NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROGRAM MEETING

Claudia Goldin, Organizer



MARCH 2, 2008

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



SATURDAY, MARCH 1:



6:30 PM Dinner

Restaurant Dante

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA 02142



SUNDAY, MARCH 2:



8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue



8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM DANIEL BOGART, UC, Irvine

GARY RICHARDSON, UC, Irvine and NBER

Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development:

The Property Rights Revolution in Britian, 1700 to 1830



10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM CHARLES CALOMIRIS, Columbia University and NBER

JONATHAN PRITCHETT, Tulane University

Preserving Slave Families for Profit:

Traders Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market

11:15 AM JOSEPH H. DAVIS, Vanguard Group and NBER

CHRISTOPHER HANES, SUNY Binghamton

PAUL W. RHODE, University OF Arizona and NBER

Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth Century America



12:15 PM Lunch



1:00 PM ROBERT A. MARGO, Boston University and NBER

LEAH P. BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Spatial Mismatch and the Formation of Bad Ghettos:

New Evidence from the U.S. Postal Service



2:00 PM Break



2:15 PM CLAUDIA GOLDIN and LAWRENCE F. KATZ, Harvard University and NBER

Transitions: Career and Family Lifecycles of the Educational Elite



3:15 PM DANIEL RAFF, University of Pennsylavania and NBER

The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration



4:15 PM Adjourn



2/19/08