Development of the American economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBERs Program on the Development of the American Economy, directed by Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on March 5. These papers were discussed:

* Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER, and Marianne H. Wanamaker, University of Tennessee and NBER, "Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men"

* Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis, and NBER, and Greg Niemesh, Miami University, "The Impact of Migration on Infant Health: Evidence from the Great Migration"

* Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University and NBER, and Matthew S. Jaremski, Colgate University and NBER, "Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks"

* Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER, and Arunima Sinha, Fordham University, "A Lesson from the Great Depression that the Fed Might have Learned: A...