2023 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President Jane Humphries would like to thank the following for making the 2023 meeting a success:
Program Committee—Eric Schneider (Chair), Walker Hanlon, Mattia Bertazzini, Benjamin Schneider, Simone Wegge
Local Arrangements Committee—Karen Clay (Chair), Allison Shertzer, Edson Severnini, Andy Ferrara, Randall Walsh
Dissertation Prize Committee—Patrick Wallis (Gerschenkron Chair), Vellore Arthi (Nevins Chair), John Parman, and Vincent Geloso
Michael Haupert—Executive Director
Taylor Land—Assistant Coordinator
Jeremy Land—Meetings Coordinator
Milja Järvinen—Conference Assistant
Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Cerneant and Global Financial Data
Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
Alessandra Giliberto and Brill
Doubletree Hilton Downtown Pittsburgh
Laurie Mirman and Site Services
Susan Wolcott, Caroline Fohlin, and Mary Rodgers
Mary Averill and Audrey Ferrante
Jane Humphries
Sara Horrell
Nancy Folbre
Gregory Clark and Lara Putnam
Andy Ferrara and Amanda Gregg
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Leticia Arroyo Abad, Queen’s College, CUNY
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine
Brian Beach, Vanderbilt University
Enrico Berkes, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine
George Boyer, Cornell University
Steve Broadberry, University of Oxford
Joyce Burnette, Wabash College
Ann Carlos, University of Colorado
Claire Celerier, University of Toronto
Greg Clark, University of Southern Denmark and University of California, Davis
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University
Shari Eli, University of Toronto
Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki
Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Yale University
James Feigenbaum, Boston University
James Fenske, University of Warwick
Joe Ferrie, Northwestern University
Dan Fetter, Stanford University
Alex Field, Santa Clara University
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University
Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Mallory Hope, Harvard University
Sara Horrell, London School of Economics
Jane Humphries, University of Oxford
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado
Noel Johnson, George Mason University
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
Joshua Lewis, University of Montreal
Gary Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis
Bob Margo, Boston University
Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ralf Meisenzahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Gabriel Mesevage, King’s College London
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Steve Nafziger, Williams College
Greg Niemesh, Miami University
John Parman, College of William & Mary
Jonathan Pritchett, Tulane University
Claudia Rei, University of Warwick
Laura Salisbury, York University
Felix Schaff, European University Institute
Eric Schneider, London School of Economics
Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Maria Stanfors, Lund University
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University
Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics
Simone Wegge, CUNY
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan
Eugene White, Rutgers University
Melanie Xue, London School of Economics
2024 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 6–8 SEPTEMBER 2024
The eighty-third annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Sacramento, California on 6–8 September 2024. The theme of the meeting is “Globalization: Perspectives from the Past.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: TRADE COSTS
Jiwon Choi, Brandeis University, and Ahna Pearson, University of Michigan, “The Economic Consequences of Trade Protection: Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act”
David Jacks, National University of Singapore, Chris Meissner, University of California, Davis, and Nikolaus Wolf, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, “Suez”
Federico Tadei, University of Barcelona, Nektarios Aslanidis, University Rovira i Virgili, and Oscar Martínez, University Rovira i Virgili, “Trade Costs and the Integration of British West Africa in the Global Economy, c. 1840–1940”
SESSION 2: INSTITUTIONS AND LABOR MARKETS
Andrea Ramazzotti, CSEF, University of Naples Federico II, “The Influence of Sectoral Minimum Wages on School Enrollment and Educational Choices: Evidence from Italy in the 1960s–1980s”
Henry Downes, University of Notre Dame, “Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom”
Alejandro Martínez-Marquina, University of Southern California, “Ingraining Traditional Gender Roles in the Classroom: Evidence from the Spanish Social Service”
SESSION 3: STATE BUILDING AND REFORM
Matthias Weigand, Harvard University, and Luis Bosshart, London School of Economics, “How Autocracies Form: State Capacity, Absolutism, and the Thirty Years’ War”
Laura Panza, University of Melbourne, and Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol, “Nation-Building and Mass Migration: Evidence from Mandatory Palestine”
Oliver Kim, University of California, Berkeley, and Joel Ferguson, University of California, Berkeley, “Reassessing China’s Rural Reforms: The View from Outer Space”
SESSION 4: FINANCIAL AND MACRO STABILITY
Jennifer Rhee, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Haelim Anderson, Bank Policy Institute, and Jaewon Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “CEO Ownership, Risk Management, and Bank Runs at Unlimited Liability Banks during the 1890s”
Jacob Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Jerry Jiang, University of California, Berkeley, “Who Collaborates with the Soviets? Financial Distress and Technology Transfer during the Great Depression”
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University, David Aikman, King’s College London, and Oliver Bush, Bank of England and London School of Economics, “Monetary versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe Report”
SESSION 5: RACE IN THE U.S.
