Urban Economics Workshop
Venue: Room 106, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
Contact:
Tomoya Mori (Kyoto University) [HP]
Minoru Osawa (Kyoto University) [HP]
Tomohiro Machikita (Kyoto University) [HP]
Se-il Mun (Doshisha University) [HP]
Kakuya Matsushima (Kyoto University) [HP]
Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Doshisha University) [HP]
Miwa Matsuo (Kobe University) [HP]
Junichi Yamasaki (Kyoto University) [HP]
16:30〜18:00
Abstract:Existing empirical research in economics on neighborhood racial sorting is overwhelmingly premised on the idea that racial preferences for a location depend on the racial shares in that location, without considering potential spatial spillover effects from nearby areas. Does this matter for the way we view the cross-section and dynamics of racial neighborhood segregation? We nest Schelling (1971)’s bounded neighborhood and spatial proximity theories within a discrete choice model, where the key distinction is precisely such spatial spillovers. We simulate the model and examine the data for 1970-2000 for more than 100 U.S. metros. Two features of the data are most compelling: the powerful presence of racial clusters and the fact that drastic racial change is concentrated at the boundary of these clusters. Both point to the spatial proximity model as the proper foundation for a theory of racial neighborhood evolution. We use these insights to revisit prominent results on racial tipping where our theory guides us to distinguish differences by location. While prior research pointed to powerful racial tipping in the form of White exit, we show this is largely driven by theoretically-distinct “biased white suburbanization” leading to White entry in remote areas. In urban areas far from existing Minority clusters, we find zero or small tipping effects, at odds with a bounded neighborhood interpretation. The most consistent effects of tipping, still of modest size, are found in areas adjacent to existing Minority clusters, confirming the relevance of the racial spillovers of the spatial proximity model. Existing research conflates these quite distinct effects. Overall, our results suggests that tipping is a less central feature of racial neighborhood change than suggested in prior research and that greater attention needs to be paid to spatial dimensions of the problem.
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16:30〜18:00
Abstract:(Tentative) We draw on new granular data from cities around the world to study how the spatial distribution of income within cities varies with development. We document that in less-developed countries, average incomes of urban residents decline monotonically in distance to the city center, whereas income-distance gradients are flat or increasing in developed economies. We also show that urban neighborhoods with natural amenities – in hills and near rivers – are poorer than average in lessdeveloped countries and richer than average in developed ones. We hypothesize that these patterns arise due to the differences in the provision of residential and transportation infrastructure within cites. Using a quantitative urban model, we show that observed differences in residential and transportation infrastructure help explain a significant fraction of how the spatial income distribution within cities varies with income per capita.
16:30〜18:00
Abstract: We explore the impact of public school assignment reforms by building a households’ school choice model with two key features—(1) endogenous residential location choice and (2) opt-out to outside schooling options. Households decide where to live taking into account that locations determine access-to-school—admissions probabilities and commuting distances to schools. Households are heterogeneous both in observed and unobserved characteristics. We estimate the model using administrative data from New York City’s middle school choice system. Variation from a boundary discontinuity design separately identifies preferences for access-to-school from other location amenities. Residential sorting based on access-to-school preference explains 30% of the gap in test scores of schools attended by minority students versus their peers. If households’ residential locations were fixed, a reform that introduces purely lottery-based admissions to schools in lower- and mid-Manhattan would reduce the cross-racial gap by 7%. However, households’ endogenous location choices dampen the effect by half.
16:30〜18:00
【Paper】5/1改訂版 【資料】5/16掲載 【Slide】5/17掲載
Abstract: Knowledge creation either in isolation or joint with another person, using either face to face or internet contact and incorporating internet search ability is analyzed. Both a conceptual phase and a technical phase of research are analyzed, allowing workers to choose endogenously their mode of communication. In addition to formal knowledge, tacit knowledge plays an essential role in the knowledge production process, as it is not internalized. Lead time for face to face communication plays a key role. The sink point is inefficient. Our framework is applied to pandemic restrictions on face to face communication.
