2019 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President Price Fishback would like to thank the following for making the 2019 meeting in Atlanta a success:
Program Committee—Taylor Jaworski (chair), Kenneth Snowden, Steven Nafziger, and Doug Irwin
Local Arrangements Committee—Caroline Fohlin (chair), Leonard Carlson (co-chair), Will Roberds (co-chair), and Jeremy Land
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Emory University
Georgia State University
Cambridge University Press
Michael Haupert—Executive Director, EHA
Tammy Netwal–Assistant to the Executive Director
Lana Sooter—EHA Administrative Coordinator
Jari Eloranta—Meetings Coordinator, EHA
Riikka Haukka—Assistant to the Meetings Coordinator, EHA
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Lee Alston, Indiana University
Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York
Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan
Joyce Burnette, Wabash College
Bruno Caprettini, University of Zurich
Chelsea Carter, Boston University
Greg Clark, University of California, Davis
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Cotter, Oberlin College
Yannick Dupaz, University of Warwick
Shari Eli, University of Toronto
Katherine Eriksson, University of California, Davis
James Fenske, University of Warwick
Andy Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh
Daniel Fetter, Stanford University
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University
Mesay Gebresilasse, Amherst College
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Vanderbilt University
Rowena Gray, University of California, Merced
Dan Gross, Harvard Business School
Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick
Zeynep Hansen, Boise State
Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Phil Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
Matt Jaremski, Utah State University
Reka Juhasz, Columbia University
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University
Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen, Harvard University
Edward Kosack, Xavier University
Mark Koyama, George Mason University
Josh Lewis, University of Montreal
Cong Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Debin Ma, London School of Economics
Gabriel Mathy, American University
Noel Maurer, George Washington University
Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Melinda Miller, Virginia Tech
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Steve Nafziger, Williams College
Natalya Naumenko, George Mason University
Larry Neal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gregory Niemesh, Miami University
John Nye, George Mason University
Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo
John Parman, College of William and Mary
Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Alex Persaud, University of Richmond
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University
Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University
Claudia Rei, University of Warwick
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Laura Salisbury, York University
Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado, Boulder
John Tang, University of Melbourne
Evan Taylor, University of Chicago
Patrick Testa, Tulane University
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University of Ohio
Marlous van Waijenburg, University of Michigan
Chris Vickers, Auburn University
Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh
Gavin Wright, Stanford University
Nicolas Ziebarth, Auburn University
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University
2020 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 11–13 SEPTEMBER 2020
The eightieth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 11–13 September 2020. The theme of the meeting is “The Lessons of Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: DEMAGOGUES, RACISTS, AND CENSORS
Jordi Vidal-Robert, University of Sydney, Sascha O. Becker, Monash University, and Francisco J. Pino, University of Chile, “pur si muove. Effects of Catholic Censorship during the Counter-Reformation”
Tianyi Wang, University of Pittsburgh, “Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin”
Max Winkler, University of Zurich, and Sebastian Ottinger, University of California, Los Angeles, “Political Competition and Racial Hate: Evidence from the U.S.”
SESSION 2: MONETARY REFORMS AND RESUMPTIONS
Thea Don-Siemion, London School of Economics, “Interwar Poland’s Late Exit from Gold: A Case of Government as ‘Conservative Central Banker’”
Francois Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Lilia Costabile, University of Naples Federico II, “Monetary Crisis and Reform in 17th c. Naples”
Pamfili Antipa, Sciences Po, and Quoc-Anh Do, Sciences Po, “Charity Begins at Home-Why Britain Resumed the Gold Standard after the French Wars”
SESSION 3: FINANCIAL CRISES: ORIGINS AND RESOLUTIONS
Patrick Van Horn, Scripps College, Ellis Tallman, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Grant Goehring, Northwestern University, “New York Clearing House Last Resort Lending in 1884: Orderly Resolution of a Systemically Important Financial Institution”
Stephan Luck, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Kristian Blickle, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University, “Micro-Evidence from a System Wide Financial Meltdown, the German Crisis of 1931”
Jean-Laurent Cadorel, Paris School of Economics, “A Monetary Explanation of the Great Crash of 1929”
SESSION 4: BANKING SERVICES FOR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES
Geoff Clarke, Brandeis University, “Generating African-American Wealth Through Banking”
Masato Shizume, Waseda University, “Modern Banking Reforms and Financial Activities of Indigenous Merchants: A Case from Japan in the Late 19th Century”
Craig M. McMahon, Villanova University, and Jeremy Land, Nova School of Business and Edwards-Pitman and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, “Public Banking and Global Marketplaces in Antebellum Georgia and South Carolina”
SESSION 5: THE ROLES OF CONFIDENCE AND INFORMATION IN FINANCIAL CRISES
Mark Carlson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University, “Restoring Confidence in Troubled Financial Institutions after a Financial Crisis”
Haelim Anderson, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Adam Copeland, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “Information Management in Times of Crisis”
Christopher Hoag, Trinity College, “Bank Executive Experience in a Financial Crisis”
SESSION 6: ENGLISH AND FRENCH MONEY TROUBLES
Eric Monnet, Paris School of Economics, Angelo Riva, European Business School, and Stefano Ungaro, ACPR Bank of France, “Flight-to-Safety and the Real Effects of Banking Crises. Evidence from the French Great Depression (1930–1931)”
Bryan Cutsinger, Angelo State University, and Louis Rouanet, George Mason University, “Assignats or Death: Inflationary Finance in Revolutionary France”
Maylis Avaro, Graduate Institute of Geneva, “Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1973”
SESSION 7: MONEY SUPPLY AND GLOBAL CURRENCIES
Roger Vicquery, London School of Economics, “The Rise and Fall of Global Currencies over Two Centuries”
Paul Schmelzing, Yale School of Management, “Eight Centuries of Global Real Interest Rates, R-G, and the ‘Suprasecular’ Decline, 1311–2018”
Nuno Palma, University of Manchester and CEPR, Adam Brzezinski, University of Oxford, Yao Chen, University of Rotterdam, and Felix Ward, University of Rotterdam, “The Vagaries of the Sea: Evidence on the Real Effects of Money from Maritime Disasters in the Spanish Empire”
SESSION 8: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISES
Gail Triner, Rutgers University, “The Political Economy of the First Modern Sovereign Debt Crisis”
Rui Esteves, IHEID Geneva, Sean Kenny, Lund University, and Jason Lennard, Lund University, “The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach”
Ali Coskun Tuncer, UCL, and Leonardo Weller, São Paulo School of Economics, FGV, “Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk in the First Financial Globalization”
SESSION 9: SOVEREIGN DEBTS AND CREDIT MARKETS
Colin Weiss, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and Nathanael Coffey, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, “Sovereign Default and Capital Flows: Evidence from the American States in the 1840s”
Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania, “Vulture Diplomacy: The London Stock Exchange and the Political Economy of Distressed Sovereign Debt in the 19th Century”
Oscar Gelderblom, Utrecht University, Joost Jonker, University of Amsterdam and International Institute for Social History, Ruben Peeters, Utrecht University, and Amaury de Vicq, Utrecht University, “Call It a Loan. Dutch Intermediated and Non-Intermediated Credit Markets in 1921”
SESSION 10: SOME DEMOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WORLD
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University, and Luke P. Rodgers, Florida State University, “Were Children Always Normal? Historic Evidence from the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust”
Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse School of Economics, and Xinyan Lao, Toulouse School of Economics, “Income and Net Fertility in a Malthusian Economy: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine”
Guillaume Blanc, Brown University, “Modernization Before Industrialization: Cultural Roots of the Demographic Transition in France”
SESSION 11: MANUFACTURING, TRANSPORTATION, AND INFORMATION ACCESS
Reka Juhasz, Columbia University, Mara Squicciarini, Bocconi University, and Nico Voigtlaender, UCLA Anderson School of Management, “Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from France”
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago, and Martin Rotemberg, New York University, “Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing”
Peter Nencka, Ohio State University, and Enrico Berkes, Ohio State University, “Knowledge Access: The Effects of Carnegie Libraries on Innovation”
SESSION 12: ASSIMILATING THE IMMIGRANT: CONSEQUENCES FOR GROWTH AND INNOVATION
David Escamilla-Guerrero, University of Oxford, and Moramay Lopez-Alonso, Rice University, “Migrant Self-Selection in the Presence of Random Shocks. Evidence from the Panic of 1907”
Lisa Tarquinio, Columbia University, Konrad Burchardi, Institute for International Economic Studies, Thomas Chaney, Sciences Po, Tarek Hassan, Boston University, and Stephen Terry, Boston University, “Immigration, Innovation, and Growth”
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and NBER, and William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER, “Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the United States during the Age of Mass Migration”
SESSION 13: INSTITUTIONS MATTER
Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Cambridge, Alexander Klein, University of Kent, and Jeremy Edwards, University of Cambridge, “Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia”
Maria Stanfors, Lund University, “Unions and Wages. The Union Wage Premium among Turn Swedish Manufacturing Industry, Circa 1900”
Mario Francesco Carillo, University of Naples Federico II, “Fascistville: Mussolini’s New Towns and the Persistence of Neo-Fascism”
SESSION 14: EDUCATION AND INNOVATION
Felix Selgert, University of Bonn, and Alexander Donges, University of Mannheim, “The Consequences of Radical Patent-Regime Change”
Juliana Jaramillo, London School of Economics, and Andres Alvarez, Los Andes University, “Surnames, Status and Schools: A Long-Term View of the Social Ladder in Colombia”
Benjamin Andrew Milner, University of British Columbia, “The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act”
SESSION 15: DISCRIMINATION: IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN, AND MORTGAGE LENDING
Leonhard Vollmer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Mathias Buehler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Johannes Wimmer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, “Education and Women’s Empowerment”
Francisca Antman, University of Colorado Boulder, and Kalena E. Cortes, Texas A&M University, “The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation”
Mintra Dwarkasing, Erasmus University Rotterdam, “The Dark Side of Social Capital? Battles and Mortgage Lending”
SESSION 16: INEQUALITY AND ITS PERSISTENCE
Felipe Valencia, University of British Columbia, Laura Schechter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jen Alix Garcia, Oregon State University, and Siyao Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Country of Women? Repercussions of the War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay”
Yuzuru Kumon, University of California, Davis, “The Deep Roots of Inequality”
Laura Salisbury, York University, and Shari Eli, University of Toronto, “The Intergenerational Persistence of Welfare Receipt”
SESSION 17: THE POLITICS OF HEALTH
Vincent Geloso, King’s University College, and Raymond March, North Dakota State University, “Rent-Seeking for Madness: The Political Economy of Mental Institutionalization in America, 1880 to 1923”
Brian Marein, University of Colorado Boulder, “Economic Growth, Public Health, and the First Mortality Transition in the Tropics: Puerto Rico, 1923–1945”
Nikolaos Prodromidis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Martin Fischer, Karolinska Institute, “The Long-Term Effects from Hospital Deliveries in Sweden”
SESSION 18: HUMAN CAPITAL LEGACIES
Andreas Backhaus, Federal Institute for Population Research, “Fading Legacies: Human Capital in the Aftermath of the Partitions of Poland”
Ezra Karger, University of Chicago, “The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s”
Conor Lennon, University of Louisville, “Female Educational Achievement, Labor Market Outcomes, and the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944”
