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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Culture and Institutions Meeting

Alberto Bisin and Paola Giuliano, Organizers

April 9, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Riverfront Room (Level Two)

40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, April 8
7:00 pm Group Dinner, Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 9
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University Salvatore Piccolo, Catholic University of Milan Paolo Pinotti, Bocconi University Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics Discussant: Claudio Ferraz, PUC-Rio
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Board State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany Discussant: Pauline Grosjean, The University of New South Wales
11:15 am	Christian Dippel, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Stephan Heblich, University of Bristol Robert Gold, Kiel Institute for the World Economy Globalization and Its (Dis-)Content: Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior Discussant: Justin Pierce, Federal Reserve Board
12:15 pm	Lunch – Parkview Room (Level Two)
1:30 pm	Sara R. Lowes, Harvard University Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER Jonathan Weigel, Harvard University The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom Discussant: Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER Romain Wacziarg, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Fertility and Modernity Discussant: Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER
3:45 pm	Konrad B. Burchardi, Stockholm University Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago Tarek Alexander Hassan, University of Chicago and NBER Migrants, Ancestors, and Investments Discussant: Yves Zenou, Monash University
4:45 pm	Adjourn