| 2020-21 |
| Nov 5 |
Dan Bogart, UC-Irvine |
Transport and Urban Growth in the First Industrial Revolution (with Eduard J. Alvarez-Palau, Oliver Dunn, Max Satchell, and Leigh Shaw Taylor) |
| Feb 4 |
John Clegg,
University of Chicago |
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy |
| Apr 1 |
Craig Palsson,
Utah State University |
Investing in State Capacity: Haiti, 1932-1949 |
| 2018-19 |
| Oct 4 |
Leticia Arroyo Abad, Queens College, CUNY |
What Have the Americans Ever Done for Us? U.S. Intervention and Public Goods in Latin America, 1895-1929 (joint with Noel Maurer) |
| Nov 1 |
Walker Hanlon, NYU |
Censorship, Family Planning, and the British Demographic Transition (joint with Brian Beach) |
| Dec 13 |
Sharon Murphy, Providence College |
Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South |
| Feb 7 |
Marcelo Bucheli, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Caffeinated Memories: The Creation of Historical Narratives as Public Goods: Evidence from the Colombian Coffee Industry (joint with Luis Felipe Sáenz) |
| Mar 7 |
Emilie Connolly, NYU |
Fiduciary Colonialism: Federal and Indigenous Fiscal Strategies in the Era of Indian Removal |
| Apr 4 |
Joshua Lewis,
University of Montreal |
The Short-Run and Long-Run Impacts of Environmental Regulations on the U.S. Electricity Sector from 1938-1999 |
| May 2 |
Johannes Norling, Mt. Holyoke College |
Demographic Consequences of Natural Disasters |
| 2017-18 |
| Oct 5 |
Sam A. Mustafa, Ramapo College of New Jersey |
"War Pays for War": Napoleon's Practice of Plunder and Extraction: The Case of Westphalia, 1807-1813 |
| Nov 9 |
Vellore Arthi, University of Essex |
Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship When Migration Matters (Joint with Brian Beach & Walker Hanlon) |
| Dec 7 |
Natalia Mora-Sitja, University of Cambridge |
Industrialization and Earnings Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Catalonia |
| Feb 1 |
Joshua Rosenbloom, Iowa State University |
The Economic Origins of the Postwar Southern Elite |
| Mar 1 |
Alan Dye, Barnard College |
Property Rights in Land and the Extent of Settlement in Dutch South Africa, 1652-1750 (with Sumner La Croix) |
| Apr 12 |
Louis Hyman, ILR School, Cornell University |
Temp, chapter 10, "Restructuring the American Dream" |
| May 3 |
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College |
Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s |
| 2016-17 |
| Oct 6 |
Sean Vanatta, Princeton University |
Charge Account Banking: A Study of Financial Innovation in the 1950s |
| Nov 3 |
Chris Kobrak, University of Toronto |
Escape FDI and the Varieties of Capitalism: "Hundred and One Ways to Leave Your Home Country" |
| Dec 1 |
Peter Temin, MIT |
Race and the Vanishing Middle Class |
| Feb 2 |
Belinda Archibong, Barnard College, Columbia University |
Where Local Kings Rule: Long-Term Impacts of Precolonial Institutions and Geography on Access to Public Infrastructure Services in Nigeria |
| March 2 |
Simone Wegge, College of Staten Island, CUNY and Tyler Anbinder, George Washington University |
The Savings, Mobility, and Networks of New York’s Irish Famine Immigrants: Preliminary Evidence from the Emigrant Savings Bank |
| April 6 |
Stephen Haber, Stanford University |
Climate, Geography, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Systems |
| May 4 |
Reka Juhasz, Columbia University |
Topic TBA |
| 2015-16 |
| May 5 |
Dustin Frye, Vassar College |
Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry |
| April 7 |
David Weiman, Barnard College |
"Derangement” of the Domestic Exchanges, and the Origins of Central Banking in the United States, 1893 to 1914 (joint with the late John A. James at the University of Virginia and James McAndrews of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) |
| March 3 |
Gavin Wright, Stanford and Yale Universities |
Voting Rights and Economics in the American South |
| Feb 4 |
Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University |
The (Dis)Advantages of Clearinghouses Before the Fed |
| Dec 3 |
Petra Moser, New York University |
Effects of Copyrights on Science—Evidence from the WWII Book Replication Program (with Barbara Biasi) |
| Nov 5 |
Ariel Ron, Yale University |
Economic Nationalism in the Greater Rural Northeast |
| Oct 8 |
Yishay Yafeh, Hebrew University |
The Great Pyramids of America: A Revised History of US Business Groups, Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950 (with Eugene Kandel, Konstantin Kosenko, and Randall Morck) |
| 2014-15 |
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| May 7, 2015 |
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University |
Contested Property: Counting Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum South |
| April 2, 2015 |
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech |
After the Rentier Society The Great Shocks of the Twentieth Century Reconsidered: A Parisian Perspective 1872-1952 |
| March 5, 2015 |
Christopher Muller, Columbia University
James Feigenbaum, Harvard University
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The Eects of Lead Exposure on Violent Crime: Evidence from U.S. Cities in the Early Twentieth Century |
| February 5, 2015 |
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers |
Mothers' Pension Legislation and the Politics of Welfare Generosity |
| December 4, 2014 |
Noel Johnson, George Mason University |
