Deep-Rooted Factors in Comparative Economic Development Sponsored by: PSTC, the Watson Institute, and the Economics Department at Brown University

Program

Saturday, May 2

Breakfast (9:30-10:00)

10:00-11:00

Oded Galor (Brown) and Marc Klemp (Copenhagen)

“The Roots of Autocracy”

Coffee Break (11:00-11:15)

11:15-12:15

Roy Elis (Stanford) and Steve Haber (Stanford)

“Climate, Geography, and the Origin of Political and Economic Institutions”

Coffee Break (12:15-12:30)

12:30-13:30

Joram Mayshar (Hebrew U), Omer Moav (Warwick), Zvika Neeman (Tel-Aviv) and Luigi Pascali (Warwick)

“Cereals, Appropriability and Civilization”

Lunch (13:30 - 14:30)

14:30-15:30

Carl-Johan Dalgaard (Copenhagen), Anne-Sofie Knudsen (Copenhagen) and Pablo Saleya (Copenhagen)

“The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development”

Coffee Break (15:30 - 15:45)

15:45 - 16:45

Sara Lowes (Harvard), Nathan Nunn (Harvard), James Robinson (Harvard), and Jonathan Weigel (Harvard)

"The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom"

Coffee Break (16:45-17:00)

17:00-18:00

Matteo Cervellati (Bologna) and Uwe Sunde (Munich) “Malaria Risk and Civil Violence: Disaggregated Evidence from Africa”

***Group Dinner (19:30-21:30)*** Brown Faculty Club (1 Magee St)

Sunday, May 3 Breakfast (8:30-9:00)

9:00-10:00

Vernon Henderson (LSE), Adam Storeygard (Tufts), Tim Squires (Brown) and David Weil (Brown)

“The Global Spatial Distribution of Population and Economic Activity: Effects of Nature, History, and

Agglomeration”

Coffee Break (10:00 -10:15)

10:15-11:15

Filipe Campante (Harvard), Quoc-Anh Do (Sciences Po) and Bernardo Guimaraes (EESP)

“Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence”

Coffee Break (11:15 - 11:30)

11:30-12:30

Nils Peter Lagerlof (York) and Shuhei Kitamura (IIES)

"Natural Borders"

Lunch (12:30 - 2:00) 2:00-3:00

Klaus Desmet (SMU), Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín (Carlos III) and Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)

“Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity”

Coffee Break (3:00 - 3:15)

3:15-4:15

Sascha Becker (Warwick) and Luigi Pascali (UPF and Warwick)

“Ethnic Division of Labor and Conflict”

Coffee Break (4:15 - 4:30)

4:30-5:30

Scott Fulford (BC), Ivan Petkov (BC), Fabio Schiantarelli (BC)

“Does it Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S.

Counties, 1850 - 2010"

***Group Dinner (19:00-21:00)*** Robinson Hall (64 Watermn St)