Economic History Seminar
Fall 2025
Seminar Times & Location:
Fridays, 2:15 - 3:30pm
KMC 7-191(7th floor)
To join the mailing list, please contact Amanda Schwab ams9893@stern.nyu.edu
September 5th "State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings"
Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto)
September 19th "The Drafted Nation: Economic and Political Legacies of Conscription"
Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego)
October 3rd "Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural Electrification”
Ethan Lewis (Dartmouth)
October 10th "De-Polarizing Politics: Faith Meets Science in the French Third Republic”
Nico Voigtlaender (UCLA Anderson)
November 7th "How Important Are Cultural Frictions for Internal Migration? Evidence from the Nineteenth Century United States"
Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado Boulder)
November 14th
Bang Nguyen (University of Bayreuth)
November 21st
Ellora Derenoncourt (Princeton University)
December 5th "Women and Asylums"
Melanie Xue (London School of Economics)