2021 Spring Schedule

VWAR 50 (January 27) - Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz), "Human Judgement in the Coding of Cross-national Indicators"

Discussants: Christian Houle (Michigan State University), Michael Kenwick (Rutgers University), Marcus Kurtz (Ohio State University), and Arthur Spirling (New York University)

VWAR 51 (February 3) - Lynette Ong (University of Toronto), Xiaobo Lü (University of Texas at Austin), and Wenhui Yang (University of Texas at Austin), "Land Taking, Windfall Revenue, and Social Unrest: Evidence from China."

Discussants: Xun Cao (Pennsylvania State University), Peter Lorentzen (University of San Francisco), and Emily Sellars (Yale University)

VWAR 52 (February 10) - Don Grasse (Emory University), "Developmental Legacy of Mass Repression: Evidence from the Khmer Rouge."

Discussants: Dotan Haim (Florida State University), Eddy Malesky (Duke University), and Leonid Peisakhin (NYU - Abu Dhabi)

VWAR 53 (February 24) - Dimitar Gueorguiev (Syracuse University), "Counting the Costs of Academic Censorship."

Discussants: Jennifer Pan (Stanford University), Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), and Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz)

VWAR 54 (March 10) - Brett Carter (University of Southern California) and Erin Baggott Carter (University of Southern California), "How does Religion Shape Political Dissent in Autocracies?"

Discussants: Anna Gryzmala-Busse (Stanford University), Karrie Koesel (University of Notre Dame), and Jason Wittenberg (University of California, Berkeley)

VWAR 55 (March 24) - Sarah Bush (Yale University), Daniela Donno (University of Cyprus), and Pär Zetterberg (Uppsula University), "Rewarding Women's Rights in Dictatorships."

Discussants: Simone Dietrich (University of Geneva), Aili Mari Tripp (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Joseph Wright (Penn State University)

VWAR 56 (April 7) - Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago), Zhaotian Luo (University of Chicago), Dmitriy Vorobyev (Ural Federal University), and Anton Shirikov (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "A Model of Censorship and Propaganda."

Discussants: Jack Paine (University of Rochester), Milan Svolik (Yale University), and Congyi Zhou (New York University)

VWAR 57 (April 21) - Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich), Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich and CEPR), and David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich and NBER), "Contagious Extremism: Nazi Marches and Radical Voting."

Discussants: Volha Charnysh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Carlo Horz (Texas A&M University), Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Arturas Rozenas (New York University)