
	Saturday, April 6
	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying: The Rise of Private Health Insurance in the United States Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER Yousra Neberai, Harvard University Xingyou Ye, Princeton University
	Break
10:00 am	Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy, 1876-1920 Yannay Spitzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER
	Break
11:00 am	Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman’s Saving Bank Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine and NBER Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER Mark Van Orden, University of California, Irvine
	Lunch - Somerset Room
1:00 pm	The Empire Project: Trade Policy in Interwar Canada (slides) Markus Lampe, Vienna University of Economics and Business Lorenz Reiter, Vienna University of Economics and Business Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University Kevin O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi and NBER
	Break
2:00 pm	The Roots of the Modern American Presidential Campaign Francisco Pino, University of Chile Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER
	Break
3:00 pm	McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood Hui Ren Tan, National University of Singapore Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto and NBER
	Adjourn

Participants

Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Sergio E. Barrera, Virginia Tech
Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Gillian Brunet, Smith College
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
Jacob Greenspon, University of Oxford
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER

Maggie E.C. Jones, Emory University and NBER
Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER
Yousra Neberai, Harvard University
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi and NBER
Claudia Olivetti, Dartmouth College and NBER
Francisco Pino, University of Chile
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER
Yannay Spitzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
Mark Van Orden, University of California, Irvine
Christopher Vickers, Auburn University
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto and NBER
Dongkyu C. Yang, University of Colorado Boulder
Xingyou Ye, Princeton University
Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER