Economics of National Security.

• Position: Conferences

"Economics of National Security," an NBER conference organized by NBER President-emeritus Martin Feldstein of Harvard University and Research Associate Eli Berman of the University of California, San Diego, took place in Cambridge on March 5-6. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Giorgio Chiovelli and Elias Papaioannou, London Business School, and Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER, "Land Mines and Spatial Development"

* Esteban Klor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Sebastian M. Saiegh, University of California, San Diego; and Shanker Satyanath, New York University, "The Logic of Cronyism in State Violence: Evidence from Labor Repression During Argentina's Last Dictatorship"

* Suleiman Abu Bader, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), and Elena I. Ianchovichina, World Bank, "Polarization, Foreign Military Interventions, and Civil Conflicts"

* Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago and NBER; Konstantin Kunze, University of California, Davis; Hani Mansour and Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver; and Bryson Rintala, U.S. Air Force Academy, "Taste-Based Discrimination and the Labor Market Outcomes of Arab and Muslim Men in the United...