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Friday, January 20th, 2012
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Vignettes - A Computer Scientist Exploring the Interface With The Social Sciences
Katrina Ligett, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetics (joint with Hulya Eraslan)
Antonio Merlo, Lawrence R. Klein Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Power
Eric Chaney, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Social Image: Virtuous, Shame, and Temptation
Kota Saito, Assistant Professor of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms (Co-author: Daron Acemoglu)
Matthew Jackson, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

*This seminar has been cancelled* Tying Your EnemyÂ’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Tommaso Nannicini, Bocconi University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Future of Federally Funded Surveys & Why Most of What We Know about Public Opinion could be Wrong: A Randomized Test of Mode of Interview
Lynn Vavreck, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Calculus of the Security Dilemma
Avidit Acharya, Visiting Research Associate, W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, Rochester University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

A Study of Congressional District Compactness
Jeffrey Lewis, associate professor of political science, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Equilibrium Checks and Balances
James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Is it all connected? Understanding the Relationship Between Behavioral Phenomena
Pietro Ortoleva, assistant professor of economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Second-Guessing, Structure, and Information in Bureaucratic Politics (joint with Sean Gailmard)
John Patty, associate professor of political science, Washington Univesity, St. Louis,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency (joint with Matthew O. Jackson)
Leeat Yariv, professor of economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Representational Style: What Legislators Say and Why It Matters
Justin Grimmer, assistant professor of political science, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Rebel Tactics
Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, the University of Chicago,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Vote Markets
Thomas R. Palfrey, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

On the Comparative Statics of Equilibrium Points
Rabah Amir, professor of economics, University of Arizona, and visiting professor of economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Kosher Pork
Allan Drazen, professor of economics, University of Maryland,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Persuasion and the Effective Power of Majority
Catherine Hafer, associate professor of politics, New York University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Informed Voters Make Better Choices? Experimental Evidence from Urban India
Rohini Pande, professor of public policy, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

On Dynamic Compromise
T. Renee Bowen, assistant professor of economics, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Revealed Political Power
Roger Lagunoff, professor of economics, Georgetown University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Congressional Development of the Institutional Presidency
Sean Gailmard, Judith E. Gruber associate professor of political science, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Dynamic Electoral Competition and Constitutional Design
Marco Battaglini, professor of economics, Princeton University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

The Twilight of the Setter? Local School Finance in a Time of Institutional Change (joint work with Sean Corcoran, NYU and Thomas Romer, Princeton)
Howard Rosenthal, Visiting Professor of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Exploiting Friends and Neighbors: An Instrumental Variable Approach to Estimating Coattail Effects
Marc Meredith, Assistant Professor of Political Science , University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Dynamic Decision Models: Identification and Estimation
Matthew Shum, Professor of Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Living by the Sword and Dying by the Sword? Leadership Transitions in and out of Dictatorships
Alexander Debs, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
Erik Snowberg, Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Deliberately Incomplete Press Censorship
Peter Lornetzen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

An Alternative Approach to ML Estimation of Multinomial Choice Models of Voting
Alexey V. Zakharov, Assistant Professor, State University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

A Computational Substrate For Goal-Directed Behavior
Matthew Botvinick, Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

A Positive Theory of Income Taxation (When Parties Focus Upon Swing and Core Voters)
John Roemer, Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Candidate Strategy and Voter Choice
Michael Tomz, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Mapping Intelligence in the Brain: A Large-scale Lesion Analysis of IQ
Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Strategic Manipulation in Representative Institutions
Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Associate Professor of Government, Washington University in St. Louis,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

The Value of Information in the Court. Get it Right, Get it Tight
Matias Iaryczower, assistant professor of economics and political science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Case for Responsible Parties (co-authored with Dan Bernhardt and Francesco Squintani)
John Duggan, Professor of Political Science and Economics, Rochester University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Exploratory Behavior During A Financial Forecasting Task Points To Simulated Annealing
Peter Bossaerts, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management and Professor of Finance, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Reverse Electoral Business Cycles and the U.S. Housing Market
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

A Theory of Political Parties
John Zaller, Professor of Political Science, UCLA,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar

Why was it that Europeans Conquered the World? The Politics and Economics of World Conquest
Philip T. Hoffman, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and Professor of History, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics
Matthew Gentzkow, Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Brown Bag Seminar

A computational experiment on a non-economic model of the discovery and diffusion of knowledge via learning-by-doing with network-mediated matching with an application to a problem in economic history
Kim C. Border, professor of economics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Mythical Tradeoff between Black Representatives and Black Policy Interests
Ebonya Washington, Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?: An Experimental Approach
Daniel Posner, associate professor of political science, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America
Ernesto Calvo, assistant professor of political science, University of Houston,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

A Rational-Choice, Formal-Theoretic Argument against the Existence of Sophisticated Voting in Legislatures
Timothy J. Groseclose, professor of political science, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Resources and Strategies South of the Sahara: Long-Term Dynamics of African Economic Development, 1500–2000
Gareth Austin, senior lecturer, economic history department, London School of Economics,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Electoral Accountability and the Variety of Democratic Regimes
David Samuels, University of Minnesota,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Side-Effects of Campaign Finance Reform
Mattias Dahm, Northwestern University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
Keith T. Poole, Professor of Political Science, Political Science, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

A Theory Waiting To Be Discovered and Used: Uncovering New Results about Majority Rule
William Bianco, Penn State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Uncertainty, Risk, and Economic Development
Hilton Root, Pitzer College,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Does the U.S. Constitution Need an ERA?
Andrew D. Martin, Department of Political Science, Washington University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Assessing Legislative Accomplishment in the U.S., 1877 to 1944
John Lapinski, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

The Effect of Newspaper Market Structure on Congressional Politics
James Snyder, Professor, Economics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Political Equilibria and Smooth Elections
Norman Schofield, William Taussig Professor of Political Economy, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

State Failure in Africa
Robert H. Bates, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Political Economy Seminar

Racism and Redistribution: A Solution to the Problem of American Exceptionalism
John Roemer, Yale University,