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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

Spring 2021

March
31
Tyler Goodspeed - Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Skin in the Game: Liability Insurance, Contingent Capital, and Financial Stability

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Winter 2021

March
10
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University

Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence From an Energy Conservation Program in China

Date
-
Location:
Zoom

Joint with J. Chen, Z. Chen, Z. Liu, and D. Xu

March
3
Saumitra Jha - Stanford Graduate School of Business

Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Co-authors: Julia Cage, Anna Dagorret and Pauline Grosjean

February
24
Luz Marina Arias - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University

The (Uneven) Legacy of Colonial Rural Estates in Mexico

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to abstract

Co-author: Diana Flores-Peregrina

February
16
Adriana Lleras-Muney - University of California, Los Angeles

Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Co-authors: Anna Aizer, Ryan Boone and Jonathan Vogel

February
10
Stefano DellaVigna - University of California, Berkeley

Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Joint with David Card, Patricia Funk, and Nagore Iriberri

January
19
Stefanie Stantcheva - Harvard University

Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

Date
-
Location:
Zoom

Joint History, Public, and Environmental Economics Seminar

Co-authors: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas

 

Fall 2020

November
18
Joachim Voth - University of Zurich

Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption in Industrializing Britain

Date
-
Location:
Zoom

Co-authors: Bruno Caprettini and Alex Trew

November
11
Steve Redding, Princeton University

Globalization and Pandemics

Date
-
Location:
Zoom
Link to paper

Joint with Pol Antras and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

November
4
Marianne Wanamaker - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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

Date
-
Location:
Zoom

Co-authors: William J. Collins and Nicholas Holtkamp