Meeting on the Economics of National Security
Organized by Eli Berman and Martin S. Feldstein
March 5-6, 2017
NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Sunday, March 5
7:00 pm
Group Dinner at Restaurant Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotle
Monday, March 6
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Introductions and Announcements
9:05 am

Land Mines and Spatial Development

Giorgio Chiovelli, Universidad de Montevideo
Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER
Elias Papaioannou, London Business School
9:50 am

Crony Capitalism and the Targeting of Violence: Labor Repression during Argentina's Last Dictatorship

Esteban Klor, Hebrew University
Sebastian M. Saiegh, University of California, San Diego
Shanker Satyanath, New York University
10:35 am
Break
10:50 am

Polarization, Foreign Military Interventions, and Civil Conflicts

Elena I. Ianchovichina, The World Bank
11:35 am

Taste-Based Discrimination and the Labor Market Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Men in the United States

Kerwin Kofi Charles, Yale University and NBER
Konstantin Kunze, University of Rochester
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado Denver
Daniel I. Rees, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Bryson Rintala, U.S. Air Force Academy
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Export Crops and Civil Conflict

Benjamin Crost, University of Calgary
Joseph Felter, Stanford University
2:05 pm

What Can Prediction Teach Us About Violence? Machine Learning Applications in Indonesia and Colombia

Samuel A. Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Robert Blair, Brown
Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER
Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
Matthew Gudgeon, Tufts University and NBER
Richard M. Peck, Jr, Northwestern University
2:50 pm
Break
3:05 pm

The Effect of U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan and Yemen

Madeline Zimmerman, Harvard University
3:50 pm

The Logic of Insurgent Electoral Violence

Luke N. Condra, University of Chicago
James D. Long, University of Washington
Andrew C. Shaver, University of California, Merced
Austin L. Wright, University of Chicago
4:35 pm
Adjourn