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Important Links

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• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
• Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Current Paper:

June 26, 2012
“Explaining Charter School Effectiveness,” by Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters, April 12, 2012. 

Future Papers:    

July 24, 2012
“Crossing Party Lines: The Effects of Information on Redistributive Politics,” by Katherine Casey, April 2012. 

July 31, 2012
“The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries” by Philipp Doerrenberg and Andreas Peichl, April 2012.  

August 7, 2012
“How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?” by Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg, May 2012.  

August 28, 2012
“The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China” by Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro i Miquel, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao, May 2012.  

Past papers:

June 19, 2012
“On the Political Economy of Educational Vouchers,” by Dennis N. Epple and Richard Romano, April, 2012.  

June 12, 2012
“Sailing the Water’s Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy,"  by Helen Milner and Dustin Tingley, 2012. (to be updated) 

June 5, 2012
“Sensitivity to Issue Framing on Trade Policy Preferences: Evidence from a survey experiment,” by M. Victoria Murillo, Pablo M. Pinto and Martin Ardanaz. 2012.  

May 29, 2012
“ 'The Big Sort' That Wasn't: A Skeptical Reexamination” by Samuel J. Abrams and Morris P. Fiorina, April, 2012.   

May 22, 2012 - CANCELLED  

May 15, 2012
“United States then, Europe now,” by Thomas J. Sargent, February 1, 2012.   

May 8, 2012
“Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression,” by Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen, and Kevin H. O'Rourke, February, 2012.   

May 1, 2012
“Fiscal Rules: Theoretical Issues and Historical Experiences,” by Charles Wyplosz, March, 2012.   

April 24, 2012
“Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking,” by Gilles Saint-Paul, May 23, 2011.   

April 3, 2012
“Why Don't We Tax the Rich?: Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World” by Martin Ardanaz, Carlos Scartascini, November 2011.  

April 10, 2012
“The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa,” by Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou, November 2011. 

April 17, 2012 - CANCELED

March 27, 2012
“Political Economy: Success or Failure?” by Bruno S. Frey, December 2011. 

March 20, 2012
“Resolving Debt Overhang: Political Constraints in the Aftermath of Financial Crisis” by Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, Francesco Trebbi, February, 2012.  

March 13, 2012
“Turning Points in Leadership: Shipping Technology in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires” by Claudia Rei, July 28, 2011. 

March 6, 2012
“Labor Supply of Politicians” by Raymond Fisman, Nikolaj A. Harmon, Emir Kumenica and Inger Munk, January 2012.   

February 28, 2012
“The Mythology of Game Theory” by Matthew D. McCubbins, Mark Turner, and Nick Weller, 2011. 

February 21, 2012
“Top Incomes in the Long Run of History” by Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, 2011.  

February 14, 2012
“Pirates of the Mediterranean: An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining with Transaction Costs” by Attila Ambrus, Eric Chaney and Igor Salitskiy, December 22, 2011.   

January 31, 2012
“Forecasting Elections:Voter Intentions versus Expectations” by David Rothschild and Justin Wolfers, June 23, 2011.   

January 24, 2012
“Development and Religious Polarization: The Emergence of Reform and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism” by Jean-Paul Carvalho and Mark Koyama, 2011.   

January 17, 2012
“Politics With(out) Coase” by Barbara Luppi and Francesco Parisi, 2011.  

January 10, 2012 - CANCELED

January 3, 2012
“Crisis Politics:Uncertainty, Relative Prices and Political Change” by Jeffry Frieden, David Lake, Michael Nicholson and Aditya Ranganath, October, 2011.

December 20, 2011
“Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption across US States” by Filipe R. Campante and Quoc-Anh Do, November, 2011. 

December 13, 2011 - CANCELED

November 29, 2011
“The Costs of Political Influence: Firm-Level Evidence from Developing Countries” by Raj M. Desai and Anders Olofsgard, September, 2011. 

November 22, 2011
“Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market” by Christoph Moser and Andrew K. Rose, September, 2011.  

November 15, 2011
“Do financial crises always raise inequality? Some evidence from history” by Michael D. Bordo and Christopher M. Meissner, 13 Sept., 2011. 

November 8, 2011
“Electoral budget cycles in the EMU: A challenge to context conditionality” by Joachim Wehner, 20 April, 2011.   

November 1, 2011
“Economics and Reality” by Herald Uhlig, July 2011.  

October 25, 2011
“What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?” by Steven Pincus and James Robinson, July 2011.  

October 18, 2011
“Constituencies and Legislation: the Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927” by Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan, August 2011.   

October 11, 2011
“The Feudal Revolution:Political Stability and the Rise of Europe” by Lisa Blaydes and Eric Chaney, 2011. 

September 27, 2011
“Why has Britain fewer marginal seats than it used to?” by Robert Hodgson and John Maloney, 2011.   

September 20, 2011
“Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa” by Stelios Michalopoulos, June, 2011.  

September 13, 2011
“Public Spending, Public Deficits, and Government Coalitions” by Andre Blais, Jiyoon Kim and Martial Foucault, December, 2010.   

August 30, 2011
“What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?” by Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie, April, 2011.  

August 16, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

August 23, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

August 9, 2011
“Do Soccer Players Play the Mixed-strategy Nash Equilibrium?” by Ofer H. Azar and Michael Bar-Eli.  

August 2, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED

July 26, 2011
“Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences” by Pauline Grosjean and Claudia Senik,  Jan., 2009. 

July 19, 2011
PE LUNCH CANCELED