Researchers Present at the Annual APPAM Fall Research Conference

The Furman Center was well-represented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s (APPAM) Fall Research Conference, which took place November 7-9, 2013 in Washington, D.C.

The APPAM Fall Research Conference is a multi-disciplinary annual conference that attracts the highest quality research on a wide variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues. Furman Center researchers in attendance included Ingrid Gould Ellen (Co-director), Jacob Faber (doctoral student), and Sean Capperis (data manager), as well as several Furman Center research affiliates.

Furman Center researchers presented their ongoing work on the following projects:

• Preserving History or Hindering Progress: The Effect of Historic Districts On Local Housing
  Ingrid Ellen and Vicki Been (New York University), Michael Gedal (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Edward Glaeser, (Harvard University) and Brian McCabe (Georgetown University)
   
• Race and the Recession: Exploring Home Value Trajectories Across the Boom and Bust
  Ingrid Ellen and Jacob William Faber, New York University
   
• Nobody’s Home: The Impact of Foreclosures on Neighborhood Crime
  Ingrid Ellen (New York University), Johanna Lacoe (University of Southern California), and Amy Ellen Schwartz (New York University)
   
• Neighborhood Change and Retail Turnover: Evidence From New York City
  Rachel Meltzer, The New School and Sean Capperis, New York University
   

Ingrid Gould Ellen also chaired a panel: “Exploring the Complexities of Neighborhood Risk and Its Relationship to Children’s Functioning.”