ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION (EHA) PROGRAM FOR THE 2016 ANNUAL MEETING:
(All events take place at the Omni Interlocken Hotel unless otherwise indicated)
The full conference booklet can be found here.
Please note that all sessions will have a laptop (with PowerPoint capability) and projector available for presenters.
FRIDAY
Friday morning: tours
Sessions 1:00-2:30 PM
SESSION 1: CONFLICT AND THE STATE IN EUROPE
Seth Gordon Benzell, Boston University, and Kevin Cooke, Boston University, “A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495-1918”
Francisco J. Pino, University of Chile, and Jordi Vidal-Robert, University of Sydney, “Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States “
Jakob Schneebacher, Yale University, “State Formation and Social Conflict: The Political Economy of the Old Swiss Confederacy”
Chair
Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley
Discussants
Benzell and Cooke: Philip T. Hoffman, Caltech
Pino and Vidal-Robert: Álvaro La Parra Pérez, Weber State University
Schneebacher: Cihan Artunç, University of Arizona
SESSION 2: TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Dan Bogart, UC Irvine, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, University of Cambridge, and Max Satchell, University of Cambridge, “Structural Change: Railways, Coal and Employment Growth in 19th Century England and Wales”
Dustin Frye, Vassar College, “Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry”
Santiago Pérez, Stanford University, “Moving to Opportunity: Railroads, Migrations and Economic Mobility”
Chair
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
Discussants
Bogart, Shaw-Taylor and Satchell: W. Walker Hanlon, UCLA
Frye: Taylor Jaworski, Queen’s University
Pérez: James Feigenbaum, Harvard University
Sessions: 3:00-4:30 PM
SESSION 3: THE CIVIL WAR: LONG-RUN IMPACT
Philipp Ager, University of Southern Denmark, Leah Boustan, UCLA, and Katherine Eriksson, UC-Davis,
Shari J Eli, University of Toronto, Laura Salisbury, York University, and Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh, “The Long-Run Effects of Losing the Civil War: Evidence from Border States”
Peter H. Lindert, UC-Davis and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard and Wisconsin, “The Civil War Revisited: Losing World Leadership, Gaining Emancipation, Widening Northern Inequality”
Chair
William Collins, Vanderbilt University
Discussants
Ager, Boustan and Eriksson: Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University
Eli, Salisbury and Shertzer: Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
Lindert and Williamson: Robert A. Margo, Boston University
SESSION 4: Banking Risk, Policy and Institutions
Anna Grodecka, Sveriges Riksbank, and Antonis Kotidis, University of Bonn, “Double Liability in a Branch Banking System: Historical Evidence from Canada”
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University, and Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University, “Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks”
Geoffrey Fain Williams, Transylvania University, “’Lending Money to People Across the Water’: The British Joint Stock Banking Acts of 1826 and 1833, and the Panic of 1837”
Chair
Richard Sylla, NYU Stern
Discussants
Grodecka and Kotidis: Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Calomiris and Jaremski: David C. Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Williams: Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SESSION 5: TRADE AND MIGRATION IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL EMPIRE
Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard University, “Atlantic Slavery’s Impact on European Economic Development”
Daphne Álvarez Villa, Oxford University, and Jenny Guardado, Georgetown University, “The Long-Run Influence of Institutions Governing Trade: The Case of Colonial and Pirates’ Ports in Mexico”
Edward Kosack, Xavier University, “The Long-Run Development Impacts of a Guest Worker Program: Evidence from the Bracero Program”
Chair
Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont
Discussants
Derenoncourt: Christian Dippel, UCLA
Álvarez Villa and Guardado: Luz Marina Arias, CIDE, Mexico
Kosack: Leticia Arroyo-Abad, Middlebury College
Plenary Session, 4:45-6:00 PM
Gustavo Franco, “Money, Institutions and Development: Brazil’s Experience in the Late 20th Century”
Reception, 6:30-8.30 PM
At the Koenig Alumni Center. First bus leaves from the Omni at 6.20 pm. Return at 7.30, 8, and 8.30 pm.
