NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Development of the American Economy
Richard Sylla and John Wallis, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 17-20, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 17:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM PETER MANCALL, JOSHUA ROSENBLOOM and THOMAS WEISS,
University of Kansas
Conjectural Estimates of Economic Growth in
the Lower South, 1700-1800
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM PAUL RHODE, University of North Carolina
Gallman's Annual Output Series for the US, 1834-1909
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM PETER TEMIN, MIT and NBER
DOUGLAS IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
1:50 PM Break
2:00 PM JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER
Economic Mobility in the Long Run:
The Role of Geographic Mobility in Occupational
Advancement, Income Growth, & Wealth Accumulation
in Two Centuries, 1850-1880 and 1960-1990
SI00 DAE Program
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2:50 PM Break
3:00 PM ROBERT MARGO and JEREMY ATACK,
Vanderbilt University and NBER
Rising Wage Dispersion in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880,
3:50 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 18:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM HOWARD BODENHORN, Lafayette College
Payment System Networks, Cross Subsidization, and
the Collapse of the Suffolk System
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM NAOMI LAMOREAUX, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
How Corporations Acquired Legal Personhood
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM HUGH ROCKOFF, Rutgers University and NBER
A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing:
Economic Warfare in Spain and Portugal, 1940-1944
12:00 N Lunch and Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM NICOLA TYNAN, George Mason University
Private Water Supply in Nineteenth Century London:
Re-assessing the Externalities
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM BENJAMIN CHABOT, Northwestern University
A Single Market? The Stock Exchanges of the
United States and London: 1866-1885
10:55 AM Break
SI00 DAE Program
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11:10 AM REBECCA MENES, George Mason University and NBER
Streets Paved with Gold: American
Municipal Bonds 1902-1931
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM CLAUDIA GOLDIN and LAWRENCE KATZ,
Harvard University and NBER
The Power of 'The Pill': Oral Contraceptives and
Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
1:50 PM Break
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19: cont.
2:00 PM DANIEL RAFF, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Superstores and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities
in American Bookselling
2:50 PM Break
3:00 PM KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
STANLEY ENGERMAN, University of Rochester and NBER
The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the Americas
3:50 PM Adjourn
THURSDAY, JULY 20:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM CHARLES CALOMIRIS, Columbia University and NBER
JOSEPH MASON, Drexel University
The Causes of Bank Failures During the Great Depression
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
WILLIAM HORRACE and TRACY REGAN, University of Arizona
SHAWN KANTOR, University of Arizona and NBER
The Impact of the New Deal on Geographic Mobility
SI00 DAE Program
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10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM WILLIAM COLLINS, Vanderbilt University and NBER
The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1964:
The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation
12:00 N Lunch and Adjourn 6/22/00