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.
Leonardo Bursztyn (Chicago)
Emily A. Sellars (Yale)
Clémence Tricaud (UCLA)
Chris Blattman (Chicago)
Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard)
Brian Knight (Brown)
Daron Acemoglu (MIT): Keynote Speaker
You can find a pdf version of the program here.
12:00–14:00 – Lunch & Registration
14:00–15:00 – Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago)
Non–User Utility and Market Power: The Case of Smartphones
Discussant: Andrea Prat (Columbia University)
15:00–16:00 – Chris Blattman (University of Chicago)
Who Joins Drug-Selling Gangs and Why? Evidence from 10,000 Adolescent Boys in Medellin
Discussant: Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University)
16:00–16:30 – Coffee Break
16:30–18:00 – Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Keynote Lecture
19:00 – Conference Dinner
9:00–10:00 – Breakfast
10:00–11:00 – Emily A. Sellars (Yale University)
Fiscal Legibility and State Development (joint with Francisco Garfias)
Discussant: Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University)
11:00–11:20 – Coffee Break
11:20–12:20 – Clémence Tricaud (University of California, Los Angeles)
Electoral Margins and Political Competition (joint with Romain Wacziarg)
Discussant: Shiro Kuriwaki (Yale University)
12:20–14:00 – Lunch
14:00–15:00 – Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)
Emotions and Policy Views (joint with Yann Algan, Eva Davoine, and, Thomas Renault)
Discussant: Saad Gulzar (Princeton University)
15:00–15:20 – Coffee Break
15:20–16:20 – Brian Knight (Brown University)
The Rise of the Religious Right: Evidence from the Moral Majority and the Jimmy Carter Presidency (joint with Giulia Buccione)
Discussant: Tianyi Wang (University of Toronto)
Riggs Library
Georgetown University
Healy Hall, Library Walk,
Washington, DC 20057