Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

Giorgio Chiovelli, Universidad de Montevideo
Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes
Luis R. Martinez, Emory University
Juan David Torres, Stanford University
Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Brown University

Discussant:
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau

Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Kareem Haggag, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Discussant:
Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs V. Jackson

Pawel Adrjan, University of Oxford
Svenja Gudell, Zillow Group
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Allison Shrivastava, Indeed Hiring Lab
Jason A. Sockin, Cornell University
Evan P. Starr, University of Maryland

Discussant:
Paola Sapienza, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Police Work and Political Identity

Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Cody Tuttle, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant:
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power: Evidence from Chernobyl

Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER

Discussant:
Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

International Power

Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Is Basic Democracy Enough? (slides)

Cory B. Smith, University of Maryland

Discussant:
Saad Gulzar, Princeton University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Long-Run Consequences of Propaganda in the Classroom

Jaakko Meriläinen, Stockholm School of Economics
Matti Mitrunen, University of Helsinki

Discussant:
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Are U.S. State Tax Policies Increasingly Polarized?

Sarah Robinson, Claremont McKenna College
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Discussant:
Ethan Kaplan, University of Maryland
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Mega-Donors and Representation of the Wealthy in the Wake of Citizens United (slides)

Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University
Viktar Fedaseyeu, Bocconi University
Guosong Xu, Erasmus University

Discussant:
Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Working for the Revolving Door

Peter H. Bils, Vanderbilt University
Gleason Judd, Princeton University

Discussant:
Ying Chen, Johns Hopkins University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Latent Polarization

Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Universidad Carlos III
Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Discussant:
Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
5:00 pm
Adjourn