Urban Economics - Oct 14th

Programme agenda

8.45 - 9.00 AM - Welcome and Coffee

9.00 - 10.00 AM - Don Davis (Columbia)
Labor Market Polarization and the Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence, with Eric Mengus (HEC) and Tomasz Michalski (HEC).

10.00 - 11.00 AM - Florian Oswald (SciencesPo)
Fertility, Housing Costs and City Growth, with Nicolas Coeurdacier (SciencesPo), Pierre-Philippe Combes (SciencesPo) and Laurent Gobillon (PSE).

11.00 AM -  Coffee Break

11.20 AM - 12.20 PM - Amrita Kulka (Warwick University)
How to Increase Housing Affordability? Understanding Local Deterrants to Building Multifamily Housing?, with Aradhya Sood (University of Toronto) and Nick Chiumenti (FRB Boston).

1.40 - 2.40 PM - Milena Almagro (Chicago Booth)
Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago Public Housing Demolitions, with Eric Chyn (Dartmouth College) and Bryan Stuart (FRB Philadelphia).

2.40 - 3.40 PM - Conor Walsh (Columbia University)
Urban-biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis, with Fabian Eckert (University of California, San Diego) and Sharat Ganapat (Georgetown University).

3.40 PM - Coffee Break

4.00 - 5.00 PM - Pierre-Philippe Combes (Sciences Po)
The emergence, growth, and stagnation of cities: France c. 1760-2020, with Gilles Duranton (University of Pennsylvania), Laurent Gobillon (PSE), and Clément Gorin (University of Toronto).