UEA Awards
Since 2017, the Urban Economics Association has awarded a prize for the best student papers at the annual meetings of the UEA in North America and in Europe.
18th North American Meeting of the UEA 2024 Washington, D.C.
Winner of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Pablo Valenzuela Casasempere (Vancouver School of Economics), "Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System".
Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): Seth Chizeck (CMU), Joshua Coven (NYU Stern), Benjamin Edelstein (Wharton UPenn), Julius Goedde (PSE), Alice Wang (UBC).
Prize committee: Jonathan Hall (Alabama, Chair), Eric Chyn (Texas), Nicolas Gendron-Carrier (McGill), Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin), Antoine Levy (Berkeley Haas), Chris Palmer (MIT Sloan).
13th European Meeting of the UEA 2024 Copenhagen
Winner of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Milan Quentel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) , "Gone with the Wind: Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Welfare, and Redistribution".
Runners up (in alphabetical order): Anaïs Fabre (Toulouse School of Economics), Jade Ponsard (Aix-Marseille School of Economics).
Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): Felix Iglhaut (LSE), James Macek (Toronto), Weizhe Wang (Northwestern).
Prize committee: David Nagy (CREI, Chair), Allan Hsiao (Princeton), Ferdinand Rauch (Heidelberg), Diego Puga (CEMFI), Lin Tian (INSEAD).
17th North American Meeting of the UEA 2023 Toronto
Winner of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Laura Weiwu (MIT), "Unequal Access: Racial Segregation and the Distributional Impacts of Interstate Highways in Cities".
Prize committee: Morris Davis (Rutgers, Chair), Leah Brooks (George Washington), Fernando Ferreira (Wharton), Matthew Freedman (UC Irvine), Heitor Pellegrina (Notre Dame).
12th European Meeting of the UEA 2023 Milan
Winner of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Abigail Ostriker (MIT), "The Effects of Floodplain Regulation on Housing Markets" (co-authored with Anna Russo).
Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): Raphaël Lafrogne-Joussier (CREST-Ecole Polytechnique), Elio Nimier-David (CREST ENSAE-Ecole Polytechnique), Augusto Ospital (UCLA), Diana Sverdlin-Lisker (MIT), Tuuli Vanhapelto (Toulouse School of Economics), Daniel Velasquez (University of Michigan).
Prize committee: Ines Helm (LMU Munich, Chair), Sam Asher (Imperial College London), Marius Brulhart (Lausanne), Paula Bustos (CEMFI), Felipe Carozzi (LSE), Yanos Zylerberg (Bristol).
16th North American Meeting of the UEA 2022 Washington, D.C.
Winner of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Howard Zhang (Columbia University), "Housing Availability Differences: Prices, Consumption, and Amenities Across Cities".
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Tian Fang Cui (University of Pennsylvania), Leonardo D'Amico (Harvard University), Idaliya Grigoryeva (University of California San Diego), Mike Mei (University of Michigan), Hui Zhou (Cornell University), Qiyao Zhou (University of Maryland).
Prize committee: Alvin Murphy (Arizona State, Chair), Nina Harari (Wharton), Dávid Nagy (CREI), Jeff Lin (Philadelphia FRB), Joan Monras (San Francisco FRB).
11th European Meeting of the UEA 2022 London
Winners of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Ryungha Oh (Yale University), "What Causes Agglomeration of Services? Theory and Evidence from Seoul" (co-authored with Jaeeun Seo, MIT).
- Lukas Althoff (Princeton University), "The Geography of Black Economic Progress After Slavery" (co-authored with Hugo Reichardt, LSE).
Finalists (in alphabetical order): Lukas Althoff (Princeton University), Nikhil Datta (University College London), Ryungha Oh (Yale University), Luca Perdoni (Yale University), Matthew Tarduno (UC Berkeley), Juan Pablo Uribe (Brown University).
Prize committee: Gabriel Ahlfeldt, (LSE, Chair) Laurent Gobillon (PSE), Ines Helm (LMU Munich), J. Vernon Henderson (LSE), Charly Porcher (Georgetown).
15th North American Meeting of the UEA 2021 Online
Winners of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper (in alphabetical order):
- Roman Rivera (Columbia University), "The Effect of Minority Peers on Future Arrest Quantity and Quality".
- Rui Yu (Wharton), "Returns to Political Contributions in Housing Markets".
