SI 2022 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Organized by Roland Bénabou, Raquel Fernández, and Oded Galor
July 19-20, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Tuesday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
Chair/Moderator: Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
1:00 pm

Demand Stimulus as Social Policy

Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Daniel Murphy, University of Virginia
1:45 pm

Consumption Segregation

Elisa Giannone, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
Corina Boar, New York University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children

Diego Daruich, University of Southern California
Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
3:30 pm

Real-Time Inequality (slides)

Thomas Blanchet, University of California, Berkeley
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 20
12:00 pm
Lunch
Chair/Moderator: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
1:00 pm

AI-tocracy

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Andrew Kao, Harvard University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
1:45 pm

Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalities (slides)

Federico Boffa, Free University of Bolzano
Vincenzo Mollisi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, Center for Research in International Economics
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Collateral Damage: The Legacy of the Secret War in Laos (slides)

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Brown University
Juan Felipe Riano Rodriguez, Georgetown University
3:30 pm

Convergence Across Castes (slides)

Viktoria Hnatkovska, University of British Columbia
Chenyu Hou, Simon Fraser University
Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
4:15 pm
Adjourn