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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Meeting on the Economics of National Security

Eli Berman, Organizer

February 11, 2016

NBER
2^nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Wednesday, February 10
7:00 pm	Reception and Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel, Longfellow Room A, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, February 11
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Benjamin Crost, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joseph Felter, Stanford University Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado at Denver Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines Discussant: Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am	Mathieu Couttenier, HEC Lausanne Veronica Preotu, University of Lausanne Dominic Rohner, University of Lausanne Mathias Thoenig, Université de Lausanne The Violent Legacy of Victimization: Post-Conflict Evidence on Asylum Seekers,Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland Discussant: Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Vera Mironova, University of Maryland Samuel Whitt, University of Prishtina Grievances in Civil War Participation: Micro-Level Evidence from Syria Discussant: Macartan Humphreys, Columbia University
12:15 pm	Lunch Lunch Speaker – Erin Fitzgerald, Department of Defense Minerva Initiative Defense Social Science and the Minerva Research Initiative grant program
1:15 pm	Samuel A. Bazzi, Boston University Matthew Gudgeon, Boston University Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict Discussant: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER
2:15 pm	Brian Duncan, University of Colorado Denver Hani Mansour, University of Colorado Denver Bryson Rintala, U.S. Air Force Academy Weighing the Military Option: The Effects of Wartime Conditions on Career Pathways Discussant: Elaina Rose, University of Washington
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Ryan Brown, University of Colorado, Denver Verónica Montalva, Duke University Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER Andrea P. Velasquez, University of Colorado, Denver Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War Discussant: Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER
4:30 pm	Alex Imas, Carnegie Mellon University Michael A. Kuhn, University of Oregon Vera Mironova, University of Maryland A History of Violence: Field Evidence on Trauma, Discounting and Present Bias Discussant: Michael Callen, Harvard University and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn