ECON 3336HFRB: Economic History Workshop

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Spring 2018

 Date

 Speaker(s)

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

February 9

Benjamin Olken
(MIT) and Melissa Dell (Harvard)

 "The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java"

February 16

Donna Feir
(University of Victoria)

"The Slaughter of the Bison and the Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains"

February 23

Daron Acemoglu
(MIT)

 "Social Conflict, Mafia, and State Capacity"

March 2

Leonardo Bursztyn
 (University of Chicago) 

"Killer Incentives: Relative Position, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939-45"

March 9

No Meeting

Department Seminar

March 16

No Meeting

Spring Break

March 23

Martin Fiszbein & Sam Bazzi
(Boston University)

 "Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of 'Rugged Individualism' in the United States"

March 30

Julia Cage
(Sciences Po Paris)

 "Sex and the Mission: The Conflicting Effects of Early Christian Investments on the HIV Epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa"
with Valeria Rueda

April 6
Tymon Słoczyński
(Brandeis University)

 "Landscape Change and Market Integration in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data"
April 13

Michael Clemens
(Center for Global Development)

"Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion"
April 20
Philipp Ager
(University of Southern Denmark) 
 "The Kindergarten Movement and the US Demographic Transition"
with Francesco Cinnirella and Peter Sandholt Jensen

 

 

Course Summary:

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