SI 2015 Development of the American Economy
Claudia Goldin, Karen Clay, Trevon D. Logan, and Charles W. Calomiris, Organizers
July 6-9, 2015
NBER
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 11:15 am | ||
| 11:15 am |
Felipe Benguria, University of Kentucky The Determinants of U.S. Wage Inequality During the Great Depression |
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| 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 |
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| 2:30 pm | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:30 pm |
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University and NBER How to Prevent a Banking Panic: the Barings Crisis of 1890 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:30 pm | ||
| 2:30 pm |
Andriana Bellou, University of Montreal Emanuela Cardia, University of Montreal Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression |
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| 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 |
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| Thursday, July 9 | ||
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James Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER Automated Census Record Linking: A Machine Learning Approach |
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| 10:15 am | ||
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Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER The Ins and Outs of City Population Growth |
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