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Stanford
Department of Economics
School of Humanities and Sciences

Economic History

Coordinator: Lindsey Lam
Email: ljlam@stanford.edu

iCal Feed: https://economics.stanford.edu/seminar/7216/ical
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Upcoming Events

Spring 2021

April
14

Alex Mas, Princeton University

Worker and Employer Heterogeneity in Hours Determination

Date
Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 1 - 2:30pm
Location:
Zoom

Joint with Marta Lachowska, Raffaele Saggio and Steve Woodbury.

April
21

Petra Moser - New York University, Stern

Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom

Date
Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 11:30am - 1pm
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Co-Author: Scott Kim

April
28

Desmond Ang - Harvard University

The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate

Date
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom
May
5

Sarah Quincy - Vanderbilt University

Paper TBA

Date
Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom
May
12

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University

Paper TBA

Date
Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 1 - 2:30pm
Location:
Zoom
May
19

Philipp Ager - University of Southern Denmark

Paper TBA

Date
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 11:30am - 1pm
Location:
Zoom
May
26

Mark Anderson - Montana State University

The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap

Date
Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Co-authors: Kerwin Charles and Daniel Rees

June
2

Shameel Ahmad - Rhodes College

Endogenous Demography and the Welfare Gains from Trade: Evidence from British India’s Railroads

Date
Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Past Events

Fall 2020

November
4

Marianne Wanamaker - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

40 Acres and a Mule: Black Americans’ Landholding and Economic Mobility after Emancipation

Date
Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Co-authors: William J. Collins and Nicholas Holtkamp

October
28

Latika Hartmann - Naval Postgraduate School

Did Railways Affect Literacy? Evidence from India

Date
Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Link to paper

Co-author: James Fenske

October
21

Shari Eli - University of Toronto

Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal

Date
Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Link to paper

October
14

Leah Boustan, Princeton University

Streets of Gold: Immigration and the American Dream Over Two Centuries

Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 1 - 2:30pm
Location:
Zoom

Joint with Ran Abramitzky

October
7

Alejandro Martínez-Marquina - Stanford University

When a town wins the lottery: Evidence from Spain

Date
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Link to abstract

September
30

No Seminar

Date
Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 3:30 - 5pm
September
23

Yiming He - Stanford University

How does slum demolition affect the economic outcomes of the displaced? Evidence from Victorian England

Date
Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Zoom

Link to abstract

September
16

Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University

Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets

Date
Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 1 - 2:30pm
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Co-authors: Giulia Brancaccio, Theodore Papageorgiou, Nicola Rosaia

 

Spring 2020

June
10

Canceled - Joint Applied Micro Seminar

Date
Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 12am
June
3

No Seminar - Economic History

Date
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 12am