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	Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s
10:05 am	Swords into Bank Shares: Finance, Conflict and Political Reform in Japan
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	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
	A Gift of Health: The Duke Endowment's Impact on Health Care in the Carolinas, 1925-1940
	Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries
	Explaining the Antebellum Puzzle: Market Access, Food Prices, and Stature in the United States, 1820--1847
	Causes and Consequences of Nativism in the US: Evidence from the Know-Nothing Party
1:40 pm	Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th century
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Gallman Revisited: Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1880
3:40 pm	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	Social Interactions and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
9:55 am	The Uneven Economic Advance of Mexican Americans Before World War II
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	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
	Mortgage Foreclosure Overhangs and the Slow Recovery During the 1930s
	Frontier Culture: Historical Roots and Persistence of "Rugged Individualism" in the United States
	Closing the Wage Gap: The War Labor Board's Effect on Inequality in the Short and Long Run
	When Are Resources Curses and Blessings? Evidence From the United States 1880-2012
	The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
2:00 pm	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	For Richer, For Poorer: Banker's Skin-in-the-game and Risk Taking in New England, 1867-1880
9:55 am	“Unconventional” Monetary Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy: A Perspective from the U.S. in the 1920s
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	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	The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes
1:55 pm	Women’s Enfranchisement and Children’s Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	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	Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
9:55 am	The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Fetal Origins Hypothesis: Evidence from Linked Data
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Does Civic Leadership Matter? Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the U.S.
11:50 am	Lunch and Adjourn