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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , June 2018, pp. 630 - 634
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2017 Economic History Association Meetings

The Economic History Association and President Michael D. Bordo would like to thank the following for making the 2017 meeting in San Jose a success:

  • PROGRAM COMMITTEE—Christopher M. Meissner (chair), David Donaldson, Carola Frydman, Zorina Khan

  • LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE—Alex Field (chair), Martha Olney (co-chair)

  • SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY

  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA–BERKELEY

  • ALL-UC GROUP IN ECONOMIC HISTORY

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

  • GLOBAL FINANCIAL DATA

  • CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

  • Price Fishback—Executive Director, EHA

  • Erin McGuire and Keith Meyers—Assistants to the Executive Director

  • Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator

  • Jari Eloranta—Meetings Coordinator, EHA

  • Evan Wallace—Assistant to the Meetings Coordinator

  • Marianne Farag—Local Support

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

Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University

Philipp Ager, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Marcella Alsan, Stanford University

Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College

Vellore Arthi, University of Essex

Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University

Jessica Bean, Denison University

Steve Broadberry, Oxford University

Ann Carlos, University of Colorado, Boulder

Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School

Lisa Cook, Michigan State University

Claude Diebolt, University of Strasbourg

Dave Donaldson, MIT

Shari Eli, University of Toronto

Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis

Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University

Dan Fetter, Wellesley College

Alex Field, Santa Clara University

Vicky Fouka, Stanford University

Carola Frydman, Northwestern University

Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics

Tyler Goodspeed, King’s College, London

Paul Gregory, University of Houston and Hoover Institute

Farley Grubb, University of Delaware

Stephen Haber, Stanford University

Philip Hoffman, Caltech

Michael Huberman, Université de Montreal

Andy Jalil, Occidental College

Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University

Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado, Boulder

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University

Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College

Carl Kitchens, Florida State University

Alex Klein, University of Kent

Christoffer Koch, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Peter Koudijs, Stanford University

Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii

Giampaolo Lecce, Yale University

Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis

Jason Long, Wheaton College

Robert Margo, Boston University

Joe Mason, Louisiana State University

Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis

Matthias Morys, University of York

Petra Moser, New York University

Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University

Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley

Craig Palsson, Naval Postgraduate School

Santiago Perez, University of California, Davis

Angela Redish, University of British Columbia

Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University

Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University

Jared Rubin, Chapman University

Jakob Schneebacher, Yale University

Katharine Shester, Washington and Lee University

Masato Shizume, Waseda University

William Sundstrom, Santa Clara University

Alan M. Taylor, University of California, Davis

Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College

Marc Weidenmeir, Chapman University

David Weiman, Barnard College

Eugene White, Rutgers University

Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University

2018 Meeting of the Economic History Association 7–9 September 2018

The seventy-eighth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Montreal, Quebec on 7–9 September 2018. The theme of the meeting is “‘ From Plague, Famine, and War, Save us, O Lord’ Shocks and Disasters in Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.

Session 1: Long-Run Perspectives on Conflicts

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia, and Ana Tur-Prats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “Trust unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War”

Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore, and Songfa Zhong, National University of Singapore, “Historical Violence and China’s Missing Women”

Christopher Paik, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Jessica Vechbanyongratana, Chulalongkorn University, “Mandala Matters: Former Tributary States and Modern Civil Conflict in Thailand”

Session 2: Banking

David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University, “Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust: Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock”

Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board, Sergio Correia, Federal Reserve Board, and Stephan Luck, Federal Reserve Board, “The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era”

Masato Shizume, Waseda University, “Working of the Banking Networks and Central Bank in Late 19th Century Japan”

Session 3: Inequality

Petri Roikonen, University of Helsinki, “ From Famine and Civil War to Welfare State: Income and Wealth Inequality in Finland from 1865 to 2016”

Kristin Ranestad, University of Oslo, “Formal Education, Practical Learning and Social Mobility in Scandinavia”

Jonathan Chapman, New York University Abu Dhabi, “Inequality and Poor Law Policy in Late-Victorian England”

Session 4: Pre-Industrial Standards of Living

Alan Fernihough, Queen’s Management School, and Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin, “Poverty and Population in Pre-Famine Ireland”

Brian A’Hearn, Pembroke College, Oxford University, and John Komlos, University of Munich, “The Shock of Modern Economic Growth: Clarifications on the Antebellum Puzzle”

Sam Geens, University of Antwerp, and Joris Roosen, Utrecht University, “All Equal in the Face of Death? Explaining Regional Differences in Wealth Inequality after the Black Death. The Case of Social Agrosystems in Rural Hainaut (1250–1500)”

Session 5: Labor Markets.

