Economics of Culture and Institutions.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on the Economics of Culture and Institutions took place April 29-30 in Cambridge and online. Research Associates Alberto Bisin of New York University and Paola Giuliano of the University of California, Los Angeles organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER; Alex Eble, Columbia University; and Emileigh Harrison, Hakizumwami B. Runesha, and Teodora Szasz, University of Chicago, "What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books"

* Saumitra Jha and Anna Dagorret, Stanford University; Julia Cage, Sciences Po; and Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales, "Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France"

* Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini, Harvard University, "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States" (NBER Working Paper 27238)

* Humberto Laudares, University of Geneva, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo...