2024 Clio and EHA Sessions at ASSA (Clio sessions).

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Date: Friday, January 5

Session Title: Europe

Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Location: Grand Hyatt

Chair: Meredith Parker (Grinnell College)

Discussants: Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University), Michael Pokyer (University of Texas at Austin), Victor Degorce (Princeton University)

Papers:

Surveillance & Political Development: Evidence from the Secret Police Files of the Russian Empire, Julia Zimmerman (Free University of Berlin), Theocharis Grigoriadis (Free University of Berlin)

American relief and the Soviet famine of 1921-22, Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University), Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki and New Economic School of Moscow), Volha Charnysh (MIT)

Shipping times in the Mediterranean since 1760, Gregori Galofre (University de Valencia), Eduard Alvarez-Palau (University of Oberta de Catalunya), Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine)

Date: Friday, Jan 5, 2024

Session Title: WWII, Inflation, Housing

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

Location: Grand Hyatt

Chair: Michael Haupert (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

Discussants: Jonathan Rose (Chicago Federal Reserve Bank), Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt University), Rowena Gray (University of California – Merced), Matt Jaremski (Utah State University)

Papers:

The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006, Rowena Gray (UC Merced), Ronan Lyons (Trinity College), Allison Shertzer (Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank), David Agorastos (University of Pittsburgh)

Inflation, World War II Bond Ownership, and the Rise of Republicans, Eric Hilt (Wellesley College), Gillian Brunet (Wesleyan University), Matthew Jaremski (University of Southern Utah)

The World War II U.S. Rubber Famine: Genesis and Consequence, Alexander Field (Santa Clara University)

Are Capital Controls Binding? Victor Degorce (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Date: Friday, Jan 5, 2024

Session Title: Fertility and Demographic Transitions

Time: 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm

Location: Grand Hyatt

Chair: Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore)

Discussants: Volha Lazuka (University of Southern Denmark), Victor Gay (Toulouse School of Economics), Melanie Meng Xue (London School of Economics)

Papers:

Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline, Victor Gay (Toulouse School of Economics), Paula Gobbi (University Libre de Bruxelles & CEPR), Marc Goni (University of Bergen & CEPR)

Life-Cycle Effects of Sex Education, Volha Lazuka (University of Southern Denmark), Annika Elwert (Lund University)

Revisiting Skinner: Counting Counties in Song China, Tuan-Hwee Sng (National University of Singapore)

EHA Sessions

Date: Saturday, Jan 6, 2024

Session Title: Culture

Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Location: Grand Hyatt

Chair: Rowena Gray (UC Merced)

Discussants: Brian Beach (Vanderbilt), Jared Rubin (Chapman), Donn Feir (University of Victoria)

Papers:

British Industrialization and Cultural Change: Evidence from the Use of Proverbs, Melanie Meng Xue (LSE), Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich)

Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860-1911, Yujing Huang (University of Chicago), Chicheng Ma (University of Hong Kong), Felipe Valencia Caicedo (University of British Columbia, IZA & CEPR)

Prisons and Homophobia, Michael Pokyer (University of Nottingham), Maxim Ananyev (University of Melbourne)

Date: Sunday, Jan 7, 2024

Session Title: Institutions,Wealth, and Banking

Time: 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Location: Grand Hyatt

Chair: Matt Jeremski (Utah State University)

Discussants:Luke Stein (Babson), Email: lcdstein@babson.edu, Jhacova Williams (American University), Email: jhawilli@gmail.com, Claire Celerier (University of Toronto), Email: claire.celerier@rotman.utoronto.ca, Thomas Pearson (Syracuse), Email: tpears01@syr.edu

Papers:

Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, Mark Van Orden (University of