13th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association
At Columbia University
October 12-13, 2018
New York City, NY
Keynote Lectures
- Leah Platt Boustan (Princeton University): "The effects of immigration on the economy over the 20th century: Lessons from the closing and re-opening of the border".
- Raj Chetty (Harvard University): "The Opportunity Atlas: Neighborhoods and Economic Opportunity in America" by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter. Download paper.
- Edward L. Glaeser (Harvard University): "The Geography of Joblessness in the US".
Local Organizer: Donald Davis (Columbia University).
Program Committee: Laurent Gobillon (PSE, Chair), Stephen Billings (Colorado-Boulder, Vice-Chair), Maisy Wong (Wharton, future Vice-Chair), Victor Couture (Berkeley-Haas), Rebecca Diamond (Stanford), Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth), Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley), Nina Harari (Wharton), Jessie Handbury (Wharton), Walker Hanlon (NYU), Rémi Jedwab (GWU), Gabriel Kreindler (MIT), Raven Molloy (Fed), Timothy McQuade (Stanford), Joan Monras (CEMFI), Eduardo Morales (Princeton), Ferdinand Rauch (Oxford), Adam Storeygard (Tufts), Lin Tian (Columbia).
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2018.
We acknowledge the kind support of the Program for Economic Research at Columbia University and the Kraks Fond – Institute for Urban Economic Research.
