homes and Schools: Assessing the Impact of Forced School Choice on Residential Change
	Xinle Pang, SUNY Buffalo The Welfare Effect of Spatial Mismatch: Evidence From the New York Metropolitan Area
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 30
9:30 am	JMP 3 (15 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Jacob Field, Cambridge University Yi Jie Gwee, Columbia University Di Song Tan, London School of Economics Great Expectations: Urban Development in 17th Century London
	Sebastian Ellingsen, University of Bristol Long-Distance Trade and Long-Term Persistence
	Brandon Joel Tan, International Monetary Fund Kwok Hao Lee, National University of Singapore Urban Transit Infrastructure and Inequality: The Role of Access to Non-Tradable Goods and Services
10:30 am	Session 5 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER Federico Huneeus, Duke University Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University Spatial Production Networks (slides)
	Jacques-François Thisse, Université Catholique de Louvain (CORE) Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER Phillip Ushchev, Universite Libre de Bruxelles A Unified Theory of Cities
	Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER Andrew R. Waxman, University of Texas at Austin Jing Wu, Tsinghua University Tianli Xia, University of Rochester, Simon Business School Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting
	Myra Mohnen, University of Ottawa Jose-Alberto Guerra, Universidad de los Andes Julian Costas-Fernandez, University College London Train to Opportunity: the Effect of Infrastructure on Intergenerational Mobility
12:30 pm	Special Zipf Session
	Diego Rybski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Felix Auerbach and Zipf’s Law for Cities
	Antonio Ciccone, University of Mannheim The Effect of WWI Military Casualties on the Population Distribution in Germany (slides)
1:30 pm	Session 6 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Jose Luis Cruz Alvarez, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER The Economic Geography of Global Warming
	Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California and NBER Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER Nancy Lozano Gracia, The World Bank Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER Jeanne Sorin, University of Chicago Pollution in Ugandan Cities: Do Managers Avoid it or Adapt in Place? (slides)
	Brigitte Roth Tran, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Daniel Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters
	Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego and NBER James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Arthur A. van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
3:30 pm	Session 7 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)
	Jan Bakker, Bocconi University Alvaro Garcia Marin, Universidad de los Andes, Chile Andrei V. Potlogea, University of Edinburgh Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Yang Yang, International Monetary Fund Cities, Heterogeneous Fims, and Trade
	Simon Franklin, Queen Mary University of London Clement Imbert, University of Warwick Girum Abebe, Ethiopian Development Research Institute Carolina Mejia Mantilla, University of California, Los Angeles Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
	Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER Iffath Sharif, World Bank Maheshwor Shrestha, World Bank Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery
	Yuxian Chen, Brown University Yannis M. Ioannides, Tufts University The Diffusion of Epichoric Scripts and Coinage in the Ancient Hellenic Poleis
5:30 pm	Adjourn