The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth Program (IOG), in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, invites leading scholars and IOG members to convene for a research conference and academic exchange. The IOG Program aims to move beyond the limits of traditional economic approaches and provide new frameworks for understanding why some nations succeed economically while others continually fail; why institutions that foster wealth and well-being in one culture, location, or historical period may be less effective in another; and what policies will create the greatest potential for progress. The IOG Program has a long tradition of fruitful interdisciplinary interactions among scholars from a wide range of analytical perspectives in the social sciences.
Scholars who study topics related to institutions, organizations, and growth across a wide variety of disciplines are invited. If you have any questions, please email bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
Agenda
Registration and breakfast
Oksenberg Room (3rd Floor)
Presentation 1
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University
Break
Presentation 2
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Lunch
Bechtel Courtyard
Policymaking in the American States, 1787-2020*
Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Stanford University
Conference Adjourns
Break
Reception
Bechtel Courtyard
Breakfast
Oksenberg Room (3rd Floor)
Migration and the Making of the English Middle Class
Vicky Fouka, Stanford University
Break
Contingent Trade Agreements: Rewarding Conservation with Tariffs
Bård Harstad, Stanford University
Lunch
Bechtel Courtyard
Imagined Communities, National Identity, and Personal Identity: The Impact of Mexico’s Mestizaje Narrative on Students from Former Indigenous Villages
Enrique Seira Bejarano, University of Notre Dame
Conference Adjourns
Conference Dinner
By Invitation Only
Breakfast
Oksenberg Room (3rd Floor)
IOG Business Meeting
IOG Members and BFI Senior Staff
Learning from the Past: How History Education Shapes Support for Extreme Ideology
Luca Braghieri, Bocconi University
Break
Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in Elections
Francesco Trebbi, University of California, Berkeley
Conference Concludes
Boxed lunches provided