Reading Groups
International Political Economy Reading Group
The International Political Economy Reading Group gives UCLA faculty the opportunity to discuss new directions for research using work in progress by leading scholars from around the world to stimulate debate.
- Left Government, Policy, and Corporatism: Explaining the Influence of Partisanship on Inequality
by David Rueda. Reading for Tuesday December 2, 2008 - The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the evolution of mistrust in Africa: an Empirical Investigation
by Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon. Reading for Tuesday, 11 November 2008 - Extreme Bounds of Democracy
by Martin Gassebner, Michael J. Lamla and James Raymond Vreeland. Reading for Tuesday, October 28, 2008. - CAN THE WEST SAVE AFRICA?
by William Easterly. Reading for Tuesday, 21 October 2008. - CONTROVERSIES ABOUT THE RISE OF AMERICAN INEQUALITY: A SURVEY
By Robert J. Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker. Reading for Tuesday, 24 June 2008. - What Determines Top Income Shares? Evidence from the Twentieth Century
by Jesper Roine, Jonas Vlachos, and Daniel Waldenstrm. Reading for Tuesday, 17 June 2008. - The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
by David Albouy. Reading for Tuesday, 10 June 2008. - Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
by Scott Ashworth, Joshua D. Clinton, Adam Meirowitz, and Kristopher W. Ramsay. Reading for Tuesday, 3 June 2008. - A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
by Douglas C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast. Reading for Tuesday, 20 May 2008. - NATIONAL CULTURES AND SOCCER VIOLENCE
by Edward Miguel, Sebastin M. Saiegh, and Shanker Satyanath. Reading for Tuesday, 13 May 2008. - Does Democracy Reduce Economic Inequality? If so, how?
by Jeffrey F. Timmons. Reading for Tuesday, 6 May 2008. - Fortune or Evil? The Effects of Inward Foreign Direct Investment on Corruption
by Pablo M. Pinto and Boliang Zhu. Reading for Tuesday, 29 April 2008. - Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Developing World
by David Andrew Singer. Reading for Tuesday, 22 April 2008. - Political Rights, Property Rights, and Economic Development
by Adam Przeworski. Reading for Tuesday, 15 April 2008. - Conquered or Granted? A History of Suffrage Extensions
by Adam Przeworski. Reading for Tuesday, 8 April 2008. - A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
by Kate L. Antonovics and Brian G. Knight. Reading for Tuesday, 1 April 2008. - DO TELEVISION AND RADIO DESTROY SOCIAL CAPITAL? EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIAN VILLAGES
by Benjamin A. Olken. Reading for Tuesday, 25 March 2008. - The Role of Leaders in Democratic Deliberations
by MACARTAN HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM A. MASTERS, and MARTIN E. SANDBU. Reading for Tuesday, 18 March 2008. - Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion
by Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn, and Emile Rovito. Reading for Tuesday, 11 March 2008. - Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast? The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending
by Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer. Reading for Tuesday, 4 March 2008. - Partisanship versus Institutions as Determinants of Property Rights: Firm-Level Evidence
by Stephen Weymouth and J. Lawrence Broz. Reading for Tuesday, 26 February 2008. - The Long Term Consequences of Resource Based Specialization
by Guy Michaels. Reading for Tuesday, 19 February 2008. - The Popularity of Russian Presidents
by Daniel Triesman. Reading for Tuesday, 12 February. - Does The Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions
by Alan Gerber, Dean Karlan, and Daniel Bergan. Reading for Tuesday, 5 February 2008. - DOES MOVIE VIOLENCE INCREASE VIOLENT CRIME?
by Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna. Reading for Tuesday, 29 January 2008.