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Stanford
Department of Economics
School of Humanities and Sciences

Economic History

Organizers: Clare Kroesche
Emails: clarek [at] stanford.edu (clarek[at]stanford[dot]edu)

iCal feed: https://economics.stanford.edu/seminar/7216/ical
Note: iCal feed works best with webmail or Outlook and may not function properly with other calendars (e.g., Google calendar has a sync problem when updating an existing event).

Upcoming Events

Spring 2024

May
8
Jesse Shapiro - Harvard University

Real-Time Surveillance of Repression: Theory and Implementation

Date
-
Location:
GSB Gunn Building, G101
635 Knight Way, Stanford
Link to Paper

Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Co-authors: Veli Andirin, Yusuf Neggers, and Mehdi Shadmehr

May
15
Michela Giorcelli - UCLA

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
May
22
Victor Gay - Toulouse School of Economics

Weapons of Mass Production. World War I and the Modernization of the French Economy

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
May
29
Ellora Derenoncourt - Princeton University

Paper TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom

Joint seminar with History

June
5
Eduardo Montero - University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy

TBA

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom

Past Events

Fall 2022

October
26
Jamein Cunningham - Cornell University

The Impact of Affirmative Action Litigation on Police Killings of Civilians

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to Paper

Co-Authors: Robynn Cox and Alberto Ortega

October
19
Panu Poutvaara - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

School Tracking and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from Finland

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-Authors: Ilpo Kauppinen and Teodora Tsankova

October
12
Paul Niehaus - University of California San Diego

Targeting Impact Versus Deprivation

Date
-
Location:
The Gunn Building, G102
635 Knight Way, Stanford
Link to Paper

Joint Applied Micro Seminar
Joint with Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Carlos Paramo, and Michael Walker

September
28
Xuechao Qian - Stanford University

Innovation Nation: Evidence from Broadening Access to Ph.D. Training in the U.S.

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to Abstract

Co-Authors: Francisca Antman, Kirk Doran, and Bruce Weinberg

Spring 2022

June
1
Destin Jenkins - Stanford University

Breaking the Bonds of Segregation

Date
-
Link to paper
May
25
Diego Ramos-Toro - Dartmouth College

Self-Emancipation and Progressive Politics: The Legacy of Civil War Refugee Camps

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to paper
May
18
Dora Costa - University of California, Los Angeles

The Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
May
11
David Autor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018

Date
-
Location:
GSB Bass Center, Room 400
Link to Paper

Joint Applied Micro Seminar

May
4
Maggie Jones - University of Victoria

Competition and Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Evidence from the Green Books

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to abstract

Co-authors: Lisa Cook, Trevon Logan, and David Rose

April
27
Sascha Becker - Monash University

Scholars at Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Co-authors: Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, and Fabian Waldinger