Columbia-NYU Joint Conference Spatial Economics Through the Lens of Economic History

Columbia University-NYU Joint Conference
Spatial Economics Through the Lens of Economic History

September 21-22, 2018

Sponsors:
Columbia University – Program for Economic Research
NYU Stern – Center for Global Economy and Business

Press here to register by September 17, 2018.

Friday, September 21

Location: NYU Stern School of Business, Tisch Hall, Room UC-25, 40 West 4^th Street

9:30-10:00   – Breakfast and Welcome

10:00-11:00 – Dave Donaldson (MIT), “The Geography of Path Dependence”

11:20-12:20 – Daniel Hartley (Chicago Federal Reserve), “The Effects of the 1930s HOLC ‘Redlining’ Maps”

12:20-1:30 – Lunch

1:30-2:30 – Treb Allen (Dartmouth), “The Economic Geography of American Slavery” (with Suresh Naidu)

2:40-3:40 – Leah Brooks (George Washington University), “The Local Impact of Containerization”

3:40-4:00 – Coffee Break

4:00-5:00 – Suresh Naidu (Columbia University), “Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data”

6:30 – Dinner (by invitation only)

Saturday, September 22

Location: 141 Uris Hall, Columbia University (press for directions)

9:00-9:30   – Breakfast

9:30-10:30 – Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics), “The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London” (with Stephan Heblich and Stephen J. Redding)

10:50-11:50 – Daniele Paserman (Boston University), “Who married, (to) whom, and where? Trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940”

12:00-1:00 – Rick Hornbeck (University of Chicago), “Railroads and the Rise of American Manufacturing”

1:00-2:00 – Lunch

Questions?

Réka Juhász             Columbia University                      rj2446@columbia.edu

Walker Hanlon        NYU Stern School of Business     whanlon@stern.nyu.edu