Political Economy Rookiefest

Hosted by Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, Political Economy Rookiefest features a select group of successful job candidates working in political economy to present their job talks.

AGENDA

8:00 am – 8:55 am Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:55 am – 9:00 am WELCOME: Georgy Egorov
James Farley/Booz, Allen & Hamilton Research Professor
Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

9:00 am – 10:20 am     Hate, Fear and Intergroup Conflict:
Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Miguel Ortiz, Berkeley Haas

  Religious Messaging and Adaptation to Water Scarcity:
Evidence from Jordan
Giulia Buccione, Brown University

10:20 am – 10:40 am   Break

10:40 am – 12:00 pm The Imperfect Union:
Labor Racketeering, Corruption Exposure, and Its Consequences
Miriam Venturini, University of Zurich

  Consuming Values
Jacob Conway, Stanford University

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:50 pm Social Influence and News Consumption
Carlos Molina, MIT

  Breaking the Spiral of Silence
Yihong Huang, Harvard University

2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Break

3:10 pm – 4:30 pm Jobs for Votes:
Patronage and Performance in Tammany Hall’s NYPD
Lukas Leucht, Berkeley Haas

  Persistence in Policy: Evidence from Close Votes
Zach Freitas-Groff, Stanford University

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6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Dinner & Drinks
By Invitation Only