Economic growth workshop.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

An NBER workshop on Economic Growth, organized by Francisco J. Buera, NBER and University of California, Los Angeles, and James Feyrer, NBER and Dartmouth College, took place on February 4, 2010 at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

These topics were discussed:

* "Colonies"

Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University and NBER, and Andrea Eisfeldt, Northwestern University

* "The Agricultural Basis of Comparative Development"

Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston

* "The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences"

Tasso Adamopoulos, York University, and Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto

* Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation" (NBER Working Paper No. 15416)

Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University; Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University and NBER; and Akos Valentinyi, Magyar Nemzeti Bank

* "Do Better Schools...