Corruption and reform.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on "Corruption and Reform" organized by Research Associates Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, both of Harvard University, took place in Salem, Massachusetts on July 30 and 31. The program was:

Matthew Gentzkow, Harvard University; and Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Gold, in, "The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why it Mattered" Discussant: Paul Rhode, NBER and University of North Carolina

Howard Bodenhorn, NBER and Lafayette College, "Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform" (NBER Working Paper No. 10479) Discussant: Lee Alston, NBER and University of Colorado

Stanley L. Engerman, NBER and University of Rochester; and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, NBER and University of California, Los Angeles, "Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Corruption in the Building of the Erie and other New York Canals" Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser

William Novak, University" of Chicago, "Law and the Social Control of Business in the Progressive Era" Discussant: Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University

Price V. Fishback, NBER and University of Arizona, "Reform or Employer Capture? The Role of Employers in the Development of Industrial Safety Regulation through the Progressive Era" Discussant: Lawrence F. Katz, NBER and Harvard University

Gary D. Libecap, NBER and University of Arizona, and Marc Law, University of Vermont, "Corruption and Reform? The Emergence of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act" Discussant: Raymond Fisman, NBER and Columbia University, and Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University

David M. Cutler, NBER and Harvard University, and Grant Miller...