May 22, 2004

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

9:00–11:00 AM
Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"The Political Economy of Public Goods Allocation in India"
Background paper: "History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India" by Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer (June 2002)
"Who is Getting the Public Goods in India: Some Evidence and Some Speculation" by Abhijit Banerjee (April 2002)

Discussants
Howard Rosenthal (Princeton University)
Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)

11:00–11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM–1:30 PM
Robin Burgess (London School of Economics)
"Mao's Legacy: Access to Land and Hunger in Modern China"

Discussants
Michael Wallerstein (Northwestern University and Yale University)
Paul Joskow (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1:30–3:00 PM Lunch

3:00–5:00 PM
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic Versus Democratic Societies”

Discussants
Robert Bates (Harvard University)
Adam Przeworski (New York University)