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King Center on Global Development Global Development

The Call to Service Conference

The role of selection and incentives in politics and bureaucracies.

Event Details:

Friday, April 28, 2023 - Saturday, April 29, 2023

Location

Gunn SIEPR Building
Koret-Taube Conference Center

Contact

(650) 498-4349

This event is open to:

Faculty/Staff
Students

A meritocratic and well-functioning bureaucracy is often portrayed as a necessary condition for the efficient delivery of public goods and collection of taxes. Yet, in many countries, bureaucrats and politicians are negatively influenced by pecuniary and non-pecuniary incentives that interfere with this condition. Understanding how these incentives evolve, how they affect the selection of the public sector workforce, and which policy changes can align them with the welfare of the citizens is fundamental for strengthening state capabilities and improving economic development worldwide.

The Stanford King Center on Global Development and the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business hosted a two-day conference on April 28–29, 2023, about the role of selection and incentives in politics and bureaucracies, with a keynote by Professor Ernesto Dal Bó (UC Berkeley). 

The conference took place in-person at the Gunn SIEPR Building, 366 Galvez Street on Stanford’s campus.

This event’s organizing committee was composed of Katherine Casey (Stanford University), Juan Felipe Riaño (Stanford University), and Guo Xu (UC Berkeley).

 

About the keynote speaker:

Ernesto Dal Bó

Ernesto Dal Bó is the Phillips Girgich professor of business and public policy, and distinguished teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a political economist interested in areas pertaining to political and bureaucratic selection, political influence, corruption, morality and social norms, democratic institutions and collective decision-making. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Oxford.

More about Ernesto Dal Bó

Schedule

Friday, April 28, 2023

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    Breakfast and Registration

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    Welcome and Opening Remarks

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    State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State over 100 Years

    Presenter: Edoardo Teso | Northwestern University

    Discussant: Ruixue Jia | University of California, San Diego

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    Coffee Break

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    Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

    Presenter: Muhammad Yasir Khan | University of Pittsburgh

    Discussant: Tatiana Mocanu | University College London

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    Lunch Break

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    Bureaucratic Nepotism

    Presenter: Juan Felipe Riaño | Stanford University

    Discussant: Edoardo Teso | Northwestern University

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    Designing Gender Equity: Evidence from Hiring Practices and Committees

    Presenter: Tatiana Mocanu | University College London

    Discussant: Gianmarco León-Cilliota | Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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    Coffee Break

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    Keynote Address | Nation-States as Public-Private Partnerships: The Roles of International Trade and Fiscal Capacity

    Presenter: Ernesto Dal Bó | University of California, Berkeley

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    Adjourn

Saturday, April 29, 2023

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    Breakfast

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    Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China

    Presenter: Ruixue Jia | University of California, San Diego

    Discussant: Saad Gulzar | Princeton University

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    Coffee Break

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    The Allocation of Incentives in Multi-Layered Organizations

    Presenter: Gianmarco León-Cilliota | Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Discussant: Muhammad Yasir Khan | University of Pittsburgh

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    Lunch Break

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    “Good Politicians”: Experimental Evidence on Motivations for Political Candidacy and Government Performance

    Presenter: Saad Gulzar | Princeton University

    Discussant: Juan Felipe Riaño | Stanford University

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    Closing Remarks

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