SI 2019 Development of the American Economy
Walker Hanlon, Kris James Mitchener, and Petra Moser, Organizers
July 8-11, 2019
Skyline Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Monday, July 8 | ||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am | Introductions | |
| 9:10 am |
Shut Down and Shut Out: Women Physicians in the Era of Medical Education Reform |
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| 10:05 am |
Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era |
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| 10:55 am | Break | |
| 11:10 am |
Why did Firms Practice Segregation? Evidence from Movie Theaters during Jim Crow |
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Egg-Timer Session I | |
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The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations |
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The Economic Motives for Foot-binding |
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Micro-evidence from a System-wide Financial Meltdown - The German Crisis of 1931 |
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Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials |
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| 1:50 pm |
Does Increased Shareholder Liability Always Reduce Bank Moral Hazard? |
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| 2:40 pm | Break | |
| 2:55 pm |
Financial Inclusion, Human Capital, and Wealth Accumulation: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank |
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| 3:45 pm |
Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration |
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| 4:35 pm | Adjourn | |
| Tuesday, July 9 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
The Economic Origins of Modern Science: Technology, Institutions, and Markets |
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| 9:55 am |
Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany |
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| 10:45 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am |
Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital |
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| 11:50 am | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Egg-Timer Session II | |
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Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention |
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Receipt |
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Technological Change and Climatic Resiliency: Evidence from Irrigation in the United States |
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Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry |
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| 1:45 pm |
The Costs of Curbing Speculation: Evidence from the Establishment of "Investment Grade" |
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| 2:35 pm | Break | |
| 2:50 pm |
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-term Effects of Bank Failures |
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| 3:40 pm | Adjourn | |
| Wednesday, July 10 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
After the War: Wartime Saving and Postwar Housing Investment, 1946-1950 |
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| 9:55 am |
Origins of Too Big to Fail: Commercial Bank's Stock Returns and the Banking Reforms of the 1930s |
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| 10:45 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am |
"Loans for the Little Fellow:" Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression |
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| 11:50 am | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm | Egg-Timer Session III | |
| 1:00 pm |
Officer Retention and Military Spending - The Rise of the Military Industrial Complex during the Second World War |
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Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment |
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Does Scientific Progress Affect Culture? A Digital Text Analysis |
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`Novel' Ideas: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovative Activities |
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| 1:45 pm |
The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act |
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| 2:35 pm | Break | |
| 2:50 pm |
Kenji or Kenneth? Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American Assimilation |
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| 3:40 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |
| Thursday, July 11 | ||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 9:00 am |
Influenza the South American Way: The Long Run Impact of the 1918 Pandemic In Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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| 9:55 am |
Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration |
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| 10:45 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am |
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina |
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| 11:50 am | Adjourn and Lunch | |