NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY PROGRAM MEETING

Claudia Goldin, Organizer

March 7, 2009

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 6:
7:00 pm	Dinner
	Legal Sea Foods
	Kendall Square, 5 Cambridge Center
	Cambridge, MA 02139
SATURDAY, MARCH 7:
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	DORA COSTA, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	The Rise of Retirement among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	JEREMY ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER
	FRED BATEMAN, University of Georgia
	MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER
	ROBERT MARGO, Boston University  and NBER
	Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
11:15 am	CHIAKI MORIGUCHI, Northwestern University and NBER
	From Pragmatic to Sentimental Adoption? Child Adoption in the United States, 1880-1930
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	TREVON LOGAN, Ohio State University and NBER
	PAUL RHODE, University of Arizona and NBER
	Moveable Feasts: A New Approach to Endogenizing Tastes
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	PETRA MOSER, Stanford University and NBER
	(Joint with Alessandra Voena)
	Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading-with-the-Enemy Act
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	PETER TEMIN, MIT and NBER
	Changes in Labor Relations during the New Deal and War
4:30 pm	Adjourn
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