ECON 3336HFRA: Economic History Workshop

 

Fall 2017

 Date

 Speaker(s)

 Presentation (Littauer M-16, 2-3:30pm)

September 8

Robert Margo
(Boston University)

" Download The Integration of Economic History into Economics"

September 15

EHA Conference

 No Meeting

September 22

Eric Hilt
(Wellesley College)

" Download Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s"

September 29

James Kung
 (Hong Kong University) 

" Download Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Imperial Examination System

"

October 6

Eduardo Montero
(Harvard University)

" Download Mistrust in Medicine: The Legacy of Colonial Medical Campaigns in Central Africa

"
(with Sara Lowes, Bocconi University)

October 13

Guo Xu
(UC Berkeley- Haas)

 "The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire"

October 20
*Job Market talk, joint with Labor*

Ellora Derenoncourt
(Harvard University)

"Did Great Migration Destinations Become Mobility Traps?"

October 27

James Feigenbaum
(Boston University)

 
"Women’s Suffrage and Intergenerational Mobility" 

 

November 3


Jonathan Schulz
(Harvard University)

"Why Europe?: The Church, Kin-Networks and Institutional Development"
November 10

Michela Giorcelli
(UCLA)

" Download The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfers

"

November 17

Martin Saavedra
(Oberlin College) 

"Should We Trust Occupational Income Scores?"
(with Tate Twinam, University of Washington, Bothell)

November 24


Thanksgiving

No Meeting

December 1


Dan Keniston
(Yale University)

" Download Dynamics of a Malthusian Economy: India in the
Download Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza"

 

Course Summary:

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