2022 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The Economic History Association and President Ann Carlos would like to thank the following for making the 2022 meeting a success:

Program Committee— Taylor Jaworski (Chair), Alan de Bromhead, Shari Eli, Anne Ruderman, John Tang

Local Arrangements Committee— Michael Haupert (Chair/Executive Director, EHA), Justin Bucciferro, Livio Di Matteo, Craig Palsson

Jeremy Land—Meetings Coordinator, EHA

Saara Rantataro—EHA Conference Assistant

Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator

Taylor Land—EHA Assistant Coordinator

Milandrie Wakim

UWL Student Assistants and Conference Services Team

UWL College of Business Administration

Mike Cerneant and Global Financial Data

Susan Wolcott, Caroline Fohlin, and Mary Rodgers

Laurie Mirman and Site Services

Mary Averill and Audrey Ferrante

Angela Redish and Pamela Nickless

Douglas Bamforth

Taylor Jaworski

Jari Eloranta and Andy Ferrara

Zachary Ward and Sarah Quincy

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

Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York

Fernando Arteaga, University of Pennsylvania

Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine

Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University

Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University

Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine

Greg Clark, University of California, Davis

Amy Cross, American University

Kara Dimitruk, Swarthmore College

Jose Espin-Sanchez, Yale University

James Fenske, University of Warwick

Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh

Price Fishback, University of Arizona

Caroline Fohlin, Emory University

Jacob French, New York University

Carola Frydman, Northwestern University

Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College

Matthew Gregg, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University

Mary Hansen, American University

Eric Hilt, Wellesley College

Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago

Kris Inwood, University of Guelph

Pawel Janas, California Institute of Technology

Matthew Jaremski, Utah State University

Noel Johnson, George Mason University

Maggie Jones, Emory University

Carl Kitchens, Florida State University

Edward Kosack, Xavier University

Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii

Jessica LaVoice, Bowdoin College

Joshua Lewis, Université de Montréal

Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis

Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University

Brian Marein, University of Toronto

Noel Maurer, George Washington University

Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Christopher Meissner, University of California, Davis

Melinda Miller, Virginia Tech University

Matthias Morys, University of York

Peter Nencka, Miami University

Craig Palsson, Utah State University

John Parman, College of William and Mary

Santiago Perez, University of California, Davis

Hannah Postel, Stanford University

Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University

Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University

Angela Redish, University of British Columbia

Paul Rhode, University of Michigan

Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota

David Rosé, Wilfrid Laurier University

Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University

Elyce Rotella, University of Michigan

Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics

Laura Salisbury, York University

Ethan Schmick, Marquette University

Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University

Katharine Shester, Washington and Lee University

Carol Shiue, University of Colorado, Boulder

Yannay Spitzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

John Tang, University of Melbourne

Patrick Testa, Tulane University

Melissa Thomasson, Miami University

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia

Jessica Vechbanyongratana, Chulalongkorn University

John Wallis, University of Maryland

Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University

Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University

2023 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 8–10 SEPTEMBER 2023

The eighty-second annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 8–10 September 2023. The theme of the meeting is “Love and Toil, Care and Work.” The papers chosen are as follows.

SESSION 1: WOMEN’S WORK

Joyce Burnette, Wabash College, “Mismeasuring Women’s Work”

Madison Kurr Arnsbarger, University of Pittsburgh, “The Political Economy of Women’s Suffrage and World War I”

John Parman, College of William & Mary, “The Great Migration and the Labor Force Participation of Females”

SESSION 2: EUROPEAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Julia Zimmermann, Freie Universität Berlin, and Theocharis Grigoriadis, Freie Universität Berlin, “Surveillance & Political Development”

Erik Hornung, University of Cologne, and Stefan Bauernschuster, University of Passau, Matthias Blum, German Medical Association, and Christoph Koenig, University of Rome Tor Vergata, “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Germany”

Lukas Rosenberger, Northwestern University, and Sebastian Ottinger, CERGE-EI Prague, “The American Origin of the French Revolution”

SESSION 3: MACRO/FINANCE

Noah Matthew MacDonald, Emory University, and Caroline Fohlin, Emory University, “Market Efficiency before the SEC: Evidence from the Teapot Dome Scandal”

Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University, and Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College, “How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?”

