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Authors, please upload your
paper here. Participant List |
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NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
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Economics
of Culture and Institutions Meeting |
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NBER,
1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA |
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April
13, 2013 |
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Alberto Bisin and Paola Giuliano,
Organizers |
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PROGRAM |
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Saturday, April 13: |
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8:15 am |
Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta
Hotel for NBER |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Birthplace Diversity and Economic
Prosperity |
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Alberto Alesina, Harvard
University and NBER |
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Discussant: Nico Voigtlaender, University of California at Los Angeles and
NBER |
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9:50 am |
Does
Contract Failure Foster Ethnic Assimilation? Evidence from Cochineal in Mexcio |
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Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, University
of California at San Diego |
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10:40 am |
Break |
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11:10 am |
The
Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants |
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12:00 am |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
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Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER |
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Xiaobo
Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute |
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Discussant: Noam Yuchtmann, University of California at
Berkeley and NBER |
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1:50 pm |
Democracy,
Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values |
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Davide Ticchi, IMT Institute
for Advanced Studies, Lucca |
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Discussant: Pierre Yared,
Columbia University and NBER |
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3:00 pm |
Duty,
Anger, and Compliance |
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3:50 pm |
Education, Social
Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt |
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Christine Binzel,
University of Heidelberg |
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Jean-Paul Carvalho,
University of California at Irvine |
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4:40 pm |
Adjourn |