SI 2024 Development of the American Economy

Martha J. Bailey, Leah Platt Boustan, William J. Collins, Joshua K. Hausman, and Taylor Jaworski, Organizers

July 8-11, 2024

Skyline ABC

Format: Authors will be given the full 50 minutes of each session, with questions during the presentation.

Monday, July 8
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:50 am	Welcome
9:00 am	Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural Electrification
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Rain Follows the Forest: Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm Skyline ABC	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:00 pm	Suez
1:10 pm	Coercive Assimilation Policy and Ethnic Identification Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools (slides)
1:20 pm	Geography and Opportunity: Evidence from the Orphan Trains (slides)
1:30 pm	Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Linkage-Free Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Emigration during Turbulent Times
3:50 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau
4:50 pm	Adjourn
5:00 pm	Student Posters on view throughout the meeting Anthony Bald, Harvard University The Birth of an Occupation: Professional Nursing in the Era of Public Health Allison E. Green, Princeton University Peer Effects and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from U.S. Navy Servicemen during World War II Elijah Locke, Boston University Ethnic-Occupational Niches: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration Pablo A. Valenzuela-Casasempere, University of British Columbia Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System Youwei Adam. Xing, Clemson University The Erie Canal and the Economic Transformation of Nineteenth-Century New York State Dongkyu C. Yang, University of Colorado Boulder Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South
Tuesday, July 9
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence over the Twentieth Century
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall?
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	The California Effect: The Challenges of Identifying the Impact of Social Policies during an Era of Social Change (slides)
1:00 pm Skyline ABC	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:10 pm	Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (slides)
1:20 pm	Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States
1:30 pm	Mass Production of Houses in Factories in the United States: The First and Only “Experiment” Was a Tremendous Success (slides)
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Military Keynesianism Revisited: The Impact of Cold War Spending on Labor Markets and Politics (slides)
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo
3:50 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 10
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Convicts and Comrades
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Trade Disruptions and America's Early Industrialization
1:00 pm Skyline ABC	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:10 pm	The Making of High-tech Clusters: Evidence from Early-mover Corporate Labs in the US Microchip Breakthrough (slides)
1:20 pm	How Suitable are FAO-GAEZ Crop Suitability Indices for Historical Analysis?
1:30 pm	The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States (slides)
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Closing Ranks: Organized Labor and Immigration
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom
3:50 pm	Adjourn
Thursday, July 11
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	The Ms Allocation of Talent
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	From Sticks to Bricks: Construction Technology and Medieval Urban Development
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	American Life Histories (slides)
11:50 am	Adjourn and Lunch