SATURDAY
Teacher’s Breakfast, 6:45-8.00 AM
Historian’s Breakfast, 6:45-8.00 AM
Sessions, 8:15-9:45 AM
SESSION 6: SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
Margaret Charleroy, University of Warwick, and Katie Genadek, University of Minnesota, “Women in the Scientific Workplace: Life Course Experiences of Female Scientists in the Early 20th Century”
Alice Kuegler, University of Cambridge, “The Responsiveness of Inventing: Evidence from a Patent Fee Reform”
Barbara Biasi, Stanford University, and Petra Moser, NYU, “Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republication Program”
Chair
Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University
Discussants
Charleroy and Genedek: Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Kuegler: Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, Boston University
Biasi and Moser: Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick
SESSION 7: WATER QUALITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder, “For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Economic Development”
Gisella Anne Kagy, Vassar College, “Economic Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Environmental Toxins: A Case Study of Lead Service Pipes in Massachusetts”
Anthony Wray, Hitotsubashi University, “Water Quality, Morbidity, and Mortality in London, 1906-1926”
Chair
Conor Lennon, University of Louisville
Discussants
Antman: Martin Saavedra, Oberlin College
Kagy: Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh
Wray: Conor Lennon, University of Louisville
SESSION 8: RELIGION, INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Tomas Cvrcek, University College London, and Miroslav Zajicek, Vysoka skola ekonomicka v Praze, “The Making of a Liberal Education: Political Economy of the Austrian School Reform, 1865 – 1875”
Noel Johnson, George Mason University, and Mark Koyama, George Mason University, “Jewish Communities and City Growth in Preindustrial Europe”
Jeremiah E. Dittmar, LSE, and Ralf R. Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Board, “State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany”
Chair
Anne McCants, MIT
Discussants
Cvrcek and Zajicek: Mara Squicciarini, Northwestern University and KULeuven
Johnson and Koyama: Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University
Dittmar and Meisenzahl: Noam Yuchtman, UC Berkeley
Plenary Roundtable, 10:15-11:45 AM
ECONOMIC HISTORY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Panelists
Gillian Hadfield, USC
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University
Christopher Udry, Yale University
John Wallis, University of Maryland
Moderator
Alan Dye, Barnard College
Women’s Lunch, 11:45-1:15 PM
EHA Business Meeting, 1:15-2.00 PM
Sessions, 2:15-3:45 PM
SESSION 9: HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon, Ethan Schmick, University of Pittsburgh, and Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh, “Nutrition and Southern Welfare: Evidence from the Boll Weevil and State Level Fortification Laws”
Stefan Bauernschuster, University of Passau, Anastasia Driva, LMU Munich, and Erik Hornung, University of Bayreuth, “Bismarck’s Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline”
Richard Steckel, Ohio State University, “Sweet Blood: A New Peril of Rapid Economic Growth”
Chair
John Murray, Rhodes College
Discussants
Clay, Schmick and Troesken: Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
Bauernschuster, Driva and Hornung: Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Vanderbilt University
Steckel: Dora L. Costa, UCLA
SESSION 10: FINANCIAL CRISIS: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University, Alberto Manconi, Tilburg University, and Haikun Zhu, Tilburg University, “International Liquidity Shocks, the Real Economy, and Social Unrest: China, 1931-1935”
Erin McGuire, University of Arizona, “Estimating the Impact of Local Conditions during the Great Depression on Asset Preferences in Adulthood”
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University, “How to Prevent a Banking Panic: the Barings Crisis of 1890”
Chair
Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College
Discussants
Braggion, Manconi and Zhu: Christopher M. Meissner, UC Davis
McGuire: Kenneth A. Snowden, UNC Greensboro
White: David Weiman, Barnard College
SESSION 11: HUMAN CAPITAL AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
Alexandra de Pleijt, LSE and Utrecht University, Alessandro Nuvolari, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, and Jacob Weisdorf, University of Southern Denmark and CEPR, “Human Capital Formation during the First Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Use of Steam Engines”
Anton Howes, King’s College London, “The Relevance of Skills to Innovation during the British Industrial Revolution, 1651-1851”
William Maloney, World Bank, and Felipe Valencia, Bonn University, “Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas”
Chair
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Discussants
de Pleijt, Nuvolari and Weisdorf: Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University
Howes: Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
Maloney and Valencia: Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University
Presidential Address, 4:00-5:00 PM
EHA President Lee Alston will deliver his address titled ‘Beyond Institutions’.
