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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Development of the American Economy Workshop

 

Carolyn Moehling, John J. Wallis and Eugene N. White, Organizers

 

July 11 - 14, 2011

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 11:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

  

9:00 am

Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER
Voting Rights, Share Concentration and Risk-Taking at Nineteenth-Century US Banks

 

10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Matthew S. Jaremski, Vanderbilt University
Buckling the Manufacturing Belt: Increased Financial Regulations and U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1900


11:15 am


Christopher M. Meissner, University of California at Davis and NBER
Market 'Size' and Productivity in the Nineteenth Century

12:15 pm

Lunch and Graduate Student Poster Session

Carl Kitchens, University of Arizona
A Dam Problem: TVA's Fight Against Malaria 1926-1951

Greg Niemesh, Vanderbilt University
Ironing Out Deficiencies: Evidence from the United States on the Economic Impact of Iron Deficiency

Matt Hill, UCLA
Babies and Homes for All:  Access to Housing and Marriage during the U.S. Baby Boom

Laura Salisbury, Boston University
Selective Migration, Wages, and Occupational Mobility in Nineteenth Century America

Martin Saavedra, University of Pittsburgh
Japanese American Relocation and Adult Labor Market Outcomes

1:15 pm

Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Leah Boustan, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California at Los Angeles
A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

2:15 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago and NBER
Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Shocking Behavior: Land Lotteries in 1832 Georgia and 1901 Oklahoma and Later Life Outcomes


3:30 pm


Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
Nora E. Gordon, Georgetown University and NBER
Sarah J. Reber, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Federal Aid and Equality of Educational Opportunity:  Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South


4:30 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 12: Morning Special Section on Institutional Persistence

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER
On the Origin of Gender Roles:  Women and the Plow


9:45 am


Stelios Michalopoulos, Tufts University
Elias Papaioannou, Dartmouth College
The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

10:30 am

Break


10:45 am


Christian Dippel, University of Toronto
Forced Coexistence and Economic Development: Evidence from American Indian Reservations


11:30 am


Ruben Durante,  Sciences Po
Risk, Cooperation, and the Economic Origins of Social Trust

12:15 pm

Lunch and Graduate Student Poster Session

Nicolas Ziebarth, Northwestern University
The Real Economy  Banks  and the Great Depression

Mohamed Saleh, University of Southern California
Laborers, Scribes, and Financiers:  Modernization, Religion, and Human Capital in Nineteenth CenturyEgypt

Joshua Hausman, UC, Berkeley
What was Bad for GM was Bad for America: The Automobile Industry and the 1937-38 Recession  

Keoka Grayson, Arizona State University
Changes in the Income Distribution 1929-1939


1:15 pm


Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University and NBER
Angela Redish, University of British Columbia
Why Didn't Canada have a Banking Crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or 1893)?

2:15 pm

Break


2:30 pm


David S. Jacks, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade


3:30 pm


Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Board
Credit Availability and the Collapse of the Banking Sector in the 1930s


4:30 pm


Adjourn

Wednesday, July 13: Special Morning Session on Public Finance

9:00 am

John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
Fiscal Crises and Fiscal Institutions


9:45 am


Therese McGuire, Northwestern University
Nathan B. Anderson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Differences in State Fiscal Outcomes During Economic Recessions


10:30 am

Break


10:45 am


Andy Haughwout, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
State Fiscal Stress: A Balance Sheet View

11:30 am

Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
State Revenues and the Business Cycle

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University and NBER
The Interregional Slave Trade Revisited: A View from the Coastwise Manifests

2:15 pm

Break


2:30 pm


Alan Barreca, Tulane University
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Shawn E. Kantor, University of California at Merced and NBER
The AAA, Malaria, and Migration


3:30 pm


Lee Alston, University of Colorado and NBER
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Inheritance and Capital Mobility from Farms to Cities

4:30 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 14:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER
 The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment



10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Ahmed Rahman, US Naval Academy
Darrell J. Glaser, United States Naval Academy
Naval Engineering and the Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

 

11:15 am

Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
The Terms of Land Ownership in the Roman Empire:


12:15 pm


Lunch and Adjourn