Program for Economic History Association Meetings September 15-17, 2017, San Jose, CA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Workshop & Local Tours: 8:00 AM – Noon
Poster Session: 1:00 – 5:00 PM
SESSION: Friday 1:00 – 2:30 PM
1: Policy & Identity
Chair: Lisa Cook (Michigan State University)
Trevon D. Logan (Ohio State University), “Black Politicians Matter”
Discussant: Vicky Fouka (Stanford University)
Christian Dippel (UCLA) and Stephan Heblich (University of Bristol), “Does Civic Leadership Matter? Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the U.S.”
Discussant: Jakob Schneebacher (Yale University)
Christoph Koenig (University of Bristol), “Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany”
Discussant: Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
2: Political and Technological Drivers of International Trade
Chair: Sumner La Croix (University of Hawaii)
Réka Juhász (Columbia University) and Claudia Steinwender (Harvard Business School), “Drivers of Fragmente