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
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Speaker
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Title
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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 |
"Agglomeration Economies: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead" |
Oct. 6 |
Brainstorming Session |
Casey Petroff & Aaron Wantanabe |
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 |
|
Carl Muller-Crepon (ETH Zurich) |
"Roads to Rule, Roads to Rebel: Relational State Capacity and Conflict in Africa" |
Course Summary:
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