SI 2022 Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Roland Bénabou, Raquel Fernández, and Oded Galor, Organizers

July 19-20, 2022

University Room BC

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 19
12:00 pm
Lunch
Chair/Moderator: Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
1:00 pm

Demand Stimulus as Social Policy
1:45 pm

Consumption Segregation
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
3:30 pm

Real-Time Inequality (slides)
4:15 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 20
12:00 pm
Lunch
Chair/Moderator: Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI
1:00 pm

AI-tocracy
1:45 pm

Do Incompetent Politicians Breed Populist Voters? Evidence from Italian Municipalities (slides)
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Collateral Damage: The Legacy of the Secret War in Laos (slides)
3:30 pm

Convergence Across Castes (slides)
4:15 pm
Adjourn