Economic History Workshop
Organized by: Tim Guinnane
Please note the workshop will be suspended for Fall 2018 and will resume in Spring 2019. A few economic historians will speak in the Development Workshop; please contact Noel Sardalla if you would like to receive those announcements.
The weekly workshop in economic history is a central part of the program. Speakers include Yale faculty and graduate students as well as distinguished scholars from other institutions. Papers are normally available in advance, and we emphasize informal discussion of the paper. All are welcome, regardless of department or institutional affiliation.
Contact Noel Sardalla (203-432-3621) if you want to receive announcements about the Economic History Workshop.
Mondays, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106
Schedule maintained by Noel Sardalla (203-432-3621)
Events/Seminars
September 11, 2017 | |||
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Claire LeMercier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) / Veronica Santarosa, University of Michigan Law School "Beyond the Personal-Anonymous Divide: Agency Relations in Powers of Attorney in France, 18th–19th Centuries" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 18, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Joshua Hausman, Ford School/University of Michigan "Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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September 25, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Katherine Eriksson, University of California Davis "Death in the Promised Land: The Great Migration and Black Infant Mortality" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 2, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Claudia Steinwender, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th Century" (joint with Reka Juhasz, Columbia University) [Password-protected] 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 9, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Jonathan Pritchett, Tulane University "Demographic Causes and Consequences of the Interregional Slave Trade: The Slave Breeding Hypothesis" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 16, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Vanderbilt University "Family Structure and Welfare Participation in the 1960s: The Role of Legal Services" [Paper not available] 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 23, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Paul Erdkamp, Free University, Brussels "Malthus, Climate and the Decline of the Roman World: Some Critical Remarks" - working paper 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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October 30, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Elisabeth Perlman, Division of Economic Studies/Census Bureau "Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America" (including tips on how to perform automated text analysis on OCRed documents) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 6, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Guillaume Calafat, University of Paris "Trials as Economic Opportunities? Foreign Merchants and Law Courts in the 17th Century Western Mediterranean" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 13, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Stephen Haber, Stanford University "The Ecological Origins of Political and Economic Systems" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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November 20, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
No Workshop "Fall Break" |
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November 27, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Daniel Raff, Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania "The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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December 4, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
James Feigenbaum, Princeton University "Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920" (working paper) 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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December 11, 2017 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College "Patents or Prizes? The Royal Society of Arts and Incentives for Innovation, 1750-1850" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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February 19, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Shari Eli, University of Toronto "Marrying the Right Man: the Effect of Welfare Transfers on Marriage" [Paper not available] 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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February 26, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Guido Alfani, Bocconi University "Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 5, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Meng Zhang, Loyola Marymount University "Merchant Guilds and Collective Taxation in Nineteenth-Century China" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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March 12, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
No Workshop "Spring Recess" |
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March 19, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
No Workshop "Spring Recess" |
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March 26, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Giovanni Ceccarelli, University of Parma "The Making of a Market for Sea Risks: Florence in the XIVth-XVIth Centuries" [Password protected] 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 2, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Laura Salisbury, York University (visiting Yale) "Marrying for Money: Evidence from the First Wave of Married Women's Property Laws in the U.S." 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 9, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University "Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 16, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
No Workshop "No Workshop" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 23, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Oscar Gelderblom, Utrecht University "Geographical Patterns of Investment Behavior. Evidence from Dutch Private Estates in 1921" with Joost Jonker, Ruben Peeters, and Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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April 30, 2018 | |||
| 4:00pm |
Silvia Marzagalli, University of Nice "French Colonial Policy, Warfare, and Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Trade" 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106 |
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