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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Culture and Institutions

Paola Giuliano and Alberto Bisin, Organizers

November 12, 2011

NBER,
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

PROGRAM

 

Saturday, November 12:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe

 

Avner Greif, Stanford University

 

Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University

 


Discussant:  James Kung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

 

9:50 am

Black Mobilization After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration

Kenneth Chay, Brown University

 

Kaivan Munshi, Brown University

 


Discussant: Robert Margo, Boston University and NBER

10:40 am 

Break

11:10 am

Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Nico Voigtlaender, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Hans-Joachim Voth, CREI, Pompeu Fabra

Discussant: Tarek Alexander Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:00 am 

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

The Intergeneration Transmission of Risk Preferences, Entrepreneurship and Growth

 

Mathias Doepke, Northwestern University

Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich

 

Discussant:  Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

1:50 pm 

History, Expectations and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms

Daron Acemoglu, M.I.T.

Matthew Jackson, Stanford University

 

Discussant:  Attila Ambrus, Harvard University

2:40 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Evolutionary Stability of Social Preferences

 

Ingela Alger, Toulouse School of Economics

 

Jorgen Weibull, Stockholm School of Economics

 

 

Discussant:  Rajiv Sethi, Columbia University

 

 

3:50 pm

Stereotypes and Madrassas: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

 

Adeline Delavande, Nova School of Business and Economics

 

Basit Zafar, New York Fed

 

Discussant: Yann Algan, Science Po

4:40 pm

Adjourn