2024 Meeting Program
Program Overview
Friday, September 6, 2024
9:00am-12:30pm: Tours
8am-12pm: EHA Board of Trustees Meeting
10am: Poster Session Setup
10am-12pm: Job Market Workshop
12:45-5:00pm: Poster Session (Sponsored by Brill)
1-2:30pm: Sessions 1-3
2:30-3pm: Coffee Break
3-4:30pm: Sessions 4-6
4:45-5:30pm: Plenary Session 1
5:45-6:30pm: Plenary Session 2
7-9:00pm: Graduate Student Dinner
Saturday, September 7, 2024
6:45-8am: Historians and Teachers Breakfasts
8:30am-5:15pm: Poster Session (Sponsored by Brill)
8:30-10am: Sessions 7-9
10-10:30am: Coffee Break
10:30-12pm: Egg Timer Sessions 10-12
12-1:30pm: Women’s Lunch
1:30-2:30pm: Business Meeting
2:45-4:45pm: Dissertation Session
4:45pm-5:15pm: Coffee Break
5:15pm-6:30pm: Presidential Address
6:30-7:30pm: Cocktail Reception
7:30-9:30pm: Banquet and Awards
Sunday, September 8, 2024
7-8:30am: Full Buffet Breakfast (Sponsored by Global Financial Data)
8:30-10am: Sessions 13-15
10-10:30am: Coffee Break
10:30-12pm: Sessions 16-18
Noon: Conference Ends
Detailed Schedule
Friday, September 6
9:30am-11:30am:
Tour 1 – Tour of the California State Capitol Building
The tour will begin at 9:30am, so please arrive at the hotel lobby of the Sheraton Grand approximately five minutes before the tour begins.
9:30am-12:00pm:
Tour 2 – Tour of the Stanford Mansion
This tour will meet in the lobby of the Sheraton Grand at 9:30am then walk to the mansion which is just 15 minutes away. The tour lasts about 45 minutes, but there will be time to check out the state park after.
10:00am-12:30pm:
Tour 3 – Tour of the California State Railroad Museum
This tour will meet in the lobby of the Sheraton Grand at 9:00am as it will take about 20 minutes to walk to the museum. The tour will begin at 10am, so there will be a few minutes before the tour to explore Old Sacramento, which is where the museum is located.
10:00am-12:00pm:
Job Market Workshop
Conveners: Andy Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh) and Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University)
Location: Tofanelli
12:45-5:00pm:
Poster Session
Location: Magnolia
1:00-2:30pm:
Session 1: Trade Costs
Room: Tofanelli
Chair: Kristen Wandschneider (University of Vienna)
Jiwon Choi (Brandeis University) and Ahna Pearson (University of Michigan), “The Economic Consequences of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act”
Discussant: Andrew Greenland (North Carolina State University)
David Jacks (National University of Singapore), Chris Meissner (University of California, Davis) and Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “Suez”
Discussant: Noel Maurer (George Washington University)
James Harrison (United States Naval Academy) and Mario Crucini (Purdue University), “The Many Sources of Variation in Real Tariff Rates: The United States, 1914-1934”
Discussant: Adina Ardelean (Santa Clara University)
Session 2: Institutions and Labor Markets
Room: Compagno
Chair: Michael Huberman (Université de Montréal)
Andrea Ramazzotti (CSEF, University of Naples Federico II), “The Influence of Sectoral Minimum Wages on School Enrollment and Educational Choices: Evidence from Italy in the 1960s-1980s”
Discussant: Diana Ngo (Occidental College)
Henry Downes (University of Notre Dame), “Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom”
Discussant: Andrew Holt (Midwestern State University)
Alejandro Martínez-Marquina (University of Southern California), “Ingraining Traditional Gender Roles in the Classroom: Evidence from the Spanish Social Service”
Discussant: Laura Salisbury (York University)
Session 3: State Building and Reform
Room: Bataglieri
Chair: Latika Chaudhary (Naval Postgraduate School)
Matthias Weigand (Harvard University) and Luis Bosshart (London School of Economics), “Crisis, State Capacity and the Making of Autocracy: Evidence from the Thirty Years’ War”
Discussant: Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki)
Laura Panza (University of Melbourne) and Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol), “Nation-Building and Mass Migration: Evidence from Mandatory Palestine”
Discussant: Yannay Spitzer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Oliver Kim (University of California, Berkeley) and Joel Ferguson (University of California, Berkeley), “Reassessing China’s Rural Reforms: The View from Outer Space”
Discussant: Pei Gao (Yale-NUS College)
2:30-3:00pm:
Coffee Break
Location: Magnolia
3:00-4:30pm:
Session 4: Financial and Macro Stability
Room: Tofanelli
Chair: Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
Jennifer Rhee (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), Haelim Anderson (Bank Policy Institute) and Jaewon Choi (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “CEO Ownership, Risk Management, and Bank Runs at Unlimited Liability Banks during the 1890s”
Discussant: Sriya Anbil (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
Jacob Weber (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and Jerry Jiang (University of California, Berkeley), “Who Collaborates with the Soviets? Financial Distress and Technology Transfer during the Great Depression”
Discussant: Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt University)
Alan M. Taylor (Columbia University), David Aikman (King’s College London) and Oliver Bush (Bank of England and London School of Economics), “Monetary versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe Report”
Discussant: Todd Messer (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
Session 5: Race in the U.S.
