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

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 16
12:15 pm
Lunch
Joint session with the Political Economy Group in Parkview
1:30 pm
Parkview Room
Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, The University of Chicago and NBER
Kristof Titeca, Antwep University

Hierarchical Corruption
Discussant: Guilherme Lichand, Stanford University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Parkview Room
Raquel Fernández, New York University and NBER
Sahar Parsa, New York University
Martina Viarengo, Geneva Graduate Institute

Coming out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
Discussant: Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
3:45 pm
Parkview Room
Christina Fong, Carnegie Mellon University
Panu Poutvaara, ifo Institute

Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs
Discussant: Edoardo Teso, Northwestern University and NBER
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
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (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 (slides)
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania

The Race Between Preferences and Technology
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
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Jacob Robbins, University of Illinois Chicago

Capital Gains and the Distribution of Income in the United States
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
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, The University of Chicago and NBER

Low Interest Rates, Market Power, and Productivity Growth (slides)
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Clara Santamaria, Sciences Po

Small Teams in Big Cities: Inequality, City Size, and the Organization of Production
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
12:30 pm
Lunch
Family, Culture, and Gender Issues
1:30 pm
Graziella Bertocchi, Universita di Modena
Arcangelo Dimico, Queen's University Belfast

Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Debasis Bandyopadhyay, The University of Auckland
James Jones, The University of Auckland
Asha Sundaram, Northeastern University

Gender Bias and Male Backlash as Drivers of Crime Against Women: Evidence from India
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
5:00 pm
Adjourn