
	Monday, July 18
9:00 am	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
10:15 am	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
11:15 am	The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:30 pm	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
2:45 pm	Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict Samuel A. Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University
3:45 pm	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
	Tuesday, July 19
9:00 am	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
10:15 am	Economic Uncertainty and Structural Reforms Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Queen Mary University of London Gino Gancia, Queen Mary University of London
11:15 am	Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa Andrea Guariso, LICOS Thorsten Rogall, University of British Columbia
1:30 pm	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
2:45 pm	Ethnic Diversity and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence Jose G. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Marta Reynal-Querol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
3:45 pm	The Consequences of the French Revolution in the Short and Longue Durée Raphael Franck, Hebrew University Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER

Participants

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mitra Akhtari, Harvard University
James E. Alt, Harvard University
Eric A. Avis, University of California at Berkeley
Marina Azzimonti, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER
Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Queen Mary University of London
Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Johannes C. Buggle, University of Lausanne
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Francisco Costa, University of Delaware
Ernesto Dal Bó, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Pedro Dal Bó, Brown University and NBER
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER
Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics
Quoc-Anh Do, Monash University
Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Ruben Enikolopov, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes
Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER
Dana Foarta, Stanford University
Raphaël Franck, Hebrew University
Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
Stefano Gagliarducci, Tor Vergata University of Rome
Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
Gino Gancia, Queen Mary University of London
Camilo García-Jimeno, Emory University
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University
Yosh Halberstam, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University
Mitchell Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER
Mounir Karadja, Uppsala University
Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER
Vasily Korovkin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Horacio Larreguy, ITAM
Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER

Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marco Manacorda, Queen Mary University of London
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
Jeffrey A. Miron, Harvard University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
Joana Naritomi, London School of Economics
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Elias Papaioannou, London Business School
M. Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis and NBER
Ivan Petkov, Boston College
Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
Romain Rancière, University of Southern California and NBER
Gautam Rao, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bryony Reich, Northwestern University
Marta Reynal-Querol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Thorsten Rogall, University of British Columbia
Thomas Romer, Princeton University
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER
Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College
Ananya Sen, Carnegie Mellon University
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
Kenneth Shepsle, Harvard University
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
Erik Snowberg, University of Utah and NBER
Jorg L. Spenkuch, Northwestern University and NBER
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Matt Taddy, Amazon
Dustin Tingley, Harvard University
Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced
Nico Voigtländer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Ebonya L. Washington, Columbia University and NBER
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore
Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford