Social Economics Conference
November
3-4
2023
You are invited to attend the Social Economics Conference on November 3-4, 2023. This conference is hosted by Leonardo Bursztyn to celebrate the launch of The Normal Lab. It will feature work that uses a variety of methods, with a special focus on work that improves our understanding of pressing social issues.
The agenda is subject to change.
Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. If you have any questions about the conference, please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
Agenda
Friday, November 3, 2023
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Welcome Remarks
9:05 am - 10:05 am
Learning in the Household
Gautam Rao, Harvard University
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Break
10:15 am - 11:15 am
Individualism, Identity, and Institutional Stability
Davide Cantoni, University of Munich
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Lunch
1st floor dining room
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Policy Diffusion and Polarization across U.S. States
Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley
1:15 pm - 1:25 pm
Break
1:25 pm - 2:25 pm
Decomposing the Rise of the Populist Radical Right
Ro’ee Levy, Tel Aviv University
2:25 pm - 2:35 pm
Break
2:35 pm - 3:35 pm
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
Paola Guiliano, University of California, Los Angeles
3:35 pm - 3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Changing Harmful Norms through Information Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia
Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University
4:45 pm
Conference Adjourns
6:00 pm
Conference Dinner
Saturday, November 4, 2023
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am
The Social Media Trap
Christopher Roth, University of Cologne
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Break
10:10 am - 11:10 am
Image(s)
David Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Break
11:20 am - 12:20 pm
Firm Search and Labor Shortages
Zoë Cullen, Harvard University
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm
Lunch
1st floor dining room
1:20 pm - 2:20 pm
Control through empowerment: Evidence from Soviet Nation-building in Central Asia
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Supreet Kaur, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 pm