Political Economy Rookiefest
Hosted by Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, Political Economy Rookiefest features a select group of successful job candidates working in political economy to present their job talks.
AGENDA
8:00 am – 8:55 am Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:55 am – 9:00 am WELCOME: Georgy Egorov
James Farley/Booz, Allen & Hamilton Research Professor
Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
9:00 am – 10:20 am Hate, Fear and Intergroup Conflict:
Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Miguel Ortiz, Berkeley Haas
Religious Messaging and Adaptation to Water Scarcity:
Evidence from Jordan
Giulia Buccione, Brown University
10:20 am – 10:40 am Break
10:40 am – 12:00 pm The Imperfect Union:
Labor Racketeering, Corruption Exposure, and Its Consequences
Miriam Venturini, University of Zurich
Consuming Values
Jacob Conway, Stanford University
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:50 pm Social Influence and News Consumption
Carlos Molina, MIT
Breaking the Spiral of Silence
Yihong Huang, Harvard University
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Break
3:10 pm – 4:30 pm Jobs for Votes:
Patronage and Performance in Tammany Hall’s NYPD
Lukas Leucht, Berkeley Haas
Persistence in Policy: Evidence from Close Votes
Zach Freitas-Groff, Stanford University
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6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Dinner & Drinks
By Invitation Only