Mikhail Poyker, UCLA, “Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System”

Philipp Ager, University of Southern Denmark, and Casper Hansen, University of Copenhagen, “Closing Heaven’s Door: Evidence from the 1920s U.S. Immigration Quota Acts”

Yannick Dupraz, University of Warwick, and Andy Ferrara, University of Warwick, “Fatherless: The Long-Term Effects of Losing a Father in the U.S. Civil War”

Session 6: Origins of Societal Conflict

Giampaolo Lecce, Bocconi University, Laura Ogliari, University of Milan, and Tommaso Orlando, Banca d’Italia, “Resistance to Institutions and Cultural Distance: Brigandage in Post-Unification Italy”

Ann McCants, MIT, and Dan Seligson, Independent Scholar, “The Origins of Disorder”

Remi Jedwab, George Washington University, Noel Johnson, George Mason University, and Mark Koyama, George Mason University, “Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death”

Session 7: Disaster Struck

Daniel Curtis, Leiden University, and Bram van Besouw, Utrecht University, “How the Horsemen of the Apocalypse Interact: The Relationship between Warfare, Epidemic Diseases and Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries”

Marc Francke, University of Amsterdam, and Matthijs Korevaar, Maasticht University, “When Death Hits Home: House Prices, Rents and Demography in Paris and Amsterdam, 1300–Present”

Stef Espeel, University of Antwerp, and Tim Soens, University of Antwerp, “Managing the Food Shocks of the Great Transition: Flemish Cities and the Food Crises of the Fourteenth Century”

Session 8: City Growth

Chris Vickers, Auburn University, and Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University, “The Dynamics of City Population Growth: Evidence from Historical Tornadoes”

Alexandra Cermeno, Lund University, and Kerstin Enflo, Lund University, “Can Kings Create Towns That Thrive? The Long-Run Implications of New Town Foundations”

D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University, Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago, Christopher Molloy, University of California, Santa Barbara, Daniel Rees, University of Colorado, Denver, and Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh, “Water and the Urban Mortality Transition”

Session 9: Hungry Masses Revolt

Cong Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Se Yan, Peking University, “Grain Prices, Social Conflicts, and Public Goods Provision in Eighteenth-Century China”

Melanie Xue, Northwestern University, “Extreme Poverty and a Culture of Violence”

Gaia Narciso, Trinity College Dublin, and Battista Severgnini, Copenhagen Business School, “The Deep Roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution”

Session 10: (Un-)Intended Consequences of Infrastructure

Carl Kitchens, Florida State University, and Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado, Boulder, “The Interstate Highway System and the Development of the American Economy”

David Andersson, Uppsala University, Thor Berger, Lund University, and Erik Prawitz, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, “On the Right Track: Railroads, Mobility, and Innovation During Two Centuries”

Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University, “Transportation and Health in a Developing Country: The United States, 1820–1847”

Session 11: Societal Response to Conflict

Mark Dincecco, University of Michigan, James Fenske, University of Warwick, Anil Menon, University of Michigan, and Shivaji Mukherjee, University of Toronto, “Historical Warfare and Long-Run Development in India”

Andrea Matranga, New Economic School, “All Along the Watchtower: Linear Defenses and the Introduction of Serfdom in Russia”

Michela Giorcelli, UCLA, and Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University, “The Role of the Marshall Plan in the Italian Post-WWII Recovery”

Session 12: Economics of the Family

Peter Koudijs, Stanford University, and Laura Salisbury, York University, “Marrying for Money: Evidence from the First Wave of Married Women’s Property Laws in the United States”

Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau, and Casey Petroff, Harvard University, “Temperance and Marriage Rates in the Early Twenty Century United States”

Ian Gazeley, University of Sussex, Andrew Newell, University of Sussex, Peter Scott, University of Reading, and James Walker, University of Reading, “Income Pooling as a Household Risk-Reduction Strategy: Evidence for Mid-Twentieth Century Britain”

Session 13: Social Mobility in the US

Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard University, “Did Great Migration Destinations Become Mobility Traps?”

Hui Ren Tan, Boston University, “Persistence and Change in the Landscape of Intergenerational Mobility”

Melinda Miller, Virginia Tech, “The Aftermath of Policy Failures: The Southern Homestead Act and the Freedmen’s Saving Bank in Florida”

Session 14: Firms and Productivity

Bert Kramer, University of Groningen, Abe de Jong, Erasmus University and University of Groningen, and Philip Fliers, Utrecht University, “What Were the Effects of the Introduction of Corporate Taxes in Nazi-Occupied Netherlands?”

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University, Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal, and Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University, “Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Firm Productivity: Evidence from the U.S. Electricity Sector, 1938–1999”

Cihan Artunç, University of Arizona, “The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition: Enterprise Entry and Exit in Egypt, 1911–48”

Session 15: Causes and Consequences of Famines

Natalya Naumenko, Northwestern University, “The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933”

Matthias Blum, Queen’s University Belfast, Chris Colvin, CUNY-Hunter College, and Eoin McLaughlin, University of St. Andrews, “Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine”

Marcella Alsan, Stanford University, Katherine Eriksson, UC Davis, and Greg Niemesh, Miami University, “The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party”

Session 16: Lasting Effects of Policies

Sara Lowes, Bocconi University, and Eduardo Montero, Harvard University, “Mistrust in Medicine: The Legacy of Colonial Medical Campaigns in Central Africa”

Theodore Figinski, U.S. Treasury, and Erin Torland, U.S. Treasury, “Market Frictions, Health, and Development: The Effect of the United Mine Workers of America’s Health Programs in 1950s Appalachia”

Erik Green, Lund University, and Kostadis Papaioannou, London School of Economics, “Indigenous People and the Survival of European Settler Farms: Evidence from the Cape of Good Hope”