Economic History Seminar

 28 September 

• Chris Minns, LSE

• Technical Change and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from the Industrial Revolution.

12 October 

• Mara Squicciarini

• Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France

19 October

• Gavin Wright, Stanford

• Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism? Anything New?

9 November

• Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester
• Peasants on the move: patterns of migration in the midlands of England 1100-1500

30 November

• Mike Anson, David Bholat, Miao Kang and Ryland Thomas
• The Bank of England as Lender of Last Resort: New Historical Evidence from Daily Transactional Data

7 December

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11 January

• Sara Horrell (Cambridge) with Jane Humphries (Oxford)
• ‘Children's work and wages, 1270-1860’

25 January

• Joyce Burnette (Wabash)
• ‘Gender and Informal Learning:  Peer Effects among Late Nineteenth-Century Cigarmakers’

29 January -  Special Monday Lunchtime Seminar 11:30-13:00 (Venue: KSW 1.04)

• Guido Alfani (Bocconi)
• ‘Economic inequality and taxation in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800’

8 February

• Alice Reid (Cambridge)
• ‘Wives and daughters: Investigating the British fertility decline using census data’

8 March

• Bob Margo (Boston)
• ‘Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing: A Re-Assessment’

20 March – Epstein Lecture

• Mark Koyama (George Mason)
• ‘Persecution & Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom’

26 April

• Eugene White (Rutgers)
• Censored Success: How to Prevent a Banking Panic, the Barings Crisis of 1890 Revisited

10 May

• Markus Eberhardt (Nottingham)
• Sources of market disintegration in 18th century China

24 May

• Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE)
• Tax Policy and Growth: Narrative Evidence from Interwar Britain

Monday 4 June

• Tymon Sloczynski (Brandeis)
• Landscape Change and Market Integration in Ancient Greece: Evidence from Pollen Data
• Time: 11:30-13:00
• Room:  KSW.1.04