2012 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The editors and the Association thank those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangements committee members, and the meeting coordinator.
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine
Sabrina Boschetti, California Institute of Technology
Leah Boustan, University of California, Los Angeles
John Brown, Clark University
Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis
William Collins, Vanderbilt University
Christian Dippel, University of California, Los Angeles
Catherine Douglas, University of British Columbia
Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia
Stephen Easton, Simon Fraser University
Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University
Michael Huberman, Université de Montréal
Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitosubashi University
Carl Mosk, University of Victoria Angela Redish, University of British Columbia Jordi-Vidal Robert, University of Warwick
David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
George Grantham, McGill University
David Green, University of British Columbia
Michael Haines, Colgate University
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University David Jacks, Simon Fraser University
John James, University of Virginia Morten Jerven, Simon Fraser University
Saumitra Jha, Stanford University
Brooks Kaiser, University of Southern Denmark
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University Gary Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis Trevon Logan, Ohio State University
Robert Margo, Boston University
Noel Maurer, Harvard University
Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roy Mill, Stanford University
Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University
Jon Moen, University of Mississippi
Larry Neal, University of Illinois Greg Niemesh, Vanderbilt University
Elisabeth Perlman, Boston University Claudia Rei, Vanderbilt University Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Laura Salisbury, Boston University
Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado Isabelle Sin, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Tuan-Hwe Sng, National University of Singapore
Richard Steckel, The Ohio State University
Richard Sylla, New York University
Melissa Thomasson, Ohio University
Gianni Toniolo, Duke University Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
John Wallis, University of Maryland Warren Whatley, University of Michigan
Simone Wegge, College of Staten Island
Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University
Gavin Wright, Stanford University
Noam Yuchtman, University of California, Berkeley
2013 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 20–22 SEPTEMBER 2013
The seventy-third annual meetings of the Economic History Association will be held at the Hilton Arlington Hotel in Washington, DC, 20–22 September 2013. The theme of the meetings is “Global Perspectives.” The papers chosen for presentation follow:
INSTITUTIONS AND GEOGRAPHY
Scott Abramson, Princeton University, “The Origins of the Territorial State”
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University, “Resources, Politics, Economics, and Curses: Evidence from the United States 1929–2002” William F. Maloney, World Bank, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo, World Bank and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “The Persistence of (Subnational) Fortune: Geography, Agglomeration, and Institutions in the New World”
EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL
Joerg Baten, University of Tübingen, and Dacil Juif, University of Tübingen, “A Story of Large Landowners and Math Skills: Inequality and Human Capital Formation in a Global Perspective, 1820–2000” Tomas Cvrcek, Clemson University, and Miroslav Zajicek, Charles University, Prague, “School, What Is It Good For? Schooling and Human Capital Investment in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Empire”
Edward Kosack, University of Colorado, Boulder, “The Bracero Program and Effects on Human Capital Investments in Mexico, 1942–1964”
COLONIALISM
Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, “Was Independence Really Better Than Colonial Rule? A Comparative Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone”
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, “The Impact of Colonialism on African Development: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas”
Dongwoo Yoo, West Virginia University, “Is the British Colonization Better Than That of the French? A Study of Vanuatu”
Marlous van Waijenburg, Northwestern University, and Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University, “Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880–1940”
DEPRESSION AND RECOVERY
Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley, and Aaron Pacitti, Siena College, “Goods, Services, and the Pace of Economic Recovery”
Andrew Bossie, City University of New York, “Rethinking the World War II Economy: The Welfare Effects of World War II and the Role of Household Demand in the Postwar Boom”
Natacha Postel-Vinay, London School of Economics, “What Caused Chicago Bank Failures in the Great Depression? A Look at the 1920s” Martin Uebele, University of Groningen, and Thilo Albers, University of Muenster, “A Monthly International Data Set for the Interwar Period: Taking the Debate to the Next Level”
LABOR MARKETS
Sam Allen, Virginia Military Institute, and Price Fishback, University of Arizona, “The Impact of Progressive Era Labor Regulations on the Manufacturing Labor Market”
Jessica Bean, Denison University, “Intergenerational Labor Supply in Interwar London” Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii, and Timothy Halliday, University of Hawaii, “Sons, Daughters, and Labor Supply in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii”
Yukiko Abe, Hokkaido University, and Giorgio Brunello, Università degli Studi di Padova, “On the Historical Development of Regional Differences in Women's Participation in Japan”
AFRICA
Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University, “Market Integration in South Africa Before and After Unification”
Morten Jerven, Simon Fraser University, “External Trade and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880–1950”
Alexander Moradi, University of Sussex, Remi Jedwab, George Washington University, and Edward Kirby, London School of Economics, “Colonial Investments and African Development: Further Evidence from Railroads in Kenya”
RAILROADS
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University, Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University, and Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University, “American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War”
Kerstin Enflo, Lund University, and Thor Berger, Lund University, “Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden”
Ross Knippenberg, University of Colorado, Boulder, “By How Much Did Railroads Conquer the West?”
