Thanks to everyone who came to our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social #UEA2024 meetings. Time to head home.
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It was a pleasure to present my joint paper with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, and @lucastella28.bsky.social on "The Determinants of Overcrowding in Germany" at the @urbaneconomics.bsky.social North American Meeting at Georgetown University! #UEA2024.
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That's a wrap! 200+ presentations of the latest research in urban economics have concluded. #UEA2024
Thank you to local organizer Ferdinando Monte and Georgetown University for their tremendous work to host us.
Our next meeting is in Berlin in March 2025.
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Congratulations to Pablo Valenzuela Casasempere (Vancouver School of Economics). pvalenzuelac.github.io
"Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System" won the student prize at our #UEA2024 meeting.
Thanks to Jonathan Hall for chairing the prize committee.
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Lecture slide showing innovations in place based policy tools.
Lecture slide showing innovations in place based policy practice
Gordon Hanson #UEA2024 talking about innovations in policy tools and practice. Arguing that the latter is less studied and matters for how we think about the ‘supply-side’ of place-based policy.
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Gordon Hanson (Harvard) starting his keynote address on "How Does Place-Based Policy Work?" on the second day of our annual North American meeting.
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Jonathan Hall announcing the winner of #UEA2024 student prize: Pablo Valenzuela Casasempere for his paper on Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
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Last up in this session is Vinicios Sant’ Anna on the localized effects of Dust Bowl migrants in Los Angeles. www.vpsantanna.com/research/ #uea2024
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Greg’s paper: a model with spatial autocorrelated preferences can jointly rationalize low migration rates, gravity, and the concave shape of the t-year migration rate. #uea2024 glhoward.github.io/greghoward.o...
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Greg Howard, the discussant: “blockbusters have monopoly power and they can profit off of switching equilibria” #uea2024
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Next up is Dan Hartley on blockbusting. We interviewed Jonathan Rose about this paper recently on Densely Speaking! Cool video on Baltimore here www.chicagofed.org/publications... #uea2024
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Day 2! Michael Neubauer on the suburbanization of middle-class Black and low-income nonblack households. #uea2024 www.michaelneubauer.com/research
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Rebecca Diamond (Stanford) starting her keynote address on "The UnEqual Effects of UpZoning".
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Final #UEA2024 event of the first day: Rebecca Diamond keynote on The UnEqual Effects of UpZoning
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Final student prize paper #UEA2024 reports results from US RCT offering 50% discounted bus fares (no effect on trips) or free travel (43% inc -> 1.5 more weekly trips; fully offset by fall in private car trips). [Seth Chizeck presenting but can only find info here: www.oluchimbonu.com/research ]
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Our conference at Georgetown University is in full swing. Thanks to everyone for sharing their research more broadly by posting using #UEA2024.
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Next student prize paper at #UEA2024 uses smartphone GPS data to study the impact of highways on intracity non-work travel in Seattle. People really don’t like having to cross or drive on highways: siying-w.github.io/assets/JMP_D...
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Amine Ouazad shows us a way to enumerate the multiplicity of equilibrium in a QSM with spillovers by first solving a simpler model #uea2024
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More student prize papers at #UEA2024. Individuals displaced by US highway construction in the 1950s were more likely to be poor and minority. Displacement increased mortality and decreased long term economic well-being. Interesing but depressing pvalenzuelac.github.io/files/hwys_J...
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Urban theory! Matthew Easton: if certain conditions are met, then market access in QSMs are log normal, thus city sizes are log normal. #uea2024
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I’m presenting our new work on India abolishing check posts at state borders tomorrow morning at the #UEA2024 meeting in session 5C. See you there!
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Paper 4, session 3 #UEA2024. Another LSE colleague - looking at the election cycle in UK planning decisions. Refusal rates go up 2 percentage points (on an 18% baseline) in the quarter just before local authority elections. www.felipecarozzi.com
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Lu Han presenting in selective advertising of vacant housing units. Unlisted units more likely to be subsequently occupied by white renters. #uea2024
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Paper 3, session 3 #UEA2024. My new LSE colleague Giorgio Pietrabissa looking at the welfare and distributional effects of subsidized rent-controlled public housing targeting low-income households giorgiopietrabissa.github.io/research/
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Stephan Thies up next with a spatial model of residential segregation. A lot of fascinating ideas in this paper! #uea2024
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Next up #UEA2024: Over 30% of rent stabilised tenants in New York are overcharged (worse for minorities). No paper, yet: stevenrychen.com [Coincidentally, was just reading about the under-resourcing of labour market regulation enforcement (eg min wage) in the UK. Compliance matters.]
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Aradhya Sood presented on racial covenants and distinguishing demand and supply constraints in segregated housing markets. #uea2024
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First paper, session three #UEA2024. Childhood exposure to public housing in New York improves labor market outcomes and reduces participation in federal safety net programs, particularly for children from the most disadvantaged families. Paper coming soon: raheemchaudhry.com/research/
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