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

October 1-3, 1999
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts


 

Friday, October 1

MIT Sloan Building #E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Oliver Hart: "On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination verson Specialization"

Discussant: Philippe Aghion

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 1:00: Debraj Ray: "Inequality, Lobbying, and Resource (Mis)Allocation"

Discussant: Roland Bénabou

1:00 - 2:15: catered lunch

2:15 - 4:00: Carol Graham: "Assessing Hardship and Happiness: Trends in Mobility and Expectations in the New Market Economies"

Discussant: Judith Tendler

4:00-4:15: coffee break

4:15 - 6:00: Sara Singleton: "Commons Problems, Collective Action and Efficiency: Past and Present Institutions of Governance in Pacific Northwest Salmon Fisheries"

Discussant: Jean-Marie Baland

Saturday, October 2

MIT Sloan Building #E51-095

8:15 - 9:00: continental breakfast

9:00 - 10:45: Katherine Newman: "In the Long Run: Career Patterns and Cultural Values in the Low Wage Work Force"

Discussant: Karla Hoff

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 1:00: Dani Rodrik: "Democracies Pay Higher Wages"

Discussant: Michael Wallerstein

1:00 - 2:15: catered lunch

2:15 - 4:00: Miriam Golden: "Factional Conflict and Political Corruption in Postwar Italian Christian Democracy"

Discussant: Dilip Mookherjee

4:00 - 4:15: coffee break

4:15 - 6:00: Martina Morris: "Lifetime Wage Mobility after Economic Restructuring"

Discussant: Michael Kremer

7:30 pm: Cocktails at Rauxa, 70 Union Square, Somerville (617-623-9939)

8:00 pm: Dinner at Rauxa

Sunday, October 3

MIT Sloan Building #E51-095

8:00 - 8:30: continental breakfast

8:30 - 10:15: Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow: "Are Public Schools Inefficient?"

Discussant: Esther Duflo

10:15 - 10:30: coffee break

10:30 - 12:15: Susan Mayer: "How the Increase in Economic Inequality in the US Affected Educational Attainment"

Discussant: Abhijit Banerjee


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