SI 2023 Law and Economics
Christine Jolls, Organizer
July 26-27, 2023
University Room BC
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
| Wednesday, July 26 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham Black Empowerment and White Backlash: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Tao Chen, Nanyang Technological University Chen Lin, University of Hong Kong Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Bo Sun, University of Virginia Racial Disparities in Small Business Lending
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Anita Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nicholas J. Sanders, Cornell University and NBER Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Violence from Unmitigated Heat in Prison
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Michael J. Ohlrogge, New York University School of Law Down the Tubes: Financial Distress, Bankruptcy, and Industrial Water Pollution
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Miguel de Figueiredo, University of Connecticut Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California John P. Wilson, University of Southern California Matthew B. Hall, Independent Scholar Beau MacDonald, University of Southern California Legal Origin from Outer Space (and on Foot): A Geographic Regression Discontinuity Approach
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta) | |||
| Thursday, July 27 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| Morning three papers joint with Crime in Longfellow Room | ||||
| 8:30 am |
Mark Hoekstra, Baylor University and NBER Suhyeon Oh, Texas A&M University Meradee Tangvatcharapong, Hitotsubashi University Are American Juries Racially Discriminatory? Evidence from over a Quarter Million Felony Grand Jury Cases
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| 9:30 am |
Emma Harrington, University of Virginia William E. Murdock, Lazard Hannah Shaffer, Harvard Law School Prediction Mistakes in the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Linking Prosecutor Surveys to Court Records
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 10:45 am |
Ryan Cooper, University of Chicago Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrés P. Hojman, Universidad Catolica de Chile Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado
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| 11:45 am | Adjourn | |||