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 March 5, 2011. These topics were discussed:

* Richard C. Sutch, University of California, Riverside and NBER, "Hard Work, Nonemployment, and the Wealth-Age Profile: Evidence of a Life-Cycle Strategy in the United States During the Nineteenth Century"

* Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER, "How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? VA Home Loans and the Mid-20th Century Transformation in U.S. Housing Markets"

* Leah Platt Boustan, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER, "White Suburbanization and African-American Home Ownership, 1940-1980" (NBER Working Paper No. 16702)

* Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; Jeff Lingwall, Carnegie Mellon University...