You can find information on the travel and other practical matters in the Meetings Brochure that you can download here: EHA 2015 Brochure. The full conference booklet can be found here: EHA 2015 Brochure. You can explore Nashville dining options by perusing the restaurant guide, which will be published here in August. The full papers will be linked to the program in late August, along with further program details.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
FRIDAY:
SESSION: Friday 1:00 – 2:30 PM
1: Race and Economic Outcomes in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Richard Baker (Vanderbilt University), ”School Resources and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century Georgia”
William Collins (Vanderbilt University) and Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee), “Intergenerational Mobility in the Shadow of Jim Crow”
Tim Larsen (University of Colorado), “The Strange Career of Jim Crow: Labor Scarcity and Racial Treatment in the Postbellum South”
SESSION: Friday 1:00 – 2:30 PM
2: Innovation
Michela Giorcelli (Stanford University), “The Effect of Management and Technology Diffusion on Firm Productivity: Evidence from the US Marshall Plan in Italy”
Francesco Cinnirella (Ifo Institute, Munich), “Religious Diversity and Innovation: Evidence from Patenting Activity
Elisabeth Perlman (Boston University), “Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America Market Access”
Session: Friday, 3:00 – 4:30 pm:
3: Finance and Housing Prices
Jason Barr (Rutgers University) and Fred Smith (Davidson College), “What’s Manhattan Worth? A Land Value Index from 1950 to 2013”
Katharina Knoll (Free University of Berlin), Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn), and Thomas Steger (University of Leipzig), “No Price Like Home: Global Housing Prices, 1870-1912”
Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin), “Measuring house prices in the long run: Insights from Dublin, 1900-2015”
Session: Friday, 3:00- 4:30 pm:
4: Public Health Interventions
Marcella Alsan (Stanford University) and Claudia Goldin (Harvard University), “Watersheds in Infant Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewage Infrastructure, 1880-1915”
Jonathan Fox (Freie Universitaet Berlin), “Origins and Effects of Rural Public Health Programs in North Carolina”
Walker Hanlon (UCLA), “Pollution and Mortality in the Nineteenth Century”
Session: Friday, 3:00- 4:30 pm:
5: Colonial Africa
Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen) and Leigh Gardner (LSE), “De-compressing history? Pre-colonial institutions and Local Government Finance in British colonial Africa”
Frederico Tadei (Bocconi University), “Extractive Institutions and Gains from Trade: Evidence from Colonia Africa”
Marlous van Waijenburg (Northwestern University), “Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor”
SATURDAY:
Session: Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 am:
6: Slave Owners in the Wake of Abolition
Lisa D. Cook (Michigan State University), “The New National Lynching Data Set”
Christian Dippel (UCLA) and Jean Paul Carvalho (UC Irvine), “The Iron Law of Oligarchy: The Post-Slavery Caribbean Sugar Colonies”
Brandon Dupont (Western Washington University) and Joshua Rosenbloom (University of Kansas), “The Impact of the Civil War on Southern Wealth Mobility”
Session: Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 am:
7: Off Wall Street: Finance and Banking in the 19th Century US
Christopher Cotter (Vanderbilt University), “Railroad Failures and the Panic of 1873”
Manuel Alejandro Bautista Gonzalez (Columbia University), “A City between Nations: Foreign and Domestic Currencies in New Orleans, Interregional and External Trade of the Antebellum South, 1856-1860”
Haeilim Park (United States Treasury) and Jonathan Bluedorn (IMF), “Stopping Contagion with Bank Bailouts: Micro-Evidence from Pennsylvania Bank Networks during the Panic of 1884”
Session: Saturday, 8:30 – 10:00 am:
8: The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff in Historical Perspective
Vincent Bignon (Bank of France) and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa (Aix-Marseille University and CESifo), “Protectionism and the Education–Fertility Tradeoff in Late 19th century France”
Gregory Clark (UC Davis) and Neil Cummins (LSE), “The Child Quality-Quantity Tradeoff, England, 1750-1880: Is a Fundamental Component of the Economic Theory of Growth Missing?”
