Session 01: General Introduction and Python Refresher (1H30)
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 01/10)
Session 02 : The origin of cities (3H)
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 (3H)
The monocentric model
Agglomeration Costs
Urban Sprawl
Presentation Topics:
Did Paris city center become cheaper after Covid-19 ? (Useful Ressources: DVF (housing prices), IGN (maps)
Are Paris and Lyon (or New York and Boston, London and Paris etc...) monocentric cities ?
Which cities (in France/ UK / US etc....) consume more land to grow ?
Session 04 : The structure of cities 2: sorting (1H30)
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 05 : Real Estate Dynamics (03H00)
Hedonic Framework
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 06 : Housing Policies (3H00) - 14/11
Social and public Housing
Housing Allowances
Brick and mortar subsidies
Rent Control
Presentation Topics:
Are cities with a higher share of public housing less segregated ? Housing Census, Population Census, definition of cities
Is rent control respected in Paris (or Lyon, Bordeaux etc...) ? evidence from webscrapping (free)
Do countries spending more on housing support have better housing condition ? (free) Housing Condition, Public Spending
Session 07: Urban Systems: City Size, Production Cycles, and Quality of Life (3H) - 14/11
Zipf’s Law and Gibrat’s Law
Urban Growth Theories
Nursery Cities Model
Rosen–Roback Model
+ Quiz
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