SI 2015 Development of the American Economy

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

July 6-9, 2015

NBER

Monday, July 6
9:00 am
9:00 am	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	Inflation Expectations and Recovery from the Depression in 1933: Evidence from the Narrative Record
11:15 am
11:15 am	The Determinants of U.S. Wage Inequality During the Great Depression
1:15 pm
1:15 pm	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	Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
3:30 pm
3:30 pm	Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition
Tuesday, July 7
9:00 am
9:00 am	Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
10:15 am
10:15 am	Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South
1:15 pm
1:15 pm	The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
2:30 pm	How to Prevent a Banking Panic: the Barings Crisis of 1890
3:30 pm
3:30 pm	Liquidity Risk, Bank Networks, and the Value of Joining the Fed
Wednesday, July 8
9:00 am
9:00 am	Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
10:15 am
10:15 am	Law and Finance Matter: Lessons from Externally Imposed Courts
1:15 pm
1:15 pm	Human Capital on the High Seas - Job Mobility and Returns to Technical Skill During Industrialization
2:30 pm
2:30 pm	Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
3:30 pm
3:30 pm	Cultural Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration
Thursday, July 9
9:00 am
9:00 am	Automated Census Record Linking: A Machine Learning Approach
10:15 am
10:15 am	The Ins and Outs of City Population Growth