Seminars: Economic History

Spring 2024 Seminar in Economic History

Organized by: Professors Claudia Goldin, FAS Economics; James Feigenbaum and Martin Fiszbein, Boston University Economics; with help from Marco Tabellini and Marlous van Waijenburg, HBS BGIE
 
Faculty Assistant: Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

Term: Spring 2024

Location: Littauer Third Floor Lounge (Hansen-Mason Room) & Zoom (link to be sent to mailing list)

Meeting Time: Friday 1:15 PM - 2:45pm

Description: For faculty and students with interests in economic history, broadly construed. Discusses research papers presented by scholars at Harvard and elsewhere.

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DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE (some are preliminary)

 Jan. 26th (F)
First Week of Classes
No seminar this week.
 Feb. 2nd (F)
David Yang (Harvard)
Feb. 9th (F)
 Feb. 16th (F)
Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon University)
 Feb. 23rd (F)
Charles Taylor (Harvard)
 March 1st (F)
Alexandra Cirone (Cornell University; visiting Yale)
 March 8th (F)
Sevket Pamuk (Bogaziçi University; visiting Havard)
"Evolution of Regional Inequalities in a Developing Country: Turkey since the 19th Century"
 March 15th (F)
Spring Break
No seminar this week.
 March22nd(F)
Gillian Brunet (Smith College)
"Patriotism and Prudence: Assessing the Effects of the WWII Bond Drives on Household Savings"
 *March 29th(F)
Ursina Schaede (Tufts)
 April 5th(F)
No seminar this week.
N/A
 April 12th (F)
Wolfgang Keller(University of Colorado Boulder)
TBD
April 19th (F)
John Wallis (University of Maryland) Book-in-Progress: Leviathan Denied
April 26th (F) Marcella Alsan (Harvard) "The Rise of Private Health Insurance in the US"

* On March 29th, the Economic History Seminar will meet in Littauer M-16 from 1:30-3:00pm.

Previous Schedule Fall 2023

Previous Schedule Spring 2022

DATE

SPEAKER

TITLE (some are preliminary)

Feb. 3 (PE,Th
4:30p)* 

Santiago Pèrez (UC Davis; Visiting
Brown)

“Who Benefits from Meritocracy?”

Feb. 11 (Fr)**

James Feigenbaum (Boston Univ) et
al.

“Who Becomes a Member of Congress?:
Evidence from De-Anonymized Census Data”

Feb. 18 (Fr)

Yannay Spitzer (Hebrew Univ)

“Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the
Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy
1876–1920”

Mar 4 (Fr)**

Michela Giorcelli (UCLA; visiting HBS)

“Technology Transfer and Early Industrial
Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet
Alliance”

Mar 11 (Fr)#

Zach Bleemer (Yale SOM; visiting OI),
Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt)

“The Causes and Consequences of College-
Going in the Great Depression”

Mar 18 (Fr)

Spring Break: No seminar

 

Mar 24 (PE,
Th, 4:30p)*

Petra Moser (NYU)

“McCarthy and the ‘Red-ucators’: Does
Political Persecution Change Science?”

Apr 1 (Fr)

Robert Margo (Boston Univ) et al.

“Mechanization Takes Command”

Apr 8 (Fr)

Charles Angelucci (Sloan MIT) et al.

“Merchant Towns and Parliaments”

Apr 15 (Fr)

Michiel de Haas (Wageningen Univ)

“The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa:
Interests, Polities, and Endowments”

Apr 20 (L/PF,
We, 4:30p)#

Anna Aizer (Brown Univ) et al.

“The Persistent Effects of Decreasing Labor
Market Discrimination”

Book Event
12n
Apr 29 (Fr)†

Organizers: Marlous van Waijenburg
(HBS) et al.

Special Book Event: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv Unv.)
Going the Distance: Trade and the Rise of the
Business Corporation, 1400-1700

#  Joint with the Labor Economics & Public Economics seminars.
* Joint with the Alberto Alesina Political Economy seminar.