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Description | Agenda | Papers & Participants
Spatial and Social Interactions in Economics - Agenda  Download as PDF
| Friday, April 4: |
| 4:00 pm |
Session 1: Environmental Effects
Chair: Carol McAusland, UCSB
Using Fluctuations in Climate to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Global Warming - Olivier Deschenes, UCSB and Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago
Air Pollution, Health and Socioeconomic Status: The Effect of Outdoor Air Quality on Childhood Asthma - Matthew Neidell, University of Chicago
Discussant: Jeff Dozier, UCSB
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| 6:30-8:00 pm |
Graduate Student Reception at the hotel, sponsored by UCSB’s Graduate Division
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| 8:00-10:00 pm |
Partcipants on their own for dinner.
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| Saturday, April 5: |
| 8:00-8:25 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 8:25-8:30 am |
Welcome: Peter Kuhn, UCSB
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| 8:30-10:15 am |
Session 2: Spatial Interactions among Firms and Unions
Chair: Antonio Bento, UCSB
Geographic Spillover of Unionism - Tom Holmes, University of Minnesota
Dynamics of Local Interaction Models: Persistence and Propagation of Local Shocks - Giorgio Topa, New York University
Discussant: Enrico Moretti, UCLA
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| 10:15-10:30 am |
Break
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10:30-12:30 pm
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Session 3: Econometric Issues
Chair: Doug Steigerwald, UCSB
Spatial Correlation Robust Inference without Perfect Distance Measurements - Tim Conley, Chicago Graduate School of Business and Francesca Molinari, Northwestern University
Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions - Steve Durlauf and William Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discussant: Jack Porter, Harvard University
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12:30-1:30 pm
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Lunch at the Upham
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| 1:30-3:00 pm |
Session 4: New Directions in Spatial Research
New Technologies for Collecting Spatial Data - Mike Goodchild, UCSB
Software for spatial econometrics: a review and assessment - Luc Anselin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Emerging Funding Opportunities for Spatial Research in Social Science - Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, National Science Foundation
Discussion co-ordinator: Peter Kuhn, UCSB
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| 3:00-3:30 pm |
Break
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| 3:30-5:30 pm |
Session 5: Social Interactions in the Classroom
Chair: Kelly Bedard, UCSB
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? - Kevin Lang, Boston University and Joshua Angrist, MIT
Good Principals or Good Peers? Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of Competition among Jurisdictions - Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Julian Betts,UC San Diego
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| 5:30-8:00 pm |
Down Time
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| 8:00 pm onwards |
Conference dinner at:
Brigitte's
1325 State Street
Santa Barbara 805-966-9676
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