NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Development of the American Economy

 

Howard Bodenhorn, Michael Haines, and Zorina Khan; Organizers

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 7-10, 2008

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 7: 

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

Introductions

 

 

 9:15 am

BRUCE WEINBERG, Ohio State University and NBER

 

Scientific Leadership

 

 

10:05 am

Break

 

 

10:20 am

DHANOOS SUTTHIPHISAL, McGill University and NBER

 

Location, Location, Location: Why Do Inventors Move to Technology Centers?

 

 

11:10 am

Break

 

 

11:25 am

LIAM BRUNT, HEC-Lausanne

 

JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

TOM NICHOLAS, Harvard University

 

Inducement Prizes and Innovation

 

 

12:15 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

Lunch - Poster Sessions

 

 

 1:30 pm

SHARON HARRISON, Barnard College

 

MARK WEDER, University of Adelaide

 

Technology, Credit and Confidence during the Roaring Twenties

 

 

 2:20 pm

Break

 

 

 2:35 pm

WARREN WHATLEY, University of Michigan

 

Guns-for-Slaves: The 18th Century British Slave Trade in Africa

 

 

 3:25 pm

Break

 

 

 3:40 pm

JEREMY ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER

 

ROBERT MARGO, Boston University and NBER

 

Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Preliminary Evidence for 1850

 

 

 4:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 8:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

TREVOR KOLLMAN, University of Arizona

 

PRICE FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER

 

SHAWN KANTOR, UC, Merced and NBER

 

The Housing Roller Coaster: A Preliminary Exploration of Fluctuations in Urban Housing Markets in the 1920s and 1930s

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER

 

Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Bubble: Florida 1926

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

JASON BARR, Rutgers University

 

Skyscraper Height

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

LINDA CARTER, Vanderbilt University

 

A Hard Days’ Night: Evening Schools and Child Labor in the United States, 1870-1910

 

 

 1:50 pm

Break

 

 

 2:10 pm

MARTHA BAILEY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

WILLIAM J. COLLINS, Vanderbilt University and NBER

 

Household Production Technology and the American Baby Boom

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:15 pm

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER

 

BHASHKAR MAZUMDER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

KAREN ROLF, University of Nebraska

 

WERNER TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

 

… Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Physical, Economic and Cognitive Effects of Early Life Conditions on Later Life Outcomes in the U.S., 1915-2005

 

 

 4:05 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9: 

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

ERIC HILT, Wellesley University and NBER

 

Grafting Civil Law onto Common Law: The Effect of New York’s1822 Limited Partnership Act

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

EFRAIM BENMELECH, Harvard University and NBER

 

MICHAEL BORDO, Rutgers University and NBER

 

The Financial Crisis of 1873 and 19th Century Corporate Governance

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

RAN ABRAMITZKY, Stanford University

 

ADELINE DELAVANDE and LUIS VASCONCELOS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

 

Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

CAROL SHIUE, University of Colorado at Boulder

 

Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans, 1300-1850

 

 

 1:50 pm

Break

 

 

 2:10 pm

HOYT BLEAKLEY, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:15 pm

RICHARD STECKEL, Ohio State University and NBER

 

Europe’s Descent into Hunger and Premature Death, 800-1800

 

 

 4:05 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 10:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

CHRISTOPHER MEISSNER, UC, Davis and NBER

 

How Important were Tariffs for the American Wool Industry in the Early Twentieth Century?

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

GARY LIBECAP, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER

 

DEAN LUECK, University of Arizona

 

The Demarcation of Land: Patterns and Economic Effects

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

RICHARD SUTCH, UC, Riverside and NBER

 

The Long-run Consequences of the Minimum Wage

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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