Political Economy Workshop
Spring 2012
All sessions will meet in 127 Corwin Hall, unless otherwise noted
Monday, March 12 at 4:30 p.m
Mattias Polborn, University of Illinois
"Elites or Masses? A Structural Model of Policy Divergence, Voter Sorting, and Apparent Polarization in U.S. Presidential Elections, 1972-2008"
Monday, March 26 at 4:30 p.m
Mariagiovanna Baccara, Washington University
"Similarity and Polarization in Groups"
Monday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m
Nancy Qian, Yale University
'Making Democracy Work: The Effects of Social Capital and Elections on Public Goods in Rural China"
Monday, April 9 at 4:30 p.m
Gabriel Leon, University of Cambridge
"The Democratic Window of Opportunity and Riots: New Evidence from Africa"
Monday, April 23 at 4:30 p.m
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University
"Incumbency Advantages in Non-Democracies"
Monday, May 7 at 4:30 p.m
Hulya Eraslan, Johns Hopkins University
"Discretionary versus Mandatory Spending: The Status Quo Effect"
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Fall 2011
Monday, September 19 at 4:30 p.m.
Brian Knight, Brown University
"State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing"
Monday, October 3 at 4:30 p.m.
Massimo Morelli, Columbia University
"Reelection through Division"
Monday, October 10 at 4:30 p.m.
Santiago Oliveros, University of California, Berkeley
"Demand for Slant: How Abstention Shapes Voters' Choice of New Media"
Monday, October 17 at 4:30 p.m.
Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University
"Deliberative Electoral Strategies and Transition from Clientelism: Evidence from a Field Experiment "
Monday, October 24 at 4:30 p.m.
Scott Gelbach, University of Wisconsin
"Imperfect Institutional Change"
Monday, November 7 at 4:30 p.m.
Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University
"Government Policy with Time Inconsistent Voters"