ECON 2339: Economic History Lunch

FALL 2017

Seminar meets Fridays in Littauer M-16 from 1:00-1:50PM.  Sandwiches and drinks are provided. The student coordinator is Casey Petroff and the course support, Gia Petrakis. 

Date
Speaker
Title

Sep. 8

Lauren Hoehn Velasco
(Boston College)

"Human Capital Formation and the Childhood Disease Environment: Evidence from Rural Public Health Improvements"

Sep. 15

No meeting Economic History Meeting in San Jose, CA

Sep. 22

Imil Nurutdinov
(UCLA)

"Market Competition, Lobbying, and Capital Misallocation: Jewish Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia, 1890–1913"

Sep. 29

 Andrew Busey
(Boston University)

"Agglomeration Economies: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead"

Oct. 6

Brainstorming Session

Casey Petroff
(Harvard University)

&

Aaron Wantanabe
(Harvard University)

Oct. 13


Marco Tabellini
(MIT)

"Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration"

Oct. 20


Juan Galan
(Harvard University)

"Building the frontier: Property rights and state capacity in Colombia"

Oct. 27


Shom Mazumder
(Harvard University)

"War, Women, and the Violent Origins of Gender Equality"

Nov. 3


Huiren Tan
(Boston University)

"Persistence and Change in the Landscape of Intergenerational Mobility"

Nov. 10


Max Harris
(Harvard University)

"Glut of Gold: The U.K., the U.S., and International Monetary Cooperation in the Tripartite Years, 1936-1939"

Nov. 17

Gedoen Lim
(Boston University)

"Village Strongmen and Accountability: The Effects of Indonesia's Tanah Bengkok"

Nov. 24

No meeting Thanksgiving Break


Dec. 1

Carl Muller-Crepon
(ETH Zurich)

 "Roads to Rule, Roads to Rebel: Relational State Capacity and Conflict in Africa"
with
Philipp Hunziker (Northeastern & Harvard) and Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH Zurich)

 

Course Summary:

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