NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Development of the American Economy Program Meeting



Claudia Goldin, Organizer



March 10, 2001



1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



FRIDAY, MARCH 9:



6:30 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

SATURDAY, MARCH 10:



8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



8:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

9:00 AM Continental Breakfast



9:30 AM JOSHUA ROSENBLOOM, University of Kansas and NBER

WILLIAM SUNDSTROM, Santa Clara University

Long-Run Patterns of Interstate Migration in the United States:

Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990



10:30 AM Break



10:45 AM JEREMY ATACK and ROBERT A. MARGO, Vanderbilt University

and NBER

FRED BATEMAN, University of Georgia

Productivity in Manufacturing and the Length of the Working Day:

Evidence from the 1880 Census of Manufactures



11:45 AM Break



12:00 N JOHN J. WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER

What Caused the Crisis of 1839?



1:00 PM Lunch

Over, Please!

Development of the American Economy Program, Page 2:

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, Continued :



2:15 PM WILLIAM J. COLLINS, Vanderbilt University and NBER

The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws, 1940-1960



3:15 PM Break



3:30 PM MICHAEL R. HAINES, Colgate University and NBER

The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940



4:30 PM Adjourn





REVISED 3/9/01