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”
