YOUNG SCHOLARS CONFERENCE: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Friday, January 29 – McCord Hall 276
12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch and Registration |
1:00p - 2:00 | Simon Alder – University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development |
2:00p - 3:00p | Fernando Parro – Federal Reserve Board of Governors Trade and Labor Market Dynamics (with L. Caliendo and M. Dvorkin) |
3:00p - 3:20p | Coffee Break |
3:20p - 4:20p | Javier Cravino – University of Michigan Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium |
4:20p - 4:40p | Coffee Break |
4:40p - 5:40p | Timo Boppart – IIES Non-Homothetic Preferences and Industry Directed Technical Change (with F. Weiss) |
Saturday, January 30 – McCord Hall 276
9:00a - 9:30a | Continental Breakfast |
9:30a - 10:30a | Ezra Oberfield – Princeton University Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa (with G. M. Grossman, E. Helpman, and T. Sampson) |
10:30a - 11:30a | Christopher Tonetti – Stanford University The Growth Dynamics of Innovation, Diffusion, and the Technology Frontier (with J. Benhabib and J. Perla) |
11:30a - 12:30p | Lunch |
12:30p - 1:30p | Walker Hanlon – UCLA Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution |
1:30p - 1:50p | Coffee Break |
1:50p - 2:50p | Pablo Fajgelbaum – UCLA State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation (with E. Morales, J.C.S. Serrato, and O. Zidar) |
2:50p - 3:10p | Coffee Break |
3:10p - 4:10p | Wyatt Brooks – University of Notre Dame Learning Managerial Skills: Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises (with K. Donovan and T.R. Johnson) |
4:10p - 4:30p | Coffee Break |
4:30p - 5:30p | Felipe Saffie – University of Maryland Capital-Based Corporate Tax Benefits: Endogenous Misallocation through Lobbying (with T. Arayavechkit and S. Shin) |