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Reading Groups
Political Economy Reading Group
(attendence by invitation only)
- From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein. Reading for Tuesday, 26 June. - When Race Matters and When It Doesn’t: Racial Group Differences in Response to Racial Cues
by Ismail K. White. Reading for Tuesday, 19 June 2007. - The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Constituencies & Competitive Rent Preservation
by Raghuram G. Rajan. Reading for Tuesday, 12 June. - Can We Identify the Basic Tools Needed for Policy Analysis in Developing Countries?
by Arnold C. Harberger. Reading for Tuesday, 5 June. - Domestic and International Causes for the Rise of Pay Inequality: Post-Industrialism, Globalization and Labor Market Institutions
by Miriam Golden and Michael Wallerstein. Reading for Tuesday, 29 May. - An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences
by Torben Iversen and David Soskice. Reading for Tuesday, 22 May. - Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
by Daron Acemoglu, Maria Angelica Bautista, Pablo Querubin, and James A. Robinson. Reading for Tuesday, 15 May. - Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data
by David Rigby and Sebastien Breau. Reading for Tuesday, 8 May. - Aid, Protestant Missionaries, and Growth
by William Roberts Clark, John A. Doces, and Robert D. Woodberry. Reading for Tuesday, 1 May.
- Skills in the City
by Marigee Bacolod, Bernardo S. Blum, and William C. Strange. Reading for Tuesday, 24 April. - The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Reading for Tuesday, 17 April. - Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
By Sascha O. Becker and Ludger Wößmann. Reading for Tuesday, 10 April 2007. - Has Globalization Deepened Income Inequality in Mexico?
By Fernando Borraz and Jose Ernesto Lopez-Cordova. Reading for Tuesday, 3 April. - Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries
by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik. Reading for 27 March. - The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
by Eric A. Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann. Reading for Tuesday, 20 March. - The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting
by Stefano Della Vigna and Ethan Kaplan. Reading for 13 March 2007. - Readings for 6 March 2007
Please note there are two readings for this week. - Taxation and Representation: The consequences of democratization and voter turnout for tax levels and structures from 1970-99
Reading for Tuesday, 27 February, by Jeff Timmons. - Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility
by Miles Corak. Reading for Tuesday, 20 February. - Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the 20th Century
by Fabian Dell, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. Reading for Tuesday, 13 February. - Political Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run
by Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage. Reading for Tuesday, 6 February. - "Where did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income"
By Ian Dew-Becker and Robert Gordon. Reading for 30 January 2007. Please note that given the papers length (86 pages), this week's session will only focus on the inequality sections of the paper (pp 1-14 and pp 31-62 in the original). - Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality in Earnings Across Advanced Countries?
by Dan Devroye and Richard Freeman. Reading for 23 January 2007. - Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
By Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger. Reading for week of Jan. 16, 2007. - Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency
by Daniel Y. Kono. Reading for week of December 12, 2006.
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