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Fall 2023 IOG-BFI Conference

The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Program, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), invited 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 were invited. For questions, please contact bfi-events@uchicago.edu.

Please note the future IOG conference date following the October 2023 meeting is March 22-24, 2024, at the University of Chicago.

All times are listed in CST.

Agenda

Friday, October 13, 2023
08:30:00–09:00:00

Registration and Breakfast

City View Prefunction – 10th Floor

09:00:00–10:30:00

Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement

Vicky Fouka, Stanford University
10:30:00–11:00:00

Break

11:00:00–12:30:00

Interaction Between Different Layers of Network Relationships and the Diffusion of Information and Behaviors

Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
12:30:00–14:00:00

Lunch

City View Prefunction – 10th Floor
14:00:00–15:30:00

A Cognitive View of Policing

Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago
15:30:00–17:00:00

Reception

City View Prefunction – 10th Floor
Saturday, October 14, 2023
08:30:00–09:00:00

Breakfast

City View Prefunction – 10th Floor
09:00:00–10:30:00

The Evolutionary Foundations of Consciousness and Cooperation

Patrick Francois, University of British Colombia

10:30:00–11:00:00

Break

11:00:00–12:30:00

Fear and Dreams

James Robinson, University of Chicago

12:30:00–14:00:00

Lunch

City View Prefunction – 10th Floor
14:00:00–15:30:00

The Facebook-Instagram 2020 Election Study

Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University

15:30:00–16:00:00

Break

16:00:00–16:30:00

Discussion and Conclusions

19:00:00

Conference Dinner

Sunday, October 15, 2023
08:00:00–09:00:00

Breakfast

City View Prefunction – 10th Floor

08:30:00–09:00:00

IOG Business Meeting

Program Members and BFI Senior Staff

09:00:00–10:30:00

Focal Coordination and Language in Human Evolution

Roger Myerson, University of Chicago

10:30:00

Conference Adjourns