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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011
Political Economy Workshop
Alberto Alesina, Organizer
July 18 - 19, 2011
Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
Monday, July 18:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Filipe Campante, Harvard University Davin Chor, Singapore Management University The People Want the Fall of the Regime: Schooling, Political Protest and the Economy Discussant: Pierre Yared, Columbia University
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	William Easterly, New York University and NBER
	Benevolent Autocrats Discussant: Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am	Eric Chaney, Harvard University Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Influence Discussant: Paola Giuliano, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Yann Algan, Sciences Po Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po Mathias Thoenig, Université de Lausanne The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission
	Discussant: Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Ruben Durante, Brown University Giovanna Labartino, Bocconi University Roberto Perotti, Bocconi University and NBER Academic Dynasties Discussant: Pedro Dal Bó, Brown University and NBER
3:30 pm	Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER
	State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing
	Discussant: Claudio Ferraz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 19:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER Aiding Conflict: the Unintended Conseqences of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
	Discussant: Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:15 am	Carlos Berdejo, Loyola University Daniel Chen, Duke University Priming Ideology? Electoral Cycles without Electoral Incentives Among US Judges
	Discussant: Nolan McCarty, Princeton University and NBER
11:15 am	Stefano DellaVigna, University of California at Berkeley Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School Vera Mironova, University of Maryland Maria Petrova, New Economic School Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics Unintended Media Effcets in a Conflict Enviromnent: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism
	Discussant: Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Matthew Hansen, South Dakota State University Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Peter Potapov, South Dakota State University Stefanie Sieber, London School of Economics The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics Discussant: Nico Voigtlaender, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
2:15 pm	Coffee Break
2:30 pm	Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia and NBER Francesco Trebbi, University of British Columbia and NBER Is it Whom You Know or What You Know? An Empirical Assessment of the Lobbying Process
	Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
3:30 pm	Paola Conconi, ECARES Giovanni Facchini, Erasmus University Maurizio Zanardi, ECARES Policymakers' Horizon and Trade Reforms
	Discussant: Jeffrey Frieden, Harvard University
4:30 pm	Adjourn