Economic growth.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

An NBER meeting on economic growth, organized by Research Associate Ariel Burstein of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Faculty Research Fellow Nancy Qian of Yale University, was held in San Francisco on February 18. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* David de la Croix, Universite catholique de Louvain; Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University and NBER; and JoelMokyr, Northwestern University, "Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy"

* Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles, and NBER; Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER; Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Duke University and NBER; and Owen M. Zidar, University of Chicago and NBER, "State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation" (NBER Working Paper No. 21760)

* Francisco J. Buera, Federal Reserve Bank of (Chicago, and Roberto Fattal-Jaef, The World Bank, "The Dynamics of Development: Innovation and Reallocation"

* Futz Hendricks, University of...

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