Political Economy.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Political Economy Program met in Cambridge on November 3. Program Director Alberto A. Alesina of Harvard University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER, and Melanie Meng Xue, Northwestern University, "Folklore"

* Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER, "Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change" (NBER Working Paper No. 23617)

* Alberto F. Alesina; Bryony Reich, Northwestern University; and Alessandro Riboni, Ecole Polytechnique, "Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars" (NBER Working Paper No. 23435)

* Julia Cage, Sciences Po, and Yasmine Bekkouche, Paris School of Economics, "The Price of a Vote: Evidence from France, 1993-2014"

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