2020 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The Economic History Association and President Hugh Rockoff would like to thank the following for making the virtual 2020 meeting a success:

Program Committee—Eugene White (chair), Sumner LaCroix, Richard Grossman, Kim Oosterlink, Sarah Quincy

Local Arrangements Committee—Karen Clay, Allison Shertzer, Randall Walsh, Edson Severini, Andy Ferrara

Rutgers University and Rutgers Economics Department

Rutgers University Graduate Student Assistants: Mriga Bansal Andrew Garib, and Weinan Yan

Princeton University Press and Melissa Burton

Global Financial Data and Mike Cerneant

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

Riikka Haukka—Assistant to the Meetings Coordinator, EHA

Jeremy Land—Meetings Coordinator-Elect, EHA

Evan Wallace—Conference Assistant

Debbie McCann—W4Sight

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

Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Sriya Anbil, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York–Queens College

Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University

Liang Bai, University of Edinburgh

Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University

Emilie Bonhoure, Paris School of Economics

Leah Boustan, Princeton University

Steve Broadberry, University of Oxford

Gillian Brunet, Wesleyan University

Adam Brzezinski, University of Oxford

Joyce Burnett, Wabash College

Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College

Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis

William Collins, Vanderbilt University

Chris Colvin, Queen’s University Belfast

Gustavo Cortes, University of Florida

Bill Craighead, U.S. Air Force Academy

Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Edelstein, City University of New York–Queens College

Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis

James Feigenbaum, Boston University

George Fenton, University of Michigan

Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh

Price Fishback, University of Arizona

Juan Flores, University of Geneva

Caroline Fohlin, Emory University

German Forero-Laverde, Universidad Externado de Columbia

Claudia Goldin, Harvard University

Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced

Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales

Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin

Carlos Hernandez, Universidad de los Andes

Eric Hilt, Wellesley College

Phillip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology

Matthew Jaremski, Utah State University

Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College

Jane Knodell, University of Vermont

Matthijs Korevaar, Maastricht University

Alice Kügler, University College London

Jean Lacroix, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University

Robert Margo, Boston University

Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Chris Minns, London School of Economics

David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University

Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University

Petra Moser, New York University

Bernardo Mueller, Universidade de Brasília

Alain Naef, University of California, Berkeley

Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Gregory Niemesh, Miami University of Ohio

Craig Palsson, Utah State University

Georges Pantelopoulos, Hunter Research Foundation Centre

Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley

Kilian Rieder, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology

Samuel Segura Cobos, Tel Aviv University

Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark

Richard Steckel, The Ohio State University

Rebecca Stuart, University of Neuchâtel

Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis

Melissa Thomasson, Miami University of Ohio

Gertjan Verdickt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee

Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College

Zachary Ward, Baylor University

Marc Weidenmeier, Chapman University

David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Kaspar Zimmermann, Bonn Graduate School of Economics

2021 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 29–31 OCTOBER 2021

The eighty-first annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Tucson, Arizona on 29–31 October 2021. The theme of the meeting is “Rules, Organizations, and Governments: Institutions and Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.

SESSION 1: EARLY INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Mattia Bertazzini, University of Oxford, Robert C. Allen, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Leander Heldring, Northwestern University, “The Economic Origins of Government”

Pier Paolo Creanza, Princeton University, “Institutions, Trade and Growth: Ancient Case of Proxenia”

Antonio Iodice, University of Exeter/University of Genoa, “Innovation in Disguise: GA Rules and Institutional Development in the Republic of Genoa (1590–1700)”

SESSION 2: HISTORICAL LABOR MARKETS

Michael Poyker, University of Nottingham, and Riccardo Marchingiglio, Analysis Group, “The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation”

Judy Zara Stephenson, University College London, Meredith Paker, University of Oxford, and Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics, “Monopsony in Early Modern Labor Markets”

Lionel Kesztenbaum, Paris School of Economics, and Victor Gay, Toulouse School of Economics, “Collateral Damage? How World War One Changed the Way Women Work”

SECTION 3: MERITOCRATIC REFORMS AND ELITES

Santiago Perez, University of California, Davis, and Diana Moreira, University of California, Davis, “Who Benefits from Meritocracy?”

Jean Lacroix, University of Paris-Saclay, Toke Aidt, University of Cambridge, and Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Université Libre de Bruxelles, “The Origins of Elite Persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France”

Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced, and Raymond Kim, University of California, Merced, “Making a Police Officer: Police Quality after the Spoils System in the Urban U.S.”

SESSION 4: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND ITS LEGACIES

Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine, Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis, and Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine, “Labor Market Scarring in the Very Long Run: Evidence from Large-Scale Linked Microdata”

Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University, “Income Shocks and Housing Spillovers: Evidence from the World War I Veterans’ Bonus”

Gabriel Mathy, American University, and Vasudeva Ramaswamy, American University, “The Huey Long Spending Program in Louisiana during the Great Depression: Why Were Fiscal Multipliers So Low?”

SESSION 5: MORTALITY RISK AND INSURANCE

Gertjan Verdickt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Gustavo Cortes, Warrington College of Business, “Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Kill the U.S. Life Insurance Industry?”

