Development of the American Economy Program Meeting

Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins, Organizers

March 31, 2023

NBER, 2nd floor, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA and Zoom

Thursday, March 30
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta)
Friday, March 31
	Meeting at NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Ferdinando Monte, Georgetown University and NBER Martin B. Schmitz, Vanderbilt University A Penny for Your Thoughts
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER Legal Activism, State Policy, and Racial Inequality in Teacher Salaries and Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century American South
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta US Educational Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Carola Frydman, Northwestern University and NBER Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University Sophie Li, University of Southern Denmark Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER Oliver Bush, Bank of England Ryland Thomas, Bank of England “Muddling Through or Tunnelling Through?”: UK Monetary and Fiscal Exceptionalism during the Great Inflation
3:50 pm	Adjourn