Economics of Culture and Institutions.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Discussion - Brief article

An NBER meeting on the Economics of Culture and Institutions took place in Cambridge on November 12, 2011. Paola Giuliano, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER, and Alberto Bisin, New York University and NBER, organized the meeting and chose these papers to discuss:

* Avner Greif, Stanford University, and Guido Tabellini, IGIER, "The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe"

* Kaivan Munshi and Kenneth Chay, Brown University and NBER, "Black Mobilization after Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration"

* Nico Voigtlaender, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany" (NBER Working Paper No. 17113)

* Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University, and Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich, "The Intergeneration Transmission of Risk...