Development of the American Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins
March 23, 2019
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Friday, March 22
6:30 pm
Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, March 23
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Space Race: Automation Innovation and Labor’s Share

Shawn E. Kantor, Florida State University and NBER
Alexander T. Whalley, University of Calgary
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth

Prottoy Akbar, Aalto University
Sijie Li, University of Pittsburgh
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

Federalizing Benefits: The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net

Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Lucie Schmidt, Smith College and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

A New National Lynching Data Set and New Explanations for Lynching Behavior in the United States from 1684 to 1983

Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Transportation and Health in a Developing Country: The United States, 1820-1847

Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Farm Prices, Redistribution, and the Severity of the Early US Great Depression

Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER
3:50 pm
Adjourn