Registration, Coffee and Welcome Remarks from the Organisers

Session 1

10:00 – 10.50

Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London)
Title: 'The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from African Migration to Europe'
Co-authors: Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern Kellogg) and Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London)

Discussant: Luigi Guiso (EIEF)

10.50 – 11.40

Pedro Vicente (NOVA University Lisbon)
Title: 'On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique'
Co-authors: Alex Armand (NOVA University Lisbon), Frederica Mendonça (NOVA University Lisbon), and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz (NOVA University Lisbon)

Discussant: Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI)

11.40 – 12.10

Coffee Break

Yameng Fan (ENSAI-CREST)
Title: Market Power and Political Connections
Co-authors: Feng Zhou (Toulouse Business School)

Discussant: Rafael Jiménez-Durán (Bocconi University)

Lunch

Session 2

14.30 – 15.20

Marina Rizzi (University of Turin)
Title: 'Self-Regulation of Social Media and the Evolution of Content: a Cross-Platform Analysis'

Discussant: Mateusz Stalinski (University of Warwick)

15.20 – 16.10

Michael Thaler (University College London)
Title: 'Numbers Tell, Words Sell'
Co-authors: Mattie Toma (University of Warwick), Victor Yaneng Wang (MIT)

Discussant: Salvatore Nunnari (Bocconi University)

16.10 – 16.40

Coffee break

16.40 – 17.30

Joanne Haddad (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Title: 'Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment'
Co-authors: Matthew Curtis (University of Southern Denmark), Paula E. Gobbi (Université libre de Bruxelles), Marc Goñi (University of Bergen)

Discussant: Nancy Qian (Northwestern Kellogg)

19:00 onwards

Dinner (by invitation only)

10.00 – 10:50

Victoria Mooers (Columbia University)
Title: 'Social Networks and Voter Information'

Discussant: Sarah Eichmeyer (Bocconi University)

10.50 – 11.40

Nicolas Longuet-Marx (Columbia University)
Title: 'Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Realignment'

Discussant: Nathan Canen (University of Warwick)

11.40 – 12.10

12.10 – 13.00

Giovanni Facchini (University of Nottingham)
Title: 'The Consequences of a Trade Collapse: Economics and Politics in Weimar Germany'
Co-authors: Bjorn Brey (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)

13:00 - 14:30

Session 4

14:30 – 15:20

Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich)
Title: 'Breeding Better Beings: Education, Progressive Reform and Eugenics in the United States'
Co-authors: Guohui Jiang (University of Zurich), Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich), Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford)

Discussant: Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)

15:20 – 16.10

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Title: 'Once Upon a Time in America: the Mafia and the Unions'
Co-authors: Andrea Matranga (University of Torino) and Marta Troya-Martinez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Discussant: Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford)

16.10 – 16.40

Coffee break

16.40 – 17.30

Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: 'On the Optimal Allocation of Policy-Making'
Co-authors: Rishabh Kirpalani (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Guillaume Sublet (Université de Montréal)

Discussant: Facundo Piguillem (EIEF)