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
| Thursday, November 14 | ||||
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street (at the Garden Court Hotel) Palo Alto | |||
| 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
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| 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
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Deivis Angeli, University of British Columbia Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia Do Virtue Signals Signal Virtue?
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||