National security.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

An NBER meeting on the economics of national security, directed by NBER President-Emeritus Martin Feldstein of Harvard University and Research Associate Eli Berman of University of California, San Diego, was held in Cambridge on February 11. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Benjamin Crost, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Claire Duquennois, University of California, Berkeley; Joseph Felter, Stanford University; and Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado, Denver, "Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines"

* Mathieu Couttenier and Veronica Preotu, University of Geneva, and Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig, University of Lausanne, "The Violent Legacy of Victimization: Post-Conflict Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crimes, and Public Policy in Switzerland"

* Vera Mironova, Harvard University; Sam Whitt, High Point University; and Loubna Mrie, Syrian researcher, "Grievances in Civil War Participation: Micro-Level Evidence from Syria"

* Samuel A. Bazzi and Matthew Gudgeon, Boston...