Tuesday, July 18
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Tailored Stories

Chiara Aina, University of Zurich

Discussant:
Sevgi Yuksel, University of California Santa Barbara
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Is there a Critical Mass? Gender Composition and Behavior in US City Councils (slides)

Emilia Brito Rebolledo, Brown University
Jesse M. Bruhn, Brown University and NBER
Thea How Choon, St. Lawrence University
Emily Anna Weber, United States Military Academy at West Point

Discussant:
Christopher Berry, University of Chicago
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Worker Representatives

Julian Budde, University of Bonn
Thomas Dohmen, University of Bonn
Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Simon Trenkle, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), IAB

Discussant:
Laura E. Boudreau, Columbia University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Learn, In Order to Practise: The Effect of Political Rotation on Local Comparative Advantage in China (slides)

Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
Songrui Liu, Peking University
Mingzhi Xu, Peking University
Haochen Zhang, Peking University

Discussant:
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Small Campaign Donors

Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER
Julia Cagé, Sciences Po
Edgard Dewitte, University of Oxford
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Alexander Fouirnaies, University of Chicago
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Foreign Influence in US Politics

Marco Grotteria, London Business School
Max Miller, Harvard University
Lakshmi Naaraayanan, London Business School

Discussant:
James M. Snyder Jr., Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 19
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

A Generalized Measure of Bargaining Power, with an Application to EU Law-Making

Joseph-Simon Goerlach, Bocconi University
Nicolas Motz, Universidad Complutense Madrid

Discussant:
Matias Iaryczower, Princeton University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Bureaucratic Nepotism

Juan Felipe Riano, Georgetown University

Discussant:
Luis R. Martinez, Emory University
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Values as Luxury Goods and Political Behavior

Benjamin Enke, Harvard University and NBER
Mattias Polborn, Vanderbilt University
Alex A. Wu, Harvard University

Discussant:
Chad W. Kendall, University of Miami and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

A Cognitive View of Policing

Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
Sandy Jo MacArthur, University of Chicago Crime Lab
Anuj K. Shah, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Bocar A. Ba, Duke University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Trust and Accountability in Times of Polarization

Monica Martinez-Bravo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI)
Carlos Sanz, Banco de España

Discussant:
John Marshall, Columbia University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Politics At Work

Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Valdemar Pinho Neto, Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn