2025 Summer School in Urban Economics
at Tufts University Economics Department
July 21 – 23, 2025
Medford, MA, United States
Objective
The UEA Summer School is designed for PhD students with an interest in urban economics, including housing, real estate, transportation, local public good provision, the spatial distribution of activities, economic geography, and urban or regional policy. The objective of the summer school is to offer an intensive training program for interested PhD students. The summer school will provide an opportunity for students to learn about the research frontier in urban economics, discuss their own research with leading researchers in the field in a relaxed and open atmosphere, and meet some of the future stars in the field.
Faculty
- Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Toronto)
- Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin)
- Melanie Morten (Stanford)
- Alvin Murphy (Arizona State)
- Allison Shertzer (FRB Philadelphia)
Organization
The summer school will run for three days. We expect to invite between 50 and 60 students, and we will invite twelve students to present their work. We expect that each day there will be two lectures by faculty, four student presentations, and an opportunity for students who are not presenting their papers to talk to the faculty about their projects.
Participants
We invite applications from PhD students in their second year or beyond. Places in the school are limited by space constraints. This is an in-person event. Participants are expected to attend all three days in full.
Venue
Tufts University
Joyce Cummings Center
177 College Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Application Procedure
Please apply for the summer school at editorialexpress.com/conference/summerschool2025.
Within the Conference Maker system, please select the option to "Submit a Paper," whether you wish to be considered for a presentation slot or you are merely applying to attend. Upload as your submission a single PDF file containing a short letter explaining your interest in participating and your CV, which should include the names of your academic supervisors.
If you wish to present your research, you must also include in the same PDF file the paper you would like to present. Only full-length papers that are sole-authored or co-authored with other PhD students will be considered for presentation slots.
The application deadline is May 15, 2025. Application decisions for both presenters and other participants will be announced by May 23.
Registration Fee and Financial Support
The registration fee will be $300-$350 (to be finalized before registration opens). This covers coffee breaks, working lunches, and at least one evening event. We have provisionally booked a set of rooms on campus that will be available for around $100 per night. You are responsible for making your own travel arrangements. We have a small pool of funds available to help students who need financial support. If you would like to apply for such support, please outline your case in your application letter in a separate section titled "Financial Support Request". We strongly encourage students to first investigate travel funding made available by their own universities. We do not anticipate offering financial assistance to students attending top US or European programs except under extraordinary circumstances.
Deadline
Deadline for applications: May 15, 2025.
Application decisions will be announced in late May 2025.
Scientific Committee
Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Toronto), Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin), Melanie Morten (Stanford), Alvin Murphy (Arizona State), Allison Shertzer (FRB Philadelphia).
Local organizers
Adam Storeygard and Jeff Zabel (Tufts University).