Organizers: Marlous van Waijenburg(HBS) et al.

Special Book Event: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv Unv.)Going the Distance: Trade and the Rise of theBusiness Corporation, 1400-1700

John Bonney

How Network Hiring by Entrepreneurs Shapes Firm Formation and Performance

Andrew Koh

Robust Technology Regulation

Ed Jee

Traps and Transfers

Eric Yde

Vertical Integration and Regulated Profits in Pharmacy Benefits Markets

Vincent Rollet

Zoning and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment

Zane Kashner

Building with Externalities: Local Governments and Wind Farms

Kotia Ananya

When Competition Compels Change: Trade, Management, and Productivity

Oded Galor

Departmental Job Market Talks

No Seminar

David Yang

"Emigration During Turbulent Times"

Sydney Costantini

Housing First or Treatment First? Evidence from the VA's homelessness programs

Sara Lowes

"Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights"

Santiago Pèrez

“Who Benefits from Meritocracy?”

Esther Duflo

Ravi Jagadeesan

Wellness Day

No Seminar

Martin Fiszbein

Departmental Job Market Talks

No Seminar

José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez

"Women and the Econometrics of Family Trees"

Stefanie Stantcheva

"Wealth and Property Taxation in the US"

Nava Ashraf

James Feigenbaum (Boston Univ) etal.

“Who Becomes a Member of Congress?:Evidence from De-Anonymized Census Data”

Leander Heldring

"The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries"

Drew Fudenberg

Suresh Naidu

Eric Hilt

“Andrew Jackson’s Bank War and the Panic of 1837”

Karen Clay

"Medical School Closures, Market Adjustment, and Mortality in the Flexner Report Era"

Luigi Pascali

“The Dawn of Civilization: Metal Trade and the Urban Revolution”

Yannay Spitzer

“Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing theDiffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy1876–1920”

Melanie Morten

Piotr Dworczak

Nathan Nunn

"Transhumance, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa"

Francesco Drago

“The Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic”

Charles Taylor

“Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates”

Mara Squicciarini

"Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from the Great Influenza Pandemic"

Eduardo Montero

"The Price of Faith: Economic Costs and Religious Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa"

Ludvig Sinander

"Outside Options and Risk Attitude" (with Gregorio Curello and Mark Whitmeyer)

Pauline Grosjean

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

Shariq Mohammed

Eoin McGuirk

“No Kin in the Game”

Alexandra Cirone

“When Widows Win: Land Lotteries and Individual Prospects in Georgia”

Deirdre Bloome

"Family Tree Branches and Southern Roots: Contemporary Racial Differences in Marriage in Intergenerational and Contextual Perspective"

Michela Giorcelli

“Technology Transfer and Early IndustrialDevelopment: Evidence from the Sino-SovietAlliance”

Ritam Chaurey

"Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Servo Motors in Bangladesh"

Gabe Caroll

Marcella Alsan

"The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party"

Matti Mitrunen

“Structural Change and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Finnish War Reparations”

Quan Le

"Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts:Evidence from News Agencies"

Sevket Pamuk

"Evolution of Regional Inequalities in a Developing Country: Turkey since the 19th Century"

Luke Stein

“The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870–1940”

Zach Bleemer (Yale SOM; visiting OI),Sarah Quincy

“The Causes and Consequences of College-Going in the Great Depression”

Doug Gollin

Diana Van Patten

"Multinationals, Monopsony and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company"

Nina Bobkova

"Why Anecdotes?" (with Arjada Bardhi)

Departmental Seminar Week

No Seminar

Edson Severnini (Boston College)

"Carbon Rollercoaster: A Historical Analysis of Decarbonization in the US"

Harvard Spring Recess

Gillian Brunet

"Patriotism and Prudence: Assessing the Effects of the WWII Bond Drives on Household Savings"

James Feigenbaum

"Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition"

Speaker and Topic TBA

Petra Moser

“McCarthy and the ‘Red-ucators’: DoesPolitical Persecution Change Science?”

MIT Spring Recess

Kensuke Teshima

"From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Historical Lot Fragmentation Shapes Tokyo"

Leah Boustan

“Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the US over Two Centuries”

Scott Fulford & Fabio Schiantarelli

"Still Growing Together? The Spatial Distribution and Industrial Composition of U.S. County GDP since 1870"

Ursina Schaede

"The Long Run Effects of Funding for Public Education”

Leah Boustan (Princeton): Department of Economics Seminar

“Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success”

Speaker and Topic TBA

Robert Margo (Boston Univ) et al.

“Mechanization Takes Command”

Heather Schofield

"Habit Formation in Labor Supply"

Bobby Pakzad

Geoff Clarke

"Triple Segregation and Wealth Generation: Virginia's African-American Banks, 1915-28"

Allison Shertzer

"The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006"

Rick Hornbeck

"Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports"

Speaker and Topic TBA

Michael Best

"Cash Transfers and Productive Inclusion: Evidence from Bolsa Família"

Charles Angelucci (Sloan MIT) et al.

“Merchant Towns and Parliaments”

Agathe Pernoud

Marlous van Waijenburg

"The Great Convergence: Skill Premiums in Africa and Asia, c. 1870-2010"

Mike Andrews

TBA

Hans-Joachim Voth

"Image(s)"

Wolfgang Keller

"Human Capital Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming" (with Carol Shiue)

Huiren Tan

“After Amazing Grace: Britain's Campaign to End the Slave Trade”

Speaker and Topic TBA

Augustin Bergeron

Michiel de Haas

“The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa:Interests, Polities, and Endowments”

Hans Tung

“Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights”

Vicky Fouka (Stanford University)

“Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights”

Philipp Ager

"Liberation Technology? The Impact of the Sewing Machine on Women”

John Wallis

Book-in-Progress: Leviathan Denied

Anna Aizer (Brown Univ) et al.

“The Persistent Effects of Decreasing LaborMarket Discrimination”

Claudia Goldin

"Why Women Won"

Speaker and Topic TBA

Stelios Michalopulous

"Private Colonialism in Africa"

Alex Wolitzky

Elias Papaioannou

"Colonial Concessions"

Elias Papaioannou

TBA

Marcella Alsan

"Interest Groups, Ideology and Indirect Lobbying: The Rise of Private Health Insurance in the United States"

Alice Evans

Book-in-Progress Event: The Great Gender Divergence