Designing for Redistribution – Conference
Date:
Friday, September 26, 2025
9:15 AM – 6:30 PM
If you would like to register for this conference, please contact the organizers: Professor Arjada Bardhi or Professor Erik Madsen
Schedule of the Conference:
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 09:15 – 09:45 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 09:45 – 10:30 AM | Talk 1: Oguzhan Celebi (Stanford University) – “Diversity Preferences and Affirmative Action” |
| 10:30 – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 AM | Talk 2: John Zhu (University of Kansas) – “Interventions Against Machine-Assisted Statistical Discrimination” |
| 11:45 – 12:15 PM | Coffee Break |
| 12:15 – 01:00 PM | Talk 3: Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton University) – “Who Cares More? Allocation with Diverse Preference Intensities” Joint with Evgenii Safonov and Leeat Yariv |
| 01:00 – 02:30 PM | Lunch (Faculty Only) |
| 02:30 – 03:15 PM | Talk 4: Zi Yang Kang (University of Toronto) – “Optimal Redistribution Through Subsidies” Joint with Mitchell Watt |
| 03:15 – 03:45 PM | Coffee Break |
| 03:45 – 04:30 PM | Talk 5: Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University) – “Optimal Redistribution via Income Taxation and Market Design” Joint with Pawel Doligalski, Mohammad Akbarpour, and Scott Duke Kominers |
| 04:30 – 05:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 05:00 – 05:30 PM | Coda: Annie Liang (Northwestern University) – “Algorithmic Fairness and Social Welfare” Joint with Jay Lu |
| 6:30 PM | Dinner (by invitation only) |
Organizers are:
Prof. Arjada Bardhi (New York University)
Prof. Erik Madsen (New York University)
We thank the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Masters of Economics Program and the CV Starr Center for Applied Economics for supporting this event.