ECON 2339: Economic History Lunch

 

 

Date
Speaker
Title

Feb. 9

Yeonha Jung
(Boston University)
"The Legacy of King Cotton: Agricultural Pattern and the Quality of Structural Change"

Feb. 16

Chenzi Xu
(Harvard University)
"Financial Frictions in Trade: Evidence from a Global Financial Crisis"

Feb. 23

Ellora Derenoncourt
(Harvard University)

"Minimum Wages as Anti-discrimination Policy: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act"
with Claire Montialoux (CREST & Stanford)

Mar. 2

Cory Smith
(MIT)
"Settling With the Elite: Large Landowners in America's Western Expansion"

Mar. 9

No Meeting Department Seminar

Mar. 16

No Meeting Spring Break

Mar. 23

Tzachi Raz
(Harvard University)
"An Agrarian Origin of American Individualism"

Mar. 30

Gianlucca Russo
(Boston University)
&
Max Winkler
(UZH)

"World War I Casualties and the Rise of Fascism in Italy: Evidence from La Vittoria Mutilata"

&
"Economic Development and Moral Values"

Apr. 6

Juan Galan
(Harvard University)
"The Intergenerational Mobility of Agrarian Reform"

Apr. 13

He Yang
(Harvard University)
"Monetary Union and Local Economy: Evidence from the National Banking Act of 1864"
with Chenzi Xu

Apr. 20

Imil Nurutdinov
(UCLA)
"Collective Security, Jurisdictional Conflicts, and Secularization: Catholic Military Alliances in Europe, 1200–1700"

 

Course Summary:

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