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Rebecca Sanders and Robert Schneider, Fatal Pedestrian Crash Locations and Characteristics First episode in the new season of Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law. We release new interviews periodically. Take a spin through our back catalogue and subscribe so you don't miss our next release. Rebecca Sanders is the Founder and Principal Investigator of Safe Streets Rese...

Transportation Law Symposium Special - Beth Osborne (Keynote) Today episode is the sixth and final in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium , hosted by the Iowa Law Review and featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. After a brief intro from show co-host Greg Sh...

Transportation Law Symposium Special: Transportation & Finance Today is the fifth in a special mini-series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, the recent Symposium on The Future of Law & Transportation , hosted by the Iowa Law Review and featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. After a brief intro from University of...

Transportation Law Symposium Special - Transportation Planning & Land Use II Today's is the fourth in a mini series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium , featuring scholars from multiple disciplines.   After a brief intro from Greg Shill , each scholar speaks and takes Q&A....

The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium : Mobility, Segregation & Polarization Today's is the third in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. After a brief intro from Greg Shill , each scholar speaks for about 12 minutes, followed by Q&A. Clayton Nall (U...

Transportation Law Symposium Special - Rights of Way & Public Space The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium : Rights of Way & Public Space Today's is the second in a special series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. Each scholar speaks for about 12 minutes, followed...

Arpit Gupta, Take the Q Train: Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects Arpit Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business and the co-author of Take the Q Train: Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects . Chris Severen , Senior Economist at the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank and author of Commuting, Labor, and Housing Market Effect...

The Future of Law & Transportation Symposium : Transportation Planning & Land Use I Today's is the first in a mini series of episodes we are running from a first-of-its-kind academic event on law and transportation policy, featuring scholars from multiple disciplines. Thanks to Talking Headways podcast host Jeff Wood, who edited and ran this episode first on his show, for allowing us t...

Michelle Layser, How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality Michelle Layser is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and the author of How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality , forthcoming in the Tax Law Review. Cailin Slattery , Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, joins as guest co-host. App...

Devin Michelle Bunten, People or Parking? Devin Michelle Bunten is the Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor of Urban Economics and Housing at MIT. We discuss her working paper, People or Parking? (joint with Lyndsey Rolheiser , Assistant Professor of Urban Economics at Ryerson University). Katherine Levine Einstein , Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, joins as...

Note to listeners: this interview was recorded shortly before Election Day. Our guest is Jonathan Rodden , Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide . Jonathan also authored an amicus brief in a partisan gerrymandering case that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 (details below). Ari Stern , As...

Our guest is Katherine Levine Einstein , an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University and an author of Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis . Her co-authors David Glick and Maxwell Palmer are professors in the same department. Michael Hankinson , Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, joins as guest co-ho...

Professors Ganesh Sitaraman , Morgan Ricks , and Chris Serkin are Professors of Law at Vanderbilt Law School. Professor Michelle Layser , an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, joins as guest co-host for this discussion. Appendices: Ganesh Sitaraman: Jump Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream by Jonathan Gruber an...

Professor Allison Shertzer , Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, joins the show to discuss her working paper, Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth (joint with Profs. Prottoy A. Akbar, Sijie Li, and Randall P. Walsh). Professor Devin Michelle Bunten , the Edward H. and Joyce Linde Assistant Professor of Urban Economics...

Professor Conrad Ciccotello , director of and professor at the Reiman School of Finance in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, joins the show to discuss his working paper, Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters for Board Decisions? (joint with Profs. Zinat Alam, Mark Chen, and Harley Ryan). Note: the interview and Appendices comprise the first 50 minute...

Professor Leah Brooks , economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, joins the show to discuss Infrastructure Costs , her working paper (joint with Prof. Zachary Liscow , Yale Law School). Jenny Schuetz , a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, joins...

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