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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Development of the American Economy Program Meeting

Claudia Goldin, Organizer

March 5, 2011

NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Friday, March 4, 2011
6:30 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard(Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) Cambridge, MA
Saturday, March 5, 2011
8:00 am 8:20 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Richard Sutch, UC, Riverside and NBER Hard Work, Nonemployment, and the Wealth Age Profile: Evidence of a Life-Cycle Strategy in the United States during the Nineteenth Century
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? VA Home Loans and the Mid-20^th Century Transformation in US Housing Markets
11:15 am	Leah Platt Boustan, UC, Los Angeles and NBER Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Melvin Stephens, University of Michigan and NBER Jeff Lingwall, Carnegie Mellon University Compulsory Attendance Laws and Nineteenth Century Schooling
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Gary Richardson, UC, Irvine and NBER Erik Heitfield, Board of Governors Modes of Contagion in the Banking Panic of 1930 (Joint with Shirley Wang)
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER Did France Cause the Great Depression?
4:30 pm	Adjourn
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