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:

 

 8:30 AM          Coffee and Pastries

 

Technology, Allocation of Talents, and Inequality

 

 9:00 AM          FRANCESCO CASELLI, Harvard University and NBER

                        NICOLA GENNAIOLI, Harvard University

                        Dynastic Management

 

10:00 AM         Break

 

10:15 AM         LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago

                        ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Stanford University

Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

 

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

 

Institutions, Evolution, and Development

 

 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 Women’s 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