Monday, July 6

9:00 am

Why Does Recovery from Mortgage Credit Crises Take So Long? Institutional Causes of Delay in Liquidation of Troubled Building and Loans during the Great Depression

Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Kenneth A. Snowden, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER

10:15 am

Inflation Expectations and Recovery from the Depression in 1933: Evidence from the Narrative Record

Andrew Jalil, Occidental College
Gisela Rua, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

11:15 am

The Determinants of U.S. Wage Inequality During the Great Depression

Felipe Benguria, University of Kentucky

1:15 pm

For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Economic Development

Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder

2:30 pm

Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century

Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER

3:30 pm

Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition

Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Tuesday, July 7

9:00 am

Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles

Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado Boulder
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

10:15 am

Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South

Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University
Garrett Senney, The Ohio State University

1:15 pm

The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles

Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER

2:30 pm

How to Prevent a Banking Panic: the Barings Crisis of 1890

Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER

3:30 pm

Liquidity Risk, Bank Networks, and the Value of Joining the Fed

Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER
Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER
Haelim M. Park, Bank Policy Institute
Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER

Wednesday, July 8

9:00 am

Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930

Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER

10:15 am

Law and Finance Matter: Lessons from Externally Imposed Courts

James R. Brown, Iowa State University
J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University

1:15 pm

Human Capital on the High Seas - Job Mobility and Returns to Technical Skill During Industrialization

Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University
Darrell J. Glaser, United States Naval Academy

2:30 pm

Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Andriana Bellou, University of Montreal
Emanuela Cardia, University of Montreal

3:30 pm

Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER

Thursday, July 9

9:00 am

Automated Census Record Linking: A Machine Learning Approach

James Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER

10:15 am

The Ins and Outs of City Population Growth

Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER