PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 14:

7:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

FRIDAY, APRIL 15:

8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:30 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:30 am	Continental Breakfast

9:00 am	The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
	Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
	Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College

	Discussant: Janina Matuszeski, Oxfam America

10:00 am	Coffee Break

10:15 am	Laws and Norms
	Roland Bénabou, Princeton University and NBER
	Jean Tirole, Institut d'Economie Industrielle

	Discussant: Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER

11:15 am	Human Capital and Regional Development
	Nicola Gennaioli, CREI
	Rafael La Porta, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, EDHEC Business School and NBER
	Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER

	Discussant: Romain Wacziarg, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

12:15 pm	Lunch

1:15 pm	On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
	Paola Giuliano, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

	Discussant: Nicole Fortin, University of British Columbia

2:15 pm	Coffee Break

2:30 pm	Persistent Anti-Market Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement and of the Holocaust
	Irena Grosfeld, Paris School of Economics
	Alexander Rodnyansky, CEFIR
	Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics

	Discussant: Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER

3:30 pm	A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars
	Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER
	Michael Golosov, Yale University and NBER
	Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER
	Pierre Yared, Columbia University

	Discussant: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER

4:30 pm	Adjourn

3/29/11