
	Monday, July 11
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am	Introductions
9:00 am	Why Britain? The Right Place (in the Technology Space) at the Right Time Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER Lukas Rosenberger, LMU Munich Carl Hallmann, Northwestern University
10:00 am	Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution (slides) Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich
11:00 am	Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States Sacha Dray, The World Bank Camille Landais, London School of Economics Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm	Egg timers
	The Civil War and Anti-Black Narratives: The Effect of War Casualties on Racial Violence and Attitudes in the US South Federico Masera, University of New South Wales Michele Rosenberg, Essex University Sarah Walker, University of New South Wales
	The Effects of Federal “Redlining” Maps: a Novel Estimation Strategy Luca Perdoni, ifo Institute - LMU Disa M. Hynsjo, Yale University
	Home Economics and Women's Gateway to Science Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yiling Zhao, Peking University
	Women's Liberation, Household Revolution Moshe Hazan, Monash University David Weiss, Tel Aviv University Hosny Zoabi, New Economic School
12:50 pm	Lunch
1:50 pm	The Regressive Nature of the U.S. Tariff Code: Origins and Implications Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Miguel Acosta, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2:40 pm	Break
2:55 pm	Canst Thou Beggar Thy Neighbour? Evidence from the 1930s Paul Bouscasse, Sciences Po
	Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation (slides) Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
4:50 pm	Adjourn
	Tuesday, July 12
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	The Role of Drainage in the Development of Agriculture in United States 1850-1969 (slides) Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis Wally Thurman, North Carolina State University
10:00 am	Technological Change, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility: The Case of Early 20th Century Agriculture Jacob French, Arizona State University
11:00 am	Environmental Catastrophe and the Direction of Invention: Evidence from the American Dust Bowl Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm	Egg timers
	FDR’s Bank Holiday: A Controlled Burn or Government Over-Reach? Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College and NBER
	Free-riding the Yankees: Manufacturing Productivity in Canada before and after the Panama Canal Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland and NBER Luis F. Jaramillo, University of Maryland Mateo Uribe-Castro, Universidad de los Andes
	Development and Decay: Political Organization and Municipal Corruption in Puerto Rico, 1952-2015 Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
	More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich Massimo Morelli, Bocconi University Matia Vannoni, King's College London
12:50 pm	Lunch
1:50 pm	Scholars at Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany Sascha O. Becker, Monash University Volker Lindenthal, University of Munich Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
2:40 pm	Break
2:55 pm	Discrimination and State Capacity: Evidence from WWII U.S. Army Enlistment Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm	Adjourn
	Wednesday, July 13
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Do Pandemics Change Healthcare Preferences? Evidence from the Great Influenza Rui Esteves, Geneva Graduate Institute Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER Peter Nencka, Miami University and NBER Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
10:00 am	Little Divergence in America — Market Access and Demographic Transition in the United States Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida
11:00 am	Economic Consequences of Kinship: Evidence from US Bans on Cousin Marriage "Sam" Il Myoung Hwang, University of British Columbia Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University Munir Squires, University of British Columbia
12:00 pm	Egg timers
	Pandemic Shock and Economic Divergence: Political Economy Before and After the Black Death Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics Luis Bosshart, London School of Economics
	Demographic Change and Development Using Crowdsourced Genealogies Guillaume Blanc, The University of Manchester
	The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Peter Nencka, Miami University and NBER
	Party Systems and Modern Development (slides) John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
12:50 pm	Lunch
1:50 pm	The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago Michael Coury, University of Pittsburgh Toru Kitagawa, Brown University Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
2:40 pm	Break
2:55 pm	Destruction, Policy, and the Evolving Consequences of Washington, DC's 1968 Civil Disturbance Leah Brooks, George Washington University Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Stan Veuger, American Enterprise Institute
3:45 pm	Adjourn
	Thursday, July 14
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	The Effects of the National War Labor Board on Labor Income Inequality Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER Chris Vickers, Auburn University
10:00 am	Labor Market Scarring in the Very Long Run: Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Microdata Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine and NBER Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER
11:00 am	Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:50 am	Adjourn and lunch

Participants

Miguel Acosta, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Lee J. Alston, Indiana University and NBER
Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Guillaume Blanc, The University of Manchester
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan and NBER
Gustavo J. Bobonis, University of Toronto
Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER
Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
Luis Bosshart, London School of Economics
Paul Bouscasse, Sciences Po
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Leah Brooks, George Washington University
Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Michael Coury, University of Pittsburgh
Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER
Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sacha Dray, The World Bank
Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Shari Eli, University of Toronto and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER
Rui Esteves, Geneva Graduate Institute
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER
Daniel K. Fetter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Jacob French, Arizona State University
Carola Frydman, Northwestern University and NBER
Sebastian Galiani, University of Maryland and NBER
Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER
Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida
Michael R. Haines, Colgate University and NBER
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Moshe Hazan, Monash University
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
Alex Hollingsworth, The Ohio State University and NBER
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
"Sam" Il Myoung Hwang, University of British Columbia
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER
Maggie E.C. Jones, Emory University and NBER
Shawn Kantor, Florida State University and NBER
Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER

Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University and NBER
Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal
Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER
Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis and NBER
Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University and NBER
Jacob Moscona, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University and NBER
Peter Nencka, Miami University and NBER
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER
John Parman, College of William and Mary and NBER
Luca Perdoni, ifo Institute - LMU
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University and NBER
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Michele Rosenberg, Essex University
Lukas Rosenberger, LMU Munich
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Munir Squires, University of British Columbia
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University
Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
Matthew Turner, Brown University and NBER
Mateo Uribe-Castro, Universidad de los Andes
Stan Veuger, American Enterprise Institute
Christopher Vickers, Auburn University
Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College and NBER
Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
Sarah Walker, University of New South Wales
John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee and NBER
Zachary Ward, Baylor University and NBER
Marc D. Weidenmier, Chapman University and NBER
David Weiss, Tel Aviv University
Thomas J. Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER
Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Yiling Zhao, Peking University
Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER
Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER