2021 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President John Wallis would like to thank the following for making the 2021 meeting a success:
Program Committee—Howard Bodenhorn (co-chair), Eric Hilt (co-chair), … Kara Dimitruk, Laura Salisbury, and Marianne Wanamaker
Local Arrangements Committee—Price Fishback (Chair), Taylor Jaworski, Carl Kitchens, Melissa Thomasson
Eller College of Business and the Economics Department at the University of Arizona
The Economic History Students of the University of Arizona Economics Department
Mike Cerneant and Global Financial Data
Laurie Mirman and Site Services
Michael Haupert—Executive Director, EHA
Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator
Jeremy Land—Meetings Coordinator, EHA
Roy Eskelinen—EHA Conference Assistant
Taylor Land—EHA Conference Assistant
Cindy Poag
John Wallis
Susan Wolcott, Caroline Fohlin, and Mary Rodgers
Mary Averill and Audrey Ferrante
Ann Carlos
Anne McCants and Ranjit Dighe
Richard Hornbeck and Michela Giorcelli
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Michael Andrews, UMBC
Belinda Archibong, Barnard College
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine
Joyce Burnette, Wabash College
Ann Carlos, University of Colorado
Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College
Geoff Clarke, Brandeis University
Lisa Cook, Michigan State University
Eric Edwards, North Carolina State University
Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki
José Espín-Sánchez, Yale University
Rui Esteves, IHEID-Graduate Institute of Geneva
Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh
Dan Fetter, Stanford University
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Dustin Frye, Vassar College
Rob Gillezeau, University of Victoria
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University
Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
Matthew Jaremski, Utah State University
Noel Johnson, George Mason University
Reka Juhasz, Columbia University
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii
Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis
Christopher Meissner, University of California, Davis
Melinda Miller, Virginia Tech University
David Mitch, UMBC
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Suresh Naidu, New York University
Todd Neumann, University of Arizona
Greg Niemesh, Miami University
Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin
Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Oxford
Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley
John Parman, College of William and Mary
Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Jonathan Pritchett, Tulane University
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan
Kilian Rieder, Osterreichische Nationalbank and CEPR
Mary Rodgers, State University of New York-Oswego
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Jared Rubin, Chapman University
Laura Salisbury, York University
Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Katherine Shester, Washington and Lee University
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado
Bryan Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Pat Testa, Tulane University
Christoph Trebesch, Kiel Institute
Erin Troland, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee
Simone Wegge, City University of New York
Barry Weingast, Stanford University
Gavin Wright, Stanford University
Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley
Melanie Xue, London School of Economics
2022 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 16–18 SEPTEMBER 2022
The eighty-second annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in La Crosse, Wisconsin on 16–18 September 2022. The theme of the meeting is “Hidden Figures.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: AGRICULTURE AROUND THE WORLD
Eric Edwards, North Carolina State University and Wally Thurman, North Carolina State University, “Private Benefits and Public Goods: Agricultural Drainage in the United States 1850–1969”
Terry Cheung, Academia Sinica, Shaowen Luo, Virginia Tech, and Kwok Ping Tsang, Virginia Tech, “Letting Old Data Speak: Local Cultural Traits in Qing China Grain Prices”
Viet Nguyen, Northeastern University and Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University, “Caste and Landlessness in India at Independence”
SESSION 2: WORLD WAR II
Gillian Brunet, Wesleyan University, “Household Saving in World War II”
Chris Vickers, Auburn University and Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University, “The Effects of the National War Labor Board on Labor Income Inequality”
Conor Lennon, University of Louisville, “Female Educational Attainment, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from the 1944 G.I. Bill”
SESSION 3: HEALTH CAPITAL
Eric Schneider, London School of Economics, “Worldwide Child Stunting since the Nineteenth Century”
Francesca Antman, University of Colorado, Boulder and James Flynn, University of Colorado, Boulder, “When Beer Is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Water-Borne Illnesses in 19th Century England”
Keith Meyers, University of Southern Denmark, “Mass Vaccination and Mortality: Evidence from the US’s Experience with the 1954 Salk Vaccine Trial”
SESSION 4: BUILDING WEALTH IN THE USA
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar United States”
Claire Celerier, University of Toronto and Purnoor Tak, London Business School, “The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Minorities: Evidence from the Freedman’s Savings Bank”
Rajesh Narayanan, Louisiana State University and Jonathan Pritchett, Tulane University, “The Paradox of Slave Collateral”
SESSION 5: IDENTITY AND SEGREGATION
Ricardo Dahis, PUC-Rio, Emily Nix, University of Southern California, and Nancy Qian, Northwestern University, “Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880–1940”
Isabella Ou, University of Minnesota and Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota, “Linguistic Segregation in the United States, 1900–1930”
Hui Ren Tan, National University of Singapore, “Origins of a Violent Land: The Role of Culture”
SESSION 6: POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AFRICA
Belinda Archibong, Barnard College and Nonso Obikili, Stellenbosch University, “When Women March: The 1929 Aba Women’s Tax Revolt and Gender Gaps in Political Participation in Nigeria”
Jutta Bolt, Lund University, Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, Jennifer Kohler, London School of Economics, Jack Paine, University of Rochester, and James Robinson, University of Chicago, “African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism”
Marlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business School and Anne Ruderman, London School of Economics, “(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly”
SESSION 7: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics and Boxiao Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China”
Gregg Huff, University of Oxford, “Vent-for-Surplus in Southeast Asian Development since 1870”
Jian Xie, University of Warwick and Song Yuan, University of Warwick, “The Cultural Origins of Family Firms”
