2022 Sep 09 Seminar in Economic History (In Person) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Littauer Center of Public Administration, 1805 Cambridge Street, Hansen-Mason Room (Littauer Third Floor Lounge) "Conflict Technology as a Catalyst of State Formation" Speaker: Casey Petroff, PhD Candidate; Pedagogy Fellow in Government, Harvard University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Apr 20 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 4:30pm to 5:45pm Location: Hybrid Event "The Persistent Effects of Decreasing Labor-Market Discrimination" Speaker: Anna Aizer, Professor of Economics, Brown University. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Apr 15 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Hybrid Event "Export expansion in British Africa during the Great Depression: African adaptation or colonial coercion?" Speaker: Michiel de Haas, Assistant Professor, Rural and Environmental History Group, Wageningen University. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Apr 08 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Hybrid Event "Merchant Towns and Parliaments" Speaker: Charles Angelucci, Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Mar 24 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 4:30pm to 5:45pm Location: Hybrid Event "McCarthy and the Red-ucators: Does Political Persecution Change Science" Speaker: Petra Moser, Professor of Economics, NYU Stern. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Apr 01 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Hybrid Event "Mechanization Takes Command" Speaker: Robert Margo, Professor of Economics, Boston University. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Mar 04 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Hybrid Event "Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance" Speaker: Michela Giorcelli, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA; Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu This is a hybrid event. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Feb 18 Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Hybrid Event “Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876–1920” Speaker: Yannay Spitzer, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Contact: Jamina Colemanjaminacoleman@fas.harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Hybrid)
2022 Feb 03 Seminar in Economic History (In Person) 4:30pm to 5:45pm Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K354 "Who Benefits from Meritocracy?" Speakers: Santiago Perez, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Davis; Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University (AY21-22). Diana Moreira, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Davis. Contact: Abigail Powersabigailpowers@fas.harvard.edu This is a joint seminar with the Seminar in Economic History and the Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy.
2021 Nov 19 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "Fundamentals as Drivers of Moral Change: The British Abolitionist Movement" Speaker: Vicky Fouka, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University. Contact: Liz ThachElizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Zoom)
2021 Nov 12 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "Long-term Intergenerational Effects of Social Security" Speaker: Dan Fetter, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University. Contact: Liz ThachElizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Zoom)
2021 Nov 05 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "The Economic Effects of American Slavery, Redux: Tests at the Border" Speaker: Paul Rhode, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan . Contact: Liz ThachElizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Zoom)
2021 Oct 15 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal" Speaker: Shari Eli, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Toronto. Contact: Liz ThachElizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Zoom)
2021 Oct 22 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "European Migration and Agricultural Productivity in Brazil, 1900-1920" Speaker: Aldo Musacchio, Professor of Business, Brandeis International Business School, Brandeis University. Contact: Liz ThachElizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Zoom)
2021 Oct 08 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "Does Race Matter? Court-ordered Police Hiring Quotas and Police Killings of Civilians" Speaker: Jamein Cunningham, Assistant Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University. Contact: Liz ThachElizabeth_Thach@fas.harvard.edu This event is online only. Please click the "Read More" link for full instructions on how to attend this seminar. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (Zoom)