NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000



Income Distribution and Macroeconomics

Roland Benabou, Steven Durlauf and Oded Galor, Organizers



Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts



July 24 - 28, 2000



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



MONDAY, JULY 24:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



GROWTH EMPIRICS



9:00 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

SIMON JOHNSON, MIT

JAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development:

An Empirical Investigation



10:15 AM Break



10:45 AM WILLIAM BROCK, University of Wisconsin

STEVEN DURLAUF, University of Wisconsin and NBER

Growth Economics and Reality



12:00 PM Lunch and Adjourn



TUESDAY, JULY 25:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



THE EVOLUTION OF INEQUALITY



9:00 AM DILIP MOKHERJEE, Boston University

DEBRAJ RAY, New York University

Persistent Inequality



10:00 AM Break



SIOO EFBDG Program

page two



10:15 AM ODED GALOR and OMER MOAV, Hebrew University

Das Human Kapital



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM FERNANDO VELOSO, Ibmec

Wealth Composition, Endogenous Fertility and the

Dynamics of Income Inequality

12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



POLICY



9:00 AM GILLES SAINT-PAUL, Universitat Pompreu Fabra

The Political Economy of Employment Protection



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM ROLAND BENABOU, Princeton University and NBER

FRANCIS KRAMARZ and CORINNE PROST, INSEE

Directing Extra Resources to Disadvantages Schools:

An Empirical Assessment of the French "ZEP PROGRAM"



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM ANANTH SHESHADRI and KAZUHIRO YUKI, University of Rochester

Equity and Efficiency Effects of Redistributive Policies



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy St.

Cambridge, MA



THURSDAY, JULY 27:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



SORTING AND MATCHING







SIOO EFBDG Program

page three



8:50 AM ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT

ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?



9:45 AM MARIANNE BERTRAND, Princeton University and NBER

ERZO LUTTMER, University of Chicago

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

Network Effect and Welfare Cultures





10:40 AM Break



10:55 AM SYLVAIN DESSY and JOHN KNOWLES, University of Pennsylvania

Why is Child Labor Illegal?



11:50 AM BRUCE WEINBURG and PATRICIA REAGAN, Ohio State University

JEFFREY YANKOW, Furman University

Do Neighbors Affect Work Behavior? Evidence form the NLSY79



12:45 PM Lunch and Adjourn



FRIDAY, JULY 28:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



TECHNOLOGY, EMPLOYMENT, AND WAGE INEQUALITY



9:00 AM MATHIAS THOENIG, CREST

THIERRY VERDIER, Delta

Trade Induced Technical Bias and Wage Inequalities:

A Theory of Defensive Innovation



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM GADI BARLEVY, Northwestern University

DANIEL TSIDDON, Tel-Aviv University

Wage Inequality and the Business Cycle

11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM BETH INGRAM and GEORGE NEUMANN, University of Iowa

The Return to Skills



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn 7/12/00