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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
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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 2021

December
1
Claudia Steinwender - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Joint with Laura Alfaro, Cathy Bao, Maggie X. Chen, and Junjie Hong

Joint Seminar: History and International Trade

November
24

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Week

Date
November
17
Réka Juhász - Columbia University

Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Joint with Mara P. Squicciarini and Nico Voigtländer

 

Joint Seminar: History and International Trade

November
10
Penny Goldberg - Yale University

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to Paper

Joint with Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Costas Meghir, and Gabriel Ulyssea

November
3
Karen Clay - Carnegie Mellon University

Black-White Economic Progress: The Impact of the Boll Weevil

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to abstract
October
27
Marlous van Waijenburg - Harvard University

Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to abstract
October
20
Elisa Jácome - Stanford University

Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Joint with Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu

October
13
Benjamin Handel - University of California, Berkeley

The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands

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

Joint with Jonathan Kolstad, Thomas Minten, and Johannes Spinnewijn

October
6
Jonas Mueller-Gastell - Stanford University

Labor Scarcity vs Surplus: Evidence on Industrialization from Finland

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to abstract
September
29
Chenzi Xu - Stanford Graduate School of Business

International Banks: Re-Agents of Globalization

Date
-
Location:
Zoom