SI 2017 Development of the American Economy

Leah Platt Boustan, William J. Collins, and Matthew S. Jaremski, Organizers

July 10-13, 2017

Cambridge, MA

Monday, July 10
8:15 am	Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Introductions
9:10 am	Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER Wendy Rahn, University of Minnesota Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s
10:05 am	Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER Saumitra Jha, Stanford University Masanori Takashima, Tokyo University Swords into Bank Shares: Finance, Conflict and Political Reform in Japan
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Konrad B. Burchardi, IIES, Stockholm University Thomas Chaney, University of Southern California Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University and NBER Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investors
12:00 noon	Lunch Graduate student posters will be available every lunch period Edward Fox, University of Michigan Maggie Jones, Queen's University Sun Kyoung Lee, Columbia University Erin L. McGuire, University of Arizona Eduardo J. Montero, Harvard University Keith Myers, University of Arizona
1:00 pm	EGG-TIMER SESSION I
	Alex Hollingsworth, The Ohio State University and NBER Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER A Gift of Health: The Duke Endowment's Impact on Health Care in the Carolinas, 1925-1940
	Casper W. Hansen, University of Copenhagen Peter S. Jensen, University of Southern Denmark Peter Egedesø Madsen, University of Southern Denmark Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries
	Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER Explaining the Antebellum Puzzle: Market Access, Food Prices, and Stature in the United States, 1820--1847
	Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER Causes and Consequences of Nativism in the US: Evidence from the Know-Nothing Party
1:40 pm	Reka Juhasz, University of British Columbia and NBER Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th century
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER Gallman Revisited: Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1880
3:40 pm	Daniel P. Gross, Duke University and NBER The Ties that Bind: Railroad Gauge Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S.
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:40 pm	Shuttle bus to the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Tuesday, July 11
8:15 am	Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Bryan Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Evan J. Taylor, University of Arizona Social Interactions and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
9:55 am	Edward l. Kosack, Xavier University Zachary A. Ward, Baylor University and NBER The Uneven Economic Advance of Mexican Americans Before World War II
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago The Short- and Long-Run Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps
11:50 am	Lunch Graduate student posters will be available every lunch period
12:50 pm	EGG-TIMER SESSION II
	Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER Kenneth A. Snowden, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Sebastián Fleitas, Universidad Catolica, Chile Mortgage Foreclosure Overhangs and the Slow Recovery During the 1930s
	Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Samuel A. Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER Mesay Melese Gebresilasse, Amherst College and NBER Frontier Culture: Historical Roots and Persistence of "Rugged Individualism" in the United States
	Alan Seals, Auburn University Chris Vickers, Auburn University Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Auburn University and NBER Closing the Wage Gap: The War Labor Board's Effect on Inequality in the Short and Long Run
	Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Margarita Portnykh, Carnegie Mellon University When Are Resources Curses and Blessings? Evidence From the United States 1880-2012
	Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER Rajeev H. Dehejia, New York University and NBER Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Andrew Jordan, Washington University in St. Louis Cyrus Samii, New York University Karl Schulze, Princeton University The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
2:00 pm	Carol H. Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Social Mobility in the Long-Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300-1900
2:50 pm	Adjourn
3:00 pm	Shuttle bus to the Royal Sonesta Hotel
3:45 pm	Special Methods Lecture at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner Honoring Claudia Goldin MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, 7th floor
Wednesday, July 12

8:15 am	Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Peter Koudijs, University of Rotterdam Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER For Richer, For Poorer: Banker's Skin-in-the-game and Risk Taking in New England, 1867-1880
9:55 am	Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board Burcu Duygan, Federal Reserve Board “Unconventional” Monetary Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy: A Perspective from the U.S. in the 1920s
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Björn Richter, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER Bank Capital Redux: Solvency, Liquidity, and Crisis
11:50 am	Lunch Graduate student posters will be available every lunch period
12:10 pm	Book talk over lunch by Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER Clashing over Commerce: A History of US Trade Policy
1:00 pm	Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes
1:55 pm	Esra Kose, University of California, Merced Elira Kuka, George Washington University and NBER Na'ama Shenhav, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Women’s Enfranchisement and Children’s Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Ethan Schmick, Marquette University The Impact of Early Investments in Urban School Systems in the United States
3:50 pm	Adjourn
4:00 pm	Shuttle bus to the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Ballroom B/ West Tower)
Thursday, July 13
8:15 am	Shuttle bus from the Royal Sonesta Hotel
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	David S. Jacks, National University of Singapore Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
9:55 am	Brian B. Beach, Vanderbilt University and NBER Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER Martin H. Saavedra, Rutgers University, New Brunswick The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Fetal Origins Hypothesis: Evidence from Linked Data
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Christian Dippel, Western University and NBER Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Does Civic Leadership Matter? Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the U.S.
11:50 am	Lunch and Adjourn