Welcome!
The Columbia-NYU-Yale Housing Day is a new initiative to bring together researchers in economics and related fields who are interested in housing markets and housing policy. The conference is organized by Boaz Abramson, Cody Cook, Winnie van Dijk, and Daniel Waldinger. Email winnie.vandijk@yale.edu if you would like to be added to our mailing list.
See this page for more details on this edition, including how to register.
Our third meeting will be on October 10th, 2025 at NYU. The tentative schedule is:
10:30am Breakfast, Coffee and Pastries
11:00am Michael Boutros (University of Toronto) - Natural Disasters, Property Insurance, and Housing Markets
11:40am Break
11:50am Olivia Bordeu (UC Berkeley) - Green Buildings and Carbon Caps: Evidence from New York City (with Alvaro Contreras Mellado and Santiago Franco)
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Evan Soltas (Princeton) and Stephanie Kestelman (Harvard) - Permit Data Tutorial
2:10pm Break
2:20pm Cameron LaPoint (Yale) - Housing IS the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits (with Gustavo Cortes)
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Gi Kim (Boston College) - The Equilibrium Impacts of Broker Incentives in the Real Estate Market
4:10pm Break
4:20pm Felipe Barbieri (Dartmouth) - Market Power and the Welfare Effects of Institutional Landlords (with Gregory Dobbels)
5:00pm Happy Hour (location TBD)
This edition is sponsored by the CV Starr Center for Applied Economics.
Our second meeting was on February 21st, 2025 at Yale (87 Trumbull St, room B120), sponsored by the Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. This was the schedule:
10:30am Breakfast, Coffee and Pastries
11:00am Jesse Gregory (UW – Madison) - Location Choice and the Marginal Utility of Consumption (with Morris Davis and Moshi Ul Alam)
11:40am Break
11:50am Gonzalo Paz-Pardo (European Central Bank) - The Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Credit Shocks on Housing and Rental Markets (withAndrew Hannon and Juan Castellanos)
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Cody Cook (Yale) - Tutorial on GPS data
2:10pm Break
2:20pm Daniel Waldinger (NYU) - Public Provision vs Private Market Subsidies for Affordable Housing: Lottery Evidence from Miami (with Harvey Barnhard, Rob Collinson, and Winnie van Dijk)
3:00pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Vincent Reina (Penn) - Preliminary Findings on Direct Rental Assistance and Housing Outcomes (with Sara Jaffee and Matthew Fowle)
4:10pm Break
4:20pm Evan Mast (Notre Dame) - Dynamic Individuals, Static Neighborhoods: Migration, Earnings Changes, and Concentrated Poverty (with Andy Garin, Ethan Jenkins, and Bryan Stuart)
5:00pm Happy Hour
Our first meeting took place on November 15th, 2024 at Columbia Business School. This was the schedule:
10:30am Coffee and Pastries
11:00am Erica Moszkowski - Age Structure and Housing Affordability (with Gregor Schubert and Shiyan Wei)
11:45am Victor Couture - Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation (with Jonathan Dingel, Allison Green, and Jessie Handbury)
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Rob Collinson - The Effects of Eviction on Children (with Deniz Dutz, John Eric Humphries, Nick Mader, Daniel Tannenbaum, and Winnie van Dijk)
2:15pm Angela Wyse - Data on Homelessness in the US (tutorial)
3:00pm Break
3:30pm Pierre Mabille - Unlocking Mortgage Lock-In: Evidence From a Spatial Housing Ladder Model (with Julia Fonseca and Lu Liu)
4:15pm Boaz Abramson - Monetary Policy and Rents (with Pablo De Llanos and Lu Han)
5:00pm Happy Hour