SI 2016 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Bénabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers
July 19-21, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Tuesday, July 19 | ||
| 1:30 pm | Raphael Franck, University of Stuttgart Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER The Consequences of the French Revolution in the Short and Longue Durée | |
| Wednesday, July 20 | ||
| 9:00 am | Tim Lee, Queen Mary University of London Nicolas A. Roys, University of London Ananth Seshadri, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER Can Redistribution Lead to Economic Development? | |
| 10:15 am | Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago and NBER Technology, Skill and the Wage Structure | |
| 11:30 am | Graziella Bertocchi, Universita di Modena Arcangelo Dimico, Queen's University Belfast Francesco Lancia, University of Vienna Alessia Russo, University of Padua Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness, and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S. | |
| 1:30 pm | Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties | |
| 2:45 pm | Joram Mayshar, Hebrew University Omer Moav, University of Warwick Zvika Neeman, Tel Aviv University Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Cereals Appropriability and Hierarchy | |
| 4:00 pm | William Maloney, The World Bank Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Brown University Engineering Growth: Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas | |
| Thursday, July 21 | ||
| 9:00 am | Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER Hyejin Ku, University College London The Price of the East Asian Miracle: Generational Cultural Shift and Elderly Suicide | |
| 10:15 am | Maleke Fourati, University of New South Wales Gabriele Gratton, University of New South Wales Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales Render Unto Caesar: Welfare, Charity, and Political Islam | |
| 10:15 am | Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER Intergenerational Dynamics and the Fertility Transition | |
| 11:30 am | Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Kurt Mitman, CEMFI Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity | |
| 1:30 pm | Andreas Fagereng, BI Norwegian Business School Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Davide Malacrino Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth | |
| 2:45 pm | Jess Benhabib, New York University and NBER Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER Mi Luo, Peking University Wealth Distribution and Social Mobility in the US: A Quantitative Approach | |
| 4:00 pm | Laurent Bach, ESSEC Business School Laurent E. Calvet, SKEMA Business School Paolo Sodini, Stockholm School of Economics Rich Pickings? Risk, Return, and Skill in the Portfolios of the Wealthy | |
| 5:00 pm | Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto Benjamin Pugsley, University of Notre Dame Taxes, Regulations of Businesses and Evolution of Income Inequality in the US | |