Thursday, November 21 / 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM • Water Tower Parlor (Floor 7)

Session 4
Ideas, Language, and Media

Chair: Steven Sprick Schuster, Middle Tennessee State University
Discussant: Peter Meyer, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

1. Mass Media and Cultural Homogenization: Evidence from the Golden Age of Radio in the United States, 1920-1940 • Gianluca Russo, PhD Candidate, Economics Department, Boston University.

2. The Telegraph and News Content in the Mid-19th Century America • Tianyi Wang, University of Copenhagen.

3. Do Railroad and Telegraphs Have Independent Impacts on Antebellum Banking, Featuring an Aside about Replication and Us County Aggregation • Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau; Aaron Honsowetz, Bethany College; Tianyi Wang, University of Copenhagen.

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