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Political Economy Program Meeting |
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November 16, 2012 |
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Alberto Alesina, Organizer |
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2nd Floor Conference Room |
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1050 Massachusetts Avenue |
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Cambridge, MA |
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PROGRAM |
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 |
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7:00 pm |
Group Dinner Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) |
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 |
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8:00 am |
Shuttle
Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER |
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8:15 am |
Shuttle
Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER |
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8:15 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Yann Algan, Camille Hémet
and David Laitin, Sciences Po Diversity and Local Public Goods: A
Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation Discussant: Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER |
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10:00 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:15 am |
Gerard
Padro y Miquel, London
School of Economics and NBER Nancy
Qian, Yale University and NBER Yang
Yao, Peking University Discussant: Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER |
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11:15 am |
Maxim
Mironov, IE Business School/Madrid Katia Zhuravskaya,
Paris School of Economics Corruption
in Procurement and Shadow Campaign Financing: Evidence from Russia Discussant: Paola
Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Seth Stephens Davidowitz,
Harvard University Race and the Obama
Vote, A Discussion on the Presidential Election |
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1:45 pm |
Leonard
Wantchekon, Princeton University Natalija
Novta and
Marko Klasnja, New York University Education and Human Capital Externalities:
Evidence from Colonial Benin Discussant: James Robinson,
Harvard University and NBER |
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2:45 pm |
Coffee Break |
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3:00 pm |
Luigi
Guiso, Einaudi Institute Helios
Herrera and Massimo Morelli, Columbia University A Culture Based Theory of Fiscal Union
Desirability Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
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4:00 pm |
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug
War Discussant: Ernesto Dal Bo,
University of California at Berkeley and NBER |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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