NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Development of the American Economy

 

Lee Alston and Larry Neal, Organizers

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 14-17, 2003

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 14:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 AM

BEN CHABOT, University of Michigan and NBER

 

CHRISTOPHER KURZ, University of Michigan

 

That=s Where the Money Was:

 

Home Bias and English Investments Abroad

 

 

 9:50 AM

Break

 

 

10:00 AM

LANCE DAVIS, California Institute of Technology and NBER

 

LARRY NEAL, University of Illinois and NBER

 

EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER

 

The Highest Price Ever: The Great NYSE Seat Sale, 1928-1929

 

 

10:50 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Columbia University and NBER

 

ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER

 

Why Does Financial Development Matter? The U.S. from 1900 to 1940

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 PM

JILL DUPREE, College of the Holy Cross

 

Financial Falure? The Real Returns to the Blackstone Canal

 

 

 2:20 PM

Break

 

 

 2:30 PM

JEREMY ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

FRED BATEMAN, University of Georgia

 

ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880

 

 

 3:20 PM

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY JULY 15:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 AM

WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

 

Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality in Massachusetts

 

 

 9:50 AM

Break

 

 

10:00 AM

MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER

 

MYRON GUTMANN, University of Michigan

 

Fertility of the Hispanic Population in the United States in Historical

 

Perspective: Evidence from the Census of 1910

 

 

10:50 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

SUSAN B. CARTER, UC, Riverside

 

ROGER L. RANSOM, UC, Riverside

 

RICHARD SUTCH, UC, Riverside and NBER

 

Family Matters: The Life-Cycle Transition and the

 

Fertility Decline in Antebellum America

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 PM

LEE ALSTON, University of Colorado and NBER

 

JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Climbing the Agricultural Ladder:

 

Horatio Alger and Having the Right Parents

 

 

 2:20 PM

Break

 

 

 2:30 PM

WILLIAM COLLINS and BOB MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

Economic Effects of the 1960s Riots: Some Preliminary Findings

 

 

 3:20 PM

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY JULY 16:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 AM

DOUGLAS IRWIN,  Dartmouth University and NBER

 

JOSEPH DAVIS, Vanguard Investments

 

Trade Disruptions and Early American Industrialization

 

 

 9:50 AM

Break

 

 

10:00 AM

JAMES SCHMITZ, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

Nineteenth Century U. S. Economic Growth:

 

How Important was the Transportation Revolution?

 

 

10:50 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

DANIEL BERKOWITZ, University of Pittsburgh

 

KAREN CLAY, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics, and Performance:

 

Evidence from the American States

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 PM

PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER

 

REBECCA HOLMES, University of Arizona

 

The Impact of State Labor Regulations on

 

 Manufacturing Input Demands during the Progressive Era

 

 

 2:20 PM

Break

 

 

 2:30 PM

CLAYNE POPE, Brigham Young University and NBER

 

Measuring the Distribution of Well-Being

 

 

 3:20 PM

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 PM

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

 

 

THURSDAY JULY 17

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 AM

SHAWN COLE, MIT

 

Capitalism and Freedom:

 

Slavery and Manumission in Louisiana, 1770-1820

 

 

 9:50 AM

Break

 

 

10:00 AM

LISA COOK, Harvard University

 

Responses in Technical Change to Uncertainty: Evidence form Patenting Activity Among African Americans, 1821-1919

 

 

10:50 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

KEN SOKOLOFF, MAGGIE LEVENSTEIN and NAOMI LAMOREAUX,

 

UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

The Organization and Financing of Invention in Cleveland, 1890-1920

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

5/6/03