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NATIONAL BUREAU OF
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005 |
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Income Distribution and
Macroeconomics |
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Daron Acemoglu, Roland
Benabou and Oded Galor; Organizers |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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5 Cambridge Parkway |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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July 18 - 20, 2005 |
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM |
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MONDAY,
JULY 18: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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Long-Run Development
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9:00 am |
Nathan Nunn, University of Toronto |
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Slavery,
Institutional Development and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400 - 2000 |
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10:00
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Break |
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10:15
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Matthias Doepke, UC, Los Angeles |
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FABRIZIO
ZILIBOTTI, Institute for International Economic Studies |
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Patience Capital
and the Demise of the Aristocracy |
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11:15
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Break |
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11:30
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Jose Borghans, Utrecht
University |
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Lex Borghans and Bas ter Weel, Maastricht University |
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Economic Performance, Human
Cooperation and the Major Histocompatibility Complex |
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12:30
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Lunch |
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Political Economy, Technology and Trade |
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1:30
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Philippe Martin, University of Paris 1 |
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Thierry Mayer, University of Paris-Sud |
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Mathias Thoenig University of Geneva |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
Patrick Legros, ECARES |
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Andrew Newman, Boston University |
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Eugenio Proto, Warwick University |
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Smithian Growth Through Creative Organization |
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3:45 pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
Matteo Cervellati, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
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Piergiuseppe Fortunato, University
of Bologna |
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Uwe Sunde, IZA |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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TUESDAY,
JULY 19: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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Family, Fertility and Mobility
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9:00 am |
Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago and NBER |
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Yona Rubinstein, Hebrew University |
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Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975 |
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10:00
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Break |
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10:15
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MAIA
GUELL and JOSE RODRIGUEZ MORA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
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Chris Telmer, Carnegie
Mellon University |
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative
Content of Surnames |
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11:15
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Break |
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11:30
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Raquel
Fernandez, New York University and NBER |
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Alessandra Fogli, New
York University |
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Culture: An Empirical Investigation of
Beliefs, Work, and Fertility |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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Social Networks and Ethnic Groups |
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1:30 pm |
Kaivan Munshi,
Brown University |
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Mark Rosenzweig,
Harvard University |
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Inequality, Rural Economic Growth and Social
Networks |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
Francis Kramarz and David
Thesmar, CREST-INSEE |
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Social Networks in the Boardroom: Engineers vs Bureaucrats in France |
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3:45 pm |
Break |
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4:00 pm |
Ashley Lester, MIT |
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Trade
and the End of Trust: Endogenous Group Formation and Inter-Group Hostility |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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WEDNESDAY,
JULY 20: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
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Inequality and Redistribution
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9:00 am |
Gianluca Violante, New York University |
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Nicola Pavoni, University College London |
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Optimal Welfare-to-Work Programs |
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10:00
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Break |
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10:15
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Emmanuel Farhi, MIT |
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Ivan Werning, MIT
and NBER |
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11:15 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
George-Marios Angeletos, MIT
and NBER |
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Uninsured Idiosyncratic Investment Risk and
Aggregate Saving |
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12:30
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Lunch
and Adjourn |
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6:00 pm |
Clambake,
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA |
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5/9/05 |
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