Patrick Testa, Tulane University, and Jhacova Williams, American University, “Political Foundations of Racial Violence in the Post-Reconstruction South”
Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh, “The Impact of Federal Housing Policies on Racial Inequality: The Case of the Federal Housing Administration”
Micah Villarreal, University of California, Santa Barbara, “The Effect of Wealth on Descendants of the Enslaved”
SESSION 6: SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION AND DEVELOPMENT
Chiara Zanardello, UCLouvain, “Early Modern Academies, Universities and Growth”
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia, Shogo Sakabe, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and David Weinstein, Columbia University, “Codification and Technology Absorption: Evidence from Trade Patterns”
Tomas Cvrcek, University College London, “Industrial Revolution Uncensored: Institutional Change and Useful Human Capital in the Wake of the 1848 Revolution”
SESSION 7: EMPIRES AND THEIR EFFECTS
Kerem Coşar, University of Virginia, and Roberto Bonfatti, University of Padova, “Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages”
Christopher Absell, University of Gothenburg, “Who Gained from the Decline of British Imperial Preference?”
Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, “Who Governed Colonial Africa? Taxation and Representation in the British Empire”
SESSION 8: POLITICAL ECONOMY
Alexander Yarkin, Brown University and LISER, Luxembourg, and Dmitry Veselov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, “Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence”
Monique Reiske, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thilo Albers, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Felix Kersting, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, “Losing the Country: Agricultural Crises and the Rise of the Nazi Party”
Andrew Dickens, Brock University, and Mathias Bühler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, “From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information”
SESSION 9: THE EFFECTS OF TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS
Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere, University of British Columbia, “Infrastructure, Displacement, and Race: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System”
Youwei Xing, Clemson University, “The Erie Canal and the Economic Transformation of Nineteenth-Century New York State”
Tobias Korn, Leibniz University Hannover, and Jean Lacroix, University Paris Saclay, “Derailing Fortunes: Market Integration and Labor Reallocation in Industrializing Britain”
SESSION 10: EGG TIMER SESSION — EDUCATION AND LABOR
Seán Lyons, University College Dublin, Míde Griffin, Trinity College Dublin, and Anne Nolan, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, “Domestic Technology and Human Capital Formation: Rural Electrification and Secondary School Enrollments in Ireland”
Cyril Thomson, University of Padova, “Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in Colonial India”
Manfredi Aliberti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, “The Effects of PhD Programs on Innovation”
Michael Andrews, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Ryan Hill, Northwestern University, Joseph Price, Brigham Young University, and Riley Wilson, Brigham Young University, “The Influence of Adult Neighbors on Children’s Future Occupation Choice”
James Landin Smith, University of California, Berkeley, “Education and Local Markets for (Child) Labor: Evidence from the Development of the US South”
Eoin Dignam, London School of Economics, “Climate Adaptation, Women’s Work, and the Demographic Transition in France: 1851–1911”
SESSION 11: EGG TIMER SESSION — IN THREE PARTS
—PART A: CHINESE ECONOMIC HISTORY
Yiling Zhao, Peking University, Miao Meng, Renmin University, and Zhang Lei, Renmin University, “Salt Trafficking and Violent Human Capital”
Hanzhi Deng, Fudan University, “International Clan Linkage and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Coastal China, 1978–2000”
—PART B: TARIFFS AND EXCHANGE CONTROLS
Jeremy Land, University of Gothenburg, “On Tariffs: An Analytical Framework”
James Harrison, United States Naval Academy, and Mario Crucini, Purdue University, “The Many Sources of Variation in Real Tariff Rates: The United States, 1914–1934”
—PART C: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND TRADE
Vincent Geloso, George Mason University, Casey Pender, Carleton University, and Jamie Pavlik, Texas Tech University, “Reaffirming the Wheat Boom: New Evidence for Structural Breaks in Canadian Economic Growth”
