NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Economic Growth Workshop

 

Chad Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers

 

July 16, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline Suite

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, JULY 16:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Alwyn Young, London School of Economics and NBER

 

The African Growth Miracle

 

 

 

Discussant: Benjamin Olken, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am 

Klaus Desmet, Princeton University

 

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER

 

Spatial Development

 

 

 

Discussant: Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

11:15 am

Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University

 

Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College

 

Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa

 

 

 

Discussant: Melissa Dell, MIT

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Xin Meng, ANU

 

Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER

 

Pierre Yared, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine (1959-1960)

 

 

 

Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Jeremiah Dittmar, American University

 

Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press

 

 

 

Discussant: Gregory Clark, UC, Davis

 

 

3:30 pm

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

 

Nancy Qian, Yale University

 

The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization

 

 

 

Discussant: Oded Galor, Brown University

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 pm

Reception and Dinner for the Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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