16:30〜18:00
Abstract: Urban informality, which is prevalent in Africa’s rapidly growing cities, can reduce private investments, lower tax bases, and exacerbate urban disamenities. A key policy tool to address this problem is greenfield urban planning where governments purchase cheap agricultural land on the urban fringe and partition it into planned, surveyed, and titled de novo plots, which people can purchase and build houses on. Yet, there is very little systematic evidence on the effects of de novo planning choices, such as the size and configuration of residential and non-residential plots. We study the consequences of such planning decisions in Tanzania’s “20,000 plot” project, which provided over 36,000 residential plots in 12 project areas on the fringes of Dar es Salaam in the early 2000s. We study this project using detailed maps, questionnaires, and satellite imagery, and we combine within-neighborhood analysis and spatial regression discontinuity designs. We find that overall, the project secured property rights and access, thus boosting land values, and attracting highly educated owners; small plots, which command higher land values and are built more intensively, are under-provided; access to main paved roads is prized; and development rates are higher where plot layout is more gridded and small plots are bunched together. But planned non-residential amenities are ignored due to low implementation rates and about half the plots are still unbuilt, suggesting that despite the project’s success, significant improvements are possible.
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09:30〜18:00
09:30 – 10:00 |
Tomoya Mori (Kyoto University) A quantitative framework for endogenous agglomeration models: An overview 内生的集積メカニズムと観察可能な外生的なバリエーションを用いて、実経済で観察される地域間の内生的バリエーションを説明する我々のアプローチの特徴を、既存の定量空間経済学のアプローチと対比しつつ概観する。
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10:10 – 12:10 |
Minoru Osawa (Kyoto University) A theoretical foundation for endogenous multimodal agglomeration 多地域立地空間上で多極集積形成を説明する一般理論を導入する。この一般理論が示唆する輸送費用に関する比較静学について事実との整合性を示すとともに、内生的集積を抑制することによって計算可能性を確保する「定量空間経済学」の問題にも触れる。
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12:10 – 13:30 |
Working lunch |
13:30 – 14:45 |
Tomoya Mori (Kyoto University) Many-industry & many-region endogenous agglomeration models: Facts, theories, and the strategy for structural analyses 実経済の都市集積パターンに現れる秩序を示し、それを、多様な規模の経済を含む多極集積形成理論モデルにおいて生ずる(複数)均衡の共通の性質として再現する。さらに、多数の均衡を含む経済集積モデルを構造モデル分析に用いる場合でも、秩序の再現を介することにより、モデルの内生メカニズムと観察可能な外生的バリエーションのみから、従来の定量空間経済学では実現し得なかったモデルフィットを実現する可能性について説明する。
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15:00 – 16:15 |
Yosuke Kogure (Yachiyo Engineering) A new approach to structural model analyses using endogenous agglomeration models 観察可能な規模の経済のバリエーションとモデルの内生メカニズムのみを用いて、実経済における都市の規模・空間分布の再現を試み、従来の定量空間経済モデルでは実現できなかったモデルフィットを実現する方法について紹介する。
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16:30 – 18:00 |
Kristian Behrens (UQAM) A granular spatial model Behrens氏がGabriel Ahlfeldt・Thilo Albersらと開発中の離散主体・定量空間経済モデルと、その数値解析手法について解説する。彼らは、従来の定量空間経済モデルで表現できなかった、GoogleやAmazon事業所など大規模主体の立地、およびそれらと労働者のコーディネーションをモデル化し、実経済の事例再現・反実仮想実験を可能にする数値解析手法までを含んだ分析枠組の構築を目指している。我々のいわばcontinuum spatial modelsとは補完的なアプローチである。 |
19:00 – |
Dinner (by invitation) |
17:00〜18:30
要旨:Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish the causal impact of urbanization on gender-differential incentives to migrate. Our analysis suggests that a plausible explanation is rural women’s higher likelihood of marrying and marrying up in cities during rapid urbanization.
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