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	Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University and NBER Gregory Niemesh, Miami University and NBER Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER Shut Down and Shut Out: Women Physicians in the Era of Medical Education Reform
10:05 am	Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Mark J. Borgschulte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Ricard Gil, IESE Business School Justin Marion, University of California Santa Cruz Why did Firms Practice Segregation? Evidence from Movie Theaters during Jim Crow
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Egg-Timer Session I
	Lisa D. Cook, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Maggie EC. Jones, Emory University and NBER Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER David Rosé, Wilfrid Laurier University The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations
	Xinyu Fan, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Lingwei Wu, University of Bonn The Economic Motives for Foot-binding
	Kristian Blickle, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER Stephan Luck, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Micro-evidence from a System-wide Financial Meltdown - The German Crisis of 1931 (slides)
	Jhacova Williams, American University Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials
1:50 pm	Haelim Anderson, Bank Policy Institute Daniel Barth, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Dong Beom Choi, Seoul National University Does Increased Shareholder Liability Always Reduce Bank Moral Hazard?
2:40 pm	Break
2:55 pm	Luke Stein, Babson College Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER Financial Inclusion, Human Capital, and Wealth Accumulation: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
3:45 pm	Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER 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	Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics The Economic Origins of Modern Science: Technology, Institutions, and Markets
9:55 am	Kilian Huber, University of Chicago and NBER Volker Lindenthal, University of Munich Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany (slides)
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Heyu Xiong, Case Western Reserve University Yiling Zhao, Peking University Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Egg-Timer Session II
	Michael J. Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions, Alcohol Prohibition, and Invention
	Shari Eli, University of Toronto and NBER Laura Salisbury, York University and NBER The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Receipt
	Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis Steven M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines Technological Change and Climatic Resiliency: Evidence from Irrigation in the United States (slides)
	Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry
1:45 pm	Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER The Costs of Curbing Speculation: Evidence from the Establishment of "Investment Grade"
2:35 pm	Break
2:50 pm	Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER 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	Gillian Brunet, Smith College After the War: Wartime Saving and Postwar Housing Investment, 1946-1950 (slides)
9:55 am	Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine and NBER Brian S. Yang, San Francisco State University 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	Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER "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	Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University Officer Retention and Military Spending - The Rise of the Military Industrial Complex during the Second World War
	Jaime Arellano-Bover, Yale University Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment
	Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Nicola Lacetera, University of Bologna and NBER Astrid Marinoni, Georgia Tech Does Scientific Progress Affect Culture? A Digital Text Analysis
	Peter D. Nencka, Ohio State University Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County `Novel' Ideas: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovative Activities
1:45 pm	Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Carlos Avenancio, University of California, San Diego The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act
2:35 pm	Break
2:50 pm	Martin H. Saavedra, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 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	Amanda Guimbeau, Université de Sherbrooke Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University and NBER Influenza the South American Way: The Long Run Impact of the 1918 Pandemic In Sao Paulo, Brazil
9:55 am	Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Federico Droller, Universidad de Santiago de Chile Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina
11:50 am	Adjourn and Lunch