Political Economy Program Meeting
Francesco Trebbi and Ebonya L. Washington, Organizers
April 22-23, 2021
on Zoom.us
| Thursday, April 22 | ||||
| Meeting format: Presentations 25 minutes. Discussion 15 minutes. Questions from the floor: 15 minutes | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Bei Qin, Hong Kong Baptist University David Stromberg, Stockholm University Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong Social Media and Protests in China
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| 12:00 pm | Break | |||
| 12:15 pm |
Pellumb Reshidi, Princeton University Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER Leeat Yariv, Princeton University and NBER Jimmy Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong Wing Suen, The University of Hong Kong Individual and Collective Information Acquisition: An Experimental Study
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| 1:15 pm | Break | |||
| 1:45 pm |
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson
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| 2:45 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
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| 4:00 pm | Breakout Rooms | |||
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, April 23 | ||||
| Meeting format: Presentations 25 minutes. Discussion 15 minutes. Questions from the floor: 15 minutes | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
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| 12:00 pm | Break | |||
| 12:15 pm |
Alexander Wolitzky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anton Kolotilin, University of New South Wales The Economics of Partisan Gerrymandering
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| 1:15 pm | Break | |||
| 1:45 pm |
Alessandra Casella, Columbia University and NBER Jeffrey Guo, Columbia University Michelle Jiang, Columbia University Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An experiment.
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| 2:45 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Andrei Markevich, New Economics School Natalya Naumenko, George Mason University Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER The Political Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33
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| 4:00 pm | Adjourn | |||