NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003
Income Distribution and Macroeconomics
Roland Benabou, Steven Durlauf and Oded Galor, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 21 - 25, 2003
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY,
JULY 21:
Technology, Allocation of Talents,
and Inequality
9:00
AM FRANCESCO CASELLI, Harvard
University and NBER
NICOLA
GENNAIOLI, Harvard University
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago
ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford
University
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM LEX BORGHANS and BAS TER WEEL, University of Maastricht
The
Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 22:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
Globalization and Inequality
9:00
AM ODED GALOR, Brown
University
ANDREW
MOUNTFORD, University of London
Trade,
Demographic Transition, and the Great Divergence:
Why are a Third of People Indian or Chinese?
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM JOHN MCLAREN, University of Virginia and NBER
ANDREW
NEWMAN, University College London
Globalization
and Insecurity
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
ERIC
MASKIN, Princeton University
Globalization and Inequality
12:30 PM Lunch
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
9:00 AM MATTHIAS
DOEPKE, UC, Los Angeles
FABRIZIO
ZILIBOTTI, University College London
Voting
with Your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labor Laws
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER
ALESSANDRA
FOGLI, New York University
CLAUDIA.
OLIVETTI, Boston University
Marrying
your Mom:
Preference
Transmission and Womens Labor and Education Decisions: Part II
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM GILLES SAINT-PAUL, University of Toulouse
On market forces and human
evolution
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 24:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
Institutions, Distribution, and
Growth
9:00 AM DARON
ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic vs. Democratic Societies
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM PHILIPPE AGHION, Harvard University
PETER
HOWITT, Brown University
DAVID
MAYER-FOULKES,
The role of credit
constraints in (Non) convergence: A Schumpeterian approach
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON, DELTA
FRANCISCO H. G. FERREIRA, The
World Bank
PHILLIPPE G. LEITE, PUC-Rio
Why
are Income Distributions Different?:
A
Comparison of Brazil and the United States
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 25:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
Social Interactions
9:00 AM WILLIAM
EASTERLY, New York University
The
Racial Tipping Point in American Neighborhoods:
Unstable
Equilibrium or Urban Legend?
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University
and NBER
LAWRENCE
KATZ, Harvard University and NBER
What Randomized Experiments Can
Teach Us About Social Interactions
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM PATRICK BAYER, Yale University
ROBERT
MCMILLAN, University of Toronto
KIM
RUEBEN, Public Policy Institute of California
An
Equilibrium Model of Sorting in an Urban Housing Market:
A Study of the Causes and Consequences of Residential Segregation
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn