SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

6:45-8:00am:

Historians Breakfast

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Teachers Breakfast

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12:45-5:00pm:

Poster Session

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8:30am-10:00am:

Session 7: Care

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Anthony Bald (Harvard University), “The Professionalization of Nursing: Causes and Consequences”

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Mary Eschelbach Hansen (American University), “Care and Work for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the U.S.: Links between Past Policy and Current Outcomes”

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Meredith McDonough Thornburgh (Princeton University), “Efficiency and Dignity in the Unbundled Home”

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Session 8: Premodern Living Standards and Labor Markets

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Jordan Matthew Claridge (London School of Economics), Vincent Delabastita (Radboud University) and Spike Gibbs (University of Mannheim), “Wages in the Middle Ages: The Implications of In-kind Payments on Living Standards in Late Medieval England”

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Felix Schaff (European University Institute), “The Unequal Spirit of the Protestant Reformation: Particularism and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany”

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Davis Kedrosky (University of California, Berkeley), Lukas Leucht (University of California, Berkeley) and Chiara Motta (University of California, Berkeley), “Monopsony and Competition under Colonialism”

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Session 9: Urban

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Allison Shertzer (University of Pittsburgh), Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin), Rowena Gray (University of California, Merced) and David Agorastos (University of Pittsburgh), “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006”

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Alexa Prettyman (University of California, Los Angeles), Johnny Huyhn (University of California, Los Angeles), and Martha J. Bailey (University of California, Los Angeles), “Washed Away: Lasting Effects of the Ohio Flood of 1913”

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Cory Smith (University of Maryland), “Agglomeration Over the Long Run: Evidence from County Seat Wars”

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10:00-10:30am:

Coffee Break

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10:30-am-12:00pm:

SPECIAL NOTE: This year, EHA is experimenting with ‘egg timer’ session. In the following egg timer sessions, individuals are given exactly ten minutes to present their research. Three speakers will present their 10-minute papers in a row, followed by 15 minutes of questions for all speakers, and then this pattern will be repeated to fill the 90-minute session.

Session 10: Egg Timer Session – Innovation, Finance and Urban

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Part A: Innovation/Finance

Dario Romero (NYU Abu Dhabi), “An Empire Lost: Spanish Industry and The Effect of Colonial Markets on Peripheral Innovation”

Alexander J. Field (Santa Clara University), “The Genesis and Consequence of the U.S. Rubber Famine during World War II”

Rui Esteves (Geneve Graduate Institute) and Coskun Tunçer (University College London), “’Dormant securities’: Imperial guarantees for colonial loans, 1840-1940”

Part B: Urban

Ryo Kambayashi (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Kentaro Asai (Paris School of Economics), “The Consequences of Hometown Regiment What Happened in Hometown When the Soldiers Never Returned?”

Jeff Chan (Wilfrid Laurier University), “The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Ports, 1870-1900”

Michael Huberman (Université de Montréal), Michael Hoedl (University of Vienna) and Mario Holzner (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies), “There Goes the Neighborhood: The Contrary Example of Social Housing in Red Vienna, 1923-1933”

Session 11: Egg Timer Session – Education, Institutions and Political Economy

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Part A: Education/Political Economy

Richard Uhrig (Bureau of Labor Statistics), “Low Fees, Large Barriers to Education: Evidence from Rate Bill Abolition in the United States”

James Siodla (Colby College) and Tate Twinam, (College of William & Mary), “Municipal Socialism in the United States, 1900–1940”

Eric Melander (University of Birmingham), “Brexit and the Blitz: Conflict, Collective Memory and Euroscepticism”

Part B: Institutions/Political Economy

Robert Venyige (Corvinus University of Budapest), “The Road from Serfdom: Property Rights and the End of the Feudal Economic System”

Leone Walters (Stellenbosch University), Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University), and Jonathan Schoots (Stellenbosch University), “When Protest Movements Fail: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Settler Rebellion in the Cape of Good Hope, 1770–1780”

Fernando Arteaga (University of Pennsylvania) and E. Andre L’huillier (Harrisburg University), “The Borders of Christendom: Protestant-Catholic Fault Lines in Western Europe”

Session 12: Egg Timer Session – Mortality, Land Reform and Inequality

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Part A: Mortality/Land Reform

Dana Bazarkulova (Nazarbayev University), Charles M. Becker (Duke University), and Galiya Sagyndykova (Nazarbayev University), “The Long Reach of Catastrophic Policy: Kazakhstan’s Collectivization-Induced Famine, 1931–1933”

Sijie Hu (Renmin University of China) and Runzhuo Zhai (University of Oxford), “Where Were the Missing Girls: Re-Estimating Daughters’ Survival in Chinese Lineages, 1350–1900”

Giampaolo Lecce (University of Groningen), Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati (Northwestern University), and Matteo Magnaricotte (University of Chicago), “Persistent Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform”

Part B: Inequality

Justin Robert Bucciferro, SUNY Cortland, “Historical Resource Booms and Inequality: Pennsylvania Anthracite Country in the 19th Century”

Maria Stanfors, Lund University, and Martin Dribe, Lund University, “Were All the Good Men Married? Investigating the Marriage Premium in Sweden 1947–67”

Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University, Darrell Glaser, United States Naval Academy, and Alex McQuoid, United States Naval Academy, “Learning about Personnel Economics from United States Naval History”

12-1:30pm:

Women’s Lunch

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1:30-2:30pm:

Business Meeting

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2:45-4:45pm:

Dissertation Session

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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: Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)

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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: Vellore Arthi (University of California, Irvine)

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4:45pm-5:15pm:

Coffee Break

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5:15pm-6:30pm:

Presidential Address

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EHA President: Jane T. Humphries (University of Oxford)

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6:30-7:30pm:

Cocktail Reception

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7:30-9:30pm:

Banquet and Awards

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9:45-Midnight:

President’s Reception

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