Faculty coordinators: Mark Dincecco, Iain Osgood, Ugo Troiano

Fall 2015

9/15: Adrian Shin, "Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Natural Resources and Immigration Policy in the Era of Trade Liberalization"

9/22: Maiko Heller, "Parties Negotiate, Not Dictate: How Bargaining Power Moderates Coalition Parties' Influence on Spending"

9/29: Traviss Cassidy, "Oil Wealth, Democracy, and Taxation"

10/6: Diana Greenwald, "Partial Statehood and Local Fiscal Capacity in the West Bank"

10/13: Jason Davis, "Screening for Losers: Trade Institutions and Information"

10/27: Morgan Henderson, "The Labor Market Effects of (Dis)Enfranchisement"

11/3: Filipe Campante, Harvard University, "The Intergenerational Transmission of War"

11/10: Joe Ornstein, "Zone Defense: Local Fiscal Policy and Housing Regulation"

11/17: Enda Patrick Hargaden, "Political Fragmentation and Fiscal Policy"

12/1: Christian Probsting, "Do Currency Devaluations Boost Output? A Firm-Level Analysis"

12/11: Allison Carnegie, Columbia University, "The Promise of Peacekeeping: Protecting Civilians in Civil Wars"

Winter 2015

1/19: Jason Davis, "Fiscal Capacity and Pareto Efficiency: How Failure to Tax the Poor Can Hurt the Poor"

2/2: Alon Yakter, "Unpacking the Relationship between Ascriptive Identity Cleavages and Redistribution in Developed Democracies"

2/9: Nico Ravanilla, Stanford University, "Do Bureaucrats Matter for State Capacity? Evidence from the Philippines"

2/16: Blake Miller, "Automatic Detection of Comment Propaganda in Chinese Online Media: Topic Trends and Propaganda Tactics"

2/26: Paul Poast, University of Chicago, "War and Default"

3/4: J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego, "China, Currency Misalignments, and Industry Demands for Trade Protection in the United States"

3/8: Scott Tyson, University of Chicago, "Deterrence and Counter-deterrence in the Fight Against Global Terror"

3/22: Peter Carroll, "Who Benefits? Ethnicity, Voting, and Government Goods Provision in Uganda"

3/29 Mai Hassan, "The Political Geography of the Local Security Apparatus"

4/5: Noah Nathan, "Low Turnout and Ethnic Capture: Local Elections in Urban Ghana"

4/12: Achyuta Adhvaryu, "Resource Accumulation, Conflict, and the Development of Africa"

4/22: Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

4/29: End-of-Year Graduate Student Workshop featuring William Roberts Clark, Texas A&M University, "Does Partisan Bias at the Fed Explain the 'Republican Advantage'? Part Two"