SI 2016 Political Economy Workshop
Alberto F. Alesina, Organizer
July 18-19, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Monday, July 18 | ||
| 9:00 am |
Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis and NBER Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada Immigration to the U.S.: A problem for the Republicans or the Democrats? |
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| 10:15 am |
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER Matt Taddy, Amazon Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech |
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| 11:15 am |
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
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| 1:30 pm |
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education |
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| 2:45 pm |
Samuel A. Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict |
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| 3:45 pm |
Ernesto Dal Bó, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Olle Folke, Uppsala University Who Becomes a Politician? |
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| Tuesday, July 19 | ||
| 9:00 am |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER Dario Romero, Columbia University Juan F. Vargas, Universidad del Rosario The Perils of Top-down State Building: Evidence from Colombia’s False Positives |
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| 10:15 am |
Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Queen Mary University of London Gino Gancia, Queen Mary University of London Economic Uncertainty and Structural Reforms |
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| 11:15 am |
Andrea Guariso, LICOS Thorsten Rogall, University of British Columbia Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa |
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| 1:30 pm |
Laurent Bouton, Georgetown University and NBER Alessandro Lizzeri, Princeton University and NBER Nicola Persico, Northwestern University and NBER The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements |
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| 2:45 pm |
Jose G. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Marta Reynal-Querol, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ethnic Diversity and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence |
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| 3:45 pm |
Raphael Franck, Hebrew University Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER The Consequences of the French Revolution in the Short and Longue Durée |
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