POPULATION AND HEALTH
Martin Dribe, Lund University, Hilde Bras, Radboud University Nijmegen, Marco Breschi, University of Sassari, Alain Gagnon, University of Montreal, Danielle Gauvreau, University of Concordia, Thomas N. Maloney, University of Utah, Joseph Molitoris, Lund University, Lucia Pozzi, University of Sassari, and Helene Vezina, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, “Socioeconomic Status and Fertility: Insights from Historical Transitions in Europe and North America” Briggs Depew, University of Arizona, and Griffin Edwards, Southern Utah University, “Alcohol Prohibition and Infant Mortality” Anthony Wray, Northwestern University, and Krzysztof Karbownik, Uppsala University, “Childhood Illness and Occupational Choice in London, 1870–1911”
INSTITUTIONS AND BELIEFS
Jared Rubin, Chapman University, and Avner Greif, Stanford University, “The Reformation, Political Legitimacy, and the Origin of the Modern Economy in England” Lee Alston, University of Colorado, Marcus Melo, Federal University of Pernambuco, and Bernardo Mueller, University of Brasilia, “Beliefs, Leadership, and Economic Development: Making the Critical Transition”
Jordi Vidal-Robert, University of Warwick, “The Persistence of the Inquisitorial Mind: Long-Run Effects of the Spanish Inquisition”
INDUSTRY AND TRADE
Felip Benguria, University of Virginia, “U.S. Manufacturing During the Great Depression: Evidence from the Biennial Census of Manufactures”
Tamas Vonyo, London School of Economics, “The Wartime Origins of the Wirtschaftswunder: The Growth of West German Industry, 1938–1955” Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark, and Karl Gunnar Persson, University of Copenhagen, “Winners and Losers from Globalization: Why Both European and U.S. Farmers Were Angry in the Grain Invasion Era, 1870–1900”
FINANCIAL CRISES
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University, “The Savings and Loan Crisis in the Shadow of the 2000s” Moritz Schularick, University of Bonn, Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis, and Oscar Jorda, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences”
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Currency Crises from Andrew Jackson to Angela Merkel”
FINANCE
Marc Flandreau, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, “Governing Global Capital Markets: Collective Action Clauses, Bondholder Committees, and the London Stock Exchange in the Nineteenth Century, 1827–1868”
Veronica Santarosa, University of Michigan, “Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation: Evidence from a Brokerage Law Reform in Eighteenth-Century Marseille”
Patrick van Horn, New College of Florida, and Haelim Park, U.S. Treasury, “Did the Reserve Requirement Increments of 1936–1937 Reduce Bank Lending? Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
TECHNOLOGY
James Bessen, Boston University School of Law, and Alessandro Nuvolari, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, “Diffusing New Technology Without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knowledge Sharing”
Leonard Dudley, Université de Montréal, “Necessity's Children? The Inventions of the Industrial Revolution”
Harry Kitsikopoulos, New York University, “The Diffusion of Newcomen Engines, 1700–1770: A Revisionist Assessment”
MIGRATION AND INEQUALITY
Marianne Wanamaker, University of Tennessee, and William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University, “The Great Migration in Black and White: Understanding Black-White Differences Using Linked Census Data”
Yannay Spitzer, Northwestern University, “The Dynamics of Mass Migration: The Economics of the Jewish Exodus from the Pale of Settlement in Tsarist Russia”
Livio Di Matteo, Lakehead University, “Tops and Bottoms: Wealth Extremes in Late Nineteenth Century Ontario: Where Were the Rich People?”
LONG-RUN GROWTH AND LIVING STANDARDS
Christian Skovsgard, University of Southern Denmark, Thomas Andersen, University of Southern Denmark, and Peter Jensen, University of Southern Denmark, “The Heavy Plough and the European Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages”
Guido Alfani, Bocconi University, “Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)” Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia, and David Gonzalez Agudo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Housing and the Cost of Living in Early Modern Toledo, 1489–1650”
ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 28–30 MARCH 2014, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS
The 2014 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Warwick from 28–30 March.
The conference programme committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an interdisciplinary nature. Preference may be given to scholars who did not present a paper at the previous year's conference. Those currently studying for, or who have recently completed, a Ph.D. should submit a proposal to the New Researcher session; please contact Maureen Galbraith (ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk) for further information.
The committee invites proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions (3 speakers [optimum], 1.5 hours duration; no more than four papers will be accepted for any one session). Please note that the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.
Proposals should please be submitted online via the Economic History Society website (www.ehs.org.uk). You will be asked to submit:
For single paper submissions:
• The title of the paper proposed.
• A short abstract of the paper proposed (400–500 words).*
• Up to five keywords, which can be used to help the conference coordinating committee allocate papers between sessions.
• Contact details (name, affiliation, and e-mail address; including those of co-authors).
• A brief C.V.
For sessions:
• The title of the proposed session.
• The rationale for the session (up to 100 words).
• The titles of each paper proposed.
• A short abstract for each paper proposed (400–500 words).*
• Contact details for each speaker (name, affiliation, and e-mail address; including those of co-authors).
• A brief C.V. for each proposed speaker.
* The abstract(s) should: explain the background to the paper; the questions it addresses; the sources and methods it employs; and the main conclusions or findings.
For full consideration, proposals must be received by 11 September 2013. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by mid-November 2013. Should your paper be accepted, you will be asked to provide the following:
• A revised abstract of the paper (750–1,000 words) for inclusion in the conference booklet (by 11 December 2013).
• A brief non-technical summary of your paper (if required) for the “Media Briefings” section of the Society's website (by 3 February 2014).
• An electronic copy of your full paper, or a web address where the paper is available for consultation (by 3 March 2014).
It is the normal expectation that speakers who submit a proposal for a paper to the conference committee should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist overseas speakers who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Details of this fund and an application form can be obtained from the Society's administrative secretary, Maureen Galbraith. It is important that a completed application form is submitted by the September deadline. Only in exceptional circumstances will later applications for support be considered.
Any queries should please be directed to Maureen Galbraith.
