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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Roland Bénbou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers

July 14-16, 2015

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 14
	Afternoon session joint with Political Economy
1:30 pm	Matteo Cervellati, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Giorgio Chiovelli, University of Bologna Elena Esposito, European University Institute Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethno-Linguistic Diversity
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER Agricultural Productivity, Conflict and State Size: Evidence from Potatoes, 1400-1900
3:45 pm	Jaume Ventura, CREI and Universitat Pompeu Fabra Joachim Voth, University of Zurich Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
4:45 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 15
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
	The Causes and the Consequences of Inequality
9:00 am	Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER Pierre-Louis Lions, College de France Jean-Michel Lasry, Université Paris Dauphine Benjamin Moll, Princeton University and NBER The Dynamics of Inequality
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Stefania Albanesi, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Jaromir Nosal, Columbia University Insolvency After the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Julien Bengui, Université de Montréal Toan Phan, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Inequality and Bubbles
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Geographical Origins of Comparative Development
1:30 pm	Jeanet Bentzen, University of Copenhagen Acts of God? Religiosity and Natural Disasters Across Subnational World Districts
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Solomon M. Hsiang, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Amir Jina, University of Chicago The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-run Economic Growth: Evidence from 6,700 Cyclones
3:45 pm	Break
	Education and Mobility
4:00 pm	Maia Guell, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Michele Pellizzari, University of Geneva Jose Rodriguez Mora, University of Edinburgh Giovanni Pica, University of Salerno Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes
5:00 pm	Thomas Gall, University of Southampton Patrick Legros, ECARES and Northeastern University Andrew Newman, Boston University, BREAD, and CEPR College Diversity and Investment Incentives
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Thursday, July 16
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
	Globalization and Inequality
9:00 am	Glen Weyl, Microsoft Corporation The Openness-Equality Trade-Off in Global Redistribution
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University The Home Market Effect and Patterns of Trade Between Rich and Poor Countries
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Guido Cozzi, University of St. Gallen Giammario Impullitti, University of Nottingham Globalization and Wage Polarization
12:30 pm	Break
	The Implications of Inequality within the Family
1:30 pm	Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University and NBER Fabian Kindermann, University of Wuerzburg Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Moshe Hazan, Tel-Aviv University David Weiss, Tel Aviv University Hosny Zoabi, New Economic School Women's Liberation as a Financial Innovation
3:45 pm	Break
	Inequality and Consumption
4:00 pm	Gilles J. Saint-Paul, Paris School of Economics Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
5:00 pm	Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Washington University in St. Louis Yu Zheng, City University of Hong Kong The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009
6:00 pm	Adjourn