NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROGRAM MEETING



Claudia Goldin, Organizer



March 5, 2005



NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



FRIDAY, MARCH 4:

6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139



SATURDAY, MARCH 5:



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 ALAN TAYLOR, UC, Davis and NBER

Collateral Damage: The Economic Impact of War, 1870-1997

9:30 AM Break



9:45 AM KEVIN O'ROURKE, Trinity College and NBER

The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

10:45 AM Break



11:00 AM LEE ALSTON, University of Colorado and NBER

The Salary Grab of 1873 and the Coalition of Reform and the Coalition of Reform

12:00 N Lunch



1:00 PM RICHARD STECKEL,Ohio State University and NBER

Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood; Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves



2:00 PM Break





2:15 PM HOWARD BODENHORN, Lafayette College and NBER

The Economic Consequences of Colorism and Complexion Homogamy in the Black Community: Some Historical Evidence



3:15 PM DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER

MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units

for Blacks Slaves and Freemen



4:15 PM Adjourn



2/17/05