Philipp Jaeger, RWI-Leibniz Institute, “Can Pensions Save Lives? Evidence from the Introduction of Old-Age Assistance in the UK”

Ezra Gabriel Goldstein, Florida State University, “The Long-Run Effect of Parental Death: Evidence from Mining Accidents”

SESSION 6: AMERICAN SLAVERY AND ITS LEGACIES

C. Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan, and Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, “The Economic Effects of American Slavery, Redux: Tests at the Border”

Warren C. Whatley, University of Michigan, and Nina Banks, Bucknell University, “A Nation of Laws”

John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Creative Capacity in a Slave Economy: Invention and Innovation in Southern Cities before the Civil War”

SESSION 7: PROTECTIONISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Stephen Redding, Princeton University, Stephen Heblich, University of Toronto, and Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol, “Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Corn Laws”

Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University, Kirsten Wandschneider, University of Vienna, and Kevin O'Rourke, New York University Abu Dhabi, “The Smoot-Hawley Trade War”

Vinzent Ostermeyer, Lund University, “Winners and Losers: The Asymmetric Impact of Tariff Protection on Swedish Firms in the Late 19th-Century”

SESSION 8: AGRICULTURE, INSTITUTIONS AND GROWTH

Itzchak Raz, Hebrew University, “Learning Is Caring: Soil Heterogeneity, Social Learning and the Formation of Close-knit Communities”

Aparna Howlader, Princeton University, “The Role of Local Environmental Institutions in Climate Adaptation: Evidence from Conservation Districts in the Great Plains”

Melinda Miller, Virginia Tech, and Matthew T. Gregg, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, “A New Institutional History of Allotment: Evidence from the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1904–1937”

SESSION 9: RACIAL SEGREGATION AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Yale School of Management, and Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver, “The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap”

Guo Xu, University of California, Berkeley, Haas, and Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, “The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson”

Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh, and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, “World War II and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement”

SESSION 10: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONS

Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Institutions Are Not Fundamental”

Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Daniel Seligson, Independent Scholar, “Nature and Culture in Economic History”

Lee J. Alston, Indiana University, Marie Duggan, Keene State College, and Julio Ramos, Penn State University, “Spanish Missions and Their Impact on Native Americans in the Southwest and California”

SESSION 11: FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College, and Caroline Fohlin, Emory University, “Financing Industrialization in Russia and Germany”

Chenzi Xu, Stanford University, and He Yang, Amazon, “Monetizing the Economy: National Banks and Local Economic Development”

Sasha Indarte, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, “Bad News Bankers: Underwriter Reputation and Contagion in Pre-1914 Sovereign Debt Markets”

SESSION 12: INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY AND ASSORTATIVE MATING

Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis, and Neil Cummins, London School of Economics, “Assortative Mating and Intergenerational Mobility, England, 1837–2020”

Jennifer Withrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Farm Crisis and Marriageable Men: Changes in Farm Tenure Mobility and Family Formation during the U.S. Farm Crisis of the 1920s and 1930s”

Matthew Curtis, University of California, Davis, “The Her in Inheritance: Marriage and Mobility in Quebec 1800–1970”

SESSION 13: INSTITUTIONS AND CHINESE DEVELOPMENT

Xin Nong, University of Texas at Austin, “Informal Succession Institutions and Autocratic Survival: Evidence from Ancient China”

Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore, Jiahua Che, China Europe International Business School, and John K.-H. Quah, John Hopkins University, “Aristocrats and Bureaucrats”

Beatriz Simon-Yarza, University of Navarra, “The Changing Wheels Hypothesis. Corruption and Development: Evidence from China”

SESSION 14: ORIGINS OF INNOVATION

Shmuel San, New York University, “Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Abrogation of the Bracero Program in 1964”

Felix Poege, Max Planck Institute, “Competition and Innovation: The Breakup of IG Farben”

Jinlin Wei, University of Warwick, “Financial Development and Patents during the First Industrial Revolution: England and Wales”

SESSION 15: VIOLENCE AND COERCION

Felix S. F. Schaff, London School of Economics, “Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400–1800)”

Michiel De Haas, Wageningen University, and Bram van Besouw, Erasmus University, “Coercion or Adaptation? Expanding African Commodity Exports during the Great Depression”

Saumitra Jha, Stanford University, Julia Cage, Sciences Po, and Pauline Grosjean, University of New South Wales, “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France”

SESSION 16: MIGRATION AND ITS EFFECTS

Gianluca Russo, University of Pompeu Fabra, Nicola Fontana, London School of Economics, Marco Manacorda, Queen Mary University, and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School, “Emigration and Economic Development: Evidence from the Italian Mass Migration”

Vasily Rusanov, New York University, “Internal Migration and the Diffusion of Schooling in the US”

Alexander Persaud, University of Richmond, “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire’s Money Orders”

SESSION 17: URBANIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin, and Alan de Bromhead, Queen’s University Belfast, “Rooted to the Soil: Social Housing and Population in Ireland since 1911”

John Brown, Clark University, and David Cuberes, Clark University, “The Birth and Persistence of Cities: First and Second Nature in Oklahoma’s Urban Development”

Eric Melander, University of Namur, “Transportation Technology, Individual Mobility and Social Mobilization”

SESSION 18: TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

Bjoern Brey, University of Nottingham, “The Long-Run Gains from the Early Adoption of Electricity”

Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles, and Bo Li, Tsinghua University, “Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance”

Michael Rubens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/University of California, Los Angeles, “Management, Productivity, and Technology Choices: Evidence from U.S. Mining Schools”