Urban Economics - Fall 2021

Public slide repository for EC330: Urban Economics and Regional Studies by Andrew Dickinson at the University of Oregon.

Course material links:

• Syllabus
• Problem sets
  • PS01
  • PS02,
  • PS03, PS03-whitespace (for more whitespace)
  • PS04
• TotC Rubric (not posted yet)
• External resources
  • Triumph of the Cities
  • Urban Economics (O’Sullivan)
• Practice midterm
• TotC report rubric

Schedule

Lectures: 10:00 to 11:20 Tuesday, Thursday

Office hours: 14:00 to 15:00 Wednesday, 10:00-11:00 Friday

Lectures

• Week 01:

  • Lecture 01: Scratch

  • Lecture 02: Introduction to urban economics (remote)

    • slides, pdf
    • Reading: Introduction of TofC

• Week 02:

  • Lecture 03: EC201 review + The 5 axioms of urban economics (remote)
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading: Chapter 1 of TofC
  • Lecture 04: EC201 reciew + The 5 axioms of urban economics (remote)
    • slides (same as lecture 03)
    • Reading: Chapter 2 and 3 of TofC
    • PS01 due next Tuesday (October 19th)

• Week 03:

  • Lecture 05: City size
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading: Chapter 3 and 4 of TofC
    • PS01 due Tuesday (October 19th)
  • Lecture 06: City growth
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading: Chapter 3 and 4 of TofC
    • PS01 due Tuesday (October 19th)

• Week 04:

  • Lecture 07: City growth + Rents
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading: Chapter 4 and 5 of TofC
    • PS01 due tonight at midnight (October 19th)
  • Lecture 08: Rents (continued)
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading: Chapter 5 of TofC

• Week 05:

  • Lecture 09: Neighborhood choice
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading Chapter 5 of TofC
    • PS02 due Tuesday Nov 02 at midnight
  • Lecture 10: Urban labor markets
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading Chapter 5 of TofC
    • PS02 due Tuesday Nov 02 at midnight

• Week 06:

  • Lecture 11: Urban labor markets + Review
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading Chapter 5 of TofC
    • PS02 due tonight at midnight
  • Lecture 12: Midterm Exam in class

• Week 07:

  • Lecture 13: Urban labor markets
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading Chapter 6 of TotC
  • Lecture 14: Veterans day- no lecture

• Week 08:

  • Lecture 15: Minimum wage + Causal inference
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading Chapter 7 of TofC
  • Lecture 16: Causal inference + Place based policies
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading Chapter 7 + 8

• Week 09:

  • Lecture 17: Causal inference + Place based policies
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading finish TotC
    • PS03 due Dec 02
  • Lecture 18: Thanksgiving (no lecture)
    • Reading finish TotC
    • PS03 due Dec 02

• Week 10:

  • Lecture 19: Rental markets
    • slides, pdf
    • In class example
    • Reading finish TotC
    • PS03 due Dec 02
    • TotC book report due Dec 05
  • Lecture 20: Economics of social mobility
    • slides, pdf
    • Reading finish TotC
    • PS03 due tonight (Dec 02) at midnight
    • TotC book report due Dec 05

Acknowledgements

Much of this course material is derived from John Morehouse’s Urban course and Mike Urbancic’s course.