Development of the American Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy met March 26 in Cambridge and online. Program Directors Leah Platt Boustan of Princeton University and William J. Collins of Vanderbilt University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children" (NBER Working Paper 29553)

* Lee J. Alston, Indiana University and NBER; Marie Duggan, Keene State College; and Julio A. Ramos Pastrana, Pennsylvania State University, "Keeping the Faith: Spanish Missions and Their Impact on Native Americans in the Southwest and California"

* Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER; Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh; Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER; Thomas P. Pearson, Boston University; and Patrick A. Testa, Tulane University, "The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New...