Economic Research on Identity, Norms, and Narratives (ERINN)
McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, 22-23 April 2017
PROGRAMME
Saturday April 22
09:00 Welcome and Introductions
09:15 Yan Chen: “Group Identity as a Behavioral Mechanism in the Field”
09:55 Paul Collier: ”Politics, Culture and Development” or “Language of Compliance”
10:35 Coffee
11:00 Rob Johnson: “At Sea with No Anchor: Narrative, Identity, and Purpose: Know Who You Are”
11:40 George Akerlof: “Beetles”
12:20 Lunch
14:00 Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik: “Political Economy of Ideas”
14:40 Karla Hoff: “The Making of Behavioral Development Economics”
15:20 Steven Bosworth: “Status-driven group realignment and welfare”
16:00 Coffee
16:20 Stefan Dercon: “The Future in Mind: Long-term Impacts of an aspirations and goal-setting intervention”
17:00 Nathan Nunn: “Culture, Social Structure, and Economic Development”
17:40 Discussion of ERINN
19:30 Dinner, The Cosmos Club
Sunday April 23
09:30 Roland Benabou: “Narratives, Imperatives, And Moral Reasoning” (with Armin Falk and Jean Tirole)
10:10 Robert Akerlof: “Group Identity”
10:50 Coffee
11:20 Tim Besley: “The Joint Dynamics of Organizational Culture, Design, and Performance” (with Torsten Persson)
12:00 Moses Shayo: “Social Identity and Political Economy: Consumption, Voting, Judicial Decisions and Brexit”
12:40 Lunch
14:10 Jean Paul Carvalho: “Religious Communities:Assimilation, Extremism and Cultural Reproduction” (with Michael Sacks)
14:50 Anandi Mani: “The deserving rich and the lazy poor? Attitudes to Redistribution”
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Paul Seabright: “Religion and respect for norms”
16:40 Paola Giuliano: “Long Term Orientation and School Performance”
17:20 Close