2014 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The Economic History Association and President Philip Hoffman would like to thank the following for making the 2014 meetings in Columbus a success:

• Program Committee—John Wallis, chair; Dan Bogart; Karen Clay; and Tracy Dennison

• Local Arrangements Committee—Richard Steckel, chair; Larry Neal; Trevon Logan; David Wishart; Philip Brown; Jessica Bean; Suchit Aurora; and Richard Yntema

• The Ohio State University—David Blau, Economics; Peter Hahn, History; Joseph Steinmetz, Provost

• Price Fishback—Executive Director, EHA

• Alex Hollingsworth—Assistant to the Executive Director, EHA

• Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator

• Jari Eloranta—Meetings Coordinator, EHA

We also gratefully thank dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:

• Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University

• Lee Alston, Indiana University

• Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University

• Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine

• Leah Boustan, University of California, Los Angeles

• Leah Brooks, George Washington University

• Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School

• Latika Chaudhury, Naval Postgraduate School

• Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University

• Bill Collins, Vanderbilt University

• Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia

• Alan Dye, Barnard College

• Rui Esteves, University of Oxford

• James Fenske, University of Oxford

• Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University

• Dan Fetter, Wellesley College

• Mary Hansen, American University

• Jessica Hennessey, Furman University

• Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology

• Matt Jaremski, Colgate University

• Mark Koyama, George Mason University

• Sumner LaCroix, University of Hawaii

• Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal

• Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis

• Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University

• Robert Margo, Boston University

• Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Melinda Miller, United States Naval Academy

• Petra Moser, Stanford University

• Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley

• Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University

• Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas

• Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology

• Jared Rubin, Chapman University

• Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University

• Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark

• James Siodla, Colby College

• Richard Steckel, The Ohio State University

• John Tang, Australian National University

• Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh

• John Wallis, University of Maryland

• Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Tom Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER

• Eugene White, Rutgers University

• Gavin Wright, Stanford University

• Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University, The State University of New York

2015 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 11–13 SEPTEMBER 2015

The seventy-fifth annual meetings of the Economic History Association will be held in Nashville, Tennessee on 11–13 September 2015. The theme of the meeting is “Diversity in Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.

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”

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”

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”

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”

• W. Walker Hanlon, University of California, Los Angeles, “Pollution and Mortality in the Nineteenth Century”

COLONIAL AFRICA

• Jutta Bolt, University of Groningen, and Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, “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”

SLAVE OWNERS IN THE WAKE OF ABOLITION

• Lisa D. Cook, Michigan State University, “The New National Lynching Data Set”

• Christian Dippel, University of California, Los Angeles, and Jean Paul Carvalho, University of California, 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”

OFF WALL STREET: FINANCE AND BANKING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY UNITED STATES

• 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, International Monetary Fund, “Stopping Contagion with Bank Bailouts: Micro-Evidence from Pennsylvania Bank Networks during the Panic of 1884”

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, University of California, Davis, and Neil Cummins, London School of Economics, “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 Economic Growth: New Findings on the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff in 19^th Century France”

WOMEN IN MARRIAGE AND LABOR MARKETS

• Joyce Burnett, 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”

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”

INEQUALITY IN THE LONG RUN

• Guido Alfani, Bocconi University, and Sergio Sardone, Bocconi University, “Long Term Trends in Economic Inequality in Southern Italy”

• Simon Wegge, College of Staten Island, “Inequality in Wealth: Evidence from Land Ownership in Mid-19^th Century Germany”

• Se Yan, Peking University, “Civil Exams and Social Mobility: Jinshi’s Exam Performances and Official Careers in Ming China (1368–1644)”

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”

MIGRATION IN ECONOMIC HISTORY

• Rowena Gray, University of California, 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”

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”

TRANSMISSION OF CULTURE

• Vasilki Fouka, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in US Schools after World War 1”

• Melinda Miller, United States 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”

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”