Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within spatial economics, as defined by me quickly skimming webpages and 24 candidates who responded on Twitter. 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:
Deepti Sikri (Albany) – The Fiscal Effects of Housing Prices: Evidence from School Districts
Ozgen Kiribrahim-Sarikaya (Arizona State) – Place-Based Environmental Regulations and Labor Market Dynamics
Marianna Magagnoli (Barcelona) – The price of silence
Konhee Chang (Berkeley Haas) – Diversifying the suburbs: Rental supply and spatial inequality
Lei Ma (Boston University) – Build What and for Whom? The Distributional Effects of Housing Supply
Peter Deffebach (Boston University) – Labor Market Churn, Development, and Quits: Evidence from Urban Ghana
Michael Neubauer (Brown) – Race, Poverty, and the Changing American Suburbs
Jake Fabian (Brown) – The Price of Risk: Flood Insurance Premium Reform and Housing Development
Megan Haasbroek (Cambridge postdoc) – Land Acquisition Costs and Sectoral Composition: Evidence from India
Fern Ramoutar (Chicago Booth) – Market Power in Residential Real Estate: Evidence from Chicago Rental Properties
Jeanne Sorin (Chicago) – Public Roads on Private Lands: Land Costs and Optimal Road Improvements in Urban Uganda
Thomas Hierons (Chicago) – Spreading the Jam: Optimal Congestion Pricing in General Equilibrium
Jordan Rosenthal-Kay (Chicago) – Urban costs around the world
Dongkyu Yang (Colorado) – Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South
Matthew Easton (Columbia) – Populations in Spatial Equilibrium
Emiliano Harris (Cornell) – The First Era of American Federal Public Housing (1940-1960) Effects on Neighborhoods
Thomas Monnier (CREST) – The Informality Trade-Off: Wages and Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa
Yan Hu (Edinburgh postdoc) – The roadblock effect: War shocks, modal shifts, and population changes
Yanbin Xu (Georgetown) – Internal Migration Restrictions, Aggregate Productivity, and Spatial Growth
Leonardo D’Amico (Harvard) – Capital Market Integration and Growth Across the United States
Oluchi Mbonu (Harvard) – Market Segmentation and Coordination Costs: Evidence from Johannesburg’s Minibus Networks
Martin Koenen (Harvard) – Social Ties and Residential Choice: Micro Evidence and Equilibrium Implications
Sébastien Box-Couillard (Illinois) – Do Minorities Pay More to Avoid Flood Risk?
Sidharth Moktan (LSE) – An Empirical Equilibrium Model of the Markets for Rental and Owner-Occupied Housing
Giorgio Ravalli (LSE) – The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Innovation: The Role of Market Access in the English Railway Boom
Sandra Kurniawati (Mannheim) – Quantifying the Effects of Commodity Booms on Regional and Sectoral Outcomes
Daniel O’Connor (MIT) – Revitalize or Relocate: Optimal Place-based Transfers for Local Recessions
Tishara Garg (MIT) – Can Industrial Policy overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence
Daniel Velasquez (Michigan) – Highways, Commuting and Trade: Unpacking Suburban Growth
Chun Chee Kok (Monash) – Ethnic Proximity and Politics: Evidence from Colonial Resettlement in Malaysia
Helena Pedrotti (NYU) – Local Discretion in Low Income Housing Policy
Hyeseon Shin (Ohio State) – Agriculture, trade, migration, and climate change
Amrutha Manjunath (Penn State) – Language Barriers, Internal Migration, and Labor Markets in General Equilibrium
Dongyang He (Penn State) – The Distributional Effects of Residential Zoning Policies: Insights from the Greater Boston Area
Felipe Barbieri (Penn) – Market Power and the Welfare Effects of Institutional Landlords
Mikhail Zavarzin (Pittsburgh) – Work from Home and Spatial Misallocation
Allison Green (Princeton) – Networks and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from World War II Navy Ships
Huilin Zhang (Purdue) – Productivity Externality of Working from Home: Welfare and Policy Implications
Sisi Zhou (Purdue) – Residential Sorting and Access to Consumption
Sihui Ong (Queens) – Are Uniform or Fragmented Carbon Taxes Optimal? Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing
Daniel Teeter (Queens) – The Impact of Internal Trade Liberalizations on Plant Productivity and Markups
Brad Ross (Stanford GSB) – Measuring and Mitigating Traffic Externalities
James Macek (Toronto) – Housing Regulation and Neighborhood Sorting Across the US
Maximilian Günnewig-Mönert (Trinity College Dublin) – Public housing design, racial sorting and welfare: Evidence from New York City public housing 1930-2010
Carolyn Pelnik (Tufts) – Moving to Profitability? Alleviating Constraints on Microentrepreneur Location
Manali Sovani (Tufts) – Women on the Move: Effect of Transportation Access on Women’s Education in Delhi
Alice Wang (UBC Sauder) – Are Highways Conduits or Barriers for Urban Travelers? A Welfare Analysis Using Smartphone Data
Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere (UBC) – Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
Max Norton (UBC) – Who benefits from local bond elections? Evidence from California’s school bond reform
Alexander Abajian (UC Santa Barbara) – Savings and Migration in a Warming World
Marko Irisarri (UPF) – Entrepreneurship Across Cities: Uncovering Policy Implications
Alejandro Parraguez-Tala (UT Austin) – Dynamic Migration: From Local Effects to Aggregate Implications
Romain Fillon (Université Paris-Saclay) – The Biophysical Channels of Climate Impacts
Qiaohairuo Lin (Vanderbilt) – Bidding for Firms or Bidding for People? Urban Land Allocation in China
Eutteum Lee (Virginia) – Automation, Spatial Wage Inequality, and Place-Based Policy
Chunru Zheng (Virginia) – Local Land Allocation and Demographic Transitions across Time and Space in China
Joshi Sarthak (Warwick) – Spatial shocks and gender employment gaps: evidence from rising import competition in India
Gi Kim (Wharton) – The Equilibrium Impacts of Broker Incentives in the Real Estate Market
Prakash Mishra (Wharton) – The Global Allocative Efficiency of Deforestation
Benjamin Edelstein (Wharton) – Water Scarcity Management and Housing Markets: Evidence from Water Impact Fees in Colorado
Jack Liang (Yale) – Knowledge and Firm Growth in Space
Xiangyu Shi (Yale) – The allocative and welfare effects of disrupting supply chains by government interventions
Please add Xiangyu Shi (Yale)’s JMP “The allocative and welfare effects of disrupting supply chains by government interventions.” It uses a model of spatial production networks.
Please add Dongyang He’s (Penn State) JMP: The Distributional Effects of Residential Zoning Policies: Insights from the Greater Boston Area. It uses a quantitative spatial model.
Click to access HE_jmp_zoning_2024.pdf
Please consider adding my JMP (Thomas Monnier, CREST – Ecole Polytechnique): “The Informality Trade-Off: Wages and Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa” (https://tlmonnier.github.io/files/Monnier_JMP.pdf). It uses a spatial job seacrh-and-matching model.