Thursday, April 22
Meeting format: Presentations 25 minutes. Discussion 15 minutes. Questions from the floor: 15 minutes
11:00 am

Social Media and Protests in China

Bei Qin, Hong Kong Baptist University
David Stromberg, Stockholm University
Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong

Discussant:
Jaya Wen, Harvard University
12:00 pm
Break
12:15 pm

Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study

Pellumb Reshidi, Princeton University
Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER
Leeat Yariv, Princeton University and NBER
Jimmy Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wing Suen, The University of Hong Kong

Discussant:
Marina Agranov, California Institute of Technology and NBER
1:15 pm
Break
1:45 pm

The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson

Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States

Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore
Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University

Discussant:
Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University
4:00 pm
Breakout Rooms
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, April 23
Meeting format: Presentations 25 minutes. Discussion 15 minutes. Questions from the floor: 15 minutes
11:00 am

Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey

Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto

Discussant:
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich
12:00 pm
Break
12:15 pm

The Economics of Partisan Gerrymandering

Alexander Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anton Kolotilin, University of New South Wales

Discussant:
Wioletta Dziuda, University of Chicago and NBER
1:15 pm
Break
1:45 pm

Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An experiment.

Alessandra Casella, Columbia University and NBER
Jeffrey Guo, Columbia University
Michelle Jiang, University of Massachusetts Boston

Discussant:
Pedro Dal Bó, Brown University and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Political Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33

Andrei Markevich, New Economics School
Natalya Naumenko, George Mason University
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Yuri Zhukov, University of Michigan
4:00 pm
Adjourn