SI 2024 Urban Economics

Edward L. Glaeser, Organizer

July 25-26, 2024

Hotel Marlowe

FORMAT: For the 50-minute slots, 25 for the presenter, 12.5 for the discussant and 12.5 for Q&A. For the 20-minute slots, 15 for the presenter and 5 for Q&A.

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 25
7:45 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Real Estate
8:20 am
Presentations from Job Market
8:20 am
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau

The Economic Geography of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation: The Competing Effects of Labor Markets and Childhood Environments
8:45 am
Evan J. Soltas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tax Incentives and the Supply of Low-Income Housing
9:10 am
Break
9:20 am
Mariaflavia Harari, University of Pennsylvania

Residential Patterns and Public Goods in Brazil (slides)
Discussant: Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley
10:10 am
Alexander W. Bartik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arpit Gupta, New York University
Daniel Milo, New York University

The Costs of Housing Regulation: Evidence From Generative Regulatory Measurement (slides)
Discussant: Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:10 am
Alex Bell, Georgia State University
Stephen Billings, University of Colorado
Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Shusheng Zhong, Northwestern University

An Anti-IV Approach for Pricing Residential Amenities: Applications to Flood Risk
Discussant: Alvin Murphy, Arizona State University
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Zong Huang, Stanford University
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Unequal Effects of Up-Zoning: Evidence from Cook County
Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
1:50 pm
Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Matthew D. Easton, Columbia University
Stephan Thies, Columbia University

Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change
Discussant: Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
2:40 pm
David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Moises Yi, U.S. Census Bureau

Re-Assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
Discussant: Emma Harrington, University of Virginia
3:30 pm
Break
3:50 pm
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics

Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London
Discussant: Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER
4:40 pm
Marco A. Badilla Maroto, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Antoine B. Levy, University of California, Berkeley
Mathilde Muñoz, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Senior Migration, Local Economic Development and Spatial Inequality
Discussant: Adam Guren, Boston University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 26
7:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning Papers (20 minutes per paper)
7:30 am
Stephanie Kestelman, Harvard University

Environmental Externalities of Urban Growth: Evidence from the California Wildfires
7:50 am
Augusto Ospital, LMU Munich

Urban Policy and Spatial Exposure to Environmental Hazards (slides)
8:10 am
Sara Bagagli, London School of Economics

The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago
8:30 am
Lorenzo Incoronato, University College London
Salvatore Lattanzio, Bank of Italy

Place-Based Industrial Policies and Local Agglomeration in the Long Run
8:50 am
Break
9:00 am
Yulu Tang, Harvard University

To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks
9:20 am
Nghiem Q. Huynh, University of Oklahoma

Place-based Policy, Migration Barriers, and Spatial Inequality
9:40 am
Léa Bou Sleiman, NBER

Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris
10:00 am
Oliver Giesecke, Stanford University
Haaris Mateen, University of Houston

Local Governments' Response to Fiscal Shocks: Evidence from Connecticut
10:20 am
Olivia Bordeu, University of Chicago

Commuting Infrastructure in Fragmented Cities
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am
Emin Dinlersoz, U.S. Census Bureau
Timothy Dunne, Notre Dame University
John C. Haltiwanger, University of Maryland and NBER
Veronika Penciakova, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The Local Origins of Business Formation
Discussant: Zoe B. Cullen, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am
Brian Greaney, University of Washington
Andrii Parkhomenko, University of Southern California
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Dynamic Urban Economics
Discussant: Adrien Bilal, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm
Milena Almagro, University of Chicago and NBER
Juan Camilo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Felipe Barbieri, University of Pennsylvania
Nathaniel Hickok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tobias Salz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago
Discussant: Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
2:00 pm
Eunjee Kwon, University of Cincinnati
Narae Lee, World Bank

Unintended Pathways: The Impact of High-Speed Rail on Gender Differences in the Local Labor Market - Evidence from South Korea (slides)
Discussant: Daniela Vidart, University of Connecticut
2:40 pm
Daniel Björkegren, Columbia University
Alice Duhaut, The World Bank
Geetika Nagpal, World Bank
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley

Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos
Discussant: Adam Storeygard, Tufts University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:40 pm
Peter Deffebach, Boston University
David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University

Economic Development and the Spatial Distribution of Income in Cities (slides)
Discussant: Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, CREI
4:30 pm
Gharad T. Bryan, London School of Economics
Simon Franklin, Queen Mary University of London
Sarah L. Winton, London School of Economics
Tigabu Getahun, Policy Studies Institute, Ethiopia

Evaluating Evictions: Causal Impacts of a Forced Relocation Program in Addis Ababa
Discussant: Stephen Malpezzi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
5:20 pm
Adjourn