Chicago-Princeton Conference on Spatial Economics
Organizers: Eduardo Morales, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg,
Pablo Fajgelbaum, and Stephen Redding
September 9-10, 2022
Princeton University
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
| Friday, September 9, 2022 | |
| 8:00-9:00am | Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:15am | On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes Slide Deck Bruno Conte, University of Bologna Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University (*) Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago |
| 10:15-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-12:00pm | Clean Growth Slide Deck Costas Arkolakis, Yale University (*) Conor Walsh, Columbia University |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:15pm | Political Economy of Transport Investments: Evidence from California High-Speed Rail Slide Deck Cecile Gaubert, University of California at Berkeley (*) Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA Nicole Gorton, UCLA Eduardo Morales, Princeton University Edouard Schaal, CREI |
| 2:15-2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45-4:00pm | Size Matters: The Benefits of Large Labor Markets for Job Seekers Enrico Moretti, University of California at Berkeley (*) Moises Yi, Census Bureau |
| 4:00-4:30pm | Break |
| 4:30-5:45pm | Social Capital and Economic Mobility Raj Chetty, Harvard University (*) Matthew Jackson, Stanford University Theresa Kuchler, New York University Johannes Stroebel, New York University and collaborators Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness |
| 6:30pm onwards | Drinks and Dinner, Palmer House |
| Saturday, September 10, 2022 | |
| 8:00-8:30am | Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:45am | Urban Renewal, Gentrification, and Inequality: Evidence from Chicago Public Housing Demolitions Slide Deck Milena Almagro, Chicago Booth School of Business (*) Eric Chyn, Dartmouth College Bryan Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
| 9:45-10:00am | Break |
| 10:00-11:15am | A Granular Spatial Model Slide Deck Kristian Behrens, University of Quebec (*) Gabriel Ahlfeldt, London School of Economics Thilo Albers, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 11:15-11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am-12:45pm | Mechanics of Spatial Growth Slide Deck Sheng Cai, Yale University Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University (*) Fernando Parro, Penn State University Wei Xiang, Yale University |
| 12:45-1:45pm | Lunch |