
	Wednesday, July 26
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Discussant: Miao Ben Zhang, University of Southern California
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Black Empowerment and White Backlash: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham Discussant: Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León, University of California, San Diego
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Racial Disparities in Small Business Lending Tao Chen, Nanyang Technological University Chen Lin, University of Hong Kong Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Bo Sun, University of Virginia Discussant: Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Violence from Unmitigated Heat in Prison Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin - Madison Nicholas J. Sanders, Cornell University and NBER Discussant: Emily K. Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Down the Tubes: Financial Distress, Bankruptcy, and Industrial Water Pollution Michael J. Ohlrogge, New York University School of Law Discussant: Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Legal Origin from Outer Space (and on Foot): A Geographic Regression Discontinuity Approach Miguel de Figueiredo, University of Connecticut Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California John P. Wilson, University of Southern California Matthew B. Hall, Independent Scholar Beau MacDonald, University of Southern California Discussant: Bert Huang, Columbia University
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta)
	Thursday, July 27
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning three papers joint with Crime in Longfellow Room
8:30 am	Are American Juries Racially Discriminatory? Evidence from over a Quarter Million Felony Grand Jury Cases Mark Hoekstra, Baylor University and NBER Suhyeon Oh, Texas A&M University Meradee Tangvatcharapong, Hitotsubashi University Discussant: Nicola Persico, Northwestern University and NBER
9:30 am	Prediction Mistakes in the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Linking Prosecutor Surveys to Court Records Emma Harrington, University of Virginia William E. Murdock, Lazard Hannah Shaffer, Harvard Law School Discussant: Ashesh Rambachan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado Ryan Cooper, University of Chicago Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrés P. Hojman, Universidad Catolica de Chile Discussant: James Greiner, Harvard University
11:45 am	Adjourn

Participants

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David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania
Amanda Y. Agan, Cornell University and NBER
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley
Victoria Angelova, Harvard University
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León, University of California, San Diego
Bocar A. Ba, Duke University and NBER
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard University and NBER
Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford
Michael T. Cassidy, Princeton University
Aaron Chalfin, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Sungwoo Cho, United States Military Academy at West Point
Alma Cohen, Harvard University and NBER
Jamein P. Cunningham, University of Texas at Austin
Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
Miguel Defigueiredo, University of Connecticut
Monica Deza, Syracuse University and NBER
Will S. Dobbie, Harvard University and NBER
Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Hülya Eraslan, Rice University and NBER
Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER
Allen Ferrell, Harvard University and NBER
Jacob Goldin, University of Chicago and NBER
Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Emma Harrington, University of Virginia
Xinyu Hua, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bert Huang, Columbia University
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
Christine Jolls, Yale University and NBER
Elisa Jácome, Northwestern University and NBER
Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER
Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California
Alvin Klevorick, Yale University
Claudia M. Landeo, University of Alberta
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER
Bo Li, Tsinghua University
Feng Liu, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Hong Luo, University of Toronto
W. Bentley MacLeod, Princeton University and NBER
Steven Mello, Dartmouth College and NBER
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Edward Morrison, Columbia University and NBER

Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin - Madison
William E. Murdock, Lazard
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
Michael J. Ohlrogge, New York University School of Law
Paul Oyer, Stanford University and NBER
Nicola Persico, Northwestern University and NBER
Anne Piehl, Rutgers University and NBER
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Stanford University and NBER
J.J. Prescott, University of Michigan
Enrichetta Ravina, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University
Roman Rivera, Princeton University
Matthew B. Ross, Northeastern University
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut and NBER
Daniel L. Rubinfeld, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER
Nicholas J. Sanders, Cornell University and NBER
Carmit Segal, University of Zurich
Hannah Shaffer, Harvard Law School
Steven Shavell, Harvard University and NBER
CarlyWill Sloan, United States Military Academy at West Point
Christopher M. Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Melissa K. Spencer, University of Richmond
Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard University and NBER
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan and NBER
Megan T. Stevenson, University of Virginia
Bo Sun, University of Virginia
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Kegon T.K. Tan, University of Rochester
Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston
W. Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Emily K. Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Michelle J. White, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Morgan C. Williams Jr., Barnard College
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
David Yermack, New York University and NBER
Mariyana V. Zapryanova, Smith College
Miao Ben Zhang, University of Southern California
Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College and NBER
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER