🚨New WP alert🚨 An updated draft of "Spatial Implications of Telecommuting," joint work with Andrii Parkhomenko 🇺🇦 , is now resubmitted to The Review of Economic Studies ! mattdelventhal.com/publication/sp… In this thread, we'll review the high points of the paper and have a look at what's new. 1/

📢Tomorrow! Join us Online Spatial & Urban Seminar at 11:30 ET, 4:30 pm (UK), or 5:30 pm (Euro)! Andrii Parkhomenko (USC) presents "Dynamic Urban Economics" (osus.info) Hosted by Urban Economics Association #econtwitter

Day 1 of the CRED workshop on regional & urban economics in beautiful Bern! Check out the program: bit.ly/4hqqS7T #CREDWorkshop #EconTwitter Urban Economics Association

Workshop 📢: Alan de Bromhead Cian Ruane and I are organizing a workshop at the intersection of economic history and international trade on June 20, 2025. UCD Economics Central Bank of Ireland and CEPR are joining up to talk about the past and present of trade policy.

Day 2 of the CRED workshop in Bern! Exciting sessions and keynote by Gilles Duranton #CREDWorkshop #EconTwitter Urban Economics Association

Thank you for participating and your great presentation!

The program for our upcoming annual European meeting is now online: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emuea…. #UEA2025, hosted by Humboldt University in Berlin, features keynotes by Nina Pavčnik & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and more than 60 paper sessions. To register, visit editorialexpress.com/conference/emu…

Exploring the Bernese Alps after the CRED workshop! #CREDWorkshop #EconTwitter Urban Economics Association #UrbanEcon

Is investing in public school facilities worth it? Some think it's always a good idea. Others say it's always a waste. Which one is it? Neither. In some sense, it's not even the right question. Instead we should ask: when does money work and for whom? academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

A must-read for anyone interested in optimal spatial policies and addressing spatial inequalities. 📚✨

💥 A new measure of quality of life explains why people like living in bigger cities ✍️ Gabriel M Ahlfeldt Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth & Tobias Seidel Centre for Economic Performance blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

🚀 Early-career women in Economic Geography & Spatial Economics - join us at LSE for WECW-EGSE (12–13 May 2025) 📈 Apply by 1 March! Send a 2-page abstract to [email protected] (Subject: WECW-EGSE) Elena Renzullo Riccardo Crescenzi 🔗 More info zurl.co/oxUj5

Insightful read on #PlaceBasedPolicy in the US! 🌍 150 years of federal, state, and local initiatives shaping diverse programs. Key takeaway: geographic variation in governmental capacity matters! 📊✨#SpatialEconomics #EconomicDevelopment

Presented by Andrii Parkhomenko 🇺🇦   at our CRED Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics on February 13-14, 2025. This paper offers key insights into dynamic urban modeling, focusing on forward-looking behavior, spatial frictions, and transition dynamics. 📊 bit.ly/4hqqS7T

Great news! Congratulations and all the best for the new journey!

Are you a PhD student working on topics related to globalization? Come hang out with us at Dartmouth for a term as a Globalization Ph.D. Fellow! We're now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year: globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/globa…

New sources of big data generate valuable new insights in urban economics, past and present, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, and Adam Storeygard nber.org/papers/w33561

PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Melanie Morten, Alvin Murphy. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ…

📣 Call for papers 📣 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association October 3 - 4, 2025 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head Keith Head. Please submit your paper by May 30. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea20…

📣📣 Call for Papers on Spatial Dynamics 📣📣 Join us for a special Cowles Foundation research conference (Nov 14, 2025) & Journal of International Economics special issue. Deadline: June 30. More info + submissions here: cowles.yale.edu/form/spatial-d…