Diversity, Identity, and Nation Building
Organized by Samuel Bazzi
Supported by the National Science Foundation
April 18, 2024
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Thursday, April 18

Breakfast

9:00 am

Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization

Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales
Saumitra Jha, Stanford University
Michael Vlassopoulos, University of Southampton
Yves Zenou, Monash University

9:45 am

Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII

Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER

Break

11:00 am

The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced
Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Brown University

11:45 am

Can Revolution Work? Evidence from the birth of Nepal's Federal Democracy

Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Michael Callen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Soledad A. Prillaman, Stanford University
Saad Gulzar, Princeton University

Lunch

Short Presentation Round I

1:30 pm

Nation-Building Through Military Service

Diego Ramos-Toro, Dartmouth College
Juan Pedro Ronconi, Universidad de los Andes, Chile

1:45 pm

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Philipp Jaschke, IAB
Sulin Sardoschau, Humboldt University
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER

2:00 pm

Segregation and the March Right: Extreme Politics in England and Wales

Lisa Tarquinio, Western University
Sergio Villar Vallenas, Boston University

2:15 pm

National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development (slides)

Stergios Skaperdas, UCI
Patrick A. Testa, Tulane University and NBER

Break

3:00 pm

Leadership and Nation-Building

Lydia Assouad, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

3:45 pm

French

Guillaume Blanc, University of Manchester
Masahiro Kubo, Université Clermont Auvergne

Break

Short Presentation Round II

4:45 pm

The Influence of Historical Narrative on Individual and National Identity

Benjamin Krause, University of Chicago
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Eduardo Rivera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Enrique Seira, University of Notre Dame

5:00 pm

Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks

Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Emileigh Harrison, University of Chicago

5:15 pm

Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India

Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
Prerna Kundu, University of British Columbia
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia
Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego

Adjourn

Reception and Dinner, Parkview Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel