ERINN 2018

ERINN Annual Conference 2018

Economic Research on Identity, Norms, and Narratives (ERINN)

14-15 June 2018

Cohen Quad, Exeter College, University of Oxford

 

PROGRAMME 

Thursday 14 June 
 
09:30     Welcome and Introductions
09:40    Julie Chytilova: “Group Membership Magnifies the Dark Side of Human Social Behavior”
10:15    Robert Akerlof: “Narratives and the Economics of the Family” (with Paul Collier and Luis Rayo)
10:50    Coffee
11:20    Karla Hoff: “Can you tell a New Story? The Impact of Theater for Development in India on Domestic Violence and Women’s Agency”
11:55    Russell Golman: “Hipsters and the Cool: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Social Identity, Trends and Fads” (with Aditi Jain, and Sonica Saraf)
12:30    Lunch
14:00    Florian Hett: “Identification as a Choice”
14:35    Sanjeev Goyal: “Integration and Diversity”
15:10    Coffee
15:50    Jeff Butler: “The Causal Effect of Cultural Identity on Cooperation”            

16:25    Michal Bauer: “Evidence for Direct Effect of Poverty on Time Preference: An Experiment with Ultra-poor Farmers in Uganda”
17:00    Close

 

Friday 15 June

09:00    Yan Chen: "Motivating Contributions to Public Information Goods: A Field Experiment at Wikipedia"
09:35    Nava Ashraf: “Altruistic Capital and Social Incentives”   10:10   Coffee
10:45    Tim Besley: “State Capacity and the Social Contract”
11:20    Justin Valasek: "Career Selection and Employment Quotas: A Model of Mentorship and Identity Homophily"
11:55    John Kay: “Radical Uncertainty”
12:30    Lunch
13:30    Jean-Paul Carvalho: "Elite Identity and Political Accountability: A Tale of Ten Islands" with Christian Dippel
14:05    Bryony Reich: “Nation-Building and Education”
14:40    Erin Krupka: “Rhetoric Matters: A Social Norms Explanation for the Anomaly of Framing”  
15:15    Coffee 
15:50   George Akerlof: “Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics”
16:25    Maitreesh Ghatak: “Guilt, Esteem, and Motivational Investments”
17:00    Close