NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Development of the American Economy
Jeremy Atack, William Collins, Peter Rousseau, and Robert Margo: Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 15-18, 2002
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 15:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
Chair: JEREMY ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER
9:00 AM THOMAS WEISS and JOSHUA ROSENBLOOM, University of Kansas and NBER
PETER MANCALL, University of Southern California
The Value of the Diet in the Lower South in the 18th Century
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM JOSEPH DAVIS, Duke University
A Quantity Based Annual Index of US Industrial Production, 1790-1915
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM DOUG IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER
Evidence from the Jeffersonian Embargo, 1807-1809
12:00 N Lunch
Chair: RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER
1:00 PM MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER
J. DAVID HACKER, SUNY-Binghamton
The Puzzle of the U.S. Antebellum Fertility Decline:
New Evidence and Reconsideration
1:50 PM Break
2:05 PM CAROLYN MOEHLING, Yale University and NBER
TIM GUINNANE, Yale University
CORMAC O'GRADA, University of Dublin
The Fertility of the Irish in America in 1910
2:55 PM Break
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3:10 PM DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER
MATTHEW KAHN, Tufts University and NBER
The Changing Value of a Life Since 1940
4:00 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 16:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
Chair: BENJAMIN CHABOT, University of Michigan and NBER
9:00 AM LANCE DAVIS, Cal-Tech and NBER
LARRY NEAL, University of Illinois and NBER
EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER
The Effect of Deflation on the First Global Capital Market:
The Financial Crises of the 1890's and the Responses of the Stock Exchanges in London New York, Paris and Berlin
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM MICHAEL BORDO, Rutgers University and NBER
ANGELA REDISH, University of British Columbia
Is Deflation Depressing? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
An Internal Affair: American Macroeconomic and Monetary Instability
12:00 N Lunch
Chair: EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER
1:00 PM BENJAMIN CHABOT, University of Michigan and NBER
The Price of Exchange Rate Risk Between Gold Standard Regimes
1:50 PM Break
2:05 PM CHARLES CALOMIRIS, Columbia University and NBER
CARLOS RAMIREZ, George Mason University
The Political Economy of Bank Entry Restrictions: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. in the 1920's
2:55 PM Break
3:10 PM BOYAN JOVANOVIC, New York University and NBER
PETER ROUSSEAU, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Stock Markets in the New Economy
4:00 PM Adjourn
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
Chair: PETER ROUSSEAU, Vanderbilt University and NBER
9:00 AM PRICE FISHBACK and SHAWN KANTOR, University of Arizona and NBER
RYAN JOHNSON, University of Arizona
The Impact of New Deal Relief on Crime Rates
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM KRIS MITCHENER, Santa Clara University
Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Financial Instability
During the Great Depression
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM CHRISTINA ROMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
CHANG-TAI HSEIH, Princeton University
Was the Federal Reserve Fettered?
12:00 N Lunch
Chair: RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University
1:00 PM LEE ALSTON, University of Illinois and NBER
JEFFREY JENKINS, Michigan State University
KARA NORLIN, University of Illinois
The Salary Grab of 1873: Corruption or Efficiency Wage?
1:50 PM Break
2:05 PM NAOMI LAMOREAUX, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL, UC, Los Angeles
Organizational Choice and Economic Development: A Comparison of France and the United States During the Mid-19th Century
2:55 PM Break
3:10 PM KENNETH SOKOLOFF, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia:
A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data
(Joint with MARY HALLWARD-DRIEMEIER and GIUSEPPE IAROSSI)
4:00 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
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THURSDAY, JULY 18:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
Chair: ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER
9:00 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, and SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER
JAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley
Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
9:50 AM Break
10:05 AM CASEY MULLIGAN, University of Chicago and NBER
A Century of Labor-Leisure Distortions
10:55 AM Break
11:10 AM JEREMY GREENWOOD, University of Rochester
(Joint with ANANTH SESHADRI, GUILLAUME VANDENBROUCKE and MEHMET YORUKOGLU)
12:00 N Lunch
Chair: WILLIAM COLLINS, Vanderbilt University and NBER
1:00 PM SARAH REBER, Harvard University
Successes and Failures in Integrating American Schools Since Brown
1:50 PM Break
2:05 PM RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER
Net Nutrition over the Past Millennium:
Methodology and Some Results for Northern Europe
2:55 PM Break
3:10 PM ELIZABETH BRAINERD, Williams College
MARK SIEGLER, California State University, Sacramento
The Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
4:00 PM Adjourn
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