Joint with IDnomics and UCLouvain, Belgium
Organisers
Programme
Day 1 - 23 June 2025
9:00 - 9:15
Klaus /Joseph - Welcome address
9:15 - 9:55
Elias Papaioannou – (Invited Session)
Uprootedness, Human Capital and Skill Portability
(Co-authors: Stelios Michalopoulos, Elie Murard and Seyhun Orcan Sakalli)
9:55 - 10:35
Sam Asher
Cultural Capital and Economic Opportunity in Rural India
(Co-authors: Aditi Bhowmick, Maurizio Bussolo, Vidisha Mehta, Paul Novosad)
10:35 - 11:05
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:45
Monica Beeder
Effects of Jobs on Ethnic Switching – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
(Co-authors: Lovise Aalen, Andreas Kotsadam, Espen Villanger)
11:45 - 12:25
Netanel Ben-Porath
Imagined Communities? Print Media and Identity in the Age of Nation-State Formation
(Co-authors: W. Walker Hanlon)
12:25 - 13:50
Lunch
13:50 - 14:30
Tanushree Goyal
Increasing Polarization of Hindu-Muslim Identity in India
(Co-authors: Feyaad Allie, Viktor Enssle, Saad Gulzar, Gufran Pathan)
14:30 - 15:10
Roland Hodler
Ethnofederalism: Subnational Borders and the Salience of Ethnicity in Politics
(Co-authors: Richard Bluhm, Roland Hodler, Paul Schaudt)
15:10 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:30
Ömer Ozak
(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
(Co-authors: Emilio Depetris-Chauvin)
16:30 - 17:10
Marta Reynal-Querol (Invited Session)
Hierarchy Differences and the Social Foundations of State
(Co-authors: Miriam Artiles and Joachim Vot)
18:30 onwards
Conference Dinner (By invitation only)
Day 2 - 24 June 2025
9:00 - 9:40
Moses Shayo - (Invited Session)
Paying Not to Know: News Avoidance in Times of War
(Co-authors: Ro’ee Levy, Guy Yanay)
9:40 - 10:20
Max Posch
Do Disasters Affect the Tightness of Social Norms?
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:20
Clara Sievert
Supernatural Beliefs about Illness and Modern Medicine Use: Evidence from the DRC
11:20 - 12:00
Andrea Tesei
Pilgrims and Crusaders: Religion as a Political Double-Edged Sword
(Co-authors: Tommaso Colussi, Dominic Rohner, Felipe Valencia Caicedo)
12:00 - 12:20
Break
12:20 - 13:00
Mathias Thoenig - (Invited Session)
The gravity of violence
(Co-authors: Mathieu Couttenier, Julian Marcoux and Thierry Mayer)
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch (and end of the workshop)
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