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The Causes and Consequences of Income Distribution
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The Watson Institute for International Studies Joukowsky Forum
111 Thayer Street, Providence, RI
Friday, April 27 2007
I. Income Distribution Around the World and Across the U.S.
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| 9:30 | William Easterly and Diego Comin: Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000BC? Discussant: David Weil |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Edward Glaeser: Inequality and American Cities Discussant: Yona Rubinstein |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
II. Unequal Opportunities
Chair: Patrick Heller
| 1:30 | Glenn Loury: Racial Stigma, Mass Incarceration and American Values Discussant: Katherine Newman |
| 2:30 | Coffee |
| 3:00 | Danny Quah: Life in Unequal Growing Economies Discussant: Paola Sapienza |
| 4:00 | Cookies |
| 4:30 | Ross Levine and Alex Levkov: Bank Regulation and the Distribution of Income Discussant: Stephen Haber |
| 5:30 | Adjourn |
| 8:30 | Breakfast |
III. Persistence and Reversals of Inequality
Chair: Barbara Stallings
| 9:00 | Raghuram Rajan: The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Constituencies and Rent Preservation Discussant: Peter Gourevitch |
| 10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:30 | Joel Mokyr and Joachim Voth: Understanding Growth in Europe Discussant: Oded Galor |
| 11:30 | Daron Acemoglu: Economic and Political Inequality in Development: the Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia Discussant: Bernard Yeung |
| 12:30 | Lunch |