SI 2015 Political Economy Workshop
Organized by Alberto F. Alesina and helen_gavel
July 13-14, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 13

9:00 am

Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Ebonya L. Washington, Columbia University and NBER

10:15 am

Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Scott Fulford, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Ivan Petkov, Boston College
Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College

11:15 am

Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?

Giacomo De Luca, Free University of Bozen
Roland Hodler, University of St.Gallen
Paul Raschky, Monash University
Michele Valsecchi, New Economic School (NES)

1:15 pm

Linguistic Diversity, Official Language Choice and Nation Building: Theory and Evidence

Rajesh Ramachandran, Monash University
David Laitin, Stanford University

2:30 pm

Family Types and Intimate-Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced

3:30 pm

The Long Shadow of Jewish Persecution on Financial Decisions

Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Marcel Prokopczuk, Leibniz University Hannover
Michael Weber, Purdue University and NBER

Tuesday, July 14

9:00 am

Mobilizing the Masses for Genocide

Thorsten Rogall, Uppsala University

10:15 am

The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland

Mathieu Couttenier, University of Geneva
Veronica Preotu, University of Lausanne
Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne
Mathias Thoenig, Université de Lausanne

11:15 am

The Intergenerational Transmission of War

Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich

1:30 pm

Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethno-Linguistic Diversity

Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna
Giorgio Chiovelli, Universidad de Montevideo
Elena Esposito, Université de Lausanne

2:45 pm

Agricultural Productivity and Conflict: Evidence from the Diffusion of Potatoes to the Old World

Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado Boulder
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER