NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth

Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop

Daron Acemoglu, Roland Benabou, and Oded Galor, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 16-18, 2008

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY JULY 16:
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Marriage and Fertility
1:30 pm	GILLES SAINT-PAUL, University of Toulouse
	Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
2:30 pm	ZVIKA NEEMAN, Tel-Aviv University
	ANDREW NEWMAN and CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University
	Are Career Women Good for Marriage?
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	CAROL SHIUE, University of Colorado
	Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans, 1300-1850
4:45 pm	ROBERT TAMURA, Clemson University
	KEVIN MURPHY, University of Chicago and NBER
	CURTIS SIMON, Clemson University
	Fertility Decline, Baby Boom and Economic Growth
5:45 pm	Adjourn
THURSDAY, JULY 17:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Comparative Development
9:00 am	WILLIAM EASTERLY, New York University and NBER
	Can the West Save Africa?
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	MATTEO CERVELLATI, University of Bologna
	MARCEL JANSEN, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
	UWE SUNDE, University of St. Gallen
	Religious Norms and Long Term Development:
	Insurance, Human Capital and Technological Change
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	QUAMRUL ASHRAF and ODED GALOR, Brown University
	Human Genetic Diversity and Comparative Economic Development
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Finance, Technology and Inequality
1:30 pm	RAGHURAM RAJAN, University of Chicago and NBER
	RODNEY RAMCHARAN, International Monetary Fund
	Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	ROSS LEVINE, Brown University and NBER
	ALEX LEVKOV and YONA RUBINSTEIN, Brown University
	Racial Discrimination and Competition
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	ARIELL RESHEF, New York University
	Is Technological Change Biased Towards the Unskilled in Services?
	An Empirical Investigation
5:00 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY JULY 18:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Norms and Culture in Heterogeneous Societies
9:00 am	MATTHIAS DOEPKE,Northwestern and NBER
	MICHELE TERTLIT, Stanford University and NBER
	Women’s Liberation: What’s in it for Men?
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	ERZO F.P. LUTTMER and MONICA SINGHAL,
	Harvard University and NBER
	Culture, Context, and the Taste for Redistribution
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	LINDA WONG, Binghamton University
	Black-White Intermarriage
12:30 pm	Lunch
	Political Economy, Redistribution and Conflict
1:30 pm	DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
	DAVIDE TICCHI, University of Urbino
	ANDREA VINDIGNI, Princeton University
	A Theory of Military Dictatorships
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	EMMANUEL FARHI, Harvard University and NBER
	IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
	The Political Economy of Nonlinear Capital Taxation
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	KAIVAN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER
	MARK ROSENZWEIG, Yale University
	The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
5:00 pm	PIERRE YARED, Columbia University
	A Dynamic Theory of Concessions and War
6:00 pm	Adjourn
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