EOPP/STICERD Special Event:
Economic Foundations of Public Policy Conference

13 - 14 June 2011

Papers/Presentations

Monday 13th June

• The Financial Crisis and the Well-being of America
  Angus Deaton, Princeton University
  
  
• Fiscal Policy and Unemployment
  Stephen Coate, Cornell University (co-authors: Marco Battaglini, Princeton University)
  
  
• Taxation and Regulation of Bonus Pay
  Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics (co-authors: Tim Besley, LSE)
  
  
• How Large Are the Welfare Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1840-2000
  (Please note, this is a preliminary paper)
  Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (co-authors: Arnaud Costinot, MIT)
  
  
• The Making of Modern America: Migratory Flows in the Age of Mass Migration
  Imran Rasul, University College London (co-authors: Oriana Bandiera, LSE; Martina Viarengo, Harvard University)
  
  
• Do Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from India
  Rohini Pande, Harvard University (co-authors: Abhijit Banerjee, MIT; Selvan Kumar, Yale University; Felix Su, Harvard University)
  
  

Tuesday 14th June

• AIDS in Africa: Long-run Consequences of Early Parental Death
  Anne Case, Princeton University
  
  
• Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption
  Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (co-authors: Rohini Pande, Harvard University)
  
  
• Can Entrepreneurship Programs Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
  Robin Burgess, London School of Economics (co-authors: Oriana Bandiera, LSE; Selim Gulesci, LSE; Imran Rasul, UCL; Munshi Sulaiman, BRAC)
  
  
• Political Transitions and Institutional Reform
  Torsten Persson, Stockholm University (co-authors: Tim Besley, LSE; Marta Reynal-Querol, UPF)