SI 2016 Development of the American Economy

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

July 11-14, 2016

NBER

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 11
9:00 am

Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
10:00 am

Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
11:15 am

Purchasing Power Disparity: Who Could Consume More before 1914?
11:16 am

The Great Depression and the Cleansing Hypothesis
11:17 am

The Benefits of Commitment to a Currency Peg: Lessons from the National Banking System
11:18 am

Sovereign Risk and Fiscal (In)attention: A Look at the U.S. State Default of the 1840s
11:19 am

The Role of Irrigation in the Development of American Agriculture
11:20 am

Sweet Blood: Biological Human Capital and the Peril of Rapid Economic Growth
11:21

The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition
1:00 pm

Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933
2:00 pm

Bank Networks and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the National Banking Acts
3:15 pm

Bank Leverage Trends and Cycles during the National Banking Era
Tuesday, July 12
9:00 am

State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany
10:00 am

Elite Fragmentation, Co-option and the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Theory and a Tale of 14 Islands
11:15 am

Analysis of Stigma and Bank Behavior
11:16 am

Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
11:17 am

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

Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance
1:00 pm

The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid
2:15 pm

Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days
Wednesday, July 13
9:00 am

Upward Mobility and Discrimination: The Case of Asian-Americans
10:00 am

The Causal Effect of Place: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment
11:15 am

Blind Tigers and Red Tape Cocktails: Liquor Control and Homicide in Late Nineteenth-Century South Carolina
1:15 pm

First Possession of Water in the American West: An Economic Analysis of Property Rights
2:15 pm

Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from US Counties
3:30 pm

National Policy for Regional Development: Evidence from Appalachian Highways
Thursday, July 14
9:00 am

The Birth of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
10:00 am

Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republication Program
11:15 am

Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth