NATIONAL
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SUMMER
INSTITUTE 2010 |
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Economic
Growth Workshop |
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Chad
Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers |
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July
16, 2010 |
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Royal
Sonesta Hotel |
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40
Edwin H. Land Boulevard |
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Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
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PROGRAM |
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FRIDAY,
JULY 16: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
Alwyn Young, London School of Economics and NBER |
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Discussant: Benjamin Olken, MIT and NBER |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
Klaus Desmet,
Princeton University |
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Esteban Rossi-Hansberg,
Princeton University and NBER |
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Discussant: Jonathan Eaton,
Pennsylvania State University and NBER |
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11:15 am |
Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University |
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Elias Papaioannou,
Dartmouth College |
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Divide
and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa |
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Discussant: Melissa Dell, MIT |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
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1:15 pm |
Xin Meng, ANU |
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Nancy Qian,
Yale University and NBER |
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Pierre Yared,
Columbia University and NBER |
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The
Institutional Causes of Chinas Great Famine (1959-1960) |
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Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, Harvard
University and NBER |
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2:15 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
Jeremiah Dittmar,
American University |
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Information
Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press |
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Discussant: Gregory Clark, UC,
Davis |
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3:30 pm |
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University
and NBER |
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Nancy Qian,
Yale University |
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Discussant: Oded
Galor, Brown University |
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4:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:30 pm |
Reception and Dinner for the Economic Fluctuations and
Growth Research Meeting |
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5/20/10 |
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