Political Economy Seminar

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Michael Gibilisco (California Institute of Technology), "The Point of Attack: Where and Why Does Oil Cause Armed Conflict in Africa" (w/ Graeme Blair and...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Gerard Padro i Miquel (Yale), "Competitive Capture of Public Opinion" Abstract We propose a general equilibrium model where two lobbies (right and left)...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Nancy Qian (Northwestern), "The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932-33" Abstract There are two prevailing views of why Ukrainian mortality (Holodomor...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Dana Foarta (Stanford), "Organizational Capacity and Project Dynamics" (joint with Mike Ting) Abstract This paper provides a dynamic theory of the effects...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Elizabeth Maggie Penn (Emory), "Algorithms, Incentives, and Democracy" Abstract Classification algorithms are increasingly used in areas such as housing...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Edoardo Teso (Northwestern) "State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years” (joint with Nicola...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Emily Sellars (Yale), "Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Theory and Evidence from Colonial Mexico" (joint with Francisco Garfias) Abstract We examine...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago), "Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution" (w/Paul...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Joint Seminar with Economic History Today's Speaker Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi University), "Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great...

See the seminar's full schedule here: Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy Today's Speaker Eoin McGuirk (Tufts), “Development Mismatch: Evidence from Land-Use Conversions in Pastoral Africa" (w/Nathan Nunn) Abstract We study the impact of land use...