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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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QMUL/Warwick Workshop "Culture, Institutions and Political Economy"Runs from Tuesday, June 25 to Wednesday, June 26. The Quantitative and Analytical Political Economy Research Centre (QAPEC) at the University of Warwick, and the Centre for Globalised Research (CGR) at Queen Mary University London, are organising a workshop on 'Culture, Institutions, and Political Economy'. The workshop will aim to gather scholars working on the question of how culture shapes individual preferences and political behaviour and how these, in turn, affect economic choices. Date: Tuesday 25 - Wednesday 26 June 2024
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Registration & Welcome |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Session 1 The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence form the African Diaspora (with Jacopo Ponticelli and Andrea Tesei) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
British Industrialization and Cultural Change: Evidence from the Use of Proverbs (with Elliott Ash) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Cultural Identity and Norms of Cooperation and Trust in Italy (with Daniel Sgroi, Michela Redoano, Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood and Francesco Porcelli) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
The Coevolution of Patience and Cooperation (with Ady Pauzner and Luigi Pascali) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
KEYNOTE: Vincent Pons (Harvard) Keep your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections (with Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec) |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Session 2 A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam (with Kiet Tuan Duong) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Prescribing antidepressants to children: the relevance of prescribing culture (with Meltem Daysal and Mircea Trandafir) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behaviour: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021 (with Jacob R. Brown, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons) |
| 15:30 - 16:10 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:10 - 17:10 |
KEYNOTE: Raquel Fernández (NYU) Cultural Change |
| 19:30 | Dinner - by invitation |
Day 2: Wednesday, 26 June 2024
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Welcome Coffee |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Session 3 Innovation Adoption by Committee: Evaluating Decision-Making in the FDA (with Matias Iaryczower) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction (with Ana Tur-Prats) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Michela Redoano (Warwick) / Francesco Porcelli (Bari) The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover: Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities (with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli, Emanuele Bracco, Federica Liberini and Daniel Sgroi) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Better Beings: Eugenics and the U.S. Progressive Movement (with Guohui Jiang, Joachim Voth, and Noam Yuchtman) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
KEYNOTE: Paola Giuliano (UCLA) Cultural transmission in education |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Session 4 Zero-Sum Thinking and the 'Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides (with Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Stefanie Stancheva) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
A Political Economy approach to tax expenditure. Evidence from a cross-section of countries (with Come Poireir, Francesco Porcelli, Francesco Vidoli) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Interdependence of Civic Values and Rules in Commons Management |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Economic Identities and The Historical Roots of Climate Change Denial in the U.S. |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
KEYNOTE: Alberto Bisin (NYU) |
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Registration is mandatory to attend this conference. Please click the button below to access the registration form.
Registration will close on Friday 14 June 2024.