Development of the American Economy Program Meeting
Organized by Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins
March 31, 2023
NBER, 2nd floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA and Zoom
Thursday, March 30
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta)
Friday, March 31
Meeting at NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue:
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Ferdinando Monte, Georgetown University and NBER
Martin B. Schmitz, Vanderbilt University
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

Legal Activism, State Policy, and Racial Inequality in Teacher Salaries and Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century American South

Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

US Educational Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century

Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University
Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets

Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Carola Frydman, Northwestern University and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition

James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University
Sophie Li, University of Southern Denmark
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm

“Muddling Through or Tunnelling Through?”: UK Monetary and Fiscal Exceptionalism during the Great Inflation

Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Oliver Bush, Bank of England
Ryland Thomas, Bank of England
3:50 pm
Adjourn