Development of the American Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Development of the American Economy Program met in Cambridge on March 24. Program Codirectors Leah Piatt Boustan of Princeton University and William J. Collins of Vanderbilt University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Samuel Bazzi and Mesay Melese Gebresilasse, Boston University, and Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER, "Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of'Rugged Individualism' in the United States"

* Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; Ethan J. Schmick, Washington & Jefferson College; and Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh and NBER, "The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South" (NBER Working Paper No. 23730)

* Vellore Arthi, University of Essex; Brian Beach, College of William and Mary and NBER; and Walker Hanlon, New York University and NBER, "Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters" (NBER Working Paper No. 23507)

* Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER, and Carl Kitchens, Florida State...