11-12 May: conference in Paris “Altruism and Charitable Giving”
CEPR Public Policy Conference on Altruism and Charitable Giving
May 11-12, 2012 - Paris
Hosted by Paris School of Economics
Sponsored by CEPREMAP
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Friday, May 11, 2012
- 8.30 – 9.00 Registration
- 9.00 – 10.00 Niklas Bengtsson (Uppsala University) & Per Engström (Uppsala University), “Are Trust-based Contracts efficient? Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment”
- 10.00 – 11.00 Gani Aldashev (University of Namur), Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics) & Michela Limardi (Paris School of Economics), “Watchdogs of the Invisible Hands: NGO Monitoring and Industry Equilibrium”
- 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
- 11.30 – 12.30 Roland Bénabou (Princeton University) & Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics), “Laws and Norms”
- 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
- 13.30 – 14.30 Abigail Payne (McMaster University) & James Andreoni (UC, San Diego), “Crowding-Out Charitable Contributions in Canada: New Knowledge from the North”
- 14.30 – 15.30 Mario Macis (Johns Hopkins University), Nicola Lacetera (University of Toronto) & Robert Slonim (University of Sydney), “Rewarding Altruism? A natural field experiment”
- 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
- 16.00 – 17.00 Keynote lecture by Charles Clotfelter (Duke University), “Charitable Giving and Tax Policy in the U.S.”
- 17.00 – 18.00 Panel discussion: Trends in Charitable giving Short presentations by Sarah Smith and Camille Landais, followed by a discussion with Anthony Atkinson, Charles Clotfelter, Camille Landais and Sarah Smith
- 20.00: Conference dinner
Saturday, May 12, 2012
- 8.30 – 9.00 Coffee
- 9.00 – 10.00 Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg) & Andrew Stocking (Congressional Budget Office), “The Complementarities of Competition in Charitable Fundraising”
- 10.00 – 11.00 Sarah L. Smith (University of Bristol), Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol) and Edmund Wright (University of Bristol),”The effect of social information on charitable donations: Evidence from the (running) field”
- 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
- 11.30 – 12.30 Kimberley Ann Scharf (University of Warwick), “Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups”
- 12.30 – 13.30 Keynote lecture by Anthony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
- 13. 30 – 14.30 Lunch and end of conference
Organizers: Gabrielle Fack (University Pompeu Fabra), Camille Landais (Stanford University),Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) and Emmanuel Saez (UC, Berkeley)