Historical Persistence in Comparative Development
Friday, October 17th, 2015
2:45PM–3:30PM. Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University. How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?; Fertility and Modernity
3:30PM–4:15PM Christian Dippel, UCLA Anderson School of Management. Forced Coexistence and Economic Development: Evidence from Native American Reservations
4:30PM–5:15PM James Fenske, Oxford University. Climate and the Slave Trade
Keynote address
8:00PM–9:00PM David Weil, Brown University. The Global Spatial Distribution of Population and Economic Activity: Effects of Nature, History, and Agglomeration
Saturday, October 18th, 2015
9:00AM–9:45AM William Maloney, The World Bank and Universidad de los Andes. Engineers, Innovative Capacity, and Development in the Americas
9:45AM–10:30AM Marcella Alsan, Stanford Medical School. The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development
10:45AM–11:30AM Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston. Malthusian Dynamics and the Rise of the Poor Megacity
11:30AM–12:15PM Saumitra Jha, Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Unfinished Business”: Historic Complementarities, Political Competition, and Ethnic Violence in Gujarat
1:30PM–2:15PM Ross Levine, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The European Origins of Comparative Development
2:15PM–3:00PM Nico Voigtlaender, UCLA Anderson School of Management. Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party
3:15PM–4:00PM Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University. The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
4:00PM–4:45PM Noam Yuchtman, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The Political Economy of Educational Content and Development: Lessons from History