Development of the American Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Claudia Goldin
March 5, 2016
NBER

Saturday, March 5

9:00 am

Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men

Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) and NBER
Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER

10:10 am

The Impact of Migration on Infant Health: Evidence from the Great Migration

Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER
Greg Niemesh, Miami University and NBER

11:20 am

Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks

Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER
Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER

1:20 pm

A Lesson from the Great Depression that the Fed Might have Learned: A Comparison of the 1932 Open Market Purchases with Quantitative Easing

Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Arunima Sinha, Morgan Stanley

2:30 pm

Bankruptcy and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850

Peter Koudijs, New York University
Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER

3:30 pm

Do Grandparents Still Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the US from 1940-2013

Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Catherine Massey, University of Michigan
Jonathan L. Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau