Economic History Seminar
Spring 2020
Virtual Seminars in Economic History are being offered from April through June 2020. Virtual seminars meet on Mondays from 11 am-12 pm Pacific / 2-3 pm Eastern / 8-9 pm Central European Summer Time. To receive virtual seminar announcements or suggest a paper, please sign up here. For more details, visit www.petramoser.net/virthist.html.
The following in-person seminars have been cancelled from April 3rd onward:
| Date | Name | Topic |
| April 6 | Martin Rotemberg | "Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing" |
| April 20 | Martin Fernandez-Sanchez | "Mass Emigration and Human Capital over a Century: Evidence from the Galician Diaspora" |
| April 27 | Tania Babina | "Crisis Innovation" |
| May 4 | Sara Lowes | "The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa" |
| May 11 | Katherine Eriksson | "The Rise of the Know Nothing Party" |
| May 18 | James Feigenbaum | "How the Other Half Dies: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities" |
| June 1 | Elizabeth Cascio | "Opening the Door: Migration and Self-Selection in a Restrictive Legal Immigration Regime" |
| June 8 | Mara Squicciarini | "Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France" |
| June 15 | Fabian Waldinger | "Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance. Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany" |
The following in-person seminars have been cancelled from April 3rd onward:
| Date | Name | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 21 | Jake Kantor (NYU Stern Graduate Student) |
"Dams, Flood Control, and Downstream Development" |
| March 6 | Colin Weiss (Federal Reserve Board) |
“Intermediary Asset Pricing during the National Banking Era” |
| April 3 | CANCELLED: Charles Calomiris (Columbia GSB) |
"Interbank Connections, Contagion and Bank Distress in the Great Depression" |
| April 24 | CANCELLED: Philipp Jager (RWI Essen) |
“Pension Incentives and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK” |
| May 1 *8:30 AM - 5:30 PM **This is a daylong mini-conference. |
CANCELLED:
Marcella Alsan (Harvard Kennedy School) Brian Beach
(Vanderbilt) Mark Anderson
(Montana State) Casper Worm Hansen
(Copenhagen) |
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