Friday May 10, 2019
Rosenkranz Hall, Room 202
115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks: Zack Barnett-Howell, Gautam Nair, Joan Ricart-Huguet
PANEL I: STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Chair: Joan Ricart-Huguet (Yale University)
9:00-9:40 Paper 1: Adriane Fresh (Vanderbilt University), “Political Representation in the Era of Britain’s Expanding Overseas Trade”
Discussant: Olle Folke (Yale University)
9:40-10:20 Paper 2: Vasiliki Fouka (Stanford University), Soumyajit Mazumder (Harvard University), Marco Tabellini (Harvard University), “From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration”
Discussant: Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
PANEL II: EDUCATION AND GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
Chair: Zack Barnett Howell (Yale University)
10:40-11:20 Paper 3: Rahul Lahoti (Azim Premji University, Bangalore) and Soham Sahoo (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), “Are Educated Leaders Good for Education? Evidence from India”
Discussant: Johanna Rickne (Yale University)
11:20-12:00 Paper 4: Ashna Arora (Columbia University), “Election by Community Consensus: Effects on Political Selection and Governance”
Discussant: Sarah Khan (Yale University)
12:00-12:40 Paper 5: Aditya Dasgupta (UC Merced) and Devesh Kapur (Johns Hopkins University), “The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India”
Discussant: Nick Ryan (Yale University)
12:40-2:00 Lunch
Panel III: CLIENTELISM, PATRONAGE, AND POLICY IN AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Chair: Gautam Nair (Yale University)
2:00-2:40 Paper 6: Alex Dyzenhaus (Cornell University), “Patronage, Policy and Property Rights in Kenya”
Discussant: Kate Baldwin (Yale University)
2:40-3:20 Paper 7: Anderson Frey (University of Rochester), “Strategic Allocation of Anti-Clientelism Goods and the Breaking of Political Machines”
Discussant: Emily Sellars (Yale University)
3:20-3:40 Coffee Break
PANEL IV: STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE MANAGEMENT OF DISSENT IN CHINA
Chair: Gautam Nair (Yale University)
3:40-4:20 Paper 8: Jaya Wen (Yale University), “The Political Economy of State Employment and Unrest in China”
Discussant: Milan Svolik (Yale University)
4:20-5:00 Paper 9: Meir Alkon (Princeton University), “Uneven Development, Political Risks, and Authoritarian Redistribution”
Discussant: Gautam Nair (Yale University)
5:00-5:10 Closing Remarks: Zack Barnett-Howell, Gautam Nair, Joan Ricart-Huguet