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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Development of the American Economy Program Meeting

Claudia Goldin, Organizer

March 5, 2016

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Friday, March 4, 2016

6:30 pm


Dinner- Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA 02141

Saturday, March 05, 2016


7:45 am &
8:20 am


Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER.


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER
Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee and NBER
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men

10:00 am

Break

10:10 am

Katherine Eriksson, University of California at Davis and NBER
Greg Niemesh, Miami University
The Impact of Migration on Infant Health: Evidence from the Great Migration

11:10 am

Break

11:20 am

Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER
Matthew S. Jaremski, Colgate University and NBER
Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks

12:20 pm

Lunch

1:20 pm

Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Arunima Sinha, Fordham University
A Lesson from the Great Depression that the Fed Might have Learned: A Comparison of the 1932 Open Market Purchases with Quantitative Easing

2:20 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Peter Koudijs, Stanford University and NBER
Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER
Bankruptcy and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850

3:30 pm

Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Catherine Massey, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan L. Rothbaum
Do Grandparents Still Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the US from 1940-2013
 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

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