Graduate Student Workshop and Seminar

12:00-1:15 | Graduate Student Workshop

"Bad Apples or Poison Trees? Management and the Breakdown of Bureaucracy in the Catholic Church"
Dev Patel, PhD candidate in Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

1:15-2:45 | Seminar in Economic History

"Immigration, Innovation and Growth"
Thomas Chaney, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Paris Institute of Political Studies.

Contact:

Liz Thach
Elizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu

This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar.

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PLEASE NOTE: This seminar has been cancelled for the remainder of the semester.

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

Speaker: 

Geoff Clarke, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Brandeis University.

Contact:

Liz Thach
Elizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar has been cancelled for the remainder of the semester.

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

Speaker:

Leah Platt Boustan, Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Contact:

Liz Thach

elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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

Speaker:

Matti Mitrunen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics at Harvard University.

Contact:

Cynthia Gomez 
Cgomez@fas.harvard.edu

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“No Kin in the Game”

Speaker: 

Eoin McGuirk, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University.

Contact:

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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

Speaker:

Francesco Drago, Professor, Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania.

Contact:

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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

Speaker:

Eric Hilt, Professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College.

Co-sponsored by the Economics Department, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

"Why Not Using the Wheel? Evidence from the Cambao Wagon Road in the 19th Century"   

Speaker:

Xavier Duran, Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
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“Trust Unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War” (with Ana Tur Prats) 

Speaker:

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
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"Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from 'Aryanizations' in Nazi Germany" 

Speaker:

Kilian Huber, Assistant Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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"Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America"

Joshua Specht, Lecturer, Department of History, Monash University.

Book signing and reception to follow.

"Monarchs, Institutions, and the Trade of the English East India Company"

Speaker:

Dan Bogart, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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"There’s No Such Thing As Free Land: The Homestead Act and Economic Development"

Speaker:

Itzchak Tzachi Raz, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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"A Brief Moment in the Sun: Politics, Race, Punishment, and the Rise of the Proto-Carceral State"

Speaker:

Shom Mazumder, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University

Contact: 

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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"Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Differentials"

Speaker:

Jhacova Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Clemson University. 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Liz Thach
elizabeth_thach@fas.harvard.edu

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