ECON 3004: Graduate Student Workshop in Economic History
Fall 2018
Lunch will be provided at 12:00pm, with presentations from 12:15-1:05
September 14 | Siddharth George (Harvard University) |
"Like Father, Like Son? How Political Dynasties Affect Economic Development" |
September 21 | Yeonha Jung (Boston University) |
"The Legacy of King Cotton: Agricultural Patterns and Counter-Productive Structural Change" |
September 28 *12:00pm start** |
Huiren Tan (Boston University) |
"A Different Land of Opportunity: The Historical Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in Early 20th-Century US" |
October 5 | Shom Mazumder (Harvard University) |
"No Nation Left Behind? The Impact of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Immigrant Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration" |
October 12 | Max Winkler (University of Zurich) |
"Connectedness and Cultural Change: Evidence from the Expansion of the US Railroad Network" |
October 19 |
Tzachi Raz (Harvard University) |
"Free Land: The Homestead Act and the Development of the American West" (with Ross Mattheis) |
October 26 | Duman Bahrami-Rad (Harvard University) |
"Keeping It in the Family: Female Inheritance, Inmarriage, and the Status of Women" |
November 2 |
Phillip Ross (Boston University) |
"Ancestral Roots of Locus of Control" |
November 9 |
Felipe Jordan |
"The Economic and Environmental Effects of Dividing Indigenous Communities: The Case of the Mapuche People in Southern Chile" |
November 16 |
Martin Fernandez-Sanchez (Paris School of Economics) |
"Mass Migration and Education at Origin over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora in Latin America" |
November 23 | No meeting | Thanksgiving |
November 30 |
Casey Petroff (Harvard University) |
"Patterns in American Mortality in the 20th and 21st Centuries" |
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