SI 2015 Political Economy Workshop
Alberto F. Alesina and helen_gavel, Organizers
July 13-14, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Summer Institute 2015 master schedule
| Monday, July 13 | ||
| 9:00 am | ||
| 9:00 am |
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Ebonya L. Washington, Columbia University and NBER Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate |
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| 10:15 am |
Scott Fulford, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ivan Petkov, Boston College Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010 |
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| 11:15 am |
Giacomo De Luca, Free University of Bozen Roland Hodler, University of St.Gallen Paul Raschky, Monash University Michele Valsecchi, University of Gothenburg Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics? |
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| 1:15 pm | ||
| 1:15 pm |
Rajesh Ramachandran, Monash University David Laitin, Stanford University Linguistic Diversity, Official Language Choice and Nation Building: Theory and Evidence |
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| 2:30 pm | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced Family Types and Intimate-Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective |
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| 3:30 pm | ||
| 3:30 pm |
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University Marcel Prokopczuk, Leibniz University Hannover Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER The Long Shadow of Jewish Persecution on Financial Decisions |
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| Tuesday, July 14 | ||
| 9:00 am | ||
| 9:00 am |
Thorsten Rogall, University of British Columbia Mobilizing the Masses for Genocide |
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| 10:15 am |
Mathieu Couttenier, University of Geneva Veronica Preotu, University of Lausanne Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne Mathias Thoenig, Université de Lausanne The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland |
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| 11:15 am | ||
| 11:15 am |
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich The Intergenerational Transmission of War |
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| 1:30 pm |
Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna Giorgio Chiovelli, Universidad de Montevideo Elena Esposito, Université de Lausanne Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethno-Linguistic Diversity |
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| 2:45 pm |
Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER Agricultural Productivity and Conflict: Evidence from the Diffusion of Potatoes to the Old World |
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