Each presentation will consist of a 60-minute session, comprising a 35-minute presentation by the speaker, followed by a 15-minute discussion by the discussant, and concluding with a 10-minute question and answer period.
12:00-14:00 - Lunch & Registration
14:00-15:00 - Andrew Eggers (University of Chicago)
Ranked-Choice Voting in the US
Discussant: Allison Stashko (Emory University)
15:00-16:00 - Ruixue Jia (University of California, San Diego)
Ideas Mobilize Leaders: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
Discussant: Maria Carreri (University of California, Berkeley)
16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 - Bård Harstad (Stanford University)
Conservation by Lending
Discussant: Olivier Jeanne (Johns Hopkins University)
19:00 - Conference Dinner
9:00-10:00 - Breakfast
10:00-11:00 - Diana Moreira (University of California, Davis)
State Paralysis: The Effect of Compliance Uncertainty on Government Effectiveness
Discussant: Luis Martinez (University of Chicago)
11:00-11:20 - Coffee Break
11:20-12:20 - James Robinson (University of Chicago)
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-institutional Sources of Leader Strategy
Discussant: Renee Bowen (University of California, San Diego)
12:20-14:00 - Lunch
14:00-15:00 - Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)
The Cold War and U.S. Labor
Discussant: Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
15:00-15:20 - Coffee Break
15:20-16:20 - Tara Slough (New York University)
Oversight, Capacity and Inequality
Discussant: Chad Kendall (University of Southern California)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center
555 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C.