Economics of culture and institutions.

• Position: Conferences - Conference news - Brief article

An NBER Conference on the Economics of Culture and Institutions took place in Cambridge on April 5, 2014. Research Associate Alberto Bisin of New York University and Faculty Research Fellow Paola Giuliano of the University of California, Los Angeles, organized the meeting. They chose these papers to discuss:

* Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley, "Culture, Institutions, and Democratization"

* Davide Cantoni, University of Munich; Yuyu Chen, Peking University; David Yufan Yang, Stanford University; Noam Yuchtman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; and Y. Jane Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "Curriculum and Ideology"

* Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego, and Torsten Persson, IIES and NBER, "Ethnicity in Children and Mixed Marriages: Theory and Evidence from China"

* Marianna Belloc, Sapienza University of Rome; Francesco Drago, University of Naples Federico II and CSEF; and Roberto Galbiati, CNRS and Sciences Po, "Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in...