DAE program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy, directed by Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on April 14, 2012. These papers were discussed:

* Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER, and Ebonya L. Washington, Yale University and NBER, "Valuing the Vote: The Redistribution of Voting Rights and State Funds Following the Voting Rights Act of 1965" (NBER Working Paper No. 17776)

* Dave Donaldson, MIT and NBER, and Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University and NBER, "Railroads and American...