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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

Spring 2022

April
20
Saumitra Jha - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Markets under Siege: How Differences in Political Beliefs Can Move Financial Markets

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to paper

Co-authors: Marcos Salgado and Peter Koudijs

April
13
Sandy Black - Columbia University

Where Does Wealth Come From?

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

Joint with Paul Devereuix, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell Salvanes

April
6
Anna Grzymala-Busse - Stanford University

Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of The European State

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to paper
March
30
Leander Heldring - Northwestern University

The economic effects of the English Parliamentary enclosures

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351 and Zoom
Link to paper

Winter 2022

March
9
Stefanie Stantcheva - Harvard University

Social Positions and Fairness Views on Inequality

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Paper

Joint with Kristoffer B. Hvidberg and Claus T. Kreiner

March
2
Ellora Derenoncourt - Princeton University

Wealth of two nations: The US racial wealth gap, 1860-2020

Date
-
Location:
Landau 351, Zoom
Link to Abstract

Joint Labor and Economic History Seminar

February
23
Walker Hanlon - Northwestern University

The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper
February
16
Fabian Waldinger - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence Over the Twentieth Century

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to abstract

Please note: Earlier time - Seminar scheduled for 11:30am-1:00 pm.

February
9
Nathaniel Hendren - Harvard University

Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital

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

Joint with Daniel Herbst

Fall 2021

December
8
Isaiah Andrews - Harvard University

Inference on Winners

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

Joint with Toru Kitagawaz and Adam McCloskey