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Elisa Facchetti (Queen Mary University London), Oliver Giesecke and Haaris Mateen (Columbia University), András Jagadits (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Xian Jiang (Duke University), Ron Yang (Harvard University).
Prize committee: Will Strange (chair), Leah Brooks, Fernando Ferreira, Matt Kahn, Kate Pennington, Matt Turner.
10th European Meeting of the UEA 2021 Online
Winners of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Brett Fischer (University of Virginia), "No Spending Without Representation: School Boards and the Racial Gap in Education Finance".
- Kate Pennington (UC Berkeley), "Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement? The Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco".
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Raoul van Maarseveen (Uppsala University), Andrea Mattia (University of Chicago), Miguel Zerecero (Toulouse School of Economics).
Prize committee: Will Strange (chair), Milena Almagro, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Elisabet Viladecans, Daniel Sturm, Matt Turner.
The Urban Economics Association has since 2017 awarded a prize for the best student papers at the annual meetings of the UEA in North America and in Europe.
2020 Virtual Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
Winners of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Charly Porcher (Princeton), "Migration with Costly Information".
- Evan Soltas (MIT), "The Price of Inclusion: Evidence from Housing Developer Behavior".
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): James Fogel and Bernardo Modenesi (Michigan), Ian Herzog (Toronto), Pawel Janas (Northwestern), Cameron LaPoint (Yale), Ana Moreno-Maldonado (EUI), Franklin Qian (Stanford), and Roman Zarate (Berkeley).
Prize committee: Stephen L. Ross (Chair), Treb Allen, Steve Billings, Leah Boustan, Morris Davis, Rebecca Diamond, Jonathan Dingel, Gabrielle Fack, Cecile Gaubert, Laurent Gobillon, Jessie Handbury, Walker Hanlon, Christian Hilber, Will Strange.
14th Meeting of the UEA 2019 Philadelphia
Winners of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Milena Almagro and Tomás Domínguez-Iino (New York University), "Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Short-term rentals in Amsterdam".
Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): Adrien Bilal (Princeton University), Aradhya Sood (University of Minnesota), Yue Yu (Columbia University), Clemence Tricaud (Ecole Polytechnique), Divya Singh (Columbia University), Caitlin Gorback (The Wharton School).
Prize committee: Stephen L. Ross (Chair), Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Anna Piil Damm, Rebecca Diamond, Walker Hanlon, Christian Hilber, Shawn Rohlin, Harris Selod.
9th European Meeting of the UEA 2019 Amsterdam
Winner of the Kraks Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Marta Santamaria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "The Gains from Reshaping Infrastructure: Evidence from the Division of Germany".
Runners Up (in alphabetical order): Caitlin Gorback (Wharton), Yue Yu (Columbia University).
Prize committee: Elisabet Viladecans (chair), Miren Lafourcade, Ismir Mulalic, Ferdinand Rauch, Stuart Rosenthal, Kurt Schmidheiny, Olmo Silva.
13th Meeting of the UEA 2018 New York City
Winner of the UEA Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Nick Tsivanidis (University of Chicago), "The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogota’s TransMilenio".
Runners Up (in alphabetical order): Bocar Ba (University of Chicago), Diego Battiston (London School of Economics), Lin Tian (INSEAD), Conor Walsh (Yale University).
Prize committee: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (chair), Victor Couture, Cécile Gaubert, Walker Hanlon, Raven Molloy, Joan Monras, Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Stuart Rosenthal and Stephen Ross.
8th European Meeting of the UEA 2018 Düsseldorf
Winners of the Kraks Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Jan David Bakker (University of Oxford and CEP), "International Trade and Regional Inequality".
- Jacob Krimmel (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton), "Persistence of Prejudice: Estimating the Long Term Effects of Redlining".
Prize committee: Don Davis, Gilles Duranton, Stephen Heblich, Christian Hilber, Miren Lafourcade, Ismir Mulalic, Henry Overman, Elisabet Viladecans.
7th European Meeting of the UEA 2017 Copenhagen
Winner of the Kraks Prize for Best Student Paper:
- Andrii Parkhomenko (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona GSE), "The Rise of Housing Supply Regulation in the U.S.: Local Causes and Aggregate Implications".
Prize committee: Don Davis, Gilles Duranton, Christian Hilber, Elisabet Viladecans, Miren Lafourcade, Henry Overman, Ismir Mulalic.