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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Political Economy Program Meeting

April 23, 2010

Alberto Alesina, Organizer

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 22:
7:00 pm	Group Dinner
	Dante Restaurant, Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, APRIL 23:
8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Kosher Pork
	Allan Drazen, University of Maryland and NBER
	Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics
	Discussant: Pierre Yared, Columbia University
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am	The ‘Out of Africa’ Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
	Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, Brown University
	Discussant: Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER
11:30 am	War and Relatedness
	Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER
	Romain Wacziarg, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	Discussant: Filipe Campante, Harvard University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing
	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
	Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University
	Discussant: John Donohue, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:00 pm	A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
	Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel, IMF
	Discussant: Asim Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER
4:00 pm	Attitudes, Policies and Work
	Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University and NBER
	Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College
	Michel Serafinelli, UC, Berkeley
	Discussant: Rafael Di Tella, Harvard University and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn

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