NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Development of the American Economy Workshop

 

Leah Boustan, Naomi Lamoreaux and Paul Rhode, Organizers

 

July 12-15, 2010

 

NBER

Martin Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 12:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Gary Libecap, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER

 

Dean Lueck, University of Arizona

 

Trevor O'Grady, UC, Santa Barbara

 

Large-Scale Institutional Changes: Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Peter Murrell, University of Maryland

 

Design and Evolution in Institutional Development: The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights

 

 

11:15 am

John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Jessica Hennessey, Furman University

 

The Special Nature of General Laws in American History

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER

 

Banks and Industrial Corporations in 19th Century New England

 

 

3:30 pm

Andrew Jalil, UC, Berkeley

 

A New History of Banking Panics in the United States, 1825-1929: Construction and Implications

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 13:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Rodney Ramcharan, International Monetary Fund

 

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight over the McFadden Act of 1927

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER

 

Gary Richardson, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board

 

Arresting Banking Panics: Fed Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929

 

 

11:15 am

Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Barry Eichengreen, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Suresh Naidu, Harvard University

 

Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Carola Frydman, MIT and NBER

 

Raven Molloy, Federal Reserve Board

 

The Compression in Top Income Inequality during the 1940s

 

 

3:30 pm

Claudia Olivetti, Boston University and NBER

 

Daniele Paserman, Boston University

 

In the Name of the Father: Marriage and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee

 

Did Industrialization Cause the American Fertility Decline? Evidence from South Carolina

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Martha Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Brad Hershbein, University of Michigan

 

Amalia Miller, University of Virginia

 

The Opt-In Revolution: Contraception, Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages

 

 

11:15 am

Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER

Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER

 

Putting the "Co" in Education: Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

Alessandra Voena, Stanford University

 

Fabian Waldinge, Stanford University

 

How Much did the United States Gain from the Arrivals of German-Jewish Emigres; Nazi Expulsions and American Scientific Innovation

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Nico Voigtlaender, UC, Los Angeles

 

Skill Bias Magnified: Intersectoral Linkages and White-Collar Labor Demand in U.S. Manufacturing 1958-96

 

 

3:30 pm

Jinyoung Kim, Korea University

 

Gerald Marschke, Harvard University

 

Teams in R&D: Evidence from Inventor Data

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 15:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas and NBER

 

Thomas Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER

 

Peter Mancall, University of Southern California

 

Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800

 

 

10:00 am

Gustavo Bobonis, University of Toronto

 

Peter Morrow, University of Toronto

 

Labor Coercion and the Accumulation of Human Capital

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History

 

 

12:15 pm

Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER

 

Pinar Keskin, Harvard University

 

Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short and Long-Run Impacts of Unsustainable Water Use

 

 

1:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn