All seminars will be online in Michaelmas Term.
Seminars are held on Wednesdays 13:00-14:00
Organisers 2020-21
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Graduate Economic History Seminars 2020-21
Summer Term 2021
5 May
- Felix Schaff (LSE)
- The Unequal Spirit of the Protestant Reformation: Religious Confession and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany
12 May
- Marcos Salgado (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
- Personal Connections in Bureaucracies. Evidence from the Spanish Empire
19 May
Juan Rivas Moreno (LSE)
Long-distance trade finance & institutional formation in Spanish Manila, 1668-1838
26 May
- Elisabeth Kempter (University of Tübingen)
- Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-Term Perspective
2 June
- Sonia Schifano (University of Luxembourg)
- A Century of Divergence: Property and Social Mobility in Dudelange, Luxembourg (1766-1872)
9 June
- Yitong (Nora) Qiu (LSE)
- Power and Identity of Manchu and Mongol Elites in Qing China: A Study of Household Economies by Means of Confiscation Inventory Lists 1700-1912
16 June
- Song Yuan (University of Warwick)
- The Cultural Origin of Family Firms (Joint with Jian Xie)
30 September
- Ezra Karger (University of Chicago)
- “The Long-Run Effect of Public Libraries on Children: Evidence from the Early 1900s”
7 October
- Iris Fu (University of California Los Angeles)
- “Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth Loss: Evidence from the Freedman's Bank”
14 October
- Ivan Luzardo-Luna (LSE)
- “How important is regional polarisation in structural unemployment? The case of deindustrialisation in interwar Britain”
21 October
- Felix Kersting (Humboldt University Berlin)
- “When Autocrats Fail: Bismarcks’s Struggle against the Socialists”
28 October
- Xanthi Tsoukli (University of Southern Denmark)
- “The Return of the King. Political Polarization and Female Labor Force Participation”
4 November (Reading Week Special Seminar – non compulsory)
- Alfonso Carballo-Perez (Bocconi University)
- “When did the Little Divergence in Europe Begin?”
11 November
- Henning Bovenkerk (University of Münster)
- “Cortun, Boomsiede and Sarßen: Cotton textiles in rural households of Northwestern Germany, 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries”
18 November
- Emelyn Rude (University of Cambridge)
- “The Shrimp-Oyster Transition in American Cookery”
25 November
- Tang Cheng (LSE)
- “A Bibliometric Study on Early Microeconometrics at Cambridge and Wisconsin”
2 December
- Benjamin Schneider (University of Oxford)
- “Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860”
9 December
- Safya Morshed (LSE)
- “Merciful Tyrants: Explaining Rebel Forgiveness and State Capacity with the case of Mughal India (1555-1707)“
20 January
- Robert Venyige, University of Michigan
- The Road from Serfdom: Property Rights and the End of the Feudal Economic System
27 January
- Matthew Curtis, UC Davis
- The her in inheritance: marriage and mobility in Quebec 1800–1970
3 February
- Kalle Kappner, Humboldt University Berlin
- Dense, Diverse and Healthy? Mixed–Income Housing and the Spread of Urban Epidemics
10 February
- Alka Raman, LSE
- Indian cotton textiles and technological evolution in the British cotton industry
17 February
- Marco Molteni, University of Oxford
- Financial development gone wrong? Expansion and distress in Italy (1918-1936)
24 February
- Lukas Rosenberger, Ludwig-Maximilians University München
- Invention, Technology diffusion, and the Beginning of Modern Economic Growth in France and Britain
3 March
- Mario Cuenda Garcia, LSE
- Fiscal capacity in Spain: new evidence from taxation disparities across provinces, 1904-1925
10 March
- Juliana Jaramillo, LSE
- Fertility behavior during the fertility transition: Evidence from 1970 Colombia
17 March
- Mario Cannella, Northwestern
- The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation
24 March
- Josh Banerjee, LSE
- North Sea Oil and the Fortunes of British Manufacturing: Black Gold, or Fool's Gold
31 March
- Andrea Ramazzotti, LSE
- The Great Disconnect. Wage differentials and educational attainment in Italy between Golden Age and decline