2018 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President Cormac Ó Gráda would like to thank the following for making the 2018 meeting in Montréal a success:
Program Committee—Ralf Meisenzahl (chair), Mauricio Drelichman, Guido Alfani, and Hoyt Bleakley
Local Arrangements Committee—Michael Huberman (chair), Joshua Lewis, Adriana Bellou, and Helen Dewar
Département d’histoire, Université de Montréal
Département des sciences économiques, Université de Montréal
Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal
Chaire de la fondation J.W. McConnell en études américaines, Université de Montréal
Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ)
Global Financial Data
Cambridge University Press
Michael Haupert—Executive Director, EHA
Tammy Netwal–Assistant to the Executive Director
Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator
Jari Eloranta—Meetings Coordinator, EHA
Andrew Franklin—Assistant to the Meetings Coordinator, EHA
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Guido Alfani, Bocconi University
Siwan Anderson, University of British Columbia
Charles Angelucci, Columbia University
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine
Jessica Bean, Denison College
Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine
Lou Cain, Northwestern University
Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board
Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis
Geoffrey Clarke, Rutgers University
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University
Lisa Cook, Michigan State University
Neil Cummins, London School of Economics
Daniel Curtis, Leiden University
Ryan Decker, Federal Reserve Board
Christian Dippel, University of California, Los Angeles
Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia
Shari Eli, University of Toronto
James Fenske, University of Warwick
Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Carola Frydman, Northwestern University
Victor Gay, University of Chicago
David Gonzalez Agudo, University of British Columbia
Michael Haines, Colgate University
Walker Hanlon, New York University
Yu Hao, Peking University
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Matthew Jaremski, Utah State University
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christoffer Koch, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Mark Koyama, George Mason University
Sumner LaCroix, University of Hawaii
Alvaro La Parra-Perez, Weber State University
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
Trevon Logan, Ohio State University
Stefania Marcassa, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Robert Margo, Boston University
Gabriel Mathy, American University
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Board
Anna Missiaia, Lund University
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Eduardo Montero, University of Michigan
Alexander Moradi, University of Sussex
Salvatore Morelli, City University of New York
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin
John Parman, William & Mary
Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan
Elyce Rotella, University of Michigan
Jakob Schneebacher, Oxford University
James Siodla, Colby College
Richard Steckel, Ohio State University
Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University
Chris Vickers, Auburn University
Tamas Vonyo, Bocconi University
John J. Wallis, University of Maryland
Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics
Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee
Zach Ward, Baylor University
Simone Wegge, CUNY-Staten Island
Eugene White, Rutgers University
2019 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 13–15 SEPTEMBER 2019
The seventy-ninth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on 13–15 September 2019. The theme of the meeting is “Markets and Governments in Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY AND DISCRIMINATION
Richard Baker, The College of New Jersey, “Race, Family Background, and Educational Attainment in the Early Twentieth-Century South”
Yeonha Jung, Boston University, “How the Legacy of Slavery Survives: Labor Market Institutions and Demand for Human Capital”
Vasiliki Fouka, Stanford University, and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, “The Great Migration and Political Change: Racial Realignment in the U.S. North, 1940–1970”
SESSION 2: FAMILY PLANNING AND FERTILITY
Brian Beach, College of William & Mary, and Walker Hanlon, New York University, “Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition”
Elizabeth Ananat, Duke University, Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University, and Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Cohort Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Law Variation”
Christopher Handy, Washington and Lee University, and Katharine Shester, Washington and Lee University, “The Baby Boom and Educational Attainment”
SESSION 3: FORCED LABOR AND THE AFRICAN ECONOMY
Kara Dimitruk, Stellenbosch University, and Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, “Local and Central State Capacity in the British Cape Colony”
Gerda Asmus, University of Heidelberg, Richard Bluhm, Leibniz University, and Tobias Korn, University of Rostock, “The Emergency: British Detention Camps and the Origins of Distrust in Kenya”
Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford, and Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, “Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa 1885–2008”
SESSION 4: THE EFFECT SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND COLONIAL POLICY IN INDIA
Tamoghna Halder, University of California, Davis, “Caste, Reservation Policy and Social Mobility in India”
Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School, and James Fenske, University of Warwick, “Did Railways Affect Literacy? Evidence from India”
Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine, and Marco Del Angel, University of California, Irvine, “Governments and the Performance of the English East India Company”
SESSION 5: MEASURING INNOVATION AND THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Alessandro Nuvolari, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Valentina Tartari, Copenhagen Business School, and Matteo Tranchero, University of California, Berkeley, “Patterns of Innovation During the Industrial Revolution: A Reappraisal Using Composite Indicators of Patent Quality”
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, Robert Margo, Boston University, and Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, “Automation in the Historical Mirror: The Bureau of Labor Statistics Hand and Machine Labor Study”
Daniela Vidart, University of California, San Diego, “Household Vintages: Lifecycle Rigidities and the Effects of Electrification”
SESSION 6: MIGRATION AND LABOR MARKETS IN SOUTH AMERICA
Santiago Perez, University of California, Davis, “Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the United States During the Age of Mass Migration”
Andrea Papadia, European University Institute, “Slaves, Migrants, Development, and Public Goods Provision in Brazil, 1872–1923”
Amanda Guimbeau, Brandeis University, Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University, and Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University, “The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Brazil: Human Capital Formation and Labor Market Consequences”
SESSION 7: GOVERNMENT AND MARKET RESPONSES TO URBAN AND REGIONAL CHANGE
D’Maris Coffman, University College London, Judy Stephenson, University College London, and Nathan Sussman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Financing the Rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666”
James Siodla, Colby College, and Samara Gunter, Colby College, “Local Origins and Implications of the 1930s Urban Debt Crisis”
Michael Poyker, Columbia University, and Sebastian Ottinger, University of California, Los Angeles, “A Silver Lining to the Decay of the Rust Belt?”
