NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

Development of the American Economy

Eric Hilt, Melissa Thomasson and Werner Troesken; Organizers

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 11-14, 2005

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 11:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Introductions
	Labor
9:15 am	LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, Harvard University
	Getting Inside the Black Box of ‘White Flight’: The Role of Suburban Autonomy and Public Goods
10:05 am	Break
10:20 am	CHIAKI MORIGUCHI, Northwestern University and NBER
	EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1885-2002: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
11:10 am	Break
11:25 am	ALAN OLMSTEAD, UC, Davis
	PAUL RHODE, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and NBER
	"Wait a Cotton Pickin’ Minute!" A New View of Slave Productivity
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
	SHAWN E. KANTOR, UC, Merced and NBER
	TODD SORENSEN, University of Arizona
	The New Deal and the Diffusion of Tractors in the 1930s
2:05 pm	Break
2:20 pm	ROBERT MARGO, Boston University and NBER
	Steam Power and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing
3:10 pm	Break
3:25 pm	ELIZABETH CASCIO and NORA GORDON, UC, Davis and NBER
	ETHAN LEWIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
	SARAH REBER, UC, Los Angeles
	Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools
4:15 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 12:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Political Economy/Property Rights:
9:00 am	KAREN CLAY, Carnegie Mellon University
	Anarchy, Property Rights, and Violence: The Case of Post Gold Rush California
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	ZEYNEP HANSEN, Washington University and NBER
	MARC LAW, University of Vermont
	The Political Economy of ‘Truth-in-Advertising’ Regulation during the Progressive Era
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	BARRY WEINGAST, Stanford University
	DOUGLASS NORTH, Washington University
	JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
	A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Recorded Human History
12:00 n	Lunch
	Demography
1:00 pm	DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER
	KENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER
	STACY SNEERINGER, Wellesley College
	MELISSA THOMASSON, Miami University and NBER
	The 1946 Hospital Construction Act and Infant Mortality in the American South
1:50 pm	Break
2:10 pm	MARTHA BAILEY, University of Michigan
	WILLIAM COLLINS, Vanderbilt University and NBER
	The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER
	Inequality and Infant and Childhood Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century
4:05 pm	Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13:
	Macro/Finance
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	PETRA MOSER, MIT and NBER
	Do Patents Facilitate Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from the Geography of Innovations at the Crystal Palace
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	BENJAMIN CHABOT, University of Michigan and NBER
	What Can Asset Prices Tell Us About Historical Business Cycles?
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	ANNE CARLOS, University of Colorado
	LARRY NEAL, University of Illinois and NBER
	KRISTEN WANDSCHNEIDER, Middlebury College
	The Origins of National Debt: The Financing and Re-Financing of the War of the Spanish Succession
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER
	Competition Among the Exchanges Before the SEC: Was the NYSE a Natural Hegemon?
1:50 pm	Break
2:05 pm	MICHAEL BORDO, Rutgers University and NBER
	CHRISTOPHER MEISSNER, University of Cambridge and NBER
	The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Financial Crises: 1880-1913 vs. 1972-1997
2:55 pm	Break
3:10 pm	GARY RICHARDSON, UC, Irvine
	Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics During the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border in Mississippi, 1929 to 1933
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 14:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	DAVID JACKS, Simon Fraser University
	Populists v. Theorists: Futures Markets and the Volatility of Prices
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	TODD NEUMANN, University of Arizona
	Endogenous Entry and Competition in the Retail Market During the Early 20th Century
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	MARK CARLSON, Federal Reserve Board
	KRIS MITCHENER, Santa Clara and NBER
	Branch Banking and the Transformation of Banking in California
12:00 n	Adjourn
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