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    Naomi Lamoreaux
    … forms and contractual freedom in the US and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the public/private … state constitutional changes mandating general laws in the nineteenth-century US, and the US Patent Office as a site of learning in …
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    Leah Boustan
    … She has worked on the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II and the mass … migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her first book, … migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her first book, …
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    Economic History Workshop, 2001/02 – 2011/12
    … UCLA, "Franchise Extension and Elite Persistence: The Post-Slavery Caribbean Plantation Complex" [ Paper ] May 7 Nancy … Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, "Slave Productivity in Cotton Production by Gender, Age, Season, and Scale" (with … of Cambridge, "The Late Nineteenth Century Trade Boom: Declining Trade Costs versus Economic Expansion" (with …
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    Events Calendar
    … Events Calendar … Events Calendar Date Range Min Max Event Type - Any - Conference Guest Lecture Kuznets Lecture Lecture Lunch Seminar Webinar Workshop Event Venue - Any - In-Person Virtual Hybrid Event Series - … “Egalitarianism: The Economic Revolution of the Twentieth Century” Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture Series Robert W. …
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    Yale prof examines race relations in the Obama era
    … today’s poverty entirely to the lasting consequences of slavery. “Far be it from me to say slavery didn’t play some role,” he said, but “more likely, … today’s poverty entirely to the lasting consequences of slavery. “Far be it from me to say slavery didn’t play some …
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    Yale Journal of Economics Presents Kenneth Rogoff
    … global economic issues, and is a chess grandmaster. This event celebrates the release of the Spring 2014 issue of the … Journal of Economics. Free copies will be available at the event. Yale Journal of Economics Presents Kenneth Rogoff … … global economic issues, and is a chess grandmaster. This event celebrates the release of the Spring 2014 issue of the …
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    Arthur M. Okun Memorial Lectures Books
    … by Bob Woodward, Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), Blinder learned at … one of the truly great economists of the world in this century. The committee charged with responsibility for the … War II has been so much greater than it was in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These lectures, …
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    Robert Shiller on the power of narratives
    … thinking. We have to know why people spend more in a boom and less in a bust. Why do they pay attention to the … thinking. We have to know why people spend more in a boom and less in a bust. Why do they pay attention to the … thinking. We have to know why people spend more in a boom and less in a bust. Why do they pay attention to the …
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    Measuring Immigration’s Role in U.S. Rise as Economic Power
    … played in transforming the United States from its rural origins into a global economic power. The researchers … will also use the dataset to better understand 19th-century immigrants’ spatial mobility — how they spread out … affected America’s economic growth in the late 19 th century, the dataset will enhance the study of an entire …
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    In Conversation: Costas Meghir and Amer Hasan on early childhood development
    … several ECD interventions – including an ongoing study in rural Kenya. Amer Hasan , Senior Economist with the World … on the themes explored in this discussion at our upcoming event in Nairobi on June 30, “ Harnessing Human Capital for … Amer Hasan presenting insights from his work at the May 7 event at Yale. How has the field of ECD research evolved in …
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    ‘Path-breaking work’ adapted 19th-century trade theory to modern day
    … award at a banquet in London on Sept. 24. Updating a 19th-century theory As they shifted their focus to trade, Kortum … enlisted a third partner in their collaboration: 19th-century British economist David Ricardo, who in 1817 posited … cast the relatively simple theory aside by the 20th century as theoretical, and quantitative analyses of …
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