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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Development of the American Economy

 

July 6-9, 2009

 

Leah Boustan, Naomi Lamoreaux and Paul Rhode, Organizers

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 MONDAY, JULY 6: 

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

ZORINA KHAN, Bowdoin University and NBER

 

Promoting the Useful Arts: An Empirical Estimation of Technological Innovation outside the Patent System, 1790-1880

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

LISA COOK, Michigan State University

 

A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in the Soviet Union and Russia, 1971 to 2006

 

 

11:15 am

SHIH-TSE LO, McGill University

 

DHANOOS SUTTHIPHISAL, McGill University and NBER

 

Does it Matter Who Has the Right to Patent: First-to-Invent or First-to-File? Lessons from Canada

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JOHN PARMAN, UC, Davis

 

Good Schools Make Good Neighbors: Human Capital Spillovers in Early 20th Century Agriculture

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

RAN ABRAMITZKY, Stanford University

 

LEAH BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

KATHERINE ERIKSSON UC, Los Aneles

 

Europe’s tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration

 

 

 3:30 pm

SHAWN KANTOR, UC, Merced and NBER

 

ALEXANDER WHALLEY, UC, Merced

 

The Political Economy of State Support for Higher Education in the U.S., 1900-1930

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 7: 

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

MELINDA MILLER, US Naval Academy

 

Destroyed By Slavery?: The Effect of Slavery on African-American Family Formation Following Emancipation

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

JEFFREY GREENBAUM, UC, Berkeley

 

Land Endowments, Child Labor, and the Development of Public Schooling: Evidence from the Early 20th Century United States

 

 

11:15 am

CAROLYN MOEHLING, Rutgers University and NBER

 

MELISSA A. THOMASSON, Miami University and NBER

 

The Political Economy of Saving Mothers and Babies: The Politics of State Participation in the Sheppard-Towner Program

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University and NBER

 

CLAUDIA OLIVETTI, Boston University and NBER

 

Maternal Health and Fertility

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

ELIZABETH O. ANANAT, Duke University and NBER

 

JOANNA LAHEY, Texas A&M University

 

Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Abortion and Birth Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition

 

 

 3:30 pm

KAREN CLAY, Carnegie Mellon University

 

WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

 

MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER

 

Lead, Mortality, and Productivity

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

WILLIAM HYNES, Oxford University

 

DAVID JACKS, Simon Fraser University and NBER

 

KEVIN O'ROURKE, Trinity College and NBER

 

Commodity Market Disintegration in the Interwar Period

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER

 

VALENTINA KACHANOVSKAYA, University of Arizona

 

In Search of the Multiplier for Net Federal Spending in the States During the New Deal: A Preliminary Report

 

 

11:15 am

RICHARD HORNBECK, MIT and NBER

 

Quantifying Long-Term Adjustment to Environmental Change: Evidence from the American Dust Bowl

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

DONGWOO YOO, Ohio State University

 

RICK STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER

 

Institutions and Economic Growth in Asia

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

MARC WEIDENMIER, Claremont McKenna College and NBER

 

JOSEPH DAVIS, The Vanguard Group and NBER

 

The Macroeconomic Impact of the American Civil War

 

 

 3:30 pm

KRIS MITCHENER, Santa Clara University and NBER

 

DAVID WHEELOCK, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

 

Does the Structure of Banking Markets Matter for Economic Growth? Evidence from the Rise of U.S. Manufacturing

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

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

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 9: 

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

CHRIS HANES, Binghamton University

 

PAUL RHODE, University of Arizona and NBER

 

Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

ALDO MUSACCHIO, Harvard University and NBER

 

ANDRÉ C. MARTÍNEZ FRITSCHER, Boston University

 

Can Endowments Explain Regional Inequality? State Governments and the Provision of Public Goods in Brazil, 1889-1930

 

 

11:15 am

PETER TEMIN, MIT and NBER

 

Price Behavior in the Roman Empire

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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