INSTITUTIONS AND GEOGRAPHY

Scott Abramson, Princeton University, “The Origins of the Territorial State”

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University, “Resources, Politics, Economics, and Curses: Evidence from the United States 1929–2002” William F. Maloney, World Bank, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo, World Bank and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune: Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World”

EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL

Joerg Baten, University of Tübingen, and Dacil Juif, University of Tübingen, “A Story of Large Landowners and Math Skills: Inequality and Human Capital Formation in a Global Perspective, 1820–2000” Tomas Cvrcek, Clemson University, and Miroslav Zajicek, Charles University, Prague, “School, What Is It Good For? Schooling and Human Capital Investment in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Empire”

Edward Kosack, University of Colorado, Boulder, “The Bracero Program and Effects on Human Capital Investments in Mexico, 1942–1964”

COLONIALISM

Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, “Was Independence Really Better Than Colonial Rule? A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone”

Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, “The Impact of Colonialism on African Development: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas”

Dongwoo Yoo, West Virginia University, “Is the British Colonization Better Than That of the French? A Study of Vanuatu”

Marlous van Waijenburg, Northwestern University, and Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University, “Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880–1940”

DEPRESSION AND RECOVERY

Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley, and Aaron Pacitti, Siena College, “Goods, Services, and the Pace of Economic Recovery”

Andrew Bossie, City University of New York, “Rethinking the World War II Economy: The Welfare Effects of World War II and the Role of Household Demand in the Postwar Boom”

Natacha Postel-Vinay, London School of Economics, “What Caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A Look at the 1920s” Martin Uebele, University of Groningen, and Thilo Albers, University of Muenster, “A Monthly International Data Set for the Interwar Period: Taking the Debate to the Next Level”

LABOR MARKETS

Sam Allen, Virginia Military Institute, and Price Fishback, University of Arizona, “The Impact of Progressive Era Labor Regulations on the Manufacturing Labor Market”

Jessica Bean, Denison University, “Intergenerational Labor Supply in Interwar London” Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii, and Timothy Halliday, University of Hawaii, “Sons, Daughters, and Labor Supply in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii”

Yukiko Abe, Hokkaido University, and Giorgio Brunello, Università degli Studi di Padova, “On the Historical Development of Regional Differences in Women's Participation in Japan”

AFRICA

Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, “Market Integration in South Africa Before and After Unification”

Morten Jerven, Simon Fraser University, “External Trade and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880–1950”

Alexander Moradi, University of Sussex, Remi Jedwab, George Washington University, and Edward Kirby, London School of Economics, “Colonial Investments and African Development: Further Evidence from Railroads in Kenya”

RAILROADS

Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University, and Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University, “American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War”

Kerstin Enflo, Lund University, and Thor Berger, Lund University, “Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden”

Ross Knippenberg, University of Colorado, Boulder, “By How Much Did Railroads Conquer the West?”

POPULATION AND HEALTH

Martin Dribe, Lund University, Hilde Bras, Radboud University Nijmegen, Marco Breschi, University of Sassari, Alain Gagnon, University of Montreal, Danielle Gauvreau, University of Concordia, Thomas N. Maloney, University of Utah, Joseph Molitoris, Lund University, Lucia Pozzi, University of Sassari, and Helene Vezina, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, “Socioeconomic Status and Fertility: Insights from Historical Transitions in Europe and North America” Briggs Depew, University of Arizona, and Griffin Edwards, Southern Utah University, “Alcohol Prohibition and Infant Mortality” Anthony Wray, Northwestern University, and Krzysztof Karbownik, Uppsala University, “Childhood Illness and Occupational Choice in London, 1870–1911”

INSTITUTIONS AND BELIEFS

Jared Rubin, Chapman University, and Avner Greif, Stanford University, “The Reformation, Political Legitimacy, and the Origin of the Modern Economy in England” Lee Alston, University of Colorado, Marcus Melo, Federal University of Pernambuco, and Bernardo Mueller, University of Brasilia, “Beliefs, Leadership, and Economic Development: Making the Critical Transition”

Jordi Vidal-Robert, University of Warwick, “The Persistence of the Inquisitorial Mind: Long-Run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition”

INDUSTRY AND TRADE

Felip Benguria, University of Virginia, “U.S. Manufacturing During the Great Depression: Evidence from the Biennial Census of Manufactures”

Tamas Vonyo, London School of Economics, “The Wartime Origins of the Wirtschaftswunder: The Growth of West German Industry, 1938–1955” Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark, and Karl Gunnar Persson, University of Copenhagen, “Winners and Losers from Globalization: Why Both European and U.S. Farmers Were Angry in the Grain Invasion Era, 1870–1900”

FINANCIAL CRISES

Alexander Field, Santa Clara University, “The Savings and Loan Crisis in the Shadow of the 2000s” Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn, Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis, and Oscar Jorda, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences”

Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Currency Crises from Andrew Jackson to Angela Merkel”

FINANCE

Marc Flandreau, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, “Governing Global Capital Markets: Collective Action Clauses, Bondholder Committees, and the London Stock Exchange in the Nineteenth Century, 1827–1868”

Veronica Santarosa, University of Michigan, “Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation: Evidence from a Brokerage Law Reform in Eighteenth-Century Marseille”

Patrick van Horn, New College of Florida, and Haelim Park, U.S. Treasury, “Did the Reserve Requirement Increments of 1936–1937 Reduce Bank Lending? Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

TECHNOLOGY

James Bessen, Boston University School of Law, and Alessandro Nuvolari, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, “Diffusing New Technology Without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knowledge Sharing”

Leonard Dudley, Université de Montréal, “Necessity's Children? The Inventions of the Industrial Revolution”

Harry Kitsikopoulos, New York University, “The Diffusion of Newcomen Engines, 1700–1770: A Revisionist Assessment”

MIGRATION AND INEQUALITY

Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee, and William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University, “The Great Migration in Black and White: Understanding Black-White Differences Using Linked Census Data”

Yannay Spitzer, Northwestern University, “The Dynamics of Mass Migration: The Economics of the Jewish Exodus from the Pale of Settlement in Tsarist Russia”

Livio Di Matteo, Lakehead University, “Tops and Bottoms: Wealth Extremes in Late Nineteenth Century Ontario: Where Were the Rich People?”

LONG-RUN GROWTH AND LIVING STANDARDS

Christian Skovsgard, University of Southern Denmark, Thomas Andersen, University of Southern Denmark, and Peter Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, “The Heavy Plough and the European Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages”

Guido Alfani, Bocconi University, “Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)” Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia, and David Gonzalez Agudo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Housing and the Cost of Living in Early Modern Toledo, 1489–1650”