SI 2016 Development of the American Economy

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

July 11-14, 2016

NBER

Monday, July 11
9:00 am	Mark Koyama, George Mason University Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
10:00 am	Melissa Dell, Harvard University and NBER Pablo Querubin, New York University and NBER Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
11:15 am	Peter H. Lindert, University of California, Davis Purchasing Power Disparity: Who Could Consume More before 1914?
11:16 am	Changkeun Lee, Korea Development Institute The Great Depression and the Cleansing Hypothesis
11:17 am	Scott Fulford, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Felipe Schwartzman, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond The Benefits of Commitment to a Currency Peg: Lessons from the National Banking System
11:18 am	Huixin Bi, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Nora Traum, HEC Montreal Sovereign Risk and Fiscal (In)attention: A Look at the U.S. State Default of the 1840s
11:19 am	Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis Steven M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines The Role of Irrigation in the Development of American Agriculture
11:20 am	Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University and NBER Sweet Blood: Biological Human Capital and the Peril of Rapid Economic Growth
11:21	Philipp Ager, University of Mannheim Francesco Cinnirella, University of Bergamo Peter S. Jensen, University of Southern Denmark The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition
1:00 pm	Joshua K. Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego and NBER Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933
2:00 pm	Mark Paddrik, Office of Financial Research Haelim M. Park, Bank Policy Institute Jessie Jiaxu Wang, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts
3:15 pm	Christoffer Koch, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Patrick Van Horn, Scripps College Bank Leverage Trends and Cycles during the National Banking Era
Tuesday, July 12
9:00 am	Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
10:00 am	Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of Oxford Elite Fragmentation, Co-option and the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Theory and a Tale of 14 Islands
11:15 am	Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College and NBER Analysis of Stigma and Bank Behavior
11:16 am	Matthew S. Jaremski, Utah State University and NBER Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
11:17 am	Richard C. Sutch, University of California at Riverside The One-Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Piketty’s Data On the Concentration of Wealth in the United States
11:18 am	Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance
1:00 pm	Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid
2:15 pm	Miguel Morin, University of Cambridge Rowena E.. Gray, University of California, Merced Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days
Wednesday, July 13
9:00 am	Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian-Americans
10:00 am	Daniel W. Shoag, Case Western Reserve University Nicholas Carollo, University of California at Los Angeles The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment
11:15 am	Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER Blind Tigers and Red Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
1:15 pm	Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER First Possession of Water in the American West: An Economic Analysis of Property Rights
2:15 pm	Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties
3:30 pm	Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Carl Kitchens, Florida State University and NBER National Policy for Regional Development: Evidence from Appalachian Highways
Thursday, July 14
9:00 am	Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER John Grigsby, Princeton University and NBER Tom Nicholas, Harvard University The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
10:00 am	Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER Petra Moser, New York University and NBER Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republication Program
11:15 am	Remi Jedwab, The George Washington University Noel D. Johnson, George Mason University Mark Koyama, George Mason University Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth