Economics of Culture and Institutions
Organized by Alberto Bisin and Paola Giuliano
May 3, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
Presentation: 25 minutes; Discussion: 10 minutes; Questions from the floor: 15 minutes
Saturday, May 3
8:00am
Continental Breakfast
8:30am

Moral Violence: At the Heart of a Major Armed Group in Congo

Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER
Hilary Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Louis Dunia

Discussant:
Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER
9:20am

Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

Tommaso Giommoni, University of Amsterdam
Gabriel Loumeau Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
10:10am
Break
10:30am

Estimating Peerage Effects: Aristocratic Connections and Political Careers (slides)

Timothy J. Besley, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Chris Dann, Stanford University
Friedrich Geiecke, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Valentino Larcinese, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Discussant:
Clemence Tricaud, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
11:20am

Industry and Identity: The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain

Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University and NBER
Theo Serlin, King's College London

Discussant:
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
12:10pm
Lunch
1:30pm

Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700–1850

Matthias Weigand, Harvard University
Cathrin C. Mohr, University of Bonn
Davide Cantoni, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Discussant:
Leander Heldring, Northwestern University and NBER
2:20pm

The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction

Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER
Benjamin Lualdi, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
3:10pm
Break
3:30pm

An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions

Weijia Li, Monash University
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of Oxford
4:20pm
Adjourn