Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance; MacArthur Research Networks, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Agenda

May 9-11, 2003
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts


Friday, May 9

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Esther Duflo (MIT): "Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Evidence from a Targeted Lending Program" [~246k pdf]

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 1:00: Michael Kremer (Harvard): "The Illusion of Sustainability" [~797k pdf]

1:00 - 2:30: catered lunch

2:30 - 4:15: Katherine Newman (Harvard), Helen Connolly (Northeastern) and Peter Gottschalk (Boston College): "Wage Trajectories of Workers in Poor Households" [~323k pdf]

4:30 - 5:30: (Network members only) Meeting

Saturday, May 10

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Martin Ravallion (World Bank): "Land Allocation in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition": Part 1 [~3.7MB pdf] and Part 2 [~2.7MB pdf]

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 1:00: Jean-Marie Baland (Namur, Belgium): "Land and Power: An Economic Analysis of Ballot Reforms in Chile, 1958" [~952k pdf]

1:00 - 2:30: catered lunch

2:30 - 4:15: John Roemer (Yale): "The Politics of Racism and Redistribution" [~911k pdf]

7:00: Group Dinner

Sunday, May 11

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Thomas Piketty (ENS-CEPREMAP, Paris): "Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994"

10:45 - 11:00: coffee break

11:00 - 12:45: Michael Wallerstein (Northwestern): "Redistribution in a Divided Society" [~1.2 MB pdf]


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