Monday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:00 am

Rockets and Votes (slides)

Yael Elster, University of Haifa
9:45 am

The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia

Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development

Nikita Melnikov, Nova School of Business and Economics
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, University of California, Berkeley
Maria M. Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER
11:30 am

Private Sector Attribution of Cyber Incidents: Benefits and Risks to the U.S. Government

Sasha Romanosky, RAND Corporation
Benjamin Boudreaux, RAND
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

Information Operations Increase Civilian Security Cooperation and Support For Reintegration (slides)

Austin L. Wright, University of Chicago
Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago
2:00 pm

Terrorism, Education, and the Role of Expectations: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya

Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Bocconi University
Marco Alfano, University of Strathclyde
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
James E. Fenske, University of Warwick
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER
3:45 pm

China and the World Bank – How Contrasting Development Approaches affect the Stability of African States

Kai Gehring, University of Bern
Lennart Kaplan, DIE
Melvin H. L. Wong, Hannover University
4:30 pm
Adjourn