SI 2018 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Bénabou, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers
July 17-19, 2018
Parkview Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Tuesday, July 17 | ||||
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Tuesday afternoon joint with Political Economy (Charles Suites) | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago and NBER The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Alberto F. Alesina, Harvard University Sebastian Hohmann, Stockholm School of Economics SITE Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Elias Papaioannou, London Business School Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
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| 4:00 pm |
Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 18 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco A Global View of Creative Destruction |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Francesco Lippi, LUISS Guido Carli University Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Unequal Growth |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Rodrigo Adao, University of Chicago and NBER Martin Beraja, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Skill-biased Technological Transitions |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics Jean Tirole, Toulouse School of Economics Taxing Unwanted Populations: Fiscal Policy and Conversions in Early Islam |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Matteo Cervellati, University of Bologna Gerrit Meyerheim, LMU Munich Uwe Sunde, University of Munich From Stagnation to Growth: Demography, Democracy, and Comparative Development |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Francesca Lotti, Bank of Italy Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |||
| Thursday, July 19 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University and NBER Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Diego Daruich, University of Southern California The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
John Knowles, Simon Fraser University Chris A. Bidner, Simon Fraser University Social Mobility with Unobserved Heritable Characteristics |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Henry S. Farber, Princeton University and NBER Dan Herbst, University of Arizona Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Fabian Eckert, University of California, San Diego Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER Spatial Structural Change |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Katrine Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen Kristian Jakobsen, DEA Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||