NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003
Development of the American
Economy
Lee Alston and Larry Neal,
Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 14-17, 2003
MONDAY, JULY 14:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
9:00 AM BEN CHABOT,
University of Michigan and NBER
CHRISTOPHER KURZ, University of
Michigan
That=s Where the Money Was:
Home Bias and English Investments
Abroad
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM LANCE DAVIS, California Institute of Technology and NBER
LARRY NEAL, University of Illinois
and NBER
EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University
and NBERThe Bubble in NYSE Seat Prices, 1926-29
10:50 AM Break
11:00 AM RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Columbia University and NBER
ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton
University and NBERWhy Does Financial Development Matter?
The U.S. from 1900 to 1940
12:00 N Lunch
1:30 PM JILL DUPREE,
College of the Holy CrossThe Real Returns to Investment in the Blackstone
Canal
2:20 PM Break
2:30 PM JEREMY
ATACK, Vanderbilt University and NBER
FRED BATEMAN, University of
Georgia
ROBERT MARGO, Vanderbilt
University and NBERRates f Return in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880
3:20 PM Adjourn
TUESDAY JULY 15:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
9:00 AM WERNER
TROESKEN, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Lead Water Pipes and Infant
Mortality in Massachusetts
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM MICHAEL HAINES, Colgate University and NBER
MYRON GUTTMANN, University of
MichiganFertility of the Hispanic Population in the United States in
Historical
Perspective: Evidence from the
1910 Census
10:50 AM Break
11:00 AM SUSAN B. CARTER, UC, Riverside
RICHARD SUTCH, UC, Riverside and
NBER
Mexican Fertility Transition in
the American Mirror
12:00 N Lunch
1:30 PM LEE ALSTON,
University of Colorado and NBER
JOSEPH FERRIE, Northwestern
University and NBER
Climbing the Agricultural Ladder:
Horatio Alger and Having the Right
Parents
2:20 PM Break
2:30 PM WILLIAM
COLLINS and BOB MARGO, Vanderbilt University and NBER
The Riots of the 1960s and Black
Economic Progress
3:20 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY JULY 16:
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
9:00 AM DOUGLAS
IRWIN, Dartmouth University and NBER
JOSEPH DAVIS, Vanguard Investments
Trade Disruptions and Early
American Industrialization
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM JAMES SCHMITZ, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Nineteenth
Century U. S. Economic Growth:
How Important was the
Transportation Revolution?
10:50 AM Break
11:00 AM DANIEL BERKOWITZ, University of Pittsburgh
KAREN CLAY, Carnegie Mellon
UniversityInitial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics, and Performance:
Evidence from the American States
12:00 N Lunch
1:30 PM PRICE
FISHBACK, University of Arizona and NBER
REBECCA HOLMES, University of
ArizonaThe Impact of State Labor Regulations on Manufacturing Input Demands
during the Progressive Era
2:20 PM Break
2:30 PM CLAYNE POPE,
Brigham Young University and NBER
Measuring the Distribution of
Well-Being
3:20 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake,
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY JULY 17
8:30 AM Coffee and
Pastries
9:00 AM SHAWN COLE,
MIT Capitalism and Freedom:
Slavery and Manumission in
Louisiana, 1770-1820
9:50 AM Break
10:00 AM LISA COOK, Harvard University
Responses in Technical Change to
Uncertainty: Evidence form Patenting
10:50 AM Break
11:00 AM KEN SOKOLOFF, MAGGIE LEVENSTEIN and NAOMI LAMOREAUX,
UC, Los Angeles and NBERThe
Organization and Financing of Invention in Cleveland, 1890-1920
12:00 N Lunch and Adjourn
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