SI 2024 Political Economy

Wioletta Dziuda, Georgy Egorov, Ilyana Kuziemko, and Guo Xu, Organizers

July 16-17, 2024

Parkview

Format: 25 minutes for authors, 15 minutes for discussants, remaining 20 minutes will be left for authors to respond to discussants and Q&A

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 16
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Giorgio Chiovelli, Universidad de Montevideo
Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes
Luis R. Martinez, Emory University
Juan David Torres, Stanford University
Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia

Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire
Discussant: Benjamin Marx, Boston University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Kareem Haggag, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau
Discussant: Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Pawel Adrjan, University of Oxford
Svenja Gudell, Zillow Group
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California
Allison Shrivastava, Indeed Hiring Lab
Jason A. Sockin, University of Pennsylvania
Evan P. Starr, University of Maryland

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs V. Jackson
Discussant: Paola Sapienza, Stanford University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Cody Tuttle, University of Texas at Austin

Police Work and Political Identity
Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER

The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power: Evidence from Chernobyl
Discussant: Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER

International Power
Discussant: Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 17
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Cory B. Smith, University of Maryland

Is Basic Democracy Enough? (slides)
Discussant: Saad Gulzar, Princeton University
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
Jaakko Meriläinen, Stockholm School of Economics
Matti Mitrunen, University of Helsinki

Long-Run Consequences of Propaganda in the Classroom
Discussant: Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Sarah Robinson, Claremont McKenna College
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Are U.S. State Tax Policies Increasingly Polarized?
Discussant: Ethan Kaplan, University of Maryland
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Ilona Babenko, Arizona State University
Viktar Fedaseyeu, Bocconi University
Guosong Xu, Erasmus University

Mega-Donors and Representation of the Wealthy in the Wake of Citizens United (slides)
Discussant: Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Peter H. Bils, Vanderbilt University
Gleason Judd, Princeton University

Working for the Revolving Door
Discussant: Ying Chen, Johns Hopkins University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín, Universidad Carlos III
Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Latent Polarization
Discussant: Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
5:00 pm
Adjourn