SI 2015 Development of the American Economy

Claudia Goldin, Karen Clay, Trevon D. Logan, and Charles W. Calomiris, Organizers

July 6-9, 2015

NBER

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 6
9:00 am
9:00 am
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
Kenneth A. Snowden, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER

Why Does Recovery from Mortgage Credit Crises Take So Long? Institutional Causes of Delay in Liquidation of Troubled Building and Loans during the Great Depression
10:15 am
10:15 am
Andrew Jalil, Occidental College
Gisela Rua, Federal Reserve Board

Inflation Expectations and Recovery from the Depression in 1933: Evidence from the Narrative Record
11:15 am
11:15 am
Felipe Benguria, University of Kentucky

The Determinants of U.S. Wage Inequality During the Great Depression
1:15 pm
1:15 pm
Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder

For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Economic Development
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER

Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition
Tuesday, July 7
9:00 am
9:00 am
Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
10:15 am
10:15 am
Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University and NBER
Garrett Senney, The Ohio State University

Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South
1:15 pm
1:15 pm
Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER

The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
2:30 pm
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER

How to Prevent a Banking Panic: the Barings Crisis of 1890
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER
Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER
Haelim M. Park, Bank Policy Institute
Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER

Liquidity Risk, Bank Networks, and the Value of Joining the Fed
Wednesday, July 8
9:00 am
9:00 am
Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER

Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
10:15 am
10:15 am
James R. Brown, Iowa State University
J. Anthony Cookson, University of Colorado
Rawley Z. Heimer, Arizona State University

Law and Finance Matter: Lessons from Externally Imposed Courts
1:15 pm
1:15 pm
Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University
Darrell J. Glaser, United States Naval Academy

Human Capital on the High Seas - Job Mobility and Returns to Technical Skill During Industrialization
2:30 pm
2:30 pm
Andriana Bellou, University of Montreal
Emanuela Cardia, University of Montreal

Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER
Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER

Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
Thursday, July 9
9:00 am
9:00 am
James Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER

Automated Census Record Linking: A Machine Learning Approach
10:15 am
10:15 am
Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER

The Ins and Outs of City Population Growth