Recent NBER Meetings

 

Yes, NBER charges for downloads of working papers, but you can watch some recent meetings for free. By the way, it has also been my experience that you can usually find ungated versions of most NBER working papers if you look around.

 

I think both the Race and Stratification Economics and the Development of the American Economy meetings should be of interest to readers of this blog.

 

The final presentation at the Race and Stratification meeting is University of Mary Washington economics alum Lavar Edmonds, who is currently working on a Ph.D. in economics at Stanford, presenting his research on the impact of HBCU trained teachers.

 

I also liked that the Race and Stratification meeting about how one could incorporate race and stratification economics into introductory economics courses.

 

NBER Race and Stratification Working Group on YouTube

 

https://www.nber.org/conferences/race-and-stratification-working-group-spring-2023

 

Caste-based and Racial Wealth Inequality in India and the United States

Ishan Anand, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

 

Discussants:

Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER

Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka University

 

Perceptions of Racial Gaps, their Causes, and Ways to Reduce Them

Matteo F. Ferroni, Boston University

Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

 

Discussants:

Michael Kraus, Yale University

Candis Watts Smith, Duke University

 

Unequal Gradients: Sex, Skin Tone, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Luis A. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Roberto Vélez-Grajales, Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias

Gastón Yalonetzky, Leeds University

 

Discussants:

Art Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University

Chantal Smith, Washington and Lee University

 

Teaching Discrimination in Introductory Economics: An Approach Incorporating Stratification Economics

Jorgen M. Harris, Occidental College

Mary Lopez, Occidental College

 

Complementary Investments Over the Life Course and the Black-White Earnings Gap

Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Warwick

Damian Clarke, Universidad de Chile

Atheendar Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Estimating Disenfranchisement in U.S. Elections, 1870-1970

Jeffery A. Jenkins, University of Southern California

Thomas R. Gray, University of Texas at Dallas

 

The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada

Donn. L. Feir, University of Victoria

Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto

Maggie E.C. Jones, Emory University and NBER

 

A Simple Model of Group Conflict, Inequality and Stratification

Daniele Tavani, Colorado State University

Brendan Brundage, Colorado State University

 

Discussants:

Pablo Beramendi, Duke University

Patrick L. Mason, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Racial Disparities in the Tax Treatment of Marriage

Janet Holtzblatt, Tax Policy Center

Swati Joshi, Brookings Institution

Nora R. Cahill, Brookings Institution

William Gale, Brookings Institution

 

Not so Black and White: Uncovering Racial Bias from Systematically Misreported Trooper Reports

Elizabeth Luh, University of Michigan

 

Economic Inequality and Stratification after a Natural Disaster

Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University

 

Role Models Revisited: HBCUs, Same-Race Teacher Effects, and Black Student Achievement

Lavar C. Edmonds, Stanford University

Discussant:

Michael Gottfried, University of Pennsylvania

Karolyn Tyson, Georgetown University

 

 

NBER Development of the American Economy Program meeting on YouTube

 

https://www.nber.org/conferences/development-american-economy-program-meeting-spring-2023

 

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER

Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER

Ferdinando Monte, Georgetown University and NBER

Martin B. Schmitz, Vanderbilt University

 

Legal Activism, State Policy, and Racial Inequality in Teacher Salaries and Educational Attainment in the Mid-Century American South

Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER

Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER

This paper was distributed as Working Paper 30631, where an updated version may be available.

 

US Educational Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century

Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University

Paul Mohnen, University of Pennsylvania

 

The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets

Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER

Carola Frydman, Northwestern University and NBER

Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER

This paper was distributed as Working Paper 31064, where an updated version may be available.

 

Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition

James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University and NBER

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University

Sophie Li, Boston University

 

“Muddling Through or Tunnelling Through?”: UK Monetary and Fiscal Exceptionalism during the Great Inflation

Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER

Oliver Bush, Bank of England

Ryland Thomas, Bank of England