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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 2019

October
23

Ariell Zimran (visiting Hoover Institution, Stanford University) - Vanderbilt University

Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920

Date
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351
October
16

Itzchak Tzachi Raz - Harvard University

There’s No Such Thing As Free Land: The Homestead Act and Economic Development (with Ross Mattheis)

Date
Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351
October
10

Michele Rosenberg - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Shaping Ideology and Institutions: Economic Incentives and Slavery in the US South

Date
Thursday, October 10, 2019, 2:30 - 3:30pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 225
October
9

Joint Applied Micro Seminar

Date
Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
October
2

Ana Tur-Prats - University of California, Merced

Trust Unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

Date
Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351
September
25

Saumitra Jha - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Marching on the Bastille: Combat Experience, Local Organizational Capacity and Political Change in Revolutionary France (with Steven Wilkinson)

Date
Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351
May
22

Kjell Salvanes - Norwegian School of Economics

The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 School Reform (with Acemoglu, Pekkarinen and Sarvimäki)

Date
Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 3:30 - 4:30pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351
May
15

Joint Applied Micro Seminar

Date
Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
GSB B400
May
8

Rohit Ticku - Chapman University

Economic Shocks and Temple Desecrations in Medieval India

Date
Wednesday, May 8, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351
May
1

Fabio Braggion - Tilburg University

Does credit affect stock trading? Evidence from the South Sea Bubble

Date
Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 3:30 - 5pm
Location:
Econ Bldg 351