The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Program, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), invites leading scholars and IOG members to convene three times annually for research conferences 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.
Participation in IOG-BFI conferences is by invitation only. Scholars who study topics related to institutions, organizations, and growth across a wide variety of disciplines are invited. For questions, please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
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Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
Room 501-502
AI Customization and the Market for News
Chris Roth, University of Cologne
Break
Social Networks and Inequality in Cross-cultural Perspective: the ENDOW Project
Eleanor Power, London School of Economics
Lunch
Room 501-502
Disengaging From Reality: Online Behavior and Unpleasant Political News
Guido Tabellini, Bocconi University
Reception in Honor of James Robinson, Recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics
Room 501-502
Breakfast
Room 501-502
Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility
Raj Chetty, Harvard University
Break
Africa as a Success Story
James Robinson, University of Chicago
Lunch
Room 501-502
The Law and Economics of Lawyers: Evidence From the Revolving Door in China’s Judicial System
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago
Break
Discussion and Conclusions
Conference Dinner
Breakfast
Room 501-502
IOG Business Meeting
Room 504
Program Members and BFI Senior Staff
Violent Backlash to Political Reform: Evidence from Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago
Break
The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
Conference Adjourns
Boxed lunches provided