Political economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Alberto Alesina from Harvard University - Ethan Ilzetzki from London School of Economics - Enrico Spolaore from Tufts University - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Political Economy, directed by Alberto Alesina of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on April 23, 2010. These papers were discussed:

* "Kosher Pork"--Allan Drazen, University of Maryland and NBER, and Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics

* "The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development"--Quamrul Ashrafand Oded Galor, Brown University

* "War and Relatedness"--Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University and NBER, and Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

* "A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing"--Alberto Alesina, and Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University

* "A Fistful of...