ASSA 2004
ASSA January 2004
Cliometric Society Sessions
The Cliometric Society will sponsor three sessions at the ASSA meetings in San Diego, California, January 3-5, 2004.
Session 1: The Evolution of Health
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2004
Time: 10:15 a.m.
Room: Marriott/Columbia 1
Presiding: Robert Fogel, University of Chicago
Papers:
- Richard Easterlin, University of Southern California
Title: Health and Happiness: Do People Adapt?
- Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern, and Werner Troesken, Pittsburgh
Title: Death in the City: Mortality and Access to Public Water and Sewer in Chicago, 1880
- Melissa Thomasson, Miami University (OH)
Title: From Home to Hospital: The Evolution of Birth in the United States, 1930-1950
- R. Max Henderson, University of Chicago
Title: Health Inequality in Mexico since 1900
Discussants:
Daniel Hamermesh, University of Texas - Austin and NBER
David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
Janet Currie, University of California - Los Angeles and NBER
Richard Steckel, Ohio State University and NBER
Presiding Contact:
Dora Costa
Department of Economics
MIT, Building E52-274C
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone: 1-617-253-2989
Fax: 1-617-253-1330
Email: costa@mit.edu
Session 2: Profits, Wages, and Unemployment in U.S. Economic History
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2004
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Room: Marriott/Columbia 1
Presiding: T.B.A.
Papers:
- Robert Margo and Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, and Fred Bateman, University of Georgia
Title: Rates of Return in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880
- Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University
Title: Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach Their Implicit Contracts?
- Chulhee Lee, Seoul National University
Title: Industrial Characteristics and Unemployment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early-Twentieth-Century America
- Samuel Allen, University of Arizona
Title: Wages, Social Insurance and Truncated Benefits: Measuring the Impacts of Workers' Compensation
Discussants:
Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University
Presiding Contact:
Werner Troesken
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 1-412-648-7459
Fax: 1-412-648-9074
Email: troesken@pitt.edu
Session 3: Technology and Industrial Organization
Date: Sunday, January 4, 2004
Time: 8:00 a.m.
Room: Marriott/Oceanside
Presiding: Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh
Papers:
- Alan Olmstead, University of California - Davis, and Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Title: The "Tuberculous Cattle Trust"
- Michael Haupert and Kenneth Winter, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse
Title: Baseball as a Financial Investment: A Study of the New York Yankees, 1914-1937
- Ray Cohn, Illinois State University
Title: The Change from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States
- Wayne Grove, LeMoyne College, and Craig Heinicke, Baldwin-Wallace
Title: Diffusion of the Cotton Picking Machine, 1949-1964
Discussant: Thomas Maloney, University of Utah
Presiding Contact:
Werner Troesken
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 1-412-648-7459
Fax: 1-412-648-9074
Email: troesken@pitt.edu