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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

Development of the American Economy Workshop

Carolyn Moehling, John J. Wallis and Eugene N. White, Organizers

July 23 – 25, 2012

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 23:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Peter H. Lindert, University of California at Davis and NBER
	Jeffrey G. Williamson, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
	America's First Century: Growth and Inequality 1774-1860
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
	Robert E. Wright, Augustana College
	Corporation Formation in the United States 1790-1860: Law and Politics in Comparative Contexts
11:15 am	B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER
	Corporate Ownership and the Dynamics of Capital Mobilization during Early Industrialization
12:15 pm	Lunch and student poster session
	Marcella Alsan, Harvard University
	The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development
	Philip Osafo-Kwaako, Harvard University
	Long-Run Effects of Villagization in Tanzania
	Katherine Eriksson, University of California at Los Angeles
	Crime and Schooling in the Early 20th Century U.S. South
	Trevor O'Grady, University of California at Santa Barbara
	Rectangular Grids and the Urban Economy: Measuring the Impacts of Spatial Land Patterns on American Cities
	Theresa Gutberlet, University of Arizona
	Cheap Coal, Market Access and Industry Location in Germany 1846 to 1882
	Taylor Jaworski, University of Arizona
	"You're in the Army Now": The Human Capital Consequences of World War II
	Laura Salisbury, Boston University
	Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension
1:15 pm	Ryan L. Lampe, DePaul University
	Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER
	Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 Industries under the New Deal
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University and NBER
	William J. White, Pope & Associates, Inc.
	Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth Century U.S. Economic Welfare
3:30 pm	Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
	Michael R. Haines, Colgate University and NBER
	Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
	The Impact of the AAA on Farm Wages
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Richard C. Sutch, University of California at Riverside and NBER
	The General Custom in this Country" Immigrant Home Ownership, Economic Assimilation, and Return Migration During the Age of Mass Migration in the United States
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER
	The Home Front: Understanding the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership
11:15 am	Census Bureau Microdata on Households and Businesses
	Randy Becker, U.S. Census Bureau
	Todd Gardner, U.S. Census Bureau
	Cheryl Ann Grim, U.S. Census Bureau
	Catherine Fitch, University of Minnesota
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Lisa Cook, Michigan State University
	Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER
	John Parman, University of California at Davis
	The Long-Term Consequences of Distinctively Black Names: Evidence from the American Past
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Jeremiah Dittmar, American University
	Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
	Peculiar Institutions: Slavery and Labor Market Frictions in the USA
3:30 pm	Kenneth Chay, Brown University and NBER
	Kaivan Munshi, Brown University and NBER
	Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 25:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Davide Cantoni, University of Munich
	Noam Yuchtman, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
	Medieval Universities Legal Institutions and the Commercial Revolution
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Shawn E. Kantor, University of California at Merced and NBER
	Alexander T. Whalley, University of California at Merced and NBER
	Private Gains from Public University Research: The Case of Productivity Spillovers from Agricultural Experiment Stations
11:15 am	Pauline Grosjean, The University of New South Wales
	A History of Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Zeynep K. Hansen, Boise State University and NBER
	Gary D. Libecap, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
	Scott Lowe, Boise State University
	The Political Economy of Major Water Infrastructure Investments in the Western United States:
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University
	Wage Rigidity in the Great Depression
3:30 pm	Mary T. Rodgers, University of South Florida Polytechnic
	James E. Payne, University of South Florida
	An Overlooked Central Bank Rescue: How the Bank of France Ended the American Panic of 1907
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA