NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Development of the American Economy Workshop
Jeremy Atack, William Collins, and Peter Rousseau, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 16-July 19, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 16:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
Reversal of Fortunes: Changes in the Long-Run Distribution of Prosperity
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM FARLEY GRUBB, University of Delaware
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
Constitutional Change in the American States, 1840 to 1860
12:00 N Lunch
1:30 PM DOUGLAS IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER
The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports
2:20 PM Break
2:35 PM CHRISTOPHER MEISSNER, UC, Berkeley
Exchange Rate Regimes and International Trade:
Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era
(Joint with J. ERNESTO LÓPEZ-CÓRDOVA)
3:25 PM Adjourn
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TUESDAY, JULY 17:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM PETER ROUSSEAU, Vanderbilt University and NBER
RICHARD SYLLA, New York University and NBER
Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM LANCE DAVIS, California Institute of Technology and NBER
LARRY NEAL, University of Illinois and NBER
EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM MARC WEIDENMIER, Claremont McKenna College and NBER
The Politics of Confederate War Debt in Europe
12:00 N Lunch
1:30 PM BENJAMIN CHABOT, Univeristy of Michigan and NBER
Risk and Return in Pre-CRSP Era Stock Markets
2:20 PM Break
2:35 PM EMMANUEL SAEZ, Harvard University and NBER
THOMAS PIKETTY, CEPREMAP
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998
3:25 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM WILLIAM COLLINS and ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Race and the Value of owner-Occupied Housing, 1940-1990
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9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM PRICE FISHBACK, WILLIAM HORRACE, and SHAWN KANTOR,
University of Arizona and NBER
New Deal Spending and Housing Values
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM RYAN JOHNSON, University of Arizona
Black, White and Immigrant Workers between 1915 and 1950
12:00 N Lunch
1:30 PM JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER
LEE ALSTON, University of Illinois and NBER
Not what you know but whom you know?
2:20 PM Break
2:35 PM GARY LIBECAP, University of Arizona and NBER
U.S. Land Policy Property Rights, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930's
(Joint with ZEYNEP HANSEN)
3:25 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 19
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM WILLIAM COLLINS, Vanderbilt University and NBER
MELISSA THOMASSON, Miami University and NBER
Exploring Racial Gap in Infant Mortality, 1920-1960
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM CAROLYN MOEHLING, Yale University and NBER
Mothers' Pensions and Female Headship
SI01 DAE program
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10:50 AM Break
11:10 AM DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER
MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University
Understanding the Decline of Social Capital, 1952-1998
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in The American Civil War
11:50 AM Lunch
1:00 PM PAUL RHODE , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and NBER
KOLEMAN STRUMPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(Joint with JAMES SNYDER)
1:50 PM Break
2:00 PM REBECCA MENES , George Mason University and NBER
American Government Expansion Before the New Deal:
The Growth of Urban Government, 1902-1931
2:50 PM Adjourn
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