The Institutions, Organizations, and Growth (IOG) Program, in partnership with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago (BFI), invite 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.
The 2025 Spring IOG-BFI Conference will take place on March 28-30, 2025. Please note the future IOG conference dates following the March 2025 meeting is June 6-8, 2025 in Berkeley, CA, and October 3-5, 2025 in Chicago, IL.
Agenda
Registration and Breakfast
Room 501-502
Redistricting with Endogenous Candidates
Paola Moscariello, Princeton University
Break
Fighting Silent Killers: How India’s Public Healthcare Staffing Expansion Saves Lives by Improving Access and Market Quality
Patrick Agte, Yale University
Lunch
Room 501-502
The Political Economics of Party Entry
Tim Besley, London School of Economics
Conference Dinner
By invitation only.
Breakfast
Room 501-502
Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Realignment
Nicolas Longuet-Marx, Columbia University
Break
MARS (Missing At Random Structured Data): A Unifying Framework for Robust and Efficient Inference with Unstructured Data
Melissa Dell, Harvard University
Lunch
Room 501-502
The Price of Faith: Economic Costs and Religious Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago
Reception
Room 501-502
Breakfast
Room 501-502
IOG Business Meeting
Room 504
Program Members and BFI Senior Staff
I’d Be Surprisingly Good for You: Political Information and Network Effects
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University
Break
Noisy Warning Systems and Nuclear War
James Fearon, Stanford University
Conference Adjourns
Boxed lunches provided.