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NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. |
SUMMER
INSTITUTE 2012 |
Development of the American
Economy Workshop |
Carolyn
Moehling, John J. Wallis and Eugene N. White,
Organizers |
July
23 – 25, 2012 |
NBER |
2nd
Floor Conference Room |
1050
Massachusetts Avenue |
Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
PROGRAM |
Monday, July 23: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Peter H. Lindert,
University of California at Davis and NBER |
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Jeffrey G. Williamson, University of
Wisconsin, Madison and NBER |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
Richard Sylla, New
York University and NBER |
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Robert E. Wright, Augustana
College |
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Corporation Formation in the United States 1790-1860: Law and Politics in Comparative Contexts |
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11:15 am |
B. Zorina Khan,
Bowdoin College and NBER |
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Corporate Ownership
and the Dynamics of Capital Mobilization during Early Industrialization |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch and student poster session |
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Marcella Alsan, Harvard
University |
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The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development |
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Philip Osafo-Kwaako, Harvard
University |
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Long-Run Effects of Villagization in Tanzania |
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Katherine Eriksson, University of California
at Los Angeles |
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Crime and Schooling in
the Early 20th Century U.S. South |
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Trevor O'Grady, University of California at
Santa Barbara |
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Rectangular Grids and
the Urban Economy: Measuring the Impacts of Spatial Land Patterns on American
Cities |
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Theresa Gutberlet,
University of Arizona |
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Cheap Coal, Market
Access and Industry Location in Germany 1846 to 1882 |
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Taylor Jaworski,
University of Arizona |
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"You're in the Army
Now": The Human Capital Consequences of World War II |
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Laura Salisbury, Boston University |
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Women's Income and
Marriage Markets in the United States: Evidence from the Civil War Pension |
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1:15 pm |
Ryan L. Lampe, DePaul University |
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Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER |
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Do
Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 Industries under the New
Deal |
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2:15 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
Richard H. Steckel, Ohio
State University and NBER |
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William J. White, Pope & Associates, Inc. |
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Engines
of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth Century U.S. Economic Welfare |
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3:30 pm |
Price V. Fishback,
University of Arizona and NBER |
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Michael R. Haines, Colgate University and NBER |
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Paul Rhode, University of Michigan and NBER |
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4:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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Tuesday, July 24: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Richard C. Sutch,
University of California at Riverside and NBER |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER |
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The Home Front:
Understanding the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership |
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11:15 am |
Census Bureau Microdata on
Households and Businesses |
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Randy Becker, U.S. Census Bureau |
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Todd Gardner, U.S. Census Bureau |
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Cheryl Ann Grim, U.S. Census Bureau |
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Catherine Fitch, University of Minnesota |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
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1:15 pm |
Lisa Cook, Michigan State University |
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Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER |
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 John Parman, University of California at Davis |
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The
Long-Term Consequences of Distinctively Black Names: Evidence from the
American Past |
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2:15 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
Jeremiah Dittmar,
American University |
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Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER |
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Peculiar Institutions:
Slavery and Labor Market Frictions in the USA |
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3:30 pm |
Kenneth Chay, Brown
University and NBER |
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Kaivan Munshi, Brown University and NBER |
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Black
Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great
Migration |
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Wednesday, July 25: |
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8:30 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Davide
Cantoni, University of Munich |
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Noam Yuchtman, University of
California at Berkeley and NBER |
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Medieval
Universities Legal Institutions and the Commercial Revolution |
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10:00 am |
Break |
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10:15 am |
Shawn E. Kantor, University of California at Merced and
NBER |
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Alexander T. Whalley, University
of California at Merced and NBER |
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11:15 am |
Pauline Grosjean, The University
of New South Wales |
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A History of
Violence: The Culture of Honor as a Determinant of Homicide in the US South |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch |
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1:15 pm |
Zeynep
K. Hansen, Boise State University and NBER |
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Gary D. Libecap, University of
California at Santa Barbara and NBER |
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Scott Lowe, Boise State University |
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The Political Economy of Major
Water Infrastructure Investments in the Western United States: |
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2:15 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University |
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3:30 pm |
Mary T. Rodgers, University of South Florida Polytechnic |
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James E. Payne, University of South Florida |
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An Overlooked Central Bank Rescue: How the Bank of
France Ended the American Panic of 1907 |
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4:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:00 pm |
Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, MA |