SESSION 8: THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED STATES
Philipp Jaeger, RWI Essen, and Matthias Giesecke, RWI Essen, “Pension Incentives and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the United Kingdom”
Maxwell Kiniria, Cornell University, “Hardly Worth Chaining Up? The Effect and Cost Effectiveness of Welfare Reform in England, 1857–1885”
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Vanderbilt University, “Who Benefits from Federal Welfare Spending? Evidence from the Introduction of Progressive Cost Sharing”
SESSION 9: GROWTH AND THE EMERGENCE OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS
Jeremiah Dittmar, London School of Economics, and Ralf Meisenzahl, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “The Research University, Science, and the Origins of Industrial Clusters”
Michael Andrews, National Bureau of Economic Research, “The Innovator Next Door: Intra-City Clustering of Inventors and Entrepreneurs”
Shawn Kantor, Florida State University, and Alex Whalley, University of Calgary, “Space Race: Automation Innovation and Labor’s Share”
SESSION 10: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES IN BRITAIN SINCE THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
Alfonso Carballo-Perez, Bocconi University, “Identifying the Origins of the Great Divergence in Europe: Rare Events, Outbreaks of the Social Revolts and Divergence in Labor Institutions”
Pamfili Antipa, Sciences Po, “Charity Begins at Home: Why Britain Resumed the Gold Standard after the French Wars”
Emrah Gulsunar, Lund University, “An Overlooked ‘Enabler’? British Parliament and Leading Sectors During (First) Industrial Revolution, 1748–1873”
SESSION 11: STATE CAPACITY AND ECONOMIC POLICY IN ASIA OVER THE LONG RUN
Joy Chen, Stanford University, “State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China”
Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University, Mari Tanaka, Hitotsubashi University, and Yusuke Narita, Yale University, “Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Evidence from School Admissions in Imperial Japan”
Nathaniel Lane, Monash University, and Changkeun Lee, Yonsei University, “Export-Led Industrialization and South Korea’s Export Promotion Meetings, 1964–1980”
SESSION 12: INSTITUTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF WESTERN SETTLEMENT
Maggie Jones, University of Victoria, Donna Feir, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Rob Gillezeau, University of Victoria, “The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada”
Nicolas Lillo Bustos, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, “Land Inequality and Human Capital: Evidence for the United States from the Homestead Act”
Aparna Howlader, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Short- and Long-Term Environmental Consequences of Farmland Conservation Programs: Historical Evidence from the Great Plains, 1930-1980”
SESSION 13: THE EVOLUTION OF BANKS AND FINANCIAL MARKETS
Fabrizio Marodin, University of California, Irvine, “The Credit Boom in Loans to Brokers and Stock Prices Fluctuations in the 1920s”
Christopher Meissner, University of California, Davis, Wilfried Kisling, University of Oxford, and Chenzi Xu, Harvard University, “International Banks: Reagents of the First Globalization”
Matthew Botsch, Bowdoin College, and Andrew Jalil, Occidental College, “A New Chronology of U.S. Asset Price Bubbles, 1825–1929”
SESSION 14: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERWAR PERIOD
Albrecht Ritschl, London School of Economics, “Financial Destruction: Confiscatory Taxation of Jewish Property and Income in Nazi Germany”
Johannes Buggle, University of Lausanne, Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po, and Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, University of Lausanne, and Mathias Thoenig, University of Lausanne, “The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Outmigration in Nazi Germany”
Kim Oosterlinck, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jean Lacroix, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Pierre-Guillaume Meon, Université Libre de Bruxelles, “A Positive Effect of Political Dynasties: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act”
SESSION 15: THE TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CULTURAL CHANGE
Sascha Becker, University of Warwick, Steven Pfaff, University of Washington, and Jared Rubin, Chapman University, “Is the ‘Great Man’ Theory of History Dead? How Luther’s Personal Ties Affected the Diffusion of the Early Reformation”
Yannay Spitzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Entrepreneurship and Communal Tax Liability: The Political Economy of Early Modern Jewish-Polish Symbiosis”
Gianluca Russo, Boston University, “Mass Media and Cultural Homogenization: Evidence from the Golden Age of Radio in the United States, 1920–1940”
SESSION 16: INFRASTRUCTURE AND LAND ASSEMBLY
Eric Alston, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Bryan Leonard, Arizona State University, “Ghosted Towns: Commodities and Transportation in Economic Development”
José Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Yale University, and Santiago Truffa, Tulane University, “Playing Checkers in Chinatown”
Jeffrey Brinkman, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, “Freeway Revolts!”
SESSION 17: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND MOBILITY
Shariq Mohammed, University of Michigan, and Paul Mohnen, University of Michigan, “Rosenwald Schools and the Intergenerational Mobility of Blacks and Whites: Evidence from North Carolina”
Zachary Ward, Baylor University, “Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error”
Christian Dippel, University of California, Los Angeles, and Dustin Frye, Vassar College, “The Effect of Land Allotment on Native American Households During the Assimilation Era”
SESSION 18: INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: GENERAL RULES, BANKING AND ANTITRUST
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University, and John Wallis, University of Maryland, College Park, “Adopting and Enforcing General Laws in the United States, 1830 to 1880”
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College, and Katharine Liang, Northwestern University, “Andrew Jackson’s Bank War and the Panic of 1837”
Jenny Rae Hawkins, Case Western Reserve University, and Tyler Powell, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Circumventing Antitrust Law: Cooperation between Government and Industry During Times of Crisis, 1910–1945”
