Political Economy Program Meeting

Matthew Gentzkow, Paola Giuliano, and David Y. Yang, Organizers

November 15, 2024

Paper Presentation: 30 minutes (allowing clarifying questions only), Paper Discussion: 10 minutes, Open Discussion and Author Responses: 20 minutes

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, November 15
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Richard Calvo, University of California Berkeley
Vincent Pons, Harvard University and NBER
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of US Elections
Discussant: Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Masyhur Hilmy, University of New South Wales
Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
Mahvish Shaukat, World Bank Development Research Group
Andreas Stegmann, University of Warwick

It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies
Discussant: Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Deivis Angeli, University of British Columbia
Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia

Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue?
Discussant: Brian Wheaton, University of California, Los Angeles
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Allan Hsiao, Stanford University
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Karthik Sastry, Princeton University and NBER

Food Policy in a Warming World
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Abu Siddique, Royal Holloway University of London
Michael Vlassopoulos, University of Southampton
Yves Zenou, Monash University

Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony
Discussant: Katherine Casey, Stanford University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Cevat Giray Aksoy, King’s College London
Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto
Carlos Molina, University of South Carolina
Gamze Zeki, Stockholm University

Misperceptions and Demand for Democracy under Authoritarianism
Discussant: Cesi Cruz, University of Michigan
5:00 pm
Adjourn