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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC
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SI 2012 Economics of National Security

Martin S. Feldstein, Organizer

July 23, 2012


Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline Room

40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

 


PROGRAM


MONDAY, JULY 23:

 

 


8:45 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:15 am

Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations

 

Jeffrey Friedman, Harvard University

 

Jacob Shapiro, Princeton University

 

Testing the Surge: Why Did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?

 

 

 

Discussant: Eli Berman, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 

 

10:15 am


Break

 

 

10:30 am

Andrew Beath, Harvard University

 

Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Ruben Enikolopov, New Economic School

 

Winning Hearts and Minds through Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan

 

 

 

Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER


11:30 am

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

 

Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER

 

Aiding Conflict: The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War

 

 

 

Discussant: Benjamin Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Benjamin Crost, University of California at Berkeley

 

Joseph Felter, Stanford University

 

Patrick Johnston, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project

 

Government Transfers and Civil Conflict: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

 

 

 

Discussant: Radha Iyengar, London School of Economics and NBER


2:30 pm


Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Adeline Delavande, University of Essex

 

Basit Zafar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Understanding Anti-Americanism among Pakistani Youth: Evidence Using Experimental Variation in Information

 

 

 

Discussant: Nava Ashraf, Harvard University and NBER

 

 


3:45 pm


Deepa Dhume Datta, Federal Reserve Board
Carl J. Liebersohn, Federal Reserve Board, MIT Sloan School of Management
Juan-Miguel Londono-Yarce, Federal Reserve Board

 

Using Options-Implied PDFs to Understand Oil Market Events

 

 

 

Discussant: Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University and NBER


4:45 pm


Adjourn