FRIDAY, MARCH 7:
6:30 PM Dinner
Davio's Restaurant
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
SATURDAY, MARCH 8:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM HOWARD BODENHORN, Lafayette College and NBER
The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race
(Joint with Christopher S. Ruebeck)
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century:
A Long-Term Comparison
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM CHIAKI MORIGUCHI, Northwestern University and NBER
Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach their Implicit Contracts?
Preliminary Findings from Company-Level Data, 1920-1940
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM KRIS MITCHENER, Santa Clara University and NBER
MARK CARLSON, Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, DC
Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability
2:00 PM Break
Over, Please!
Development of the American Economy Program, Page 2:
2:15 PM PAUL RHODE, University of North Carolina and NBER
ALAN OLMSTEAD, UC, Davis
An Impossible Undertaking: The Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis
in the United States
3:15 PM PETER ROUSSEAU, Vanderbilt University and NBER
BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER
4:15 PM Adjourn
2/19/03