
	Monday, July 11
9:00 am	Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China Mark Koyama, George Mason University Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
10:00 am	Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Pablo Querubin, New York University and NBER
11:15 am	Purchasing Power Disparity: Who Could Consume More before 1914? Peter H. Lindert, University of California, Davis and NBER
11:16 am	The Great Depression and the Cleansing Hypothesis Changkeun Lee, Korea Development Institute
11:17 am	The Benefits of Commitment to a Currency Peg: Lessons from the National Banking System Scott Fulford, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Felipe Schwartzman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
11:18 am	Sovereign Risk and Fiscal (In)attention: A Look at the U.S. State Default of the 1840s Huixin Bi, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Nora Traum, HEC Montreal
11:19 am	The Role of Irrigation in the Development of American Agriculture Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis Steven M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines
11:20 am	Sweet Blood: Biological Human Capital and the Peril of Rapid Economic Growth Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University
11:21	The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition Philipp Ager, University of Mannheim Francesco Cinnirella, University of Bergamo Peter S. Jensen, University of Southern Denmark
1:00 pm	Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933 Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER
2:00 pm	Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts Mark Paddrik, Office of Financial Research Haelim M. Park, Bank Policy Institute Jessie Jiaxu Wang, Arizona State University
3:15 pm	Bank Leverage Trends and Cycles during the National Banking Era Christoffer Koch, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Patrick Van Horn, Scripps College
	Tuesday, July 12
9:00 am	State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
10:00 am	Elite Fragmentation, Co-option and the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Theory and a Tale of 14 Islands Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of Oxford
11:15 am	Analysis of Stigma and Bank Behavior Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College and NBER
11:16 am	Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century? Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
11:17 am	The One-Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Data On the Concentration of Wealth in the United States Richard C. Sutch, University of California at Riverside
11:18 am	Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER
1:00 pm	The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
2:15 pm	Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days Miguel Morin, University of Cambridge Rowena E.. Gray, University of California, Merced Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
	Wednesday, July 13
9:00 am	Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian-Americans Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University
10:00 am	The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment Daniel W. Shoag, Case Western Reserve University Nicholas Carollo, University of California at Los Angeles
11:15 am	Blind Tigers and Red Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER
1:15 pm	First Possession of Water in the American West: An Economic Analysis of Property Rights Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:15 pm	Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
3:30 pm	National Policy for Regional Development: Evidence from Appalachian Highways Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Carl Kitchens, Florida State University and NBER
	Thursday, July 14
9:00 am	The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER Tom Nicholas, Harvard University
10:00 am	Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republication Program Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
11:15 am	Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth Remi Jedwab, George Washington University Noel D. Johnson, George Mason University Mark Koyama, George Mason University

Participants

Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Philipp Ager, University of Mannheim
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Lee J. Alston, Indiana University and NBER
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER
Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Gillian Brunet, Smith College
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER
Susan Carter, University of California, Riverside
Moya Chin, Harvard University
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Christopher A. Cotter, Vanderbilt University
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER
Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Daniel K. Fetter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Carola Frydman, Northwestern University and NBER
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER
Michael R. Haines, Colgate University and NBER
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Morgan A. Henderson, University of Michigan
Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Shawn Kantor, Florida State University and NBER
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University and NBER
Mark Koyama, George Mason University
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER

Changkeun Lee, Korea Development Institute
Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University
Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal
Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Peter H. Lindert, University of California, Davis and NBER
Cong Liu, University of Arizona
Trevon D. Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER
Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Claudia Olivetti, Dartmouth College and NBER
Arianna Ornaghi, Hertie School
Craig Palsson, Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University
John Parman, College of William and Mary and NBER
Alexander Persaud, University of Michigan
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University and NBER
Christina D. Romer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Peter L. Rousseau, Vanderbilt University
Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER
Ethan J. Schmick, Marquette University
Felipe Schwartzman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Daniel W. Shoag, Case Western Reserve University
Daniel E. Sichel, Wellesley College and NBER
Kenneth A. Snowden, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University
Richard C. Sutch, University of California at Riverside
Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
Nora Traum, HEC Montreal
Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College and NBER
John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee and NBER
Jessie Jiaxu Wang, Arizona State University
Marc D. Weidenmier, Chapman University and NBER
Colin Weiss, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Thomas J. Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER