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Work on the political economy of Latin America is on the verge of a major breakthrough where collaboration between historians, political scientists, economists, and other social scientists will produce a new understanding of the most complex social issues of our time.
Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, LSE
Session 1: Skills
Agustina Paglayan (Stanford): “Democracy and Educational Expansion: Evidence from 200 Years."
Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE): “Public goods institutions, human capital, and growth: Evidence from German history”
Felipe Valencia (British Columbia): “Engineering growth: Innovative capacity and development in the Americas”
Session 2: Public Economy
Pablo Querubín (NYU): “The political class and redistributive policies”
Luis Martínez (University of Chicago): “How much should we trust the dictator’s GDP estimates?”
Debin Ma (LSE): “The paradox of power: Principal-agent problems and fiscal capacity in absolutist regimes”
Session 3: Ethnic Identity
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros (Stanford): “Indigenous identity and colonial rule”
Lachlan McNamee (Stanford): “Colonialism, path dependency, and comparative racial identification in the Americas”
Luis Carlos Reyes (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana): “The cries of the harvesters: A natural experiment on the multigenerational effects of slavery”
Session 4: Corruption
Felipe González (Universidad Catolica de Chile): “Take the money and run? The consequences of controversial privatizations”
Jenny Guardado (Georgetown University): “Corruption and the value of public office: Evidence from the Spanish empire”
Michael Muthukrishna (LSE): “Corruption, cooperation, and the evolution of prosocial institutions”
Session 5: Conflict 1
Omar García-Ponce (UC DAVIS): “Long term effects of colonial repression on political attitudes in Madagascar”
Ana María Ibañez (Universidad de los Andes): “The legacies of war: How does conflict shape migration responses to negative weather shocks?”
Borge Wietzke (IBEI): “The long-term consequences of pre-colonial military coercion under the Merina state”
Session 6: Conflict 2
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (Universidad Católica de Chile): “State history and contemporary conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”
Emily Sellars (Texas A&M University): “When state building backfires: Elite divisions and collective action in rebellion”
Luz Marina Árias (CIDE): “How do rulers rule? Coordination, coercion and political order after independence”
Session 7: Inequality & Social Order
Edgar Franco (Stanford): “Justice and social order: Indigenous claims in the courts of colonial Mexico”
Javier Mejía (Universidad de los Andes- NYUAD): “Social interactions and modern economic growth in Colombia”
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Well-being inequality: A world view since 1870” (blog version)
Session 8: Land Institutions
Lisa Blaydes (Stanford): “Land, property rights and institutional durability in medieval Egypt”
Herbert Klein (Stanford): “The modernization of Brazilian agriculture since 1960”
Mateo Uribe-Castro (University of Maryland): “Expropriation of Church wealth and political conflict in 19th century Colombia”
Fabio Sánchez (Universidad de los Andes): “On the agrarian origins of civil conflict in Colombia”
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Session 1: Skills
