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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
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| Monday, March 6 | |
| 8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast
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| 9:00 am |
Introductions and Announcements
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| 9:05 am |
Land Mines and Spatial Development |
| 9:50 am |
Crony Capitalism and the Targeting of Violence: Labor Repression during Argentina's Last Dictatorship |
| 10:35 am |
Break
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| 10:50 am |
Polarization, Foreign Military Interventions, and Civil Conflicts |
| 11:35 am |
Taste-Based Discrimination and the Labor Market Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Men in the United States |
| 12:20 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:20 pm |
Export Crops and Civil Conflict |
| 2:05 pm |
What Can Prediction Teach Us About Violence? Machine Learning Applications in Indonesia and Colombia |
| 2:50 pm |
Break
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| 3:05 pm |
The Effect of U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan and Yemen |
| 3:50 pm |
The Logic of Insurgent Electoral Violence |
| 4:35 pm |
Adjourn
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