NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

National Security Working Group

 

Martin Feldstein, Organizer

 

February 24, 2009

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24:

 

 

 8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

EFFIE BENMELECH, Harvard University and NBER

 

CLAUDE BERREBI, RAND Corporation

 

ESTEBAN KLOR, Hebrew University

 

Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism

 

 

 9:50 am

NAYANTARA HENSEL, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

 

Globalization and the U.S. Defense Industrial Postgraduate School Base

(not available for download)

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

JONATHAN LIPOW, Oberlin University

 

PETER BERCK, UC, Berkeley

 

Did Monetary Forces Turn the Tide in Iraq?   

 

 

11:50 am

DIANA LIEN, ALINE QUESTER and ROBERT SHUFORD,

 

Center for Naval Analyses

 

Marine Corps Deployment Tempo and Retention from FY04 to FY07

 

 

12:40 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:40 pm

ELI BERMAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Religious Radicalism and Violence in the Modern World

(not available for download)

 

 

 2:30 pm

RADHA IYENGAR, London School of Economics and NBER

 

JONATHAN MONTEN, Yale University

 

The Impact of Reconstruction Spending on the Labor Market for Insurgents  

 

 

 3:20 pm

Break

 

 

 3:35 pm

JIM HOSEK and FRANCISCO MARTORELL, RAND Corporation

 

How Have Deployments during the War on Terrorism Affected Re-enlistments

 

(not available for download)

 

 

 4:25 pm

CHRISTOPHER BLATTMAN Yale University

 

EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Civil War (not available for download)

 

 

 5:15 pm

Adjourn