SI 2018 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Organized by Roland Bénabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti
July 17-19, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, July 17
12:30 pm
Lunch
Tuesday afternoon joint with Political Economy (Charles Suites)
1:30 pm

The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities

Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University
Sebastian Hohmann, Stockholm School of Economics SITE
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
Elias Papaioannou, London Business School

Discussant:
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:00 pm

The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000

Ying Bai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Discussant:
Xiaoxue Zhao, Wesleyan University
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

A Global View of Creative Destruction

Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Ishan B. Nath, Harvard University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Unequal Growth

Francesco Lippi, Luiss University
Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Skill-biased Technological Transitions

Rodrigo Adao, University of Chicago and NBER
Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Taxing Unwanted Populations: Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam

Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics
Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

From Stagnation to Growth: Demography, Democracy, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna
Gerrit Meyerheim, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Uwe Sunde, University of Munich
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Francesca Lotti, Banca d'Italia
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe (slides)

Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies

Diego Daruich, University of Southern California
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Social Mobility with Unobserved Heritable Characteristics

John Knowles, Simon Fraser University
Chris A. Bidner, Simon Fraser University
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data (slides)

Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER
Dan Herbst, University of Arizona
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Spatial Structural Change

Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark

Katrine Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen
Kristian Jakobsen, DEA
Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn