National Meeting Best Paper

Starting with the 2021 National Meeting, AREUEA awards two best paper prizes at the National Meeting. The Program Committee selects candidate winners and the Awards committee selects a winner among these. One of the two prizes is reserved for junior scholars, defined as a paper that has all of its authors no more than four years post-Ph.D., including Ph.D. students on the market.

2026 Overall Best Paper

"Policy Competition in a Spatial Economy"
by David Agrawal, Tidiane Ly, and Raphael Parchet

2026 Junior Scholar Best Paper

"Geographic Price Extrapolation, Learning, and Housing Search: Evidence from Danish Movers"
by Matteo Saccarola

2025 Overall Best Paper

"An Alpha in Affordable Housing?"
by Sven Damen, Matthijs Korevaar, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

2025 Junior Scholar Best Paper

"Language Frictions in Consumer Credit"
by Chao Liu

2024 Overall Best Paper

"Remote Work and City Structure"
by Ferdinando Monte, Charly Porcher, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2024 Junior Scholar Best Paper

"Suburban Housing and Urban Affordability: Evidence from Residential Vacancy Chains"
by Robert French & Valentine Gilbert

2023 Overall Best Paper

"Housing Wealth and Overpayment: When Money Moves In"
by Darren Aiello, Jason Kotter, and Gregor Schubert

2023 Junior Scholar Best Papers 

"Willingness-to-Pay for Public Exam Schools: Consequences of Place-Based Affirmative Action"
by Rene Crespin

“Racial Segmentation in the US Housing Market”
by Brian Higgins

2022 Best Papers

"The City-Wide Effects of Tolling Downtown Drivers: Evidence from London's Congestion Charge”
by Ian Herzog

“When Cities Grow: Urban Planning and Segregation in the Prewar US”
by Sun Kyoung Lee

2021 Best Papers

"Consumption Access and Agglomeration: Evidence from Smartphone Data"
by Yuhei Miyauchi, Kentaro Nakajima & Stephen Redding

"Why Do Borrowers Default on Mortgages? A New Method for Causal Attribution"
by Peter Ganong and Pascal Noel