December 5, 2009

Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy

CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street, The Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
December 5, 2009

Sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

8:30AM–9:00AM Continental breakfast and introductions

9:00AM–11:00AM: Session 1

  • Micael Castanheira, ECARES, Brusssels
  • Benoit S Y Crutzen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam “Comparative Politics with Endogenous Intra-Party Discipline”
  • Discussants: John Aldrich, Duke Tom Romer, Princeton

11:00AM–11:30AM: Coffee break

11:30AM–1:30PM: Session 2

  • Michael Hiscox, Harvard Jens Hainmueller, MIT
  • Sandra Sequeira, LSE “Consumer Demand for the Fair Trade Label: Evidence from a Field Experiment‘
  • Discussants: Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard

1:30PM–3:00PM Lunch

3:00PM–5:00PM: Session 3

  • Edward Miguel, UC-Berkeley “Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities”
  • Discussants: Daron Acemoğlu, MIT Helen Milner, Princeton