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”
