Date: Friday, January 3
Session Title: Labor Markets in Economic History
Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Chair: Meredith Paker (Grinnell College)
- Beyond Clock: Labor Market Effects of Lifting Gender-Specific Hours Restrictions, Chris Vickers (Auburn), Price Fishback (Arizona), Yiru Xing (UCLA), Nicolas Ziebarth (Auburn)
- New Work in the Second Industrial Revolution, Nicholas Carollo (Fed Board of Governors), Elior Cohen (Kansas City Fed), Jinyi Huang (Brandeis)
- Women's Work over the Long Run: A Task-Based Approach, Rowena Gray (UC-Merced), Anqi Li (UC-Merced)
- Women’s Wages, Gender Wage Gap and the Long Run of History. France in the Modern Period, Claude Diebolt (CNRS & Strasbourg)
Date: Friday, January 3
Session Title: Human Capital and Religion in Historical Perspective
Time: 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Chair: Jared Rubin (Chapman University)
- The Counter-Reformation, Science, and Long-Term Growth: A Black Legend?, Matias Cabello (Martin Luther)
- Religiosity and the Effects of Secularization Policy: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Nineteenth Century France, Joanna Williams (UC-Irvine)
- “For The Benefit of the Church and the State”. School Supply and Demand in an Early Modern Proto-Industrial Area in Switzerland, Gabriela Wuethrich (Zurich)
Reception for Friends of Economic History
Time: Friday, January 3, 6:00-8:00 pm in
Hotel: Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Meeting Room: Union Square 15& 16
Date: Saturday, January 4
Session Title: Twentieth-Century Economic History
Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Chair: Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
- Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists and U.S. Innovation, Bang Nguyen (Bayreuth), Petra Moser (NYU)
- How much monetary stimulus could the Fed have provided in the Great Contraction?, Gabriel Mathy (American)
- Pollution-Income Tradeoffs of Industrialization: Evidence from World War I, Mark Van Orden (UC-Irvine)
Date: Saturday, January 4
Session Title: Institutions, Governance, and Growth
Time: 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Chair: Jacob Hall (University of Pennsylvania)
- Long Upon the Land: The Economic Legacy of Slavery in the Borderlands, Hoyt Bleakley (Michigan), Paul Rhode (Michigan)
- The Changing Perceptions of Corruption in France, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States between 1800 and 2019, Rui Esteves (Geneva), Andrey Eydlin (Geneva)
- The Negus and the monks: Monasteries, state formation and long-run development in Ethiopia, 1270-2020, Mattia Bertazzini (Nottingham)
Date: Sunday, January 5
Session Title: European Economic History
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Squ
Chair: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (CalTech)
- Itinerant Kings, Jacob Hall (Penn)
- Rags to Rags: The Effects of the New Poor Law across Three Generations, Jennifer Mayo (Missouri), Jon Denton-Scheider (Clark)
- Was there an economics of the family before 1870?: evidence of fertility choice in a long-running random ‘experiment’, London, c. 1760-1870, Louis Henderson (Teubingen)
- Τhe rise of universities and city growth in medieval and early modern Europe (700–1800), Nikos Benos (Ioannina), Maurizio Conti (Genova), Michail Papazoglou (Ioannina), Stamatis Tsoumaris (Aarhus)
