Autumn 2023

12. December 2023

Mohammed Saleh - London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890-1950

14. November 2023

Pawel Bukowski - University College London
Title: Wealth Inequality and Ethnic Conflict: The Rise of the Extreme Right Among German Bohemians

7. November 2023

Daniel I. Rees - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Title: Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards: Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910

31. October 2023

Danila Raskov - Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Title: Why Fiat Copper Money Collapsed: Evidence of Trust in Early Modern Europe

10. October 2023

Anne C. Gielen - Erasmus University
Title: Unexpected Colonial Returns: Self-Selection and Economic Integration of Migrants over Multiple Generations

 Spring 2023

 23. May 2023

Zach Ward - Baylor University
Title: "Family Trees and Falling Applies: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from US Genealogy Data"

  16. May 2023

 Paul Rhode - University of Michigan
Title: "The Economic Effects of American Slavery: Tests at the Border"

 25. April 2023

 Guillaume Blanc - University of Manchester
Title: "Demographic Change and Development Using Crowdsourced Genealogies"

 28. March 2023

Yuzuru Kumon - NHH Bergen
Title: "Women's Wages and Empowerment: Pre-Industrial Japan, 1600-1890"

 7. March 2023

Alexei Kraikovski - University of Geneva/HSE University
Title: "To know a good economy"

Autumn 2022

13. December 2022

Michela Giorcelli- UCLA
Title: The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy(with Mattia Bertazzini)

11. October 2022

Maggi Jones- Emory University
Title: "Competition and Discrimination in Public Accommodations: Evidence from the Green Books"

20. Sept. 2022

Björn Brey- ECARES/University libre de Bruxelles
Title: "The death of king coal: industrial decline during childhood and lifetime well-being" (with Valeria Rueda)

17. May 2022

Price Fishback- University of Arizona
Title: "The New Deal and Race"

Spring 2022

10. May 2022

Marc Goni- University of Bergen
Title: "Revolutionary transition: Inheritance change and fertility decline"

3. May 2022

Melissa Thomasson- University of Miami Ohio
Title: "Do Pandemics Change Healthcare Preferences? Evidence from the Great Influenza"

Autumn 2021

26. October 2021

Gregory Clark- University of California, Davis
Title: "Culture versus Genetics? A Lineage of 410,000 English Individuals 1670-2021 suggests Genetics Determines most Social Outcomes"

2. November 2021

D. Mark Anderson- Montana State
Title: "The Federal Effort to Desegregate Sothern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap" (with Kerwin Charles and Daniel Rees)

9. November 2021

Jonathan Chapman- NYU Abu Dhabi
Title: "Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from the English Poor Law"

23. Nov. 2021

Shari Eli- University of Toronto
Title: "Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal" (with Anna Aizer, Guido Imbens, Keyoung Lee and Adriana Lleras-Munrey)