Economics of Culture and Institutions.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference, "Economics of Culture and Institutions," took place in Cambridge on April 11. Research Associate Alberto Bisin of New York University and Faculty Research Fellow Paola Giuliano of the University of California, Los Angeles, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Oded Galor, Brown University and NBER, and Omer Ozak, Southern Methodist University, "The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference" (NBER Working Paper No. 20438)

* Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER, and Matthew Jackson, Stanford University, "Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws" (NBER Working Paper No. 20369)

* Daniel Chen, ETH Zurich, and Susan Yeh, George Mason University, "How Do Rights Revolutions Occur? Free Speech and the First Amendment"

* Yihui Pan, University of Utah; Stephan Siegel, University of Washington; and Tracy7 Yue Wang, University of Minnesota, "The Cultural Origin of Preferences: CEO Cultural Heritage and Corporate...