Development of the American Economy Program Meeting

Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins, Organizers

March 23, 2019

NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 22
6:30 pm
Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, March 23
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Shawn E. Kantor, Florida State University and NBER
Alexander T. Whalley, University of Calgary

Space Race: Automation Innovation and Labor’s Share
9:50 am
Break
10:00 am
Prottoy Akbar, Aalto University
Sijie Li, University of Pittsburgh
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Lucie Schmidt, Smith College and NBER

Federalizing Benefits: The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

A New National Lynching Data Set and New Explanations for Lynching Behavior in the United States from 1684 to 1983
1:50 pm
Break
2:00 pm
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER

Transportation and Health in a Developing Country: The United States, 1820-1847
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Farm Prices, Redistribution, and the Severity of the Early US Great Depression
3:50 pm
Adjourn