Room: Compagno
Chair: Melinda Miller (Virginia Tech)
Patrick Testa (Tulane University) and Jhacova Williams (American University), “Political Foundations of Racial Violence in the Post-Reconstruction South”
Discussant: Andy Ferrara (University of Pittsburgh)
Omer Ali (University of Pittsburgh), “The Impact of Federal Housing Policies on Racial Inequality: The Case of the Federal Housing Administration”
Discussant: Price Fishback (University of Arizona)
Micah Villarreal (University of California, Santa Barbara), “The Effect of Wealth on Descendants of the Enslaved”
Discussant: A. R. Shariq Mohammed (Northeastern University)
Session 6: Science, Knowledge Diffusion, and Development
Room: Bataglieri
Chair: Gregory Clark (University of Southern Denmark)
Chiara Zanardello (UC Louvain), “Early Modern Academies, Universities and Growth”
Discussant: Peter Nencka (Miami University of Ohio)
Réka Juhász (University of British Columbia), Shogo Sakabe (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and David Weinstein (Columbia University) “Codification and Technology Absorption: Evidence from Trade Patterns”
Discussant: John Tang (Utrecht University)
Tomas Cvrcek (University College London), “Industrial Revolution Uncensored: Institutional Change and Useful Human Capital in the Wake of the 1848 Revolution”
Discussant: David de la Croix (Université Catholique de Louvain)
4:45-5:30pm:
Plenary Session 1
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
Chair: Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College)
Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Title: “Maladaptive? – Western Culture in a Changing World”
5:45-6:30pm:
Plenary Session 2
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
Chair: Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College)
Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki)
Title: “New Developments in Russian Economic History”
7-9:00pm:
Graduate Student Dinner
Location: Federalist Pizza (2009 Matsui Alley)
Saturday, September 7
6:45-8:00am:
Historians Breakfast
Room: Beavis
Speaker: Antonio J. Bly (Sacramento State University)
Teachers Breakfast
Room: Bondi
Speaker: Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University)
8:30am-5:15pm:
Poster Session
Location: Magnolia
8:30am-10:00am:
Session 7: Empires and Their Effects
Room: Tofanelli
Chair: Angela Redish (The University of British Columbia)
Kerem Cosar (University of Virginia) and Roberto Bonfatti (University of Padova), “Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages”
Discussant: Chris Meissner (University of California, Davis)
Christopher Absell (University of Gothenburg) and Stefania Galli (University of Gothenburg), “Who Gained from the Decline of British Imperial Preference?”
Discussant: David Jacks (Yale-NUS)
Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics), “Who Governed Colonial Africa? Taxation and Representation in the British Empire”
Discussant: Laura Panza (University of Melbourne)
Session 8: Political Economy
Room: Compagno
Chair: Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
Alexander Yarkin (Brown University and LISER, Luxembourg) and Dmitry Veselov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), “Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence”
Discussant: Alvaro La Parra-Perez (Weber State University)
Monique Reiske (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Thilo Albers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Felix Kersting (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), “Losing the Country: Debt, Deflation, and the Rural Rise of the Nazi Party”
Discussant: John Brown (Clark University)
Andrew Dickens (Brock University) and Mathias Bühler (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), “From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information”
Discussant: Tianyi Wang (University of Toronto)
Session 9: The Effects of Transportation Networks
Room: Bataglieri
Chair: Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine)
Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere (University of British Columbia), “Displacement and Infrastructure Provision: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System”
Discussant: Hanna Schwank (University of Bonn)
Youwei Xing (Clemson University), “The Erie Canal and the Economic Transformation of Nineteenth-Century New York State”
Discussant: James Harrison (U.S. Naval Academy)
Tobias Korn (Leibniz University Hannover) and Jean Lacroix (University Paris Saclay), “Derailing Fortunes: Market Integration and Labor Reallocation in Industrializing Britain”
Discussant: Gabriel Mathy (American University)
10:00-10:30am:
Coffee Break
Location: Magnolia
10:30am-12:00pm:
SPECIAL NOTE: In the following egg timer sessions, individuals are given exactly ten minutes to present their research. Q&A will follow after all papers are presented in each part or session, depending on how the chair organizes the time.
