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”