Public transport can transform cities when long-term planning guides policy. Medellín is proof of this.
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Public transport can transform cities when long-term planning guides policy. Medellín is proof of this.
Congratulations to Andrea Herrera @aaherrerab.bsky.social (LSE) & Zane Kashner @zkashner.bsky.social (Stanford), who shared the student prize at our North American #UEA2025 meeting in Montréal.
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Read their papers: aaherrerab.github.io & www.zanekashner.com
What do we get wrong (i.e. misperceive) about the world? Why does it matter? How does fixing misperceptions improve society?
Research on @voxdev.bsky.social has answered all these questions and more, documenting a series of misperceptions that can be fixed 🧵
@yadigomezh.bsky.social, research economist for @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social, offers recommendations for other evaluators in her newest blog.
Rigorous evaluation plays a key role in understanding the effectiveness of local growth policies.
We aim to make impact evaluation easier for policymakers by providing advice and support.
Our new briefing outlines lessons and recommendations from our evaluations 👇
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Presenting the canonical spatial model and then exploring it through the lens of development economics, pointing out the "on-the-ground" facts of missing markets, frictions, and context-specific parameters, from Gharad T. Bryan, Kyra Frye, and Melanie Morten https://www.nber.org/papers/w33453
Join us at the International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference & School at Northwestern University, June 23-27, 2025! Featuring keynote speaker Prof. Dave Donaldson (MIT). Submit your transportation economics research by Feb 28. Two paper prizes available!
Quantitively assessing whether cities are engines of economic growth, from Matthew Turner and David N. Weil https://www.nber.org/papers/w33334
🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today
Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...
🚨 PSA: the 2025 Reading workshop in urban economics and economic geography, 5-6 June, is open for papers.
I gave a talk at this last year - it’s a really excellent group.
#EconSky 📉📈 #geosky
www.henley.ac.uk/events/unive...
New @cep-lse.bsky.social paper: increases in road capacity -> more than proportional increases in vehicle km travelled. Modest local employment and population responses suggest capacity reduces cost of driving and improves welfare (for drivers) @yadigomezh.bsky.social cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/publica...
#AFE2024 conference at LSE last week.