This meeting brought together researchers on spatial and social interactions in the economics profession with researchers in geography and related fields to explore developments in geographic information science (GIS) and in new spatial econometric tools for possible uses for economic investigations of social interactions

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UC Santa BarbaraSpecialist Research Meetings—Papers and ReportsTitleSpatial and Social Interactions in Economics, IntroductionPermalinkhttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/55t2375bAuthorCenter for Spatially Integrated Social Science, UCSBPublication Date2003-04-01eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital LibraryUniversity of CaliforniaSpatial and Social Interactions in Economics—Introduction A specialist research meeting sponsored by the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science University of California, Santa Barbara Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA   April 4-5, 2003 Empirical analysis of spatial and social interactions by economists was quite limited until about a decade ago, when interest and activity grew on a number of fronts simultaneously. These include the study of peer effects within schools and classrooms, a rebirth of urban economics, the "new" growth theory in macroeconomics based on education externalities, the development of theoretical models of social learning and information cascades, and the application of the techniques of "labor-metrics"—a research style developed in labor economics—to empirical questions in epidemiology and environmental economics. Despite this resurgence of interest in spatial and social interactions within economics, GIS and related advances in geography have to date made relatively few inroads into the economics profession. The goal of this workshop is to assess the possible contributions of these advances to economic research. This will be accomplished by bringing together cutting-edge researchers on spatial and social interactions in the economics profession, having them present examples of their current research, exposing them to information on new developments in GIS and new spatial econometric software, and starting a discussion on possible uses of these tools, as well as further development of these tools, within economics.  Spatial and Social Interactions in Economics—Agenda  Friday, April 4: 4:00 pm Session 1: Environmental Effects  Chair: Carol McAusland, UCSB Using Fluctuations in Climate to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Global Warming—Olivier Deschenes, UCSB and Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago Air Pollution, Health and Socioeconomic Status: The Effect of Outdoor Air Quality on Childhood Asthma—Matthew Neidell, University of Chicago  Discussant: Jeff Dozier, UCSB 6:30-8:00 pm Graduate Student Reception at the hotel, sponsored by UCSB’s Graduate Division Saturday, April 5: 8:25-8:30 am Welcome: Peter Kuhn, UCSB  8:30-10:15 am Session 2: Spatial Interactions among Firms and Unions Chair: Antonio Bento, UCSB Geographic Spillover of Unionism—Tom Holmes, University of Minnesota  Dynamics of Local Interaction Models: Persistence and Propagation of Local Shocks—Giorgio Topa, New York University Discussant: Enrico Moretti, UCLA 10:30-12:30 pm  Session 3: Econometric Issues Chair: Doug Steigerwald, UCSB Spatial Correlation Robust Inference without Perfect Distance Measurements—Tim Conley, Chicago Graduate School of Business and Francesca Molinari, Northwestern University Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions—Steve Durlauf and William Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison Discussant: Jack Porter, Harvard University 1:30-3:00 pm  Session 4: New Directions in Spatial Research New Technologies for Collecting Spatial Data—Mike Goodchild, UCSB Software for spatial econometrics: a review and assessment—Luc Anselin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Emerging Funding Opportunities for Spatial Research in Social Science—Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, National Science Foundation Discussion coordinator: Peter Kuhn, UCSB 3:30-5:30 pm  Session 5: Social Interactions in the Classroom Chair: Kelly Bedard, UCSB How Important are Classroom Peer Effects?—Kevin Lang, Boston University and Joshua Angrist, MIT Good Principals or Good Peers? Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of Competition among Jurisdictions —Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley Discussant: Julian Betts, UC San Diego  Spatial and Social Interactions in Economics—Papers & Participants  Peter KUHN, Organizer  Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Luc ANSELIN Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Heather ANTECOL Department of Economics Claremont McKenna College Richard APPELBAUM Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research University of California, Santa Barbara Kelly BEDARD Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Antonio BENTO Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara Julian BETTS Department of Economics University of California, San Diego Timothy CONLEY Graduate School of Business University of Chicago Paper: Conley, T.G. and Molinari, F. 2003. Spatial Correlation Robust Inference without Perfect Distance Measurements Paper: Conley, T.G. and Topa, G. 2003. Dynamic Properties of Local Interaction Models Christopher COSTELLO Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara Helen COUCLELIS Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Olivier DESCHENES Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Jeff DOZIER Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara Steven DURLAUF Department of Economics University of Wisconsin, Madison Paper: Durlauf, S. and Brock, W. 2003. Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions Michael GOODCHILD Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Kwabena GYIMAH-BREMPONG Division of Social & Economic Sciences  National Science Foundation Barbara HARTHORN Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research University of California, Santa Barbara Thomas HOLMES Department of Economics University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Paper: Holmes, T.J. 2003. Geographic Spillover of Unionism Donald JANELLE Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science University of California, Santa Barbara Kevin LANG Department of Economics Boston University Paper:  Lang, K. and Angrist, J.D. 2002. How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence From Boston's Metco Program Carol MCAUSLAND Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Enrico MORETTI Department of Economics University of California, Los Angeles Douglas MORGAN Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Matthew NEIDELL Center for Integrating Statistical & Environmental Science  University of Chicago Paper:  Neidell, M. 2003. Air Pollution, Health and Socioeconomic Status: The Effect of Outdoor Air Quality on Childhood Asthma Jack PORTER Department of Economics Harvard University Jesse ROTHSTEIN Department of Economics Princeton University Paper:  Rothstein, J.M. 2002. Good Principals or Good Peers? Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of Competition among Jurisdictions Douglas STEIGERWALD Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Stuart SWEENEY Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara Giorgio TOPA Department of Economics New York University Paper: Conley, T.G. and Topa, G. 2003. Dynamic Properties of Local Interaction Models Catherine WEINBERGER Institute for Social, Behavioral & Economic Research University of California, Santa Barbara Raymond WONG Department of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara 

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