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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Political Economy Program Meeting

Alberto Alesina, Organizer

April 8, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Riverfront Room (Level Two)

40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

The FORMAT for each paper will be a 30-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion,
and then another 15 minutes of general audience discussion.

Friday, April 8
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Ernesto Dal Bó, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Pablo I. Hernández-Lagos, New York University Abu Dhabi Sebastián Mazzuca, Johns Hopkins University The Paradox of Civilization. Pre-Institutional Sources of Security and Prosperity Discussant: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Joram Mayshar, Hebrew University Omer Moav, University of Warwick Zvika Neeman, Tel Aviv University Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy Discussant: David Weil, Brown University and NBER
11:15 am	Renee Bowen, Stanford University Jackie M.L. Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong Oeindrila Dube, New York University Nicolas Lambert,Stanford University Reform Fatigue Discussant: Allan Drazen, University of Maryland and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch – University BC Room (Lobby Level)
1:30 pm	Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Pablo Querubin, New York University Bombing the Way to State-Building? Lessons from the Vietnam War Discussant: Jesse Shapiro, Brown University and NBER
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	S. Nageeb Ali, Pennsylvania State University Roland Bénabou, Princeton University and NBER Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy Discussant: Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University
3:45 pm	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER Jordan C. Kyle, IFPRI Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sudarno Sumarto, TNP2K and SMERU Contracting out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia Discussant: Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
4:45 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Group Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)