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Authors,
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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
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Development of the American
Economy Program Meeting
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Claudia Goldin,
Organizer
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March 7, 2015
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NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
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PROGRAM
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Friday, March 6, 2015
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6:30 pm
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Dinner
Legal Sea Foods
5 Cambridge Center- Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
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Saturday, March 7, 2015
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7:45 am
8:20 am
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Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
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8:30 am
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 am
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Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Benefits and Costs of Electricity Pre-Clean Air Act
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10:00 am
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Break
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10:10 am
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B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER
Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms
in France During Early Industrialization
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11:10 am
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Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER
Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER
Means-tested Old Age Support and Private Behavior:
Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
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12:10 pm
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Lunch
with a Luncheon Talk at 12:25 pm
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, WRJ Fellow and University of California at Berkeley
Public Insurance and Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid
Implementation
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1:15 pm
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Michael Huberman, Université
de Montréal
Christopher M. Meissner, University of California at Davis and NBER
Technology and
Geography in the Second Industrial Revolution:
New Evidence from the Margins of Trade
Joint with Kim Oosterlinck
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2:15 pm
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Break
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2:25 pm
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Felipe Gonzalez, University of California at Berkeley
Guillermo Marshall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
Start-up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in
Civil War Maryland
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3:25 pm
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Break
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3:35 pm
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Emily Nix, Yale University
Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER
The Fluidity of Race: Passing in the United States,
1880-1940
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4:35 pm
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Adjourn
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