Development of the American Economy
Organized by Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins
March 29, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (Riverfront Room)
Format: Authors will be given the full 45 minutes of each session, with questions during the presentation.
Saturday, March 29
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
8:50 am
Welcome
9:00 am

Branching Out: Bank Deregulation and Long-Run Growth

Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am

Changes in Upward Educational Mobility in the U.S. over the Twentieth Century and the Role of Public Education

Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University
Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction

Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER
Benjamin Lualdi, University of Chicago
11:45 am
Lunch - Somerset Room
12:45 pm

Suez

Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis and NBER
David S. Jacks, National University of Singapore
Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt University
1:30 pm
Break
1:45 pm

Medical School Closures, Market Adjustment, and Mortality in the Flexner Report Era

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Grant Miller, Stanford University and NBER
Ethan J. Schmick, Marquette University
Margarita Portnykh, Carnegie Mellon University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

How Important Are Cultural Frictions for Internal Migration? Evidence from the Nineteenth Century United States

Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Erik O. Kimbrough, Chapman University
Nicole Saito, Northwestern University
3:30 pm

Migration, Climate Similarity, and the Consequences of Climate Mismatch

Marguerite Obolensky, Northwestern University
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn