NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Development of the American Economy Program Meeting

 

Claudia Goldin, Organizer

 

March 3, 2007

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 2:

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner - Dante Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 3:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

RICHARD SUTCH, University of California at Riverside and NBER

 

Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn:  American Corn Yields, 1866-2002

 

 

10:00 am

MARTHA BAILEY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Momma’s Got the Pill

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER

 

JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER

 

Stones, Bones, and States:  A New Approach to the Neolithic Revolution

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

HOWARD BODENHORN, Lafayette College and NBER

 

Partnership, Entity Shielding, and Credit Availability

 

 

2:15 pm

MARC WEIDENMIER, Claremont McKenna College and NBER

 

Competing with the NYSE

 

(Joint with William Brown and Harold Mulherin)

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

FRANK LEVY and PETER TEMIN, MIT and NBER

 

Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth Century America

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2/22/07