SI 2019 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Bénabou, Raquel Fernández, Oded Galor, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, Organizers
July 16-18, 2019
Charles Room A
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Tuesday, July 16 | ||||
| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| Joint session with the Political Economy Group in Parkview | ||||
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1:30 pm
Parkview Room
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Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago and NBER Kristof Titeca, Antwep University Hierarchical Corruption
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
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2:45 pm
Parkview Room
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Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER Sahar Parsa, New York University Martina Viarengo, The Graduate Institute, Geneva Coming out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
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3:45 pm
Parkview Room
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Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon University Panu Poutvaara, Ifo Institute for Economic Research Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs
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| 4:45 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 17 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Technology, Demand Forces, and Labor Market Polarization | ||||
| 9:00 am |
Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER Eric Mengus, HEC Paris Tomasz K. Michalski, HEC Paris Labor Market Polarization and The Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, OECD David Hemous, University of Zurich Morten G. Olsen, University of Copenhagen Carlo Zanella, University of Zurich Automating Labor: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania The Race Between Preferences and Technology |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Income and Wealth Concentration | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Alessandra Peter, New York University and NBER Owning Up: Closely Held Firms and Wealth Inequality |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Jacob Robbins, University of Illinois at Chicago Capital Gains and the Distribution of Income in the United States |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Baris Kaymak, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Markus Poschke, McGill University David C. S. Leung, McGill University Accounting for the Determinants of Wealth Concentration in the US |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |||
| Thursday, July 18 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Innovation, Population, and the Organization of Production | ||||
| 9:00 am |
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Atif R. Mian, Princeton University and NBER Amir Sufi, University of Chicago and NBER Low Interest Rates, Market Power, and Productivity Growth |
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Clara Santamaria, Sciences Po Small Teams in Big Cities: Inequality, City Size, and the Organization of Production |
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Matthew J. Delventhal, Claremont McKenna College Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Nezih Guner, CEMFI Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Family, Culture, and Gender Issues | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Graziella Bertocchi, Universita di Modena Arcangelo Dimico, Queen University of Belfast Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Debasis Bandyopadhyay, University of Auckland James Jones, University of Auckland Asha Sundaram, University of Auckland Gender Bias and Male Backlash as Drivers of Crime Against Women: Evidence from India |
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Jeremy Freese, Northwestern University Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER Natural Selection on Culture Makes Society More Conservative on Family Values |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||