Political Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Alberto F. Alesina and helen_gavel
November 16, 2012
NBER

Friday, November 16

1

Diversity and Local Public Good: A Natural Experiment with Exogeneous Residential Allocation

Yann Algan, HEC Paris

2

Homogeneity as a Pre-Condition for Democracy: The Influence of Religious Fragmentation on the Effect of Electoral Reforms on Public Goods in China

Gerard Padro i Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
Yang Yao, Peking University, China

3

Education and Human Capital Externalities Evidence from Colonial Benin

Leonard Wantchekon, Princeton University and NBER

4

Corruption in Procurement and Shadow Campaign Financing: Evidence from Russia

Maxim Mironov, IE Business School
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics

5

A Culture Based Theory of Fiscal Union Desirability

Luigi Guiso, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Helios Herrera, University of Warwick
Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University

6

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War

Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER