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