Session 10: Egg Timer Session – Education and Labor
Room: Tofanelli
Chair: Santiago Perez (University of California, Davis)
Seán Lyons (University College Dublin), Míde Griffin (Trinity College Dublin) and Anne Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin), “Domestic Technology and Human Capital Formation: Rural Electrification and Secondary School Enrollments in Ireland”
Cyril Thomson (University of Padova), “Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in Colonial India”
Manfredi Aliberti (RED – Rome Economics Doctorate), “The Effects of PhD Programs on Innovation”
Michael Andrews (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Ryan Hill (Northwestern University), Joseph Price (Brigham Young University) and Riley Wilson (Brigham Young University), “The Influence of Adult Neighbors on Children’s Future Occupation Choice”
James Landin Smith (University of California, Berkeley), “Education and Local Markets for (Child) Labor: Evidence from the Development of the US South”
Eoin Dignam (London School of Economics), “Climate Adaptation, Women’s Work, and the Demographic Transition in France: 1851-1911”
Session 11: Egg Timer Session – In Two Parts
Room: Compagno
Chair: Simone Selva (Universitá di Napoli L’Orientale)
Part A: Chinese Economic History
Yiling Zhao (Peking University), Miao Meng (Renmin University) and Zhang Lei (Renmin University) “Salt Trafficking and Violent Human Capital”
Hanzhi Deng (Fudan University), “International Clan Linkage and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Coastal China, 1978-2000”
Part B: International Finance and Trade
Vincent Geloso (George Mason University), Casey Pender (Carleton University) and Jamie Pavlik (Texas Tech University), “Reaffirming the Wheat Boom: New Evidence for Structural Breaks in Canadian Economic Growth”
Matthias Morys (University of York), Éric Monnet (Paris School of Economics) and Guillaume Bazot (University of Paris VIII), “Central Banks and the Absorption of International Shocks, 1890-2021”
Jeremy Land (University of Gothenburg), “On Tariffs: An Analytical Framework”
Session 12: Egg Timer Session – Thousand Flowers
Room: Bataglieri
Chair: Sumner La Croix (University of Hawaii)
Jon Denton-Schneider (Clark University) and Jennifer Mayo (University of Missouri), “Rags to Rags: The Effects of the New Poor Law across Three Generations”
Víctor M. Gómez Blanco (University of Valencia) and Miguel Artola Blanco (Carlos III University of Madrid), “Top Earners and the Great Compression: New Estimates Based on Tax Records”
Mengyue Zhao (University of Oxford), “Practical Use of Deep Learning and Generative AI in Data Extraction from Large Historical Archives: The Example of US Census 1950”
Javier Silvestre (Universidad de Zaragoza), Ignacio Cazcarro (Universidad de Zaragoza), Miguel Martín-Retortillo (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid), Ana Serrano (Universidad de Zaragoza) and Guillermo Rodríguez López (Universidad de Zaragoza), “Retaining Population with Water? Irrigation Policies and Depopulation in Spain Over the Long Term”
Michael Poyker (University of Texas at Austin) and Maxim Ananyev (University of Melbourne), “Prisons and Homophobia”
12-1:30pm:
Women’s Lunch
Location: Morgan’s (2nd Level)
1:30-2:30pm:
Business Meeting
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
2:45-4:45pm:
Dissertation Session
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
Gerschenkron Prize
The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada completed during the preceding year.
Chair and Convener: Vincent Geloso (George Mason University)
Mallory Hope (PhD: Yale University, Current: University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Underwriting Risk: Trade, War, Insurance, and Legal Institutions in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
Felix Schaff (PhD: London School of Economics, Current: European University Institute)
Exploring the Political Economy Causes of Inequality in Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)
Colin Sharpe (PhD: Vanderbilt University, Current: University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Three Essays on Legal Institutions and Growth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Nevins Prize
The Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History is awarded annually by the Economic History Association on behalf of Columbia University Press for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history completed during the previous year.
