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

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

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

 

 

5/6/03