Time and place: Mondays 12:30 to 2pm. Room 325, Cheit Hall (unless otherwise noted)
Political Economy Seminar
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
- Feb 10: Vincent Pons, Harvard University, “Coordination and Bandwagon Effects of Candidate Rankings: Evidence from Runoff Elections“
- Feb 24: Andrew Little, University of California, Berkeley, “A Behavioral Theory of Discrimination in Policing”
- March 9: Pia Raffler, Harvard University, “Closing the Gap: Information and Mass Support in a Dominant Party Regime“
- March 30: Mattias Polborn, Vanderbilt University, “Populism, Stigma, and Political Correctness“
- April 13: German S. Gieczewski, Princeton University, TBA
- April 20: Joachim Voth, University of Zurich, “From Welfare to Warfare: How the New Deal Boosted American Patriotism during World War II” (paper is available for download via link)
- April 27: Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago, TBA
For more information, including how to receive regular notifications of Political Economy Seminar events, please email Ernesto Dal Bó or Robert Powell.
Political Economy Research Lunch (PERL)
PERL is an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present work in progress and receive valuable feedback from faculty and peers. The Seminar will be held from 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm in Room 325, Cheit Hall
PERL is sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics
- Feb 3: Makoto Fukumoto (Poli Sci), “Biting the Hands that Feed Them? Provision of Place-Based Policies and Decline of Local Political Support”
- March 2: Lukas Leucht (Haas), “Welfare State Expansion, Mobility, and Modernisation”
- March 16: Kate Pennington (ARE), “Reproductive Risk Aversion and Contraceptive Choice, Pregnancy, and Abortion”
- April 6: Samuel Leone (Econ), “Crunch Time: How Bureaucrats’ Term of Office Affects Coercive & Collusive Bribes”
- May 4: Eric Hsu (Econ), “The Political Economy and Governance of Rural Electrification”