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Monday, July 18
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9:00 am
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Immigration to the U.S.: A problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?
Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University
Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis and NBER
Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada
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10:15 am
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Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
Matt Taddy, Amazon
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11:15 am
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The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
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1:30 pm
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Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER
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2:45 pm
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Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict
Samuel A. Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University
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3:45 pm
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Who Becomes a Politician?
Ernesto Dal Bó, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Olle Folke, Uppsala University
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Tuesday, July 19
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9:00 am
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The Perils of Top-down State Building: Evidence from Colombia’s False Positives
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER
Dario Romero, Columbia University
Juan F. Vargas, Universidad del Rosario
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10:15 am
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Economic Uncertainty and Structural Reforms
Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Queen Mary University of London
Gino Gancia, Queen Mary University of London
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11:15 am
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Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Andrea Guariso, LICOS
Thorsten Rogall, Uppsala University
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1:30 pm
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The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements
Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER
Nicola Persico, Northwestern University and NBER
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2:45 pm
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Ethnic Diversity and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence
Jose G. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Marta Reynal-Querol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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3:45 pm
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The Consequences of the French Revolution in the Short and Longue Durée
Raphael Franck, University of Stuttgart
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
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