Mark Christopher Van Orden, University of California, Irvine, Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine, and Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine, “Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank”

SESSION 4: INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURE

Noel Johnson, George Mason University, Alexander Taylor, George Mason University, and Andrew Thomas, George Mason University, “The Impact of the Black Death on the Adoption of the Printing Press”

Jared Rubin, Chapman University, Ali Almelhem, The World Bank, Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Austin Kennedy, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Science in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis”

Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick, Mark Dincecco, University of Michigan, James Fenske, University of Warwick, and Anil Menon, Cornell University, “Conflict and Gender Norms: Evidence from India”

SESSION 5: AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Jingyi Huang, Brandeis University, “Fence Laws: Liability Rules and Agricultural Development”

Price Vanmeter Fishback, University of Arizona, and Valentina Kachanovskaya, University of Arizona, “Changes in the Cross-State Distribution of Federal Funds When the New Deal Emergency Shifted Control from Congress to the Executive”

Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh, Samuel Bazzi, UC San Diego, and Martin Fiszbein, Boston University, “The Confederate Diaspora”

SESSION 6: HEALTH

Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Philipp Ager, University of Mannheim, and Stefan Gissler, Federal Reserve Board, “Meat, Meal, and Molasses: How Post-Civil War Farm Tenancy Created Food Deserts”

Michael McKelligott, University of Chicago, Kerwin Charles, Yale School of Management, D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University, and Daniel Rees, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Safeguarding Consumers through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880–1910”

Martin Saavedra, Oberlin College, and Paul Brehm, Oberlin College, “Vaccines, Verdicts, and Vitriol: The Effect of Smallpox Court Decisions on Anti-Vaccine Sentiment”

SESSION 7: CARE

Anthony Bald, Harvard University, “The Professionalization of Nursing: Causes and Consequences”

Mary Eschelbach Hansen, American University, “Care and Work for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the U.S.: Links between Past Policy and Current Outcomes”

Meredith McDonough Thornburgh, Princeton University, “Efficiency and Dignity in the Unbundled Home”

SESSION 8: PREMODERN LIVING STANDARDS AND LABOUR MARKETS

Jordan Matthew Claridge, London School of Economics, Vincent Delabastita, Radboud University, and Spike Gibbs, University of Mannheim, “Wages in the Middle Ages: The Implications of In-kind Payments on Living Standards in Late Medieval England”

Felix Schaff, European University Institute, “The Unequal Spirit of the Protestant Reformation: Particularism and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany”

Davis Kedrosky, University of California, Berkeley, Lukas Leucht, Haas School of Business, and Chiara Motta, Haas School of Business, “Monopsony and Competition under Colonialism”

SESSION 9: URBAN

Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh, Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin, Rowena Gray, UC Merced, and David Agorastos, University of Pittsburgh, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006”

Alexa Prettyman, University of California, Los Angeles, Johnny Huynh, University of California, Los Angeles, and Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles, “Washed Away: Lasting Effects of the Ohio Flood of 1913”

Cory Smith, University of Maryland, “Agglomeration over the Long Run: Evidence from County Seat Wars”

SESSION 10A: INNOVATION/FINANCE

Dario Romero, NYU Abu Dhabi, “An Empire Lost: Spanish Industry and the Effect of Colonial Markets on Peripheral Innovation”

Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University, “The Genesis and Consequence of the U.S. Rubber Famine during World War II”

Rui Esteves, Geneva Graduate Institute, and Coskun Tuncer, UCL, “‘Dormant Securities’: Imperial Guarantees for Colonial Loans, 1840–1940”

SESSION 10B: URBAN

Ryo Kambayashi, IER, Hitotsubashi University, and Kentaro Asai, Paris School of Economics, “The Consequences of Hometown Regiment What Happened in Hometown When the Soldiers Never Returned?”

Jeff Chan, Wilfrid Laurier University, “The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Ports, 1870–1900”

Michael Huberman, Université de Montréal, Michael Hoedl, University of Vienna, and Mario Holzner, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, “There Goes the Neighborhood: The Contrary Example of Social Housing in Red Vienna, 1923–1933”

SESSION 11A: EDUCATION/POLITICAL ECONOMY

Richard Uhrig, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Low Fees, Large Barriers to Education: Evidence from Rate Bill Abolition in the United States”

James Siodla, Colby College, and Tate Twinam, College of William & Mary, “Municipal Socialism in the United States, 1900–1940”

Eric Melander, University of Birmingham, “Brexit and the Blitz: Conflict, Collective Memory and Euroscepticism”

SESSION 11B: PREMODERN INSTITUTIONS/POLITICAL ECONOMY

Robert Venyige, Corvinus University of Budapest, “The Road from Serfdom: Property Rights and the End of the Feudal Economic System”

