Fall 2017 Schedule

The workshop meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12:00 PM – 1:20 PM in Room 203, 34 Hillhouse Avenue (Luce Hall), unless otherwise noted. Papers can be accessed at: https://campuspress.yale.edu/cpworkshop/papers/

September 5th Daniel Masterson, Yale University*
Refugee Networks and Cooperation.
September 12th   German Feierherd, Yale University *
Does the Left Breed Economic Informality? Insider-Outsider Politics and Labor Markets in Developing Democracies.
September 19th Andres Vargas, Yale University*
The Legacies of Wartime Governance in Colombia.
September 26th Josh Goodman, Yale University*
Oil Windfalls and the Political Resource Curse: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Brazil.
October 3rd Malte Lierl, Yale University *
Elections and Embezzlement: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso.
October 10th Louis Wasser, Yale University *
Ballot Boxes, Bushwackers, and Bebsi-Soaked Bandanas: Calculating Contention from Appalachia to the Arab World.
October 17th Fall break
October 24th Danny Hidalgo, MIT
The Politics that Political Purges Make: Legacies of Authoritarian Politics on Democratic Brazil
October 31st James C. Scott, Yale University
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
November 7th Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics
A Dialogue with the Data: The Methodological Foundations of Iterative Research
November 14th Jan Pierskalla, Ohio State University
Democratization and the Civil Service: An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia
November 28th Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan
TBA
December 5th Timothy Frye, Columbia University
TBA

* indicates practice job talk format.