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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013

Political Economy Workshop

Alberto Alesina, Organizer

July 15 and 16, 2013

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 15:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Leonardo Bursztyn, University of California at Los Angeles Poverty and the Political Economy of Public Education Spending: Evidence from Brazil Discussant: Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Alireza Naghavi, University of Bologna Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam Discussant: Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am	Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Remi Jedwab, George Washington University Edward Miguel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Ameet Morjarya, London School of Economics Gerard Padro i Miquel, London School of Economics and NBER The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya Discussant: Ben Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Eric Weese, Yale University Political Mergers as Coalition Formation Discussant Bryony Reich, University College London
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Maja Adena, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School Maria Petrova, New Economic School Veronica Santarosa, University of Michigan Katia Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany Discussant: Filipe Campante, Harvard University
3:30 pm	Tomothy Besley, London School of Economics Olle Folke, Columbia University Torsten Persson, IIES Johanna Rickne, Research Institute for Industrial Economics Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden Discussant: Raquel Fernandez, New York University
4:30 pm	Adjourn

Tuesday, July 16:	PLEASE NOTE EARLY START!
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology Thomas Palfrey, California Institute of Technology Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study Discussant: Ernesto Dal Bó, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
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9:30 am	Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley and NBER John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER Ulrike Malmendier, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Gautam Rao, University of California at Berkeley Voting To Tell Others Discussant: Thomas Palfrey, California Institute of Technology
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Ernesto Dal Bo, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Pedro Dal Bo’, Brown University and NBER Eric Eyster, London School of Economics The Demand for Bad Policy When Voters Underappreciate Equilibrium Effects Discussant: Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University
11:45 am	Laurent Bouton, Boston University Paola Conconi, ECARES- Université Libre de Bruxelles Francisco Pino, ECARES - Université Libre de Bruxelles Maurizio Zanardi, Université Libre de Bruxelles Guns and Votes Discussant: James Snyder, Harvard University and NBER
12:45 pm	Lunch
1:45 - 2:00 pm	Shuttles depart the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
2:30 pm	Joint session with the Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Group – Skyline Rooms, West Tower
2:30 pm	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER Bryony Reich, University College London Nation Building
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Paolo Buonanno, University of Bergamo Ruben Durante, Sciences Po Giovanni Prarolo, University of Bologna Paolo Vanin, University of Bologna Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse in the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia
4:45 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER Konstantin Sonin, New Economic School Political Economy in a Changing World
6:00 pm	Adjourn