NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

National Security Working Group

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

February 28, 2008

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28:

 

 

 8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

Islam's Melting Pot: How the Hajj Impacts the Pilgrim

 

(Joint with David Clingingsmith and Asim Ijaz Khwaja)

 

 

 9:50 am

MATTHEW HANSON, College of William and Mary

 

The Economics of Roadside Bombs

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

PHILIPPE MARTIN, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

 

Civil Wars and International Trade

 

(Joint with Thierry Mayer and Mathias Thoenig)

 

 

11:50 am

JONATHAN LIPOW, Oberlin College

 

Military Conscription and the (Socially) Optimal Number of Boots on the Ground

 

(Joint with Peter Berck)

 

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:40 pm

ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods:  Testing the Club Model

 

(Joint with David Laitin)

 

 

 2:30 pm

NAOMI FELDMAN, Ben-Gurion University

 

Religious Terrorism: A Cross-Country Analysis

 

(Joint with Bradley Ruffle)

 

 

3:20 pm

Break

 

 

 3:35 pm

STEFANO DELLAVIGNA, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

 

(Joint with Eliana La Ferrara)

 

 

 4:25 pm

DEEPA DHUME, Harvard University

 

Economic Prospects for Iraq:

 

Encouraging Growth amid Security Challenges

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

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