Special Series on History and Urban Economics - Part III

This episode is the third and final in a series based on a new special issue on Urban Economics and History in Regional Science and Urban Economics. It contains a series of short conversations with authors and concludes Season 2 of the show.

Today’s Guests:

Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University.

Leah Brooks is an Associate Professor at George Washington University’s Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration.

Ting Chen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Hong Kong Baptist University.

David Nagy is a Junior Researcher at Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), an Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and a Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor.

Yanos Zylberberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol.

Jason Barr is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University-Newark.

Papers Discussed in Today’s Episode:

What Can Developing Cities Today Learn from the Urban Past? by Ed Glaeser

What if You Build It and They Don’t Come? How the Ghost of Transit Past Haunts the Transit Present by Leah Brooks and Genevieve Denoeux

War Shocks, Migration, and Historical Spatial Development in China by Ting Chen and James Kung

Quantitative Economic Geography Meets History: Questions, Answers and Challenges by David Nagy

Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Gobillon, and Yanos Zylberberg

Viewing Urban Spatial History from Tall Buildings by Gabriel Ahlfedlt and Jason Barr

Firms, Fires, and Firebreaks: The Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster on Business Agglomeration by James Siodla

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