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

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 and NBER 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