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
10:00 AM Break
SIOO EFBDG Program
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10:15 AM ODED GALOR and OMER MOAV, Hebrew University
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
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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
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn 7/12/00