2nd Floor Conference Room
SATURDAY, MARCH 1:
6:30 PM Dinner
Restaurant Dante
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA 02142
SUNDAY, MARCH 2:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue
8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM DANIEL BOGART, UC, Irvine
GARY RICHARDSON, UC, Irvine and NBER
Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development:
The Property Rights Revolution in Britian, 1700 to 1830
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM CHARLES CALOMIRIS, Columbia University and NBER
JONATHAN PRITCHETT, Tulane University
Preserving Slave Families for Profit:
Traders Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market
11:15 AM JOSEPH H. DAVIS, Vanguard Group and NBER
CHRISTOPHER HANES, SUNY Binghamton
PAUL W. RHODE, University OF Arizona and NBER
Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth Century America
12:15 PM Lunch
1:00 PM ROBERT A. MARGO, Boston University and NBER
LEAH P. BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Spatial Mismatch and the Formation of Bad Ghettos:
New Evidence from the U.S. Postal Service
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM CLAUDIA GOLDIN and LAWRENCE F. KATZ, Harvard University and NBER
Transitions: Career and Family Lifecycles of the Educational Elite
3:15 PM DANIEL RAFF, University of Pennsylavania and NBER
The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration
4:15 PM Adjourn
2/19/08