SESSION 8: ACCESS TO PUBLIC AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Luis Baldomero Quintana, College of William and Mary, Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos, King’s College, and Guillermo Woo Mara, Paris School of Economics, “Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Zoning and Contemporaneous Urban Segregation”
Qingyang Shen, University of Toronto, “Effects of Raising Minimum Housing Standards: Evidence from the Tenement House Act of 1901”
Laura Davidoff Taylor, California Institute of Technology, “Beggar Thy Neighbor: Strategic Resource Depletion and Environmental Outcomes for Water Quality”
SESSION 9: RELIGION AND STATE CAPACITY
Jose Espin-Sanchez, Yale University, Salvador Gil-Guirado, University of Murcia, and Nicholas Ryan, Yale University, “Praying for Rain: The Climate as a Determinant of Religious Belief
Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki, Petri Karonen, University of Jyväskylä, Henric Häggqvist, Uppsala University, and Jeremy Land, University of Helsinki, “The Quest for Bureaucratic Efficiency: Sweden’s Rise and Fall as an Empire”
Leonard Kukic, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and Yasin Arslantas, Anadolu University, “Taxes, Religion and Nationalism: Evidence from Six Centuries of Bosnian History”
SESSION 10: WOMEN IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
Maylis Avaro, University of Oxford, Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, University of Cambridge, and Johanna Gautier Morin, European University Institute, “Counting on International Organizations: Feminist Economics and the Value of Women’s Unpaid Work”
Michael Andrews, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Yiling Zhao, Peking University, “Home Economics and Women’s Gateway to Science”
Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut, Hamdi Genç Medeniyet University, Emre Özer, Medeniyet University, and Sadullah Yldrm, Marmara University, “Gender and Justice: Women’s Participation, Settlement, and Victory in Ottoman Courts”
SESSION 11: PERSPECTIVES ON UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford and Elena Korchmina, University of Southern Denmark, “Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth from the 1690s to the 1880s”
Viktor Malein, University of Southern Denmark, “Landed Elite and Expansion of Primary Schooling in Imperial Russia”
Vitaliia Yaremko, University of California, Berkeley, “The Long-Term Consequences of the 1932–33 Famine: Evidence from Post-Soviet Ukraine”
SESSION 12: INDUSTRIALIZATION, PRODUCTIVITY, AND EMPLOYMENT
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College, Jose Pablo Martinez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and Jose Tessada, Universidad Catolica de Chile, “Changing Returns to Scale in Manufacturing 1880–1930: The Rise of Skilled Labor?”
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University, Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal, and Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon, “Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938–1994: Anticipation and Adaptation”
Sebastián Galiani, University of Maryland, Luis Jaramillo, University of Maryland, and Mateo Uribe-Castro, Universidad del Rosario, “Free-Riding the Yankees: Manufacturing Productivity in Canada before and after the Panama Canal”
SESSION 13: MOBILITY
Jacqueline Craig, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis, Gregory Niemesh, Miami University, and Myera Rashid, Northwestern University, “Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850–1910”
Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame, Joseph Price, Brigham Young University, and Zachary Ward, Baylor University, “Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data”
Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Peter Nencka, Miami University, “The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement”
SESSION 14: THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE AND GENDER NORMS
Philipp Ager, University of Mannheim, Marc Goni, University of Bergen, and Kjell G. Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics, “Gender-Biased Technological Change and Structural Transformation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Milking Machines in Norway”
Miriam Artiles, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, “Within-Group Heterogeneity in a Multi-Ethnic Society”
Karol J. Borowiecki, University of Southern Denmark, Roberto Asmat Belleza, University of Warwick, and Marc Law, University of Vermont, “Competing for Equality: Gender and Racial Disparities in Classical Music Competitions since 1890”
SESSION 15: EXCLUSION FROM MARKETS
Donna Feir, University of Victoria, Maggie Jones, Emory University, and David Scoones, University of Victoria, “The Legacy of Indian Missions in the United States”
Kara Dimitruk, Swarthmore College and Christie Swanepoel, University of Western Cape, “Informal Financial Markets: Borrowing and Lending of the Indigenous Population and Freed Slaves in the Cape Colony”
Hillary Vipond, London School of Economics, “Technological Unemployment in Historical Perspective”
SESSION 16: IBERIAN INFLUENCE
Martin Fernandez-Sanchez, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research and Gaspare Tortorici, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, “Migrant Self-Selection during the Portuguese Mass Migration, 1880–1930”
Alejandro Martinez Marquina, University of Southern California, “When a Town Wins the Lottery: Evidence from Spain”
Luis Roberto Martinez, University of Chicago, Leopoldo Fergusson, Universidad de los Andes, Giorgio Chiovelli, Universidad de Montevideo, Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia, and Juan David Torres, Stanford University, “Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire”
SESSION 17: RACE IN THE UNITED STATES
Robyn Cox, University of Southern California, Jamein Cunningham, Cornell University, and Alberto Ortega, Indiana University, “The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians”
Andrea Bernini, University of Oxford, Giovanni Facchini, University of Nottingham, Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, and Cecilia Testa, University of Nottingham, “The Voting Rights Act: Black Political Mobilization and White Counter-Mobilization”
Federico Masera, University of New South Wales, Michele Rosenberg, University Essex, and Sarah Walker, University of New South Wales, “The Power of Narratives: Anti-Black Attitudes and Violence in the US South”
SESSION 18: SELECTION AND MIGRATION
David Escamilla-Guerrero, University of St Andrews, Miko Lepistö, University of Helsinki, and Chris Minns, London School of Economics, “Explaining Gender Differences in the Selection and Sorting of Migrants: Evidence from Canada-US Migration”
Davide Coluccia, Bocconi University and Gaia Doss, London School of Economics, “Return Innovation: Evidence from the English Migration to the United States, 1850–1940”
Yannay Spitzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University, “Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876–1920”
