COMING UP: Session 4 – Housing, Infrastructure and Geography
Young scholars will present what they are currently working on, and receive feedback from peers and the working group’s mentors.
Thursday, 12 November
Start time:
5:00am ET
7:00am BRT
10:00am UT
11:00am CET
7:00pm HKT
Location: The Urban and Regional Economics Working Group Ship
Moderated by: Kishorekumar Suryaprakash
Mentors:
Gary Dymski (Professor of Applied Economics, Leeds University Business School)
Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Presentations by:
Himangshu Kumar (Divergence in skill intensity ratios and unequal effects on housing in India’s cities)
Anusha Matam (Uninhabitable Conditions of Habitat Builders)
Soma Sarkar (Anatomy of an Urban Water Crisis in the Indian Himalayas: A Case Study of Shimla, India)
Gajendran V (New Economic Geography in India: An Exploration)
COMING UP: Session 5 – Regional and Urban Development II
Young scholars present their research related to development in regions and cities.
Thursday, 12 November
Start time:
1:00pm ET
3:00pm BRT
6:00pm UT
7:00pm CET
Location: The Urban and Regional Economics Working Group Ship
Moderated by: Rafael Campos
Mentors:
Jennifer Clark (Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University)
Vamsi Vakulabharanam (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Presentations by:
Baikunth Roy (Temporal and Spatial Discourse of Disability Divides in India: A District-Level Analysis)
Daniela Calá (A first exploratory analysis of the regional economic impact of COVID-19 in Argentina)
Héctor León Rojas (Risk, inequalities, and urban mobility policies during the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico City)
Julia Dias (Socioeconomic diagnosis of small-sized municipalities in Brazil)