Taxes, National Identity, and Nation Building: Evidence from France |
| November 6, 2014 |
Jana Diesner, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana |
It's Always About the People. Enron is no Different |
| October 2, 2014 |
Oscar Granados, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University |
Bankers and Andean Minerals in the German Global Strategy, 1901-1914 |
| 2013-14 |
| May 1, 2014 |
Richard R. John, Columbia University |
Projecting Power Overseas: The 1863 Paris Postal Conference, the American Civil War, and the Creation of International Communications Networks |
| Aprril 3, 2014 |
Leah Boustan, UCLA and New York University |
Introduction to “Competition in the Promised Land” |
| March 6, 2014 |
Kim Phillips-Fein, New York University |
The New York City Fiscal Crisis and Ideas of the State in the 1970s |
| February 6, 2014 |
Noel Johnson, George Mason University |
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100 to 1800 |
| December 5, 2013 |
Andrew Bossie, CUNY Queens |
Rethinking the WWII Economy: The Welfare Effects of WWII and the Role of Household Demand in the Postwar Boom |
| November 7, 2013 |
Mary Tone Rodgers, SUNY-Oswego |
How the Bank of France Changed U.S. Equity Expectations and Ended the Panic of 1907 (with James E. Payne) |
| October 3, 2013 |
Emily Erikson, Yale University |
Negotiating Uncertainty with Social Ties in Early-Modern Overseas Trade (with Sampsa Samila) |
| 2012-2013 |
| May 2, 2013 |
Alan Dye,
Barnard College |
Where Are All the Yankees? Ownership and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1921 |
| April 4, 2013 |
John Deveraux,
Queens College CUNY |
Growth, Recessions and Banking Crises |
| March 7, 2013 |
Joel Kaye,
Barnard College |
Equality and Equalization in the Economic Sphere, Part I: the Scholastic Discourse on Usury to 1300 |
| February 5, 2013 |
Lee Alston
University of Colorado at Boulder |
Beliefs, Leadership and Economic Development: Making the Critical Transition |
| December 6, 2012 |
Timothy Alborn,
Lehman College, CUNY |
The Strange Death of Mercantilist England: Gold and Protectionism, 1815-1846 |
| November 1, 2012 |
Mary Tone Rodgers, SUNY-Oswego |
An Overlooked Central Bank Rescue: How the Bank of France Ended the American Financial Crisis of 1907 (with James E. Payne) |
| October 4, 2012 |
Christopher Hanes, SUNY-Binghamton |
Wage Rigidity during the Great Depression (with John A. James) |
| 2011-2012 |
| May 3, 2012 |
John C. Brown,
Clark University |
A Direct Test of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem: the Natural Experiment of Japan (with Daniel Bernhofen and Tanimoto Masayuki) |
| April 5, 2012 |
Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University |
American Alchemy: The Drive to Turn Ideas into Gold through the Market for Technology |
| March 1, 2012 |
Martha Olney, UC-Berkeley and Siena College |
From Skip to Hapless Victim: Interwar Changes in the Cost of Default |
| February 2, 2012 |
Eric Hilt,
Wellesley College and Russell Sage Foundation |
The Panic of 1907: JP Morgan, Trust Companies, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis |
| December 1, 2011 |
Tuan-Hwee Sng, Princeton University |
Size and Dynastic Decline: The Principal-Agent Problem in Late Imperial China 1700-1850 |
| November 3, 2011 |
Charles Calomiris, Columbia University |
Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach (with Joseph Mason and David Wheelock) |
| October 6, 2011 |
Alexander J. Field, Santa Clara University |
The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach |
| 2010-2011 |
| May 5, 2011 |
Alan Taylor,
UC Davis and Morgan Stanley |
Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles, and Financial Crises, 1870-2008 |
| April 7, 2011 |
Nathan Nunn,
Harvard University |
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War |
| March 3, 2011 |
Cormac Ó Grada, University of Dublin and Princeton University |
Living Standards and Mortality Since the Middle Ages |
| February 3, 2011 |
Kris Mitchener,
Santa Clara University |
Arresting Banking Panics: Fed Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929 |
| December 2, 2010 |
Suzie Pak,
St. John's University |
J.P. Morgan & Co. & Kuhn, Loeb & Co: Economic Cooperation & Social Separation, 1895-1914 |
| November 4, 2010 |
Gergely Baics,
Barnard College |
Appetite for Beef: The Quantity and Quality of New York City's Meat Supply, 1780-1860 |
| October 7, 2010 |
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University |
How Green Was My Valley? Coercive Contract Enforcement in 19th Century Industrial Britain (with Noam Yuchtman) |
| 2009-2010 |
| May 6, 2010 |
Peter Meyer
BLS |
A Pre-history of the Invention of the Airplane |
| April 1, 2010 |
Philip Hoffman,
Cal Tech |
Why was it that Europeans Conquered the World? |
| March 4, 2010 |
Jason Barr,
Rutgers University, Newark |
Bedrock Depth and the Formation of the Manhattan Skyline, 1890-1915 |
| February 4, 2010 |
Gregory Clark,
University of California, Davis |
Was There Ever a Ruling Class? 800 Years of Economic and Social Mobility |
| December 3,2009 |
Neil Cummins,
Queens College, CUNY |
The Origins of Modern Growth: Fertility and Human Capital in England, 1500-1914 |
| November 5,2009 |
Joyce Burnette,
Wabash College |
The Emergence of Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing |
| October 1, 2009 |
Eugene White,
Rutgers University |
Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s |