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Edward C. Prescott
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Lee E. Ohanian
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YOUNG SCHOLARS CONFERENCE: GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Friday, January 29 – McCord Hall 276

12:00 - 1:00Lunch and Registration
1:00p - 2:00Simon Alder – University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
PDF icon Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development
2:00p - 3:00pFernando Parro – Federal Reserve Board of Governors
PDF icon Trade and Labor Market Dynamics (with L. Caliendo and M. Dvorkin)
3:00p - 3:20pCoffee Break
3:20p - 4:20pJavier Cravino – University of Michigan
Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium
4:20p - 4:40pCoffee Break
4:40p - 5:40pTimo Boppart – IIES
Non-Homothetic Preferences and Industry Directed Technical Change (with F. Weiss)

Saturday, January 30 – McCord Hall 276

9:00a - 9:30aContinental Breakfast
9:30a - 10:30aEzra Oberfield – Princeton University
PDF icon Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa (with G. M. Grossman, E. Helpman, and T. Sampson)
10:30a - 11:30aChristopher Tonetti – Stanford University
The Growth Dynamics of Innovation, Diffusion, and the Technology Frontier (with J. Benhabib and J. Perla)
11:30a - 12:30pLunch
12:30p - 1:30pWalker Hanlon – UCLA
PDF icon Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
1:30p - 1:50pCoffee Break
1:50p - 2:50pPablo Fajgelbaum – UCLA
PDF icon State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation (with E. Morales, J.C.S. Serrato, and O. Zidar)
2:50p - 3:10pCoffee Break
3:10p - 4:10pWyatt Brooks – University of Notre Dame
PDF icon Learning Managerial Skills: Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises (with K. Donovan and T.R. Johnson)
4:10p - 4:30pCoffee Break
4:30p - 5:30pFelipe Saffie – University of Maryland
Capital-Based Corporate Tax Benefits: Endogenous Misallocation through Lobbying (with T. Arayavechkit and S. Shin)