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CEPR Workshop on "Ethnicity, identity and conflict"

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Bruxelles
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Joint with IDnomics and UCLouvain, Belgium

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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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  • Monday, 23 June 2025, 09h00
    Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 14h30
  • Prof. Joseph Gomes