SI 2015 Economics of National Security
Martin S. Feldstein and Eli Berman, Organizers
July 20, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Monday, July 20 | ||
| 9:30 am | ||
| 9:30 am |
Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago and NBER Julian C. Jamison, University of Exeter Margaret Sheridan, University of North Carolina Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Non-cognitive Investments in Liberia |
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| 10:15 am | ||
| 10:15 am |
Jacob N. Shapiro, Princeton University Andrew C. Shaver, University of California, Merced The E ect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War |
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| 11:15 am | ||
| 11:15 am |
Eli Berman, University of California, San Diego and NBER Mitch M. Downey, Stockholm IIES Joseph Felter, Stanford University Expanding Governance as Development: Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines |
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| 1:00 pm |
Thorsten Rogall, University of British Columbia Mobilizing the Masses for Genocide |
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| 1:45 pm | ||
| 1:45 pm |
Jeffrey Friedman, Dartmouth College Joshua Baker, University of Pennsylvania Barbara Mellers, University of Pennsylvania Philip Tetlock, University of Pennsylvania Richard J. Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER The Value of Precision in Geopolitical Forecasting: Empirical Foundations for Intelligence Analysts and Foreign Policy Decision Making |
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| 2:45 pm | ||
| 2:45 pm |
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich The Intergenerational Transmission of War |
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| 3:30 pm | ||
| 3:30 pm |
Oliver Vanden Eynde, Paris School of Economics Mining Royalties and Incentives for Law and Order: Evidence from India's Red Corridor |
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