Matthias Morys, University of York, Éric Monnet, Paris School of Economics, and Guillaume Bazot, University of Paris VIII, “Central Banks and the Absorption of International Shocks, 1890–2021”
SESSION 12: EGG TIMER SESSION — THOUSAND FLOWERS
Jon Denton-Schneider, Clark University, and Jennifer Mayo, University of Missouri, “Rags to Rags: The Effects of the New Poor Law across Three Generations”
Víctor M. Gómez Blanco, University of Valencia, and Miguel Artola Blanco, Carlos III University of Madrid, “Top Earners and the Great Compression: New Estimates Based on Tax Records”
Mengyue Zhao, University of Oxford, “Practical Use of Deep Learning and Generative AI in Data Extraction from Large Historical Archives: The Example of US Census 1950”
Javier Silvestre, Universidad de Zaragoza, Ignacio Cazcarro, Universidad de Zaragoza, Miguel Martín-Retortillo, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Ana Serrano, Universidad de Zaragoza, and Guillermo Rodríguez López, Universidad de Zaragoza, “Retaining Population with Water? Irrigation Policies and Depopulation in Spain Over the Long Term”
Michael Poyker, University of Texas at Austin, and Maxim Ananyev, University of Melbourne, “Prisons and Homophobia”
SESSION 13: GENDER, OCCUPATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Jinyan Chang, Miami University, “Were Breadwinners Male? Impact of Technological Advancement and Industrialization on Labor Market Gender Gaps in Antebellum America”
Yuzuru Kumon, Norwegian School of Economics, and Erika Igarashi, Hitotsubashi University, “The Gender Division of Labor and Structural Transformation: Industrializing Japan”
Myera Rashid, Northwestern University, “Engine of Intergenerational Mobility: Typewriter Adoption and Women’s Economic Outcomes”
SESSION 14: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MIGRATION
Dongkyu Yang, University of Colorado - Boulder, “Time to Accumulate: The Great Migration and the Rise of the American South”
Yannay Spitzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Leticia Arroyo Abad, CUNY, Queens College, José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Yale University, and Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University, “The First Transatlantic Mass Migration: Spain 1492–1540”
Stefan Smutny, University of Vienna, and Kirsten Wandschneider, University of Vienna, “A Taxing Journey: Tax Adoptions and Interstate Migration in the Early 20th Century”
SESSION 15: CONFLICT AND SOCIAL UNREST
Chicheng Ma, University of Hong Kong, Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia, and Yujing Huang, UCLA Anderson School of Management, “Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860–1911”
Liang Diao, INRAE, France, Douglas Allen, Simon Fraser University, and Warren Anderson, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Westward Expansion and the Impact on Native-White Conflicts”
Pei Gao, Yale-NUS College, Yu-Hsiang Lei, Yale-NUS College, and Shuo Chen, Fudan University, “The Double-Edged Sword of Efficient Communication: The Impact of Telegraph Network on Social Unrest in China”
SESSION 16: PUBLIC HEALTH
Pietro Buri, Princeton University, “The Urban Mortality Transition and the Transformation of the American City (1880–1930)”
Grant Goehring, Boston University, and Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University, “How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain”
Mounir Karadja, Uppsala University, Thor Berger, Uppsala University and Lund University, Erik Prawitz, Linnaeus University, and Martin Önnerfors, Stockholm University, “Water and the Urban Mortality Decline: Micro-Level Evidence from Stockholm”
SESSION 17: THE EFFECTS OF TRADE WITHIN COUNTRIES
Diego Castañeda Garza, Uppsala University, “Import Substitution Inequalization? Mexico’s Mesocratic Industrialization 1935–1963”
Carla Salvo, Sapienza University of Rome, “Does Trade Liberalization Boost Innovation? Evidence from French Industrial Sectors in the 19th Century”
Mark Hup, Peking University, “Labor Coercion and Trade: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia”
SESSION 18: RACE, GENDER AND VOTING
Jeanne Lafortune, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and Francisco Pino, Universidad de Chile, “Women’s Suffrage and Men's Voting Patterns”
Alice Calder, University of New South Wales, “One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage”
Erick Gong, Middlebury College, “Power of the Pulpit: The Effect of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speeches on the Civil Rights Movement”
