SI 2021 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 29-30, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 29
9:30 am
JMP (15 min per paper, 5 min Q&A)

Reclaiming Local Control: School Finance Reforms and Housing Supply Restrictions

Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco

The Effects of High-skilled Firm Entry on Incumbent Residents
10:30 am
Session 1 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Neglected No More: Housing Markets, Mortgage Lending, and Sea Level Rise

Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona (slides)
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
Session 2 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform

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)

Quantifying Social Interactions Using Smartphone Data

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

Does Geographically Adjusting Poverty Thresholds Improve Poverty Measurement and Program Targeting? (slides)

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)

Is the Low Income Housing Tax Credit an Effective Policy for Increasing Neighborhood Income Diversity?

The Option Value of Municipal Liquidity: Evidence from Federal Lending Cutoffs during COVID-19 (slides)

Better Alone? Evidence on the Costs of Intermunicipal Cooperation

Reassessing the Property Tax
5:15 pm
JMP 2 (15 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Homeless Housing Programs on Future Homelessness and Socioeconomic Outcomes (slides)

Decoupling Homes and Schools: Assessing the Impact of Forced School Choice on Residential Change

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)

Great Expectations: Urban Development in 17th Century London

Long-Distance Trade and Long-Term Persistence

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)

Spatial Production Networks (slides)

A Unified Theory of Cities

Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting

Train to Opportunity: the Effect of Infrastructure on Intergenerational Mobility
12:30 pm
Special Zipf Session

Felix Auerbach and Zipf’s Law for Cities

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)

The Economic Geography of Global Warming

Pollution in Ugandan Cities: Do Managers Avoid it or Adapt in Place? (slides)

The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters

Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
3:30 pm
Session 7 (20 min per paper, followed by Q&A)

Cities, Heterogeneous Fims, and Trade

Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery

The Diffusion of Epichoric Scripts and Coinage in the Ancient Hellenic Poleis
5:30 pm
Adjourn