2016 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President Lee Alston would like to thank the following for making the 2016 meeting in Boulder a success:
Program Committee—Alan Dye (chair), Richard Hornbeck, Gary Libecap, Noam Yuchtman, Edwyna Harris
Local Arrangements Committee—Carol Shiue (chair), Murat Iyigun (co-chair), Ann Carlos
University of Colorado
Indiana University and Ostrom Workshop
Institute of Behavioral Science
Global Financial Data
Cambridge University Press
Price Fishback—Executive Director, EHA
Alex Hollingsworth and Keith Meyers–Assistants to the Executive Director
Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator
Jari Eloranta—Meetings Coordinator, EHA
Janice Jeffryes, Jessica LaRue, Melissa Sue Piper, and Maria Oliveras—Local Support
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Belinda Archibong, Barnard College
Luz Marina Arias, CIDE, Mexico
Leticia Arroyo-Abad, Middlebury College
Cihan Artunç, University of Arizona
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University
Ann Carlos, University of Colorado Boulder
Gregory Clark, UC Davis
William Collins, Vanderbilt University
Dora L. Costa, UCLA
Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley
Christian Dippel, UCLA
James Feigenbaum, Harvard University
James Fenske, University of Oxford
Joseph P. Ferrie, Northwestern University
Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College
Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University
Rob Gillezeau, University of Victoria
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Vanderbilt University
W. Walker Hanlon, UCLA
Zeynep Hansen, Boise State University
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Philip T. Hoffman, Caltech
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
Taylor Jaworski, Queen's University
Shawn Kantor, Florida State University
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University
Conor Lennon, University of Louisville
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
Cong Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Robert A. Margo, Boston University
Noel Maurer, George Washington University
Anne McCants, MIT
Christopher M. Meissner, UC Davis
Eduardo Montero, Harvard University
Petra Moser, New York University
John Murray, Rhodes College
Aldo Musacchio, Brandeis University
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Álvaro La Parra Pérez, Weber State University
Elisabeth Ruth Perlman, Boston University
Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech
Martin Saavedra, Oberlin College
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder
Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont
Kenneth A. Snowden, UNC Greensboro
Mara Squicciarini, Northwestern University and KULeuven
Richard Sylla, NYU Stern
John Tang, Australian National University
Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh
Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont
Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick
Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College
David Weiman, Barnard College
David C. Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Noam Yuchtman, UC Berkeley
2017 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 15–17 SEPTEMBER 2017
The seventy-seventh annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in San Jose, California on 15–17 September 2017. The theme of the meeting is “Macroeconomic Regimes and Policies: The Quest for Economic and Financial Stability and Growth.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: POLICY AND IDENTITY
Trevon D. Logan, Ohio State University, “Do Black Politicians Matter?”
Christian Dippel, UCLA, and Stephan Heblich, University of Bristol, “Does Civic Leadership Matter? Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the United States”
Christoph Koenig, University of Bristol, “Loose Cannons: War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany”
SESSION 2: POLITICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Réka Juhász, Columbia University, and Claudia Steinwender, Harvard Business School, “Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century”
Austin M. Strange, Harvard University, “The Political Economy of Maritime Trade in Late Imperial China”
W. Walker Hanlon, UCLA, “Dynamic Comparative Advantage in International Shipbuilding: from Wood to Steel”
SESSION 3: PUBLIC HEALTH AND POLICY
John M. Parman, College of William and Mary, “Health, Gender and Mobility: Intergenerational Correlations in Longevity over Time”
David S. Jacks, Simon Fraser University, Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University, and Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University, “Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition”
Maxwell Kiniria, Cornell University, “The Mortality Effects of Local Boards of Health in England, 1848–70”
SESSION 4: MACROECONOMIC REGIME CHANGE
Christopher Hanes, SUNY-Binghamton, “Wage Inflation in the Recovery from the Great Depression”
Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer, University of Hohenheim, and Jochen Streb, University of Mannheim, “Does Social Security Crowd Out Private Savings? The Case of Bismarck's System of Social Insurance”
Caroline Fohlin, Emory University, “The Volatility of Money: The Call Money Market and Monetary Policy Regime Change”
SESSION 5: MONETARY POLICY IN THE USA
Kilian Rieder, University of Oxford, “Should Monetary Policy Lean against the Wind? New Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the U.S. Phelan Act of 1920”
Sriya Anbil, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College, “Risk Shifting Between Two Lenders of Last Resort”
Mark Carlson, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Burcu Duygan-Bump, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, “Implementing Monetary Policy Using Administered Rates and Balance Sheet Composition: Evidence from the U.S. Experience in the 1920s”
SESSION 6: INCOME INEQUALITY AND MOBILITY
Frank Warren Garmon, Jr., University of Virginia, “Social Mobility and Inequality at the Creation of the American Republic”
James J. Feigenbaum, Boston University, “Women's Suffrage and Intergenerational Mobility”
Zachary Ward, Australian National University, “The Not-So-Hot Melting Pot: The Persistence of Outcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration”
SESSION 7: SECTARIAN STRIFE AND CULTURE
Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge, Anand Shrivastava, Azim Premji University, and Rohit Ticku, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, “Holy Wars? Temple Desecrations in Medieval India”
Heyu Xiong, Northwestern University, and Yiling Zhao, Northwestern University, “Sectarian Competition and the Market Provision of Human Capital”
James Fenske, University of Warwick, and Namrata Kala, Harvard University, “Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India”
SESSION 8: LABOR AND CAPITAL IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Price Fishback, University of Arizona, Sebastian Fleitas, University of Arizona, Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Ken Snowden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “The Impact of the Foreclosure Overhang on Mortgage Lending in the late 1930s”
Paul Gaggl, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and Gabriel Mathy, American University, “Bad Luck or Bad Workers? A View of the Long-Term Unemployed in the Great Depression through Matched Census Records”
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “The Short- and Long-Run Effects of the 1930s HOLC ‘Redlining’ Maps”
SESSION 9: COMMODITY MONEY AND ECONOMIC SHOCKS
Colin Weiss, UCLA, “Is Devaluation Risk Contractionary? Evidence from U.S. Silver Coinage Agitation, 1878–1900”
Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University, and Gonçalo Pina, Santa Clara University, “Pegxit Pressure”
Nuno Palma, University of Groningen, “The Existence and Persistence of Liquidity Effects: Evidence from a Large-Scale Historical Natural Experiment”
SESSION 10: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Eduardo Montero, Harvard University, “Cooperative Property Rights and Agricultural Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador”
Itzchak Tzachi Raz, Harvard University, “Use It or Lose It: Adverse Possession and Economic Development”
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College, and Steven Nafziger, Williams College, “The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia”
SESSION 11: MIGRATION, MOBILITY AND FACTOR ENDOWMENTS
Matthias Blum, Queen's University, Belfast, and Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University, “Coming to America: Health and Human Capital of Holocaust Refugees”
Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis, and Neil Cummins, London School of Economics, “The People, Not the Place. The Decline of the North of England 1918–2017: A Surname Investigation”
David Andersson, Uppsala University, Mounir Karadja, Uppsala University, and Erik Prawitz, Stockholm University, “Mass Migration, Cheap Labor, and Innovation”
SESSION 12: CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS AND BANKING AND FINANCIAL STABILITY
Òscar Jordà, University of California, Davis, Björn Richter, University of Bonn, Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn, and Alan M. Taylor, University of California, Davis, “Bank Capital Redux: Solvency, Liquidity, and Crisis”
Michael Gou, University of California, Irvine, “Did Capital Requirements Promote Bank Stability in the Early Twentieth Century United States?”
Asaf Bernstein, University of Colorado Boulder, “Costs of Rating-Contingent Regulation: Evidence from the Establishment of ‘Investment Grade’ ”
SESSION 13: EDUCATION AND INNOVATION
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University, and Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles, “Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees”
Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University, and Marlous van Waijenburg, Northwestern University, “Here Has All the Education Gone: The Free-Fall of Skill-Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, c. 1860–2010”
Alexander Donger, University of Mannheim, Jean-Marie A. Meier, London Business School, and Rui C. Silva, London Business School, “The Impact of Institutions on Innovation”
SESSION 14: TRADE, FINANCE AND GROWTH
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College, “Banks, Insider Connections, and Industrialization in New England: Evidence from the Panic of 1873”
Chenzi Xu, Harvard University, “Financial Frictions in Trade: Evidence from the Banking Crisis of 1866”
Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics, Philipp Kessler, University of Mannheim, and Kim Oosterlinck, Université Libre de Bruxelles, “The Dawes Bonds: Selective Default and International Trade”
SESSION 15: LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS
William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University, and Gregory T. Niemesh, Miami University, “Unions and the Great Compression of American Inequality, 1940–1960”
Peter Sandholt Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Cristina Victoria Radu, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, and Paul Richard Sharp, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, “The Effect of Serfdom on Labor Markets”
Victor Gay, University of Chicago, “The Legacy of the Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Participation in France Throughout the Twentieth Century”
SESSION 16: CREDIT, POLICY AND GROWTH IN ASIA
Sergi Basco, Carlos III, and John Tang, Australian National University, “The Samurai Bond: Credit Supply and Economic Growth in Pre-War Japan”
Nathan Lane, Stockholm University, “Manufacturing Revolutions—Industrial Policy and Networks in South Korea”
Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University, “The Contraction of Indian Rural Credit Markets 1951–1971: A Cautionary Tale of Financial Formalization”
