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

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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	Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Josefa Lavandero Masson, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER José Tessada, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural Electrification
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Donn L. Feir, University of Victoria and NBER Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto Maggie E.C. Jones, Emory University and NBER Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Florian Grosset, CREST - ENSAE Paris Anna Papp, Columbia University Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University 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	David S. Jacks, National University of Singapore Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis and NBER Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt University Suez
1:10 pm	Christian Maruthiah, Trinity College Dublin Coercive Assimilation Policy and Ethnic Identification Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools (slides)
1:20 pm	Daniel Keniston, Louisiana State University and NBER Scott Abrahams, Louisiana State University Geography and Opportunity: Evidence from the Orphan Trains (slides)
1:30 pm	Mindy Marks, Northeastern University Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Linkage-Free Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Grant Goehring, Boston University Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Kaicheng Luo, Harvard University David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Emigration during Turbulent Times
3:50 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Kareem Haggag, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 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	Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley Silvia Farina, University of California, Berkeley Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Alessandro Iaria, University of Bristol Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University Fabian Waldinger, University of Munich Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence over the Twentieth Century
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin Posmanick, Clemson University Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall?
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University Jacob G. Penglase, San Diego State University Michael F. Pesko, University of Missouri Hasan Shahid, Vanderbilt University 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	Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University and NBER Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (slides)
1:20 pm	Max Posch, University of Exeter Tzachi Raz, Harvard University Markets Make Humans WEIRDer: Evidence from 1850-1920 United States
1:30 pm	Elena Falcettoni, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System James A. Schmitz Jr., Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Mark L.J. Wright, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 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	Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Donato A. Onorato, Columbia University Military Keynesianism Revisited: The Impact of Cold War Spending on Labor Markets and Politics (slides)
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Junichi Yamasaki, Kobe University Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University 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	Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER Harriet M. Brookes Gray, Princeton University Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis and NBER Santiago Pérez, University of California, Davis and NBER Myera Rashid, Northwestern University Finding John Smith: Using Extra Information for Historical Record Linkage
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Desmond Ang, Harvard University and NBER Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER Kyle Hancock, Princeton University Jing Wu, Princeton University The Historical Incarceration Penalty in the U.S.
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Hazal Sezer, Tilburg University Convicts and Comrades
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Joseph Davis, The Vanguard Group Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER Trade Disruptions and America's Early Industrialization
1:00 pm Skyline ABC	4 Egg Timer Presentations
1:10 pm	Jingyuan Zeng, London School of Economics and Political Science The Making of High-tech Clusters: Evidence from Early-mover Corporate Labs in the US Microchip Breakthrough (slides)
1:20 pm	Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER How Suitable are FAO-GAEZ Crop Suitability Indices for Historical Analysis?
1:30 pm	Nicholas A. Carollo, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Jason Hicks, University of Minnesota Andrew Karch, University of Minnesota Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota and NBER The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States (slides)
1:50 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Carlo Medici, Brown University Closing Ranks: Organized Labor and Immigration
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Henry M. Downes, University of Notre Dame 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	Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin Petra Moser, New York University and NBER The Ms Allocation of Talent
9:50 am	Break
10:00 am	Robert J. Johannes, LMU Munich From Sticks to Bricks: Construction Technology and Medieval Urban Development
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University and NBER Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich American Life Histories (slides)
11:50 am	Adjourn and Lunch