June 22-23, 2018
Cornell Tech Campus at Roosevelt Island, NYC
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
9:00 - 10:00. Berthold Herrendorf (ASU), Richard Rogerson (Princeton), and Akos Valentinyi (Manchester). "Structural Change in Investment and Consumption: A Unified Approach."
10:15 - 11:15. Julieta Caunedo (Cornell), David Jaume (Cornell), and Elisa Keller (Exeter). "Capital-Embodied Structural Change."
11:30 - 12:30. Sam Bazzi (Boston University), Martin Fiszbein (Boston University) and Mesay Gebresilasse (Boston University). "Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of 'Rugged Individualism' in the United States."
2:00 - 3:00. Lori Beaman (Northwestern), Dean Karlan (Northwestern), Bram Thuysaert (Ghent), and Chris Udry (Northwestern). "Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali."
3:15 - 4:15. Andrew Foster (Brown) and Mark Rosenzweig (Yale). "Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size."
4:30 - 5:30. Francisco Buera (WUSTL), Joe Kaboski (Notre Dame), Marti Mestieri (Northwestern), and Daniel O'Connor (Notre Dame). "The Natural Rate of Structural Change."
9:00 - 10:00. Sebastian Heise (NY Fed) and Tommaso Porzio (UC San Diego). "Why Do Spatial Wage Gaps Persist? Evidence from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany."
10:15 - 11:15 . Fabian Eckert (Yale) and Michael Peters (Yale). "Spatial Structural Change."
11:30 - 12:30. Alessandra Peter (Stanford) and Cian Ruane (Stanford). "The Aggregate Importance of Intermediate Input Substitutability"