Claude Diebolt (University of Strasbourg) and Faustine Perrin (Lund University), “Clio’s Role for
Session: Saturday, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm:
9: Women in Marriage and Labor Markets
Joyce Burnette (Wabash College) and Maria Stanfors (Lund University), “The Gender Gap in Turn of the Century Swedish Manufacturing”
Martin Dribe (Lund University), Björn Eriksson (Lund University), and Francesco Scalone (University of Bologna), “Migration, Marriage and Social Mobility. Women in Sweden during Industrialization”
Marc Goni (University of Vienna), “Assortative Matching and Persistent Inequality: Evidence from the World’s Most Exclusive Marriage Market”
Session: Saturday, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm:
10: Political Economy: American States and Tribes,
10: Post-Colonial Africa
Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University) and Alfonso Herranz-Loncan (University of Barcelona), “The efficiency of Cape Colony railways and the origins of racial inequality”
Sara Lowes (Harvard University) and Eduardo Montero (Harvard University), “Blood Rubber: The Effects of Labor Coercion on Development and Culture in the DRC”
Johannes Norling (University of Michigan), “Family Planning and Fertility in South Africa under Apartheid”
Session: Saturday, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm:
11: How New Evidence and New Interpretations are Changing our Understanding of the Ancient World,
11: Inequality in the Long Run
Guido Alfani (Bocconi University) and Sergio Sardone (Bocconi University), “Long Term Trends in Economic Inequality in Southern Italy”
Simone Wegge (College of Staten Island), “Inequality in Wealth: Evidence from Land Ownership in Mid-19th Century Germany”
Se Yan (Peking University), “Civil Exams and Social Mobility: Jinshi’s Exam Performances and Official Careers in Ming China (1368-1644)”
SUNDAY:
Session: Sunday, 8:30– 10:00 am:
12: Institutions and Long-Term Development
Carlos Alvarez-Nogal (Universidad Carlos III) and Christopher Chamley (Boston University), “Crecimientos: refinancing the Public Debt in Castile before 1600”
Paul Dower, Eygeny Finkel, and Steven Nafziger (Williams College), “The Substitutability of Collective Action and Representation: Evidence from Russia’s Great Reforms”
Dongwoo Yoo (West Virginia University), “Mapping and Economic Development: Spatial Information Matters”
Session: Sunday, 8:30– 10:00 am:
13: Migration in Economic History
Rowena Gray (UC-Merced), “Evaluating a Great Migration: Chain Migration and its Influence on Housing Prices in New York City, 1880-1950”
Jason Long (Wheaton College) and Henry Siu (University of British Columbia), “Refugees from Dust and Shrinking Land: Tracking the Dust Bowl Migrants”
James Siodla (Colby College), “Making the Move: The impact of the 1906 Disaster on Business Relocations and Industry Clustering”
Session: Sunday, 8:30– 10:00 am:
14: Slavery: The Terms of Entrenchment
Elena Esposito (European University Institute), “Side Effects of Immunities: the African Slave Trade”
Conor Lennon (University of Pittsburgh), “The Impact of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act on Slave Prices”
Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse School of Economics), “The Cotton Boom, Slavery, and Land Inequality in the Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt”
Session: Sunday, 10:30 am-12:00 pm:
15: Transmission of Culture
Vasilki Fouka (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in US schools after World War l”
Melinda Miller (U.S. Naval Academy), “Assimilation and Economic Performance: The Case of Federal Indian Policy”
Felipe Valencia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence and Culture in South America”
Session: Sunday, 10:30 am-12:00 pm:
16: U.S. Policy Effects in the Great Depression and World War II
Daniel K. Fetter (Wellesley College) and Lee Lockwood (Northwestern University), “Means-tested Old Age Support and Private Behavior: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program”
Sebastian Fleitas (University of Arizona), Price Fishback (University of Arizona), and Kenneth Snowden (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), “Why Does Recovery from Mortgage Credit Crises Take So Long? Institutional Causes of Delay in Liquidation of Troubled Building and Loans During the Great Depression”
Taylor Jaworski (Queen’s University), “World War II and the Industrialization of the American South”
CONFERENCE ENDS AT NOON.