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
Matthew Easton (Columbia) – Populations in Spatial Equilibrium
Emiliano Harris (Cornell) – The First Era of American Federal Public Housing (1940-1960) Effects on Neighborhoods
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
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
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