Diversity, Identity, and Nation Building
Samuel Bazzi, Organizer
April 18, 2024
Supported by National Science Foundation
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
| Thursday, April 18 | ||
| Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 am |
Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales Saumitra Jha, Stanford University Michael Vlassopoulos, University of Southampton Yves Zenou, Monash University Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization |
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| 9:45 am |
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII |
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| Break | ||
| 11:00 am |
Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War |
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| 11:45 am |
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER Michael Callen, London School of Economics Soledad A. Prillaman, Stanford University Saad Gulzar, Princeton University Can Revolution Work? Evidence from the birth of Nepal's Federal Democracy |
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| Lunch | ||
| Short Presentation Round I | ||
| 1:30 pm |
Diego Ramos-Toro, Dartmouth College Juan Pedro Ronconi, Universidad de los Andes, Chile Nation-Building Through Military Service |
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| 1:45 pm |
Philipp Jaschke, IAB Sulin Sardoschau, Humboldt University Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany |
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| 2:00 pm |
Lisa Tarquinio, University of Western Ontario Sergio Villar Vallenas, Boston University Segregation and the March Right: Extreme Politics in England and Wales |
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| 2:15 pm |
Stergios Skaperdas, UCI Patrick A. Testa, Tulane University National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development |
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| Break | ||
| 3:00 pm |
Lydia Assouad, London School of Economics and Political Science Leadership and Nation-Building |
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| 3:45 pm |
Guillaume Blanc, The University of Manchester Masahiro Kubo, Brown University French |
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| Break | ||
| Short Presentation Round II | ||
| 4:45 pm |
Benjamin Krause, University of Chicago Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER Eduardo Rivera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enrique Seira, Michigan State University The Influence of Historical Narrative on Individual and National Identity |
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| 5:00 pm |
Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER Emileigh Harrison, University of Chicago Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks |
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| 5:15 pm |
Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University Prerna Kundu, University of British Columbia Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India |
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| Adjourn | ||
| Reception and Dinner, Parkview Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel | ||