📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning — with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI. Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

📣 Call for papers 📣 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association October 3 - 4, 2025 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head. Please submit your paper by May 30. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea...

PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/su...

Are you an urban economist located in the Nordics or working with Nordic data? You're in luck! We are organizing the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics in Helsinki, Sept 8-9, 2025. You can find the call for papers here: sites.google.com/view/second-...

The MIT Urban Economics Lab is hiring!! #EconSky My postdoc supervisor at MIT, Albert Saiz, is looking for a Real Estate Postdoctoral Associate! Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl... Please help us share this opportunity and encourage job market candidates to apply!!

What better way to start using this platform than to tell you about our Visiting Program on Migration 🌐. Every month a migration expert visits LISER for a few days. Among other things, we made short videos about their latest research, check them out here 👇: @liser.lu @liser-cb.bsky.social

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!

Hello Bluesky, this is my first post! Had a great time at the 2025 AREUEA-ASSA Annual Conference with members of the MIT Urban Economics Lab and Uppsala Urban Lab.

A fantastic opportunity for PhD students or early-career faculty who study the economics of productivity Especially R&D 🔬, immigration ✈️, infrastructure 🌉 I'm honored to be involved in these new NBER/Sloan Foundation fellowships—> www.nber.org/graduat...

📢📢The Berlin School of Economics @BSE_Berlin will be recruiting PhD students in spatial economics 📢📢 (again). Still, time to apply before the 🧑‍🎄 break. See www.bqse.de for an overview of our activities in "spatial". Apply now & retweet! berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-programm...

Send them back? This paper studies the 1930s mass #repatriation of Mexicans & its effects on U.S. #housing markets. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... @cortesgustavos.bsky.social @vpsantanna.bsky.social #Economics #immigration

Excited to debut my new paper, "Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits,” joint with @cortesgustavos.bsky.social. We document that building permits predict financial market volatility across a century of U.S. economic history. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=485...

Just under two weeks till the submission deadline for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Berlin conference. Please submit your papers or session proposals. Details here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu... #EconConf

Excited to announce I am on the Job Market! My #EconJMP (with @diogobaerlocher.bsky.social and Gustavo Cortes) studies how the influx of migrants displaced by natural disasters affects neighborhoods and housing markets, focusing on the 1930s American Dust Bowl. Link: ssrn.com/abstract=502...

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on migration economics! Check it out: go.bsky.app/39gHy57 Feel free to nominate yourself or others to add to the list!

Okay, here is the start of the urban economics starter pack. Please send me more names and prod folks who haven't moved. @aaronsojourner.org can you add to your page? bsky.app/starter-pack... Also, for a nice urban/geography/regional mix, see the pack of @maxnathan.bsky.social.

We are now streaming! Cities and Development Workshop 2024 Starting with Yue Yu's study of urbanization and road upgrading in Uganda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpxB...

Deadline to submit to the AREUEA-ASSA PhD student poster session is this Friday 11/1!

We're organising the 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of #Migration on 22-23 May 2025 in Madrid! Keynotes: Leah Boustan (Princeton) and Dean Yang (Michigan) Submit your papers before January 26, 2025: tinyurl.com/y2cd98kk

Reposting the urban economics and economic geography starter pack for all you new BlueSky arrivals #EconSky 📉📈 #geosky go.bsky.app/DpxtxXn

Our annual "blog your job market paper" call for PhD students in development economics is now open, with submissions due November 6. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Interesting paper by Albert Saiz on the economics of housing supply. It provides a great overview of the current literature and methods in housing supply elasticity estimation. Great teaching resource and valuable to anyone interested in Housing or Real Estate. #EconSky📉📈 ssrn.com/abstract=496...

PhD students in real estate or urban economics: Submit to present at the AREUEA-ASSA poster session in San Francisco. Submission deadline November 1. #econsky www.areuea.org/2025-areuea-...

Since everyone’s making starter packs, here’s one from me - some of the urban economists and economic geographers on here. This is just people I know, so please LMK below if I’ve missed anyone. #EconSky 📉📈 #geosky go.bsky.app/DpxtxXn

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Our latest working paper on immigration and native flight is out! with Bence Boje-Kovacs, Ismir Mulalic, Albert Saiz, and Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen. Link to the paper: ssrn.com/abstract=488...

The 2024 AREUEA National conference will be held in person on Thursday and Friday, May 30th and 31st, 2024, in Washington–DC. The conference portal is open for paper submissions until February 1st, midnight EST. Link: areuea.memberclicks.net/national #EconSky 📉📈

📢Call for Posters 📢 The 2024 AREUEA/ASSA conference portal is open for PhD student poster submissions. This is a fantastic opportunity for Ph.D. students working on Urban Economics, Real Estate, and related fields. 📅 Deadline: November 1st, midnight EST. Submissions: t.co/BXoEvTo3FB #EconSky 📉📈