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

Conference Code of Conduct

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
10:05 am

Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era
10:55 am
Break
11:10 am

Why did Firms Practice Segregation? Evidence from Movie Theaters during Jim Crow
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Egg-Timer Session I

The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations

The Economic Motives for Foot-binding

Micro-evidence from a System-wide Financial Meltdown - The German Crisis of 1931 (slides)

Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials
1:50 pm

Does Increased Shareholder Liability Always Reduce Bank Moral Hazard?
2:40 pm
Break
2:55 pm

Financial Inclusion, Human Capital, and Wealth Accumulation: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
3:45 pm

Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration
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
9:55 am

Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany (slides)
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
Egg-Timer Session II

Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention

The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Receipt

Technological Change and Climatic Resiliency: Evidence from Irrigation in the United States (slides)

Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry
1:45 pm

The Costs of Curbing Speculation: Evidence from the Establishment of "Investment Grade"
2:35 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-term Effects of Bank Failures
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 (slides)
9:55 am

Origins of Too Big to Fail: Commercial Bank's Stock Returns and the Banking Reforms of the 1930s
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

"Loans for the Little Fellow:" Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression
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

Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment

Does Scientific Progress Affect Culture? A Digital Text Analysis

`Novel' Ideas: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovative Activities
1:45 pm

The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act
2:35 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Kenji or Kenneth? Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American Assimilation (slides)
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
9:55 am

Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina
11:50 am
Adjourn and Lunch