Washington DC Urban Economics Day 2024

A casual place for serious research by DC-area urban economists.

Churchill Room, Gelman Library
2130 H Street NW
George Washington University
Friday May 10, 2024


RSVP Required 72 hours in advance to enter the library.

Schedule


8:45 Doors open. Coffee and breakfast.
9:10 - 9:20 Introductions
9:20 - 10:00 Erica Moszkowski, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
“Option Value and Storefront Vacancy”
[paper]
10:00 - 10:40 Michael Navarrete, University of Maryland
“Geospatial Heterogeneity in Inflation: A Market Concentration Story”
[paper]
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00- 11:40 Tony Yezer, George Washington University
“Why We Still Don’t Know More About Housing Supply”
[paper]
11:40- 12:20 Scott Wentland, Bureau of Economic Analysis
“Returns to Homeownership and Inequality: Evidence from the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit”
[paper]
12:20 - 1:40 Lunch and chat with DC's Chief Economist Fitzroy Lee
1:40 - 2:20 Harris Selod, World Bank
“Informal Land Markets and Ethnic Kinship in Sub-Saharan African Cities”
[paper]
2:20 - 3:00 Moises Yi, Bureau of the Census
“Re-Assessing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis”
[paper]
3:00 - 3:20 Break: Hopefully something to perk you up.
3:20 - 4:00 Erin Troland, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
“The Role of Property Assessment Oversight in School Finance Inequality”
[paper]

Contact Leah Brooks, lfbrooks at gwu.edu, with questions. Many thanks to Tanner Regan for helping to review this year's papers.

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Past conferences: Urban Day 2023, Urban Day 2022, Urban Day 2019, Urban Day 2018, Urban Day 2017, Urban Day 2016, Urban Day 2015 and Urban Day 2014.