Political Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Political Economy Program met April 26 in Cambridge. Program Director Alberto F. Alesina of Harvard University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER, and Daniel Thompson, Andrew B. Hall, and Jesse Yoder, Stanford University, "Who Becomes a Member of Congress? Evidence From De-Anonymized Census Data"

* Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER, and Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER, "Identity Politics and Trade Policy" (NBER Working Paper No. 25348)

* Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago and NBER, "Inequality Aversion, Populism, and the Backlash against Globalization" (NBER Working Paper No. 24900)

* Matthew Jackson, Stanford University, and Yiqing Xing, Johns Hopkins University, "The...