Session 01: General Introduction and Python Refresher (02H00)
What is urban and real estate economics ?
Structure of the class
Simple tools for spatial data analysis: OLS and Geopandas
Problem Sets: notebook - Exercise submission (before the 21/09)
Session 02 : The origin of cities (2H)
What is a city ?
Urbanization and economic growth
Agglomeration Forces
Presentation Topics:
What is the correlation between economic growth and urbanization ? See world bank for GDP and urbanization rate
Do larger cities produce more patents per capita ? See patent view, Census, Ipums , Nature Scientific Data, insee or oecd
Do larger cities (in France, UK, US , Europe etc...) concentrate more researchers ?
Session 03 : The structure of cities 1: Transport and housing (2H)
The monocentric model
Agglomeration Costs
Urban Sprawl
Presentation Topics:
Does urban sprawl increase vacancy in city centers ?
sources:census 1999-2006, 2012, 2022 for vacancy, CLC for urban sprawl in particular municipal statistics and ign for the maps of municipality and urban areas and insee for the definition of cities and city centers
Are Paris and Lyon (or New York and Boston, London and Paris etc...) monocentric cities ?
sources: insee or insee (for jobs at place of work) and ign for maps
Which cities (in France/ UK / US etc....) consume more land to grow ?
Session 04 : The structure of cities 2: sorting (2H00)
The monocentric model
Tiebout Sorting
School quality and housing prices
Presentation Topics:
Is the rent higher in neighborhood with better school qualities ?
Did segregation increase (in Paris, Lyon , New York etc ) ? Population Census , definition of cities
Are larger cities more segregated ? Population Census , definition of cities
Session 06 : Real Estate Dynamics (02H00)
Rent-Price Ratio
The stock-flow model
Housing Bubbles
Presentation Topics:
Do cities with faster housing prices build more ? Sitadel (building permits), DVF (housing prices), Housing Census,
Where is the housing return higher in France ?
Is the price-to-rent ratio in France higher than in other European countries? Dallas FED
Session 07 : Housing Policies 1 (2H00) - 14/11
Social and public Housing
Housing Allowances
Presentation Topics:
Are cities with a higher share of public housing less segregated ? Housing Census, Population Census, definition of cities
Do countries spending more on housing support have better housing condition ? (free) Housing Condition, Public Spending
Session 08 : Housing Policies 2 (2H00) - 14/11
Brick and mortar subsidies
Rent Control
Presentation Topics:
Is rent control respected in Paris (or Lyon, Bordeaux etc...) ? evidence from webscrapping
Session 09: Urban Systems: City Size, Production Cycles, and Quality of Life (2H) - 14/11
Zipf’s Law and Gibrat’s Law
Urban Growth Theories
Nursery Cities Model
Rosen–Roback Model
Presentation Topics:
Did people left large cities after the Covid-19 pandemic ? Population movements in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Do larger cities have a more diversified economic activity ? (free) definition of cities, Employment by sector
Do income differences across French (or US/ German/Spanish etc...) cities reflect true welfare differences? (free) -DVF (housing prices), Clameur (rent), Filosofi (Income) , definition of cities, weather
Document the Zipf law and the Gibrat Law in the United States (free) Metropolitan Statistical Areas