Development of the American Economy
Leah Platt Boustan and William J. Collins, Organizers
April 6, 2024
Format: Authors will be given the full 50 minutes of each session, with questions during the presentation.
| Saturday, April 6 | ||
| Coffee and Pastries | ||
| 9:00 am |
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER Yousra Neberai, Harvard University Xingyou Ye, Harvard University Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying: The Rise of Private Health Insurance in the United States |
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| Break | ||
| 10:00 am |
Yannay Spitzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy, 1876-1920 |
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| Break | ||
| 11:00 am |
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine and NBER Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER Mark Van Orden, University of California, Irvine Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman’s Saving Bank |
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| Lunch - Somerset Room | ||
| 1:00 pm |
Markus Lampe, Vienna University of Economics and Business Lorenz Reiter, Vienna University of Economics and Business Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University Kevin O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi and NBER The Empire Project: Trade Policy in Interwar Canada |
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| Break | ||
| 2:00 pm |
Francisco Pino, University of Chile Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER The Roots of the Modern American Presidential Campaign |
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| Break | ||
| 3:00 pm |
Hui Ren Tan, National University of Singapore Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto and NBER McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood |
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| Adjourn | ||