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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Development of the American Economy

Hoyt Bleakley, Carola Frydman, and Gary Libecap, Organizers

July 8-11, 2013

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 8:

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries

Agglomeration Economies and Urban Economics


9:00 am


Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Yale University and NBER
Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern American History

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Edson Severnini, University of California at Berkeley
The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Agglomeration Spillovers


11:15 am


Trevor O'Grady, University of California at Santa Barbara
Spatial Institutions in Urban Economies: How City Grids Affect Public Goods, Density and Development

12:15 pm

Lunch and student poster session

James Feigenbaum, Harvard University, “A New Old Measure of Intergenerational Mobility: Iowa 1915 to 1940”

Taylor Jaworski, University of Arizona, "War Plants, Farm Grants, and Industrialization in the American South: Was There a Big Push in the 1940s?"

Jamie Lee, Harvard University, “Changes in Manufacturing Agglomeration, 1880-2007”

Martin Rotemberg, Harvard University, “Rural Free Delivery and the Pattern of Production” (joint with James Feigenbaum)

Tate Twinam, University of Pittsburgh, tat47@pitt.edu, “The Impact of Land Use Regulation on Minority Communities: Evidence from the Introduction of Zoning in Chicago”


1:15 pm


Byron Lutz, Federal Reserve Board
Leah Brooks, University of Toronto
Vestiges of Transit: Urban Persistence at a Micro Scale

2:15 pm

Break


2:30 pm


Carlos Villarreal, University of Chicago
Where the Other Half Lives: Evidence on the Origin and Persistence of Poor Neighborhoods from New York City 1830-2011


3:30 pm


James Siodla, University of California at Irvine
Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster as a Natural Experiment in Urban Redevelopment

4:30 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 9:

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries

Institutional and Legal Factors in Economic History


9:00 am


Christian Dippel, University of California at Los Angeles
The Transmission of Colonial Institutions: Evidence from the 19th Century Caribbean

9:55 am

Break


10:10 am


Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University
Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University
Contractual Freedom and the Evolution of Corporate Governance: The Case of Britain


11:05 am


Andra Ghent, Arizona State University
America's Mortgage Laws in Historical Perspective

12:00 pm

Lunch and student poster session

Richard Baker, Boston University, “From the Field to the Classroom: The Boll Weevil’s Impact on Education in Rural Georgia”

Brian Beach, University of Pittsburgh, "Debt, Default, and Constitutional Change"

Mary Ann Bronson, UCLA, “
Men May Come and Go, But Degrees are Forever: Marriage, Labor Supply, and Gender Differences in Educational Investments”

Andrew Goodman-Bacon, University of Michigan, “Public Insurance and Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Implementation”

Edoardo Teso, Harvard University, “The Long Term Effect of Africa's Slave Trade on Gender Roles”

Ben Zamzow, University of Arizona, “Experiment Associations and Agricultural Innovation”


Innovation


1:00 pm


Walker Hanlon, Columbia University
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change


1:55 pm


Xing Li, Stanford University
Megan MacGarvie, Boston University and NBER
Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER
Dead Poets' Property

2:50 pm

Break

Business Cycles


3:05 pm


Joshua Hausman, University of California at Berkeley
Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery: The Case of the 1936 Veterans' Bonus


4:00 pm


Òscar Jorda, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Moritz Schularick, Free University of Berlin
Alan Taylor, University of Virginia and NBER
Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences

4:55 pm

The DAE program meeting adjourns and bus returns to the Sonesta

5:10 pm

Tribute to Bob Fogel

6:30 pm

Buses return to the Sonesta

Wednesday, July 10:

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

Intergenerational Mobility and Racial Disparities in American Economic History


8:30 am


Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER
Daniele Paserman, Boston University and NBER
Laura Salisbury, Boston University
Intergenerational Mobility Across Three Generations in the 19th Century: Evidence from the US Census


 


9:30 am


Break


9:45 am


Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Daniel Jones, University of Pittsburgh
A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement in the Post-Reconstruction South

10:45 am

Peter Hinrichs, Georgetown University
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education

11:45 am

Buses depart for Royal Sonesta Hotel for lunch and afternoon session

1:00 pm

The First 100 Years of the Federal Reserve

5:15 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 11:


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries

Health Outcomes and the Practice of Medicine

9:00 am

John Parman, College of William and Mary and NBER
Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes: The Shared Burden of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Richard Steckel, Ohio State University and NBER
A Dreadful Childhood: The Long Shadow of American Slavery

11:15 am

Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University and NBER
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
Jaret Treber, Kenyon College
The Swan Song of the Country Doctor: Flexner and the Economics of the Practice of Medicine

12:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn