Detailed Schedule
Detailed Schedule
Friday, September 20
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Institutions and Geography |
Steven Nafziger (Williams College) |
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Scott Abramson (Princeton University) |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech) |
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Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Resources, Politics, Economics, and Curses: Evidence from the United States 1929-2002 |
Gavin Wright (Stanford University) |
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William F. Maloney (World Bank) Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
Alejandra Irigoin (London School of Economics) |
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Education and Human Capital |
Richard Steckel (Ohio State University) |
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Joerg Baten (University of Tübingen) Dacil Juif (University of Tübingen) |
Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) |
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Tomas Cvrcek (Clemson University) Miroslav Zajicek (University of Economics in Prague) |
Alexander Klein (University of Kent) |
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Edward Kosack (University of Colorado Boulder) |
The Bracero Program and Effects on Human Capital Investments in Mexico, 1942-1964 |
Graciela Marquez (Colegio de Mexico) |
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Colonialism |
Alan Dye (Barnard College) |
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Wim van Lent (ESSEC Business School) |
Peter Koudijs (Stanford University) |
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Warren Whatley (University of Michigan) Morgan Henderson (University of Michigan) |
The Impact of Colonialism on African Development: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas |
Mark Koyama (George Mason University) |
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Dongwoo Yoo (West Virginia University) |
Is the British Colonization Better than that of the French?: A Study of Vanuatu |
Elise Huillery (Sciences-Po) |
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Marlous van Waijenburg (Northwestern University) Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University) |
Claudia Rei (Vanderbilt University) |
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Depression and Recovery |
Price Fishback (University of Arizona) |
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Martha Olney (University of California, Berkeley) Aaron Pacitti (Siena College) |
Chris Hanes (Binghampton University) |
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Andrew Bossie (City University of New York) |
Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University) |
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Natacha Postel-Vinay (London School of Economics) |
What Caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A Look at the 1920s |
Mark Carlson (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) |
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Martin Uebele (University of Groningen) Thilo Albers (University of Muenster) |
A Monthly International Data Set for the Interwar Period: Taking the Debate to the Next Level |
Gabe Mathy (University of California, Davis) |
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Labor Markets |
Joyce Burnette (Wabash College) |
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Sam Allen (Virginia Military Institute) Price Fishback (University of Arizona) |
The Impact of Progressive Era Labor Regulations on the Manufacturing Labor Market |
Carolyn Moehling (Rutgers University) |
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Jessica Bean (Denison University) |
Susan Wolcott (Binghampton University) |
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Sumner La Croix (University of Hawaii) Timothy Halliday (University of Hawaii) |
Sons, Daughters, and Labor Supply in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii |
Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick) |
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Yukiko Abe (Hokkaido University) Giorgio Brunello (Università degli Studi di Padova) |
On the Historical Development of Regional Differences in Women’s Participation in Japan |
Joyce Burnette (Wabash College) |
Saturday, September 21
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Africa |
Anne McCants (MIT) |
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Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University) |
Market Integration in South Africa Before and After Unification |
Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley) |
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Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics) |
Was Independence Really Better than Colonial Rule? A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone |
Ann Carlos (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
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Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex) Remi Jedwab (George Washington University) Edward Kerby (London School of Economics) |
Colonial Investments and African Development: Further Evidence from Railroads in Kenya |
Rick Hornbeck (Harvard University) |
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Railroads |
Louis Cain (Loyola University Chicago) |
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Jeremy Atack (Vanderbilt University) Matthew Jaremski (Colgate University) Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University) |
American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War |
Peter Temin (MIT) |
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Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) Thor Berger (Lund University) |
Locomotives of Local Growth: the Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden |
Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) |
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Ross Knippenberg (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
John Larson (Purdue University) |
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Population and Health |
Joerg Baten (University of Tübingen) |
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Martin Dribe (Lund University) Hilde Bras (Radboud University Nijmegen) Marco Breschi (University of Sassari) Alain Gagnon (University of Montreal) Danielle Gauvreau (University of Concordia) Thomas N. Maloney (University of Utah) Joseph Molitoris (Lund University) Lucia Pozzi (University of Sassari) Helene Vezina (University of Quebec at Chicoutimi) |
Socioeconomic Status and Fertility: Insights from Historical Transitions in Europe and North America |
Michael Haines (Colgate University) |
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Briggs Depew (University of Arizona) Griffin Edwards (Southern Utah University) |
Shari Eli (University of Toronto) |
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Anthony Wray (Northwestern University) Krzysztof Karbownik (Uppsala University) |
Childhood Illness and Occupational Choice in London, 1870-1911 |
Werner Troesken (University of Pittsburgh) |
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Institutions and Beliefs |
Tomothy Guinnane (Yale University) |
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Jared Rubin (Chapman University) Avner Greif (Stanford University) |
The Reformation, Political Legitimacy and the Origin of the Modern Economy in England |
Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine) |
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Lee Alston (University of Colorado) Marcus Melo (Federal University of Pernambuco) Bernardo Mueller (University of Brasilia) |
Beliefs, Leadership and Economic Development: Making the Critical Transition |
Shawn Kantor (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) |
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Jordi Vidal-Robert (University of Warwick) |
The Persistence of the Inquisitorial Mind: Long-Run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition |
Warren Anderson (University of Michigan, Dearborn) |
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Industry and Trade |
Gianni Toniolo (Duke University and LUISS) |
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Felip Benguria (University of Virginia) |
U.S. Manufacturing during the Great Depression: Evidence from the Biennial Census of Manufactures |
John Moore (Walsh College) |
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Tamas Vonyo (London School of Economics) |
The Wartime Origins of the Wirtschaftswunder: The Growth of West German Industry, 1938-1955 |
Noel Johnson (George Mason University) |
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Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark) Karl Gunnar Persson (University of Copenhagen) |
Jules Hugot (Sciernces-Po) |
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Financial Crises |
Eugene White (Rutgers University) |
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Alexander Field (Santa Clara University) |
The Savings and Loan Insolvencies in the Shadow of 2007-2023 |
Jonathan Rose (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) |
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Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn) Alan Taylor (University of California, Davis) Oscar Jorda (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University) |
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Peter Temin (MIT) |
Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) |
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Sunday, September 22
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Finance |
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University) |
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Marc Flandreau (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) |
Larry Neal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
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Veronica Santarosa (University of Michigan) |
Philip Hoffman (Caltech) |
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Patrick van Horn (New College of Florida) Haelim Park (U.S. Treasury) |
Eric Hilt (Wellesley College) |
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Technology |
Tom Nicholas (Harvard Business School) |
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James Bessen (Boston University School of Law) Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’ Anna School of Advamced Studies, Pisa) |
Ross Thomson (University of Vermont) |
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Leonard Dudley (Université de Montréal) |
Necessity's Children? The Inventions of the Industrial Revolution |
Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
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Harry Kitsikopoulos (New York University) |
The Diffusion of Newcomen Engines, 1700-70: A Revisionist Assessment |
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) |
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Migration and Inequality |
Simone Wegge (College of Staten Island – CUNY) |
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Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee) William J. Collins (Vanderbilt University) |
John Brown (Clark University) |
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Yannay Spitzer (Northwestern University) |
Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) |
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Livio Di Matteo (Lakehead University) |
Tops and Bottoms: Wealth Extremes in Late Nineteenth Century Ontario – Where Were the Rich People? |
Chris Minns (London School of Economics) |
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Long Run Growth and Living Standards |
Sacha Becker (University of Warwick) |
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Christian Skovsgard (University of Southern Denmark) Thomas Andersen (University of Southern Denmark) Peter Jensen (University of Southern Denmark) |
The Heavy Plough and the European Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages |
Eona Karakacilli (University of Western Ontario) |
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Guido Alfani (Bocconi University) |
Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) |
Peter Lindert (University of California, Davis) |
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Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia) David Gonzalez Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) |
Housing and the Cost of Living in Early Modern Toledo, 1489-1650 |
Regina Grafe (Northwestern University) |