Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within spatial economics, as defined by me quickly skimming webpages. I’m sure I missed folks, so please add them in the comments.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Alaa Abdelfattah (UC Davis) – The Spillover Effect of Large Firms’ Entry on Wage Distribution and Skill Demand
Alba Miñano-Mañero (CEMFI) – When are D-graded neighborhoods not degraded? Greening the legacy of redlining
Alex Hempel (Toronto) – The Impact of Greenbelts on Housing Markets: Evidence from Toronto
Alison Lodermeier (Brown) – Racial Discrimination in Eviction Filing
Amanda Ang (USC) – Paradise Lost: Population Growth and Wildfire Mitigation in the American West
Anaïs Fabre (Toulouse) – The Geography of Higher Education and Spatial Inequalities
Angela Ma (HBS) – Commercial Eviction Moratoria, Liquidity Relief and Business Closure
Anna Ziff (Duke) – Beyond the Local Impacts of Place-Based Policies: Spillovers through Latent Housing Markets
Anthony Tokman (Yale) – Density Restrictions and Housing Inequality
Atsushi Yamagishi (Princeton) – The Economic Dynamics of City Structure: Evidence from Hiroshima’s Recovery
Christian Düben (Hamburg) – The Emperor’s Geography – City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimisation
Claudio Luccioletti (CEMFI) – Should Governments Subsidize Homeownership? A Quantitative Analysis of Spatial Housing Policies
Cody Cook (Stanford GSB) – Where to Build Affordable Housing? The Effects of Location on Tenant Welfare and Segregation
Daniel Agness (Berkeley ARE) – Housing and Human Capital: Condominiums in Ethiopia
Daniela Arlia (Aix-Marseille) – Labor Market Shocks across Heterogeneous Housing Markets
Derek Wenning (Princeton) – Equal Prices, Unequal Access: The Effects of National Pricing in the US Life Insurance Industry
Evan Soltas (MIT) – Tax Incentives and the Supply of Low-Income Housing
Gabriele Guaitoli (Warwick) – Firm Localness and Labour Misallocation
Gabriele Lucchetti (Nottingham) – Skills, Distortions, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants across Space
Geetika Nagpal (Brown) – Density, Scale & Affordability: Evidence from a Zoning Deregulation in India
Giorgio Pietrabissa (CEMFI) – School Access and City Structure
Gregory Dobbels (Princeton) – Not in My Back Yard: The Local Political Economy of Land-use Regulations
Guangbin Hong (Toronto) – Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare
Hoyoung Yoo (Wisconsin) – The Welfare Consequences of Incoming Remote Workers on Local Residents
Hugo Lhuillier (Princeton ) – Should I Stay or Should I Grow? How Cities Affect Learning, Inequality and Productivity
Jaeeun Seo (MIT) – Sectoral Shocks and Labor Market Dynamics: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
Jeanna Kenney (Wharton) – Market Concentration, Labor Quality, and Efficiency: Evidence from Barriers in the Real Estate Industry
JoonYup Park (Duke) – Improving Access to Opportunity: Housing Vouchers and Residential Equilibrium
Kulsoom Hisam (Clark) – A Streetcar City: Public transit expansion and neighborhood dynamics in early XXth century Chicago
Laura Weiwu (MIT) – Unequal Access: Racial Segregation and the Distributional Impacts of Interstate Highways in Cities
Lisa Botbol (Toulouse) – Applicant choice in the allocation of social housing: evidence from France
Lorenzo Incoronato (UCL) – Place-Based Industrial Policies and Local Agglomeration in the Long Run
Lukas Mann (Princeton) – Spatial Sorting and the Rise of Geographic Inequality
Maeve Maloney (Syracuse) – Why Are Labor Market Outcomes of Married Women Better in Detroit? The Role of Long and Variable Commutes?
Malabika Koley (Illinois) – Specification Testing under General Nesting Spatial Model
Maria Balgova (IZA) – The death of distance in hiring
Maximilian Guennewig-Moenert (Trinity College Dublin) – Public housing design and racial sorting: Evidence from New York City public housing 1930-2010
Mengqi Wang (Wisconsin) – Spatial implications of trade cost reductions with resource reallocation frictions
Mengwei Lin (Cornell ) – Local Policies and Firm Location: The Role of Leaders’ Promotion Motives in China
Milan Quentel (UPF) – Gone with the Wind: Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Welfare, and Redistribution
Nghiem Huynh (Yale) – Place-based Policy, Migration Barriers, and Spatial Inequality
Nicolás Martínez (Toulouse) – Market coverage and network competition: Evidence from shared electric scooters
Ningyuan Jia (LSE) – Demographic Transition and Structural Transformation in China
Olivia Bordeu (Chicago Booth) – Commuting Infrastructure in Fragmented Cities
Pearl Li (Stanford) – Value Pricing or Lexus Lanes? The Distributional Effects of Dynamic Tolling
Pedro Degiovanni (Harvard) – Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading
Priyam Verma (Postdoc, AMSE) – Size Distribution of Cities: Evidence from the Lab
Qianyang Zhang (Columbia) – Equilibrium Effects of Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure
Qiyao Zhou (Maryland) – Under Control? Price Ceiling, Queuing, and Misallocation: Evidence from the Housing Market in China
Rebecca Jorgensen (Wharton) – The Consequences of Mergers Between Real Estate Agencies and Mortgage Lenders
Robert French (HKS) – Quantifying the Welfare Impacts of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Renters
Rowan Isaaks (Vanderbilt) – Revealed Preferences for Residential Traffic Calming: Evidence from Low Traffic Neighborhoods
Ryungha Oh (Yale) – Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms
Santiago Franco (Chicago) – Output Market Power and Spatial Misallocation
Santiago Hermo (Brown) – Collective Bargaining Networks, Rent-Sharing, and the Propagation of Shocks
Sara Bagagli (Postdoc, Harvard) – The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago
Seohee Kim (Duke) – Financial Frictions and Geographical Diversification of National Homebuilders
Seungyub Han (UCLA) – Housing Rent, Inelastic Housing Supply and International Business Cycles
Sunham Kim (Purdue) – Human Capital Production in Spatial Economy: A Quantitative Assessment of the Decentralized US Education System
Thiago Patto (Insper) – The Concentration of Economic Activity Within Cities: Evidence from New Commercial Buildings
Tomás Budí-Ors (CEMFI) – Rural-Urban Migration and Structural Change: A Reinterpretation
Yi-Ju Hung (USC) – Immigration and Economic Opportunity
Yige Duan (UBC) – Beyond Lost Earnings: Job Displacement and the Cost of Commuting
Yulu Tang (Harvard) – To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migration Networks