Dissertation Session, 5:15-7:15 PM
Cocktail Reception: 7:45 – 8:15 PM
Banquet: 8:15 – 10:00 PM
President’s Party: 10 PM – 12 AM
SUNDAY
Sessions, 8:30-10:00 AM
SESSION 12: LONG-RUN ECONOMIC GROWTH: MACRO AND MICRO PERSPECTIVES
Daniel Bernhofen, American University, and John C Brown, Clark University, “Understanding the Gains from Trade through the Window of Japan during the 19th-Century Globalization: Analysis of a Natural Experiment”
William Easterly, NYU, Laura Freschi, NYU, and Steven Pennings, World Bank, “A Long History of a Short Block: Four Centuries of Development Surprises on a Single Stretch of a New York City Street”
John Wallis, University of Maryland, and Stephen Broadberry, Oxford University, “Shrink Theory: The Nature of Long Run and Short Run Economic Performance”
Chair
Ann Carlos, University of Colorado Boulder
Discussants
Bernhofen and Brown: John Tang, Australian National University
Easterly, Freschi and Pennings: Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College
Wallis and Broadberry: Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University
SESSION 13: PATRONAGE AND ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY
Morgan Henderson, University of Michigan, “The Economic Consequences of Immigrant Disenfranchisement”
Andrea Papadia, LSE, “Fiscal Capacity, Tax Composition and the (in)Stability of Government Revenues in the Interwar Period”
Debin Ma, LSE, and Jared Rubin, Chapman University, “Weak Administrative Capacity as a Solution to Principal-Agent Problems in Tax Collection”
Chair
Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont
Discussants
Henderson: Shawn Kantor, Florida State University
Papadia: Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
Ma and Rubin: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech
SESSION 14: CULTURE AND SOCIAL NORMS
Andrew Dickens, York University, “Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics”
Sara Rachel Lowes, Harvard University, Nathan Nunn, Harvard University, James A. Robinson, University of Chicago, and Jonathan Weigel, Harvard University, “The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom”
Yu Hao, Peking University, and Melanie Meng Xue, UCLA Anderson School of Management, “Friends from Afar: Migration, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in the Lower Yangzi, 1850-1949”
Chair
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder
Discussants
Dickens: James Fenske, University of Oxford
Lowes, Nunn, Robinson and Weigel: Belinda Archibong, Barnard College
Hao and Xue: Cong Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Sessions, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
SESSION 15: POLITICAL DISORDER AND REVOLUTION
Mathias Iwanowsky, Institute for International Economic Studies, and Andreas Madestam, Stockholm University, “Surviving the Killing Fields: The Long Term Consequences of the Khmer Rouge”
John V. Nye, George Mason University and NRU-HSE, Maxym Bryukhanov, NRU-Higher School of Economics, Sergiy Polyachenko, NRU-Higher School of Economics, and Vasily Rusanov, NRU-Higher School of Economics, “Social Mobility in the Russia of Revolutions, 1850-2015: A Surname Study”
Craig Ogden Palsson, Yale University, “Land Markets and State Capacity in Haiti, 1928-1944”
Chair
Gregory Clark, UC Davis
Discussants
Iwanowsky and Madestam: Eduardo Montero, Harvard University
Nye, Bryukhanov, Polyachenko and Rusanov: Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Palsson: Noel Maurer, George Washington University
SESSION 16: INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
Jessica Bean, Denison University, Andrew J. Seltzer, Royal Holloway, London, and Jonathan Wadsworth, Royal Holloway, London, “The Impact of Commuting and Mass Transport on the London Labour Market: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour”
Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal, and Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University, “The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid”
Eric Edwards, Utah State University, and Steven M. Smith, Haverford College, “The Role of Irrigation in the Development of American Agriculture”
Chair
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
Discussants
Bean, Seltzer and Wadsworth: Rob Gillezeau, University of Victoria
Lewis and Severnini: Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
Edwards and Smith: Zeynep Hansen, Boise State University
CONFERENCE ENDS AT NOON.