NBER Macroeconomics Across Time and Space

1:00 p.m.

HUMAN CAPITAL

• "Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000," Lutz Hendricks and TODD SCHOELLMAN
• "Economic Growth in the Long Run," Scott Baier, John Devereux, Jerry Dwyer and ROBERT TAMURA

2:40 p.m.

Break

3:10 p.m.

FERTILITY

• "Maternal Health and Fertility," STEFANIA ALBANESI and Claudia Olivetti
• "The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis," MATTHIAS DOEPKE, Moshe Hazan, and Yishay Maoz

4:50 p.m.

Break

5:20 p.m.

OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY

• "The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility," Fane Groes, PHILIPP KIRCHER, and Iourii Manovskii

6:10 p.m.

Adjourn

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

ECONOMIC HISTORY

• "A Multisectoral Approach to the U.S. Great Depression," Pedro Amaral and JAMES MACGEE
• "Transportation and Development: Insights from the U.S. 1840-1860," BERTHOLD HERRENDORF, James Schmitz, and Arilton Teixeira

10:40 a.m.

Break

11:10 a.m.

TIME AND SPACE

• "Spatial Development," Klaus Desmet and ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG
• "Learning the Wealth of Nations," FRANCISCO BUERA, Alex Monge, and Giorgio Primiceri

12:50 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 p.m.

LUNCH TALK: "Federal Debt," THOMAS SARGENT

2:30 p.m.

CONSUMPTION

• "Measuring Long Run Consumption," JAMES KAHN
• "Deconstructing Life Cycle Expenditure," MARK AGUIAR and Erik Hurst

4:10 p.m.

Adjourn