Monday, July 7
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am
Welcome
9:00 am

World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER
Sahil Chinoy, Harvard University
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages

Joan J. Martinez, University of California, Berkeley
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

The Economic Geography of American Slavery

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Winston L. Chen, Yale University
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
4 Egg Timer Presentations:
1:00 pm

Leviathan Denied: The Institutional Origins of Democratic Capitalisms

John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
1:10 pm

The State-Contingent Debt Premium: Evidence from French Public Bonds

Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER
Goncalo A. Pina, ESCP Business School
1:20 pm

Historical Narratives and Political Behavior in the US

Diego Ramos-Toro, Dartmouth College
Elsa Voytas, Dartmouth College
1:30 pm

Universities and the Rise of Services

Chang Liu, National University of Singapore
Kohei Takeda, National University of Singapore
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Tariffs and Manufacturing Productivity: New Evidence from the Gilded Age

Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis and NBER
Alexander Klein, University of Sussex
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Deposit Insurance, Deposit Competition, and Bank Instability

Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER
Steven Sprick Schuster, Middle Tennessee State University
3:50 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits

Gustavo S. Cortes, University of Florida
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Student Posters on view throughout the meeting:

Danielle C. Graves Williamson, Boston Univeristy
Segregation Academies: The Effect of "Whites-Only" Private School on Public Schools

Devin Bissky Dziadyk, University of Toronto
Little School on the Prairie: A Push for Structural Change

Pier Paolo Creanza, Princeton University
Factories of Ideas? Big Business and the Golden Age of American Innovation

João Tampellini, Vanderbilt University
Deportation Risk and Immigrant Assimilation: Lessons from the 1920 Palmer Raids

Michael Karas, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Role of Incumbent Firms in the Adoption of New Energy Sources

Sara Benetti, University of British Columbia
Electrification and Immigrant Labor in US Manufacturing

Christopher Sims, Northwestern University
The Origins of the Nitrogen Revolution

Anne Schaller, Vanderbilt University
Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Grant Goehring, Boston University
Trade and Health Externalities: Live Animal Imports in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Tuesday, July 8
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The role of the Industrial Revolution

Cara Ebert, RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Leander Heldring, Northwestern University and NBER
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago and NBER
Sebastian Vollmer, University of Goettingen
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

Organizational Practices and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Jewish Immigration and the Tailoring Industry in England

Yannis Kastis, University College London
Hillary G. Vipond, London School of Economics
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

Rags to Rags: The Multi-Generational Effects of Ending Cash Transfers in Victorian Britain

Jon Denton-Schneider, Clark University
Jennifer Mayo, University of Missouri - Columbia
11:50 am
Lunch
4 Egg Timer Presentations:
1:00 pm

Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire

Hanna M. Schwank, University of Bonn
1:10 pm

Black Newspapers and Partisanship

Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Martin H. Saavedra, Rutgers University and NBER
Joao Tampellini, Vanderbilt University
1:20 pm

Power of the Pulpit: The Effect of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speeches on the Civil Rights Movement

Erick Gong, Middlebury College
1:30 pm

Race, Rental Yields, and Housing Decay in Manhattan

Tom Nicholas, Harvard University
Christophe Spaenjers, University of Colorado Boulder
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Popular Support for Disenfranchisement in the United States: Voting on Constitutional Referendums

Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California
Thomas R. Gray, University of Texas at Dallas
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Dissecting Racial Politicization: Long-Run Evidence from the Food Stamp Program

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León, University of California, San Diego
Troup Howard, University of Utah
William Mullins, University of California, San Diego
3:50 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 9
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia

Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Lena Greska, University of Munich
Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University
Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

Keys to Upward Mobility: Typewriter Adoption and Women's Economic Outcomes

Myera Rashid, Northwestern University
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

Democratizing Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement

Alison Doxey, University of Chicago
Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Peter Nencka, Miami University and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch
4 Egg Timer Presentations:
1:00 pm

Beaver Tales: Fur Grade Gravity and Population Dynamics

Kristian Behrens, University of Quebec at Montreal
Clément Gorin, University of Lyon
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER
1:10 pm

Charles Beard Got it Wrong: A Revised Economic Interpretation of the Constitution

Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
1:20 pm

Still Growing Together? The Spatial Distribution and Industrial Composition of U.S. County GDP since 1870

Scott Fulford, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Fabio Schiantarelli, Boston College
1:30 pm

The Effectiveness of Doxxing: Evidence from the Second Ku Klux Klan

Noah MacDonald, Emory University
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm

The Consequences of Abortion Funding Bans

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University
Nikita Dhingra, Georgia State University
Mayra Pineda-Torres, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Trapped in Purgatory? The Effects of Divorce Legislation on Female Welfare with Marital Separation

Paula A. Calvo, Arizona State University
Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado Boulder
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
3:50 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 10
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Race-Blind Policy and Racial Inequality: Long-Run Effects of the GI Bill

Lukas Althoff, Stanford University
Christiane Szerman, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am

The Melting Pot: Industrialization and Integration in America

Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University
"Sam" Il Myoung Hwang, University of British Columbia
Munir Squires, University of British Columbia
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

Annexation and the Making of the Sun Belt: Municipal Boundary Expansions and Local Public Finance

Allison E. Green, Princeton University
Kaan Cankat, Princeton University
11:50 am
Adjourn and Lunch