Development of the American Economy.

• 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 7. These papers were discussed:

* Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; Joshua Lewis, Universite de Montreal; and Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University, "Benefits and Costs of Electricity Pre-Clean Air Act"

* B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER, "Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization" (NBER Working Paper No. 20854)

* Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER, and Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER, "Means-Tested Old Age Support and Private Behavior: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program"

* Andrew Goodman-Bacon, University of California, Berkeley, "Public Insurance and Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Implementation"

* Felipe Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley; Guillermo Marshall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and...