Friday, May 6
- Massimo Morelli, Columbia, “Natural Resource Distribution and Civil War”
- Scott Gehlbach, Wisconsin, “Imperfect Institutional Change: Peasant Disturbances Before and After Russia’s Emancipation Reform of 1861”
- Nancy Qian, Yale, “The Unintended Consequences of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War”
- Robert Powell, Berkeley, “Bargaining, Fighting, and State Consolidations”
Saturday, May 7
- Georgy Egorov, Northwestern, “Incumbency Advantage in Non-democracies”
- Gabriel Leon, Cambridge, “The Economic Causes of Coups”