NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROGRAM MEETING



Claudia Goldin, Organizer



March 6, 2004



NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



FRIDAY, MARCH 5:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02142



SATURDAY, MARCH 6:



8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



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



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM ZORINA KHAN, Bowdoin College and NBER

KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Institutions and Democratic Invention in 19th Century :

Evidence from the Great Inventors' of the United States, 1790-1930



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER

Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National

Government Financed Infrastructure Investment in the Antebellum Era

(Joint with Barry Weingast)



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM PRICE FISHBACK and SHAWN KANTOR, University of Arizona and NBER

TODD NEUMANN, University of Arizona

New Deal Work Relief and Private Wages

12:30 PM Lunch



1:30 PM ERIC HILT, Wellesley College and NBER

Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry







Development of the American Economy Program, Page 2:



2:30 PM Break



2:45 PM KRIS MITCHENER, Santa Clara University and NBER

MARC WEIDENMIER, Claremont McKenna College and NBER

Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary



3:45 PM Adjourn



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