2023 Apr 07 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) "Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports" Speaker: Rick Hornbeck, V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2023 Mar 24 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) "Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition" Speaker: James Feigenbaum, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2023 Mar 03 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) "Family Tree Branches and Southern Roots: Contemporary Racial Differences in Marriage in Intergenerational and Contextual Perspective" Speaker: Deirdre Bloome, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2023 Feb 17 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) “The Dawn of Civilization: Metal Trade and the Urban Revolution” Speaker: Luigi Pascali, Kenen Fellow, Princeton University; Associate Professor of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2023 Feb 10 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) "Wealth and Property Taxation in the US" Speaker: Stefanie Stantcheva, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2023 Feb 03 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) "Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights" Speaker: Sara Lowes, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Nov 18 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) "The Transition from Water to Steam Power" Speaker: Martin Rotemberg, Assistant Professor of Economics, New York University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Nov 11 Seminar in Economic History (Zoom) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Online Only "Market Integration in the Ottoman Empire and the Great Divergence, 1550-1914" Attend this event via Zoom Speaker: Sevket Pamuk, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Bogaziçi University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. 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)
2022 Nov 04 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) "Contraception in the European and American Demographic Transitions" Speaker: David Weil, Professor of Economics, Brown University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Oct 28 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) "Frontier Gender Norms: History and Legacy" Speaker: Martin Fiszbein, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Oct 21 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) "Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia" Speaker: Amanda Gregg, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Oct 14 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) "NAACP Cases and Black/White Differences in Schooling" Speakers: Elizabeth Cascio, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College. Ethan Lewis, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Oct 07 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) "En Route: Colonial Origins of Francophone Africa's Emigration" Speaker: Ambra Seck, PhD Candidate in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Department of Economics, Harvard University. ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Sep 30 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) "Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire" Speaker: Felipe Valencia, Assistant Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, The University of British Columbia. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)
2022 Sep 23 Seminar in Economic History (In Person) 1:15pm to 2:45pm Location: Littauer Center of Public Administration, 1805 Cambridge Street, Room M-16 "Human Capital, Female Employment and Electricity Evidence from the Early 20th-Century US" Speaker: Daniela Vidart, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut. Contact: Emily Dietzeledietzel@fas.harvard.edu ... Read more about Seminar in Economic History (In Person)