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)

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)