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Conference took place at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Conference Room A, located on the ground floor of Landau Economics Building.

 

Wednesday, July 30

9:30 - 10:00      Breakfast

10:00 - 11:00    Institutions and Demographic Responses to Shocks: Württemberg, 1634-1870 presented by Tim Guinnane, Yale University and co-authored with Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Cambridge

11:00 - 11:30    Coffee

11:30 – 12:30    Marrying Up: the Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching  presented by Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and co-authored with Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

12:30 - 1:30      Lunch

1:30 – 2:30       Ethnic Cleansing and the Long-Term Persistence of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos presented by Eric Chaney, Harvard University

2:30 - 3:00        Coffee

3:00 – 4:00       Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans, 1300-1850 presented by Carol Shiue, University of Colorado, Boulder

4:00 - 4:30        Coffee

4:30 – 5:30       The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Mistrust in Africa: An Empirical Investigation presented by Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and co authored with Leonard Wantchekon, New York University

6:00                  BBQ dinner

Thursday, July 31

8:00 - 8:30        Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30       Scylla and Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance presented by Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles

9:30 - 10:00      Coffee

10:00 - 11:00    The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. Usury Laws in the 19th Century presented by Effi Benmelech, Harvard University and co-authored with Tobias Moskowitz, University of Chicago

11:00 - 11:30    Coffee

11:30 - 12:30    Taste-based Discrimination at the NYSE presented by Petra Moser, Stanford University

12:30 – 1:30      Lunch

1:30 - 2:30        The Organization of Merchant Empires: Portugal, England and the Netherlands presented by Claudia Rei, Boston University

2:30 – 3:00       Coffee

3:00 – 4:00       Good Fences Make Good Neighbors:  Evidence on the Effects of Property Rights presented by Richard Hornbeck, Massachusetts Institue of Technology

4:00 – 4:30       Coffee

4:30 - 5:30        Portage and Path Dependence: City Formation and Increasing Returns in U.S. History presented by Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago

6:00                  Dinner

Friday, August 1

8:00 – 8:30       Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30        Coercion, Conflict, and Constraints to the Emergence of Public Schooling: Evidence from the 19th Century Coffee Boom presented by Gustavo Bobonis, University of Toronto

9:30 – 10:00      Coffee

10:00 - 11:00    Endogenizing Tastes presented by Trevon Logan, Ohio State and co-authored with Paul Rhode, University of Arizona