On May 19th, O-Lab will host a virtual conference featuring leading researchers in urban economics and place-based policy. This event, part of O-Lab's Initiative on Inequality and Place, will present a range of new papers on topics such as urban migration patterns, foreclosures, state and local business incentives, and the impacts of place-specific taxes and tax credits. O-Lab's Enrico Moretti and Cecile Gaubert, leaders in the study of place-based policy and new urban economics, have assembled a world-class group of researchers in this space, including Fabian Eckert, Jessie Handbury, Eduardo Morales, and Owen Zidar.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:15
Enrico Moretti (UC Berkeley)
Opening Remarks

9:15 - 10:00
Owen Zidar (Princeton)
Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives

10:05 - 10:50
Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley)
Place-Based Redistribution

10:55 - 11:40
Fabian Eckert (Princeton)
Skilled Scalable Services: The Urban Bias in Recent Economic Growth

11:45 - 12:30
Jessie Handbury (U Penn)
School Food Policy Affects Everyone: Retail Responses to the National School Lunch Program

12:35 - 1:30
Eduardo Morales (Princeton)
A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions

Please register for the Zoom Webinar here.