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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Political Economy Program Meeting

November 15, 2013

Alberto Alesina, Organizer

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 14
7:00 pm	Group Dinner – Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, November 15
8:15 am	Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Filipe Campante, Harvard University and NBER David Yanagizawa-Drott, Harvard University Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan Discussant: Nico Voigtlaender, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
10 :00 am	Coffee Break
10:15 am	Cemal Arbatl, Higher School of Economics Quamrul Ashraf, Brown University Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER The Nature of Civil Conflict Discussant: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER
11:15 am	Carles Boix, Princeton University Scott Abramson, Princeton University The Roots of the Industrial Revolution: Political Institutions or (Socially Embedded) Know-How? Discussant: Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER On the Limits of Expert Credibility: Theory and an Application to Climate Change
	Discussant: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, The Paris School of Economics
2:30 pm	Coffee Break
2:45 pm	Vincenzo Galasso, Università Bocconi Tommaso Nannicini, Università Bocconi Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field Discussant: Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University
3:45 pm	James Alt, Harvard University David Lassen, University of Copenhagen Unemployment Expectations, Information, and Voting: Experimental and Administrative Micro-Evidence Discussant: Nolan McCarty, Princeton University and NBER
4:45 pm	Adjourn