Fourth Annual UCI-UCLA-USC Real Estate & Urban Economics
Research Symposium

Friday, September 28, 2012
8:30AM-3:00PM
UCLA Anderson Campus
Entrepreneurs Hall, Room C315

Continental Breakfast: 8:30-9:00AM

SESSION ONE: 9:00-10:00AM
"White Suburbanization and African-American Homeownership, 1940-1980"

• Leah Platt Boustan, Department of Economics, UCLA
• Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Boston University

SESSION TWO: 10:00-11:00AM
"Do Labor Market Networks Have An Important Spatial Dimension?"

• Judith K. Hellerstein, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
• Mark J. Kutzbach, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census
• David Neumark, Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine

SESSION THREE: 11:00AM-12:00PM
"Measuring the Benefits of Home Owning: The Effects on Children Redux"

• Michelle J. White, Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego
• Richard K. Green, Lusk Center for Real Estate, University of Southern California
• Gary Dean Painter, Lusk Center for Real Estate, University of Southern California

Buffet Lunch: 12:00-1:00PM

SESSION FOUR: 1:00-2:00PM
"Roads, Railroads and the Decentralization of Chinese Cities"

• J. Vernon Henderson, Department of Economics, Brown University
• Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Department of Economics, Brown University
• Loren Brandt, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
• Matthew Turner, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
• Qinghua Zhang, Department of Economics, Guanghua School, Beijing University

SESSION FIVE: 2:00-3:00PM
"Estimates of the Size and Source of Price Declines Due to Nearby Foreclosures"

• Elliot Anenberg, Economist, Federal Board of Governors
• Edward C. Kung, Department of Economics, UCLA