Leone Walters, Stellenbosch University, Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, and Jonathan Schoots, Stellenbosch University, “When Protest Movements Fail: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Settler Rebellion in the Cape of Good Hope, 1770–1780”

Fernando Arteaga, University of Pennsylvania, and E. Andre L’huillier, Harrisburg University, “The Borders of Christendom: Protestant-Catholic Fault Lines in Western Europe”

SESSION 12A: MORTALITY/LAND REFORM

Dana Bazarkulova, Nazarbayev University, Charles M. Becker, Duke University, and Galiya Sagyndykova, Nazarbayev University, “The Long Reach of Catastrophic Policy: Kazakhstan’s Collectivization-Induced Famine, 1931–1933”

Sijie Hu, Renmin University of China, and Runzhuo Zhai, University of Oxford, “Where Were the Missing Girls: Re-Estimating Daughters’ Survival in Chinese Lineages, 1350–1900”

Giampaolo Lecce, University of Groningen, Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, Northwestern University, and Matteo Magnaricotte, University of Chicago, “Persistent Specialization and Growth: The Italian Land Reform”

SESSION 12B: INEQUALITY

Justin Robert Bucciferro, SUNY Cortland, “Historical Resource Booms and Inequality: Pennsylvania Anthracite Country in the 19th Century”

Maria Stanfors, Lund University, and Martin Dribe, Lund University, “Were All the Good Men Married? Investigating the Marriage Premium in Sweden 1947–67”

Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University, Darrell Glaser, United States Naval Academy, and Alex McQuoid, United States Naval Academy, “Learning about Personnel Economics from United States Naval History”

SESSION 13: SLAVERY

Guillaume Daudin, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Klas Ronnback, University of Gothenburg, Gerhard de Kok, Leiden University, and David Richardson, University of Hull, “The Profitability of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Aggregate Estimates and Explanatory Factors”

Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, and Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan, “Was Free Soil Magic Dirt?: Endowments versus Institutions”

Emiliano Travieso, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “A Labour of Freedom: ‘Free Wombs’ and Slave Emancipation in Postcolonial Uruguay”

SESSION 14: LONG-RUN GROWTH

Evan Keith Wigton-Jones, Husson University, “Holocene Climate Change and the Origins of Regional Development”

Dan Bogart, UC Irvine, Tim Besley, LSE, Nuno Palma, University of Manchester, and Jonathan Chapman, University of Bologna, “Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution”

David de la Croix, UCLouvain, and Thomas Baudin, IESEG, University of Lille in France, “The Emergence of the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff—Insights from Early Modern Academics”

SESSION 15: LABOUR

Giuliana Freschi, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Brian A’Hearn, University of Oxford, and Giacomo Gabbuti, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, “Mobility of the Innocents. Foundlings and Their Descendants in 19th Century-Florence”

Joanna Short, Augustana College, “Household Charitable Giving among U.S. Working-Class Families, 1918–1919”

Meredith M. Paker, Grinnell College, “Re-Evaluating British Unemployment Between the Wars”

SESSION 16: ECONOMIC DEMOGRAPHY

Matthew Curtis, ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles, Paula Gobbi, ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles, Marc Goñi, University of Bergen, and Joanne Haddad, ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles, “Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment”

Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis, and Neil Cummins, LSE, “The Myth of Female Hypergamy: Marriage in England, 1837–2021”

Daniela Vidart, University of Connecticut, “Link between Electrification and Fertility: Evidence from the Early 20th Century United States”

SESSION 17: INNOVATION

Alessandro Nuvolari, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Marco Martinez, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, and Michelangelo Vasta, University of Siena, “The Impact of Railroads on Innovation: New Evidence from Italy, 1855–1914”

Davide Maria Coluccia, Bocconi University, and Gaia Dossi, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Return Innovation: Evidence from the British Migration to the United States, 1870–1940”

Daniel P. Gross, Duke University, and Bhaven N. Sampat, Columbia University, “America, Jump-Started: World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the U.S. Innovation System”

SESSION 18: EDUCATION

Danielle Graves Williamson, Boston University, “Segregation Academies: The Effect of Segregated Private Education on Public School Systems in the Deep South”

Casper Worm Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Christian Dahl, University of Copenhagen, Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Peter Sandholt Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, “Schools and the 1918-Pandemic: Evidence from Half a Million Death Certificates and 1,322 School Closings in Sweden”

Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University, and Zachary Bleemer, Yale School of Management, “College Majors and Economic Mobility over the Twentieth Century”