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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SI 2014 Development of the American Economy
Hoyt Bleakley, Carola Frydman, and Gary Libecap, Organizers
July 7-10, 2014
NBER 2^nd Floor Conference Room 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
Monday, July 7:
8:15 am	Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta to 1050 Mass. Ave.
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Health, Demographic and Distributional Patterns in American Economic Growth
9:00 am	Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
	Watersheds in Infant Mortality: Massachusetts, 1880 to 1915
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Laura Salisbury, York University
	Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension
11:15 am	Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Gabriel Zucman, London School of Economics
	Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913
12:15 pm	Lunch and Poster Presentations: Claire Brennecke, Yale University Demand for Information: Evidence from Mid-19th-Century US Credit Reports Daniel P. Gross, University of California at Berkeley Technological Generalization and the Diffusion of the Farm Tractor Francisco Haminovich, University of California at Los Angeles The Return to Early Childhood Education: Evidence from the First US Kindergartens Michael Matheis, University of Arizona Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the U.S. 1870 to 1970 Filippo Mezzanotti, Harvard University Elisabeth Ruth. Perlman, Boston University Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America Garrett Senney, Ohio State University Life Under Pressure: Intergenerational Socioeconomic History and Hypertension among African Americans
	The Economics of Race Discrimination
1:15 pm	Trevon Logan, Ohio State University and NBER John Parman, College of William and Mary and NBER
	Measuring Residential Segregation
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh NBER Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
	Melted in the Pot or Consigned to the Ghetto? The Dynamics of Segregation in Urbanizing America
3:30 pm	Celeste K. Carruthers, University of Tennessee Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee
	Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market: Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:45 pm	Shuttle bus departs for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Tuesday, July 8:
8:15 am	Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta to 1050 Mass. Ave.
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Financial Institutions and Instruments in Historical Perspective
9:00 am	Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER
	A New Approach to Solving the Colonial Monetary Puzzle: Evidence from New Jersey, 1709-1775
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Bernard McSherry, New Jersey City University Barry K. Wilson, Pace University James McAndrews, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
	Net Settlement and Counterparty Risk: Evidence From the Formation of the NYSE Clearing House in 1892
11:15 am	Richard C. Sutch, University of California at Riverside and NBER
	Financing the Great War: A Class Tax for the Wealthy, Liberty Bonds for All
12:15 pm	Lunch
	Financial Policies and Institutions During the Great Depression
1:15 pm	Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER Gary Richardson, University of California at Irvine and NBER
	Shadowy Banks and the Interbank Amplifier During the Great Depression
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University
	Quantitative Easing in the 1930s
3:30 pm	Erik Heitfield, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Haelim M. Park, U.S. Treasury Gary Richardson, University of California at Irvine and NBER Brian S. Yang, University of California at Irvine
	Deposit Insurance Diminishing Depositor Monitoring: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:45 pm	Shuttle bus departs for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Wednesday, July 9:
8:15 am		Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta to 1050 Mass. Ave.
8:30 am		Coffee and Pastries
		Manufacturing Capital, Scale, and Antitrust
9:00 am		Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER Jose Tessada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
		People and Machines: A Look at The Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill In Manufacturing 1850-1940 Using Immigration Shocks
10:00 am		Break
10:15 am		Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt and NBER Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
		The Division of Labor and Economies of Scale in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing: New Evidence
11:15 am		Richard B. Baker, Boston University Carola Frydman, Boston University and NBER Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
		From Plutocracy to Progressivism? The Assassination of President McKinley as a Turning Point in American History
12:15 pm		Lunch
		Infrastructure Investments and Their Economic Impacts
1:15 pm		Kyle C. Meng, University of California at Santa Barbara
		Path Dependence in the Development of 20th Century U.S. Coal-fired Electricity Capacity
2:15 pm		Break
2:30 pm		Joshua A, Lewis, University of Toronto
		Short-run and Long-run Effects of Household Electrification
3:30 pm		Javier Donna, Ohio State University Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Yale University
		The Illiquidity of Water Markets.
4:30 pm		Adjourn
4:45 pm		Shuttle bus departs for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm		Clambake - Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, July 10:
8:15 am		Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta to 1050 Mass. Ave.
8:30 am		Coffee and Pastries
		The Economics of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Shocks
9:00 am		Henry E. Siu, University of British Columbia and NBER Jason Long, Wheaton College
		Refugees From Dust and Shrinking Land: Tracking the Dust Bowl Migrants .
10:00 am		Break
10:15 am		Christian Dippel, University of California at Los Angeles Trevor O'Grady, Harvard University Alexander T. Whalley, University of California, Merced and NBER
		Land Reallocation and Productivity in Agriculture
11:15 am		Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER Daniel Keniston, Yale University and NBER
		Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
12:15 pm		Lunch and Adjourn