Chair and Convener: John Parman (College of William and Mary)
Katherine Hauck (PhD: University of Arizona, Current: University of California, Davis)
The Impact of the Homestead Act on Land Acquisition Decisions and Productivity in the American Midwest
Carlo Medici (PhD: Northwestern University, Current: Brown University)
Essays in Labor Economics, Political Economy, and Economic History
Laura Weiwu (PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Current: Stanford University)
Essays on Inequality in Cities: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System
4:45pm-5:15pm:
Coffee Break
Location: Magnolia
5:15pm-6:30pm:
Presidential Address
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
Convener: Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley)
EHA President: Douglas A. Irwin (Dartmouth College)
Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Wave of the 1990s
6:30-7:30pm:
Cocktail Reception
Location: Foyer and Magnolia
7:30-9:30pm:
Banquet and Awards
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
Sunday, September 8
7:00-8:30am:
Full Buffet Breakfast (Sponsored by Global Financial Data)
Room: Grand Nave Ballroom
8:30-10:00am:
Session 13: Gender, Occupation and Technological Change
Room: Tofanelli
Chair: Ann Carlos (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Jinyan Chang (Miami University), “Were Breadwinners Male? Impact of Technological Advancement and Industrialization on Labor Market Gender Gaps in Antebellum America”
Discussant: Jessica Bean (Denison University)
Yuzuru Kumon (Norwegian School of Economics) and Erika Igarashi (Hitotsubashi University), “The Gender Division of Labor and Structural Transformation: Industrializing Japan”
Discussant: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford University)
Myera Rashid (Northwestern University), “Engine of Intergenerational Mobility: Typewriter Adoption and Women’s Economic Outcomes”
Discussant: Daniela Vidart (University of Connecticut)
Session 14: Internal and External Migration
Room: Compagno
Chair: Rowena Gray (University of California, Merced)
Dongkyu Yang (University of Colorado – Boulder), “Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South”
Discussant: Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
Yannay Spitzer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Leticia Arroyo Abad (CUNY, Queens College), José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez (Yale University) and Ariell Zimran (Vanderbilt University), “The First Transatlantic Mass Migration: Spain 1492-1540”
Discussant: Katherine Eriksson (University of California, Davis)
Stefan Smutny (University of Vienna) and Kirsten Wandschneider (University of Vienna), “A Taxing Journey: Tax Adoptions and Interstate Migration in the Early 20th Century”
Discussant: John Parman (College of William and Mary)
Session 15: Conflict and Social Unrest
Room: Bataglieri
Chair: Debin Ma (Oxford University)
Chicheng Ma (University of Hong Kong), Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia) and Yujing Huang (UCLA Anderson School of Management), “Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860–1911”
Discussant: Debin Ma (Oxford University)
Liang Diao (INRAE, France), Douglas Allen (Simon Fraser University) and Warren Anderson (University of Michigan-Dearborn), “Westward Expansion and the Impact on Native-White Conflicts”
Discussant: Maggie Jones (Emory University)
Pei Gao (Yale-NUS College), Yu-Hsiang Lei (Yale-NUS College) and Shuo Chen (Fudan University), “The Double-Edged Sword of Efficient Communication: The Impact of Telegraph Network on Social Unrest in China”
Discussant: Aaron Honsowetz (Bethany College)
10:00-10:30am:
Coffee Break
Location: Magnolia
10:30am-12:00pm:
Session 16: Public Health
Room: Tofanelli
Chair: Melissa Thomasson (Miami University)
Pietro Buri (Princeton University), “The Urban Mortality Transition and the Transformation of the American City (1880-1930)”
Discussant: Mark Anderson (Montana State University)
Grant Goehring (Boston University) and Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University), “How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain”
Discussant: Melissa Thomasson (Miami University)
Mounir Karadja (Uppsala University), Thor Berger (Uppsala University and Lund University), Erik Prawitz (Linnaeus University), and Martin Önnerfors (Stockholm University), “Water and the Urban Mortality Decline: Micro-Level Evidence from Stockholm”
Discussant: Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University)
Session 17: The Effects of Trade within Countries
Room: Compagno
Chair: Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)
Diego Castañeda Garza (Uppsala University), “Import Substitution Inequalization? Mexico’s Mesocratic Industrialization 1935-1963”
Discussant: Kerem Cosar (University of Virginia)
Carla Salvo (Sapienza University of Rome), “Does Trade Liberalization Boost Innovation? Evidence from French Industrial Sectors in the 19th Century”
Discussant: Jiwon Choi (Brandeis University)
Mark Hup (Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Labor Coercion and Trade: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia”
Discussant: Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics)
Session 18: Race, Gender, and Voting
Room: Bataglieri
Chair: Ana Tur Prats (University of California, Merced)
Jeanne Lafortune (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) and Francisco Pino (Universidad de Chile), “Women’s Suffrage and Men’s Voting Patterns”
Discussant: Peter Zhixian Lin (Western Kentucky)
Alice Calder (University of New South Wales), “One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage”
Discussant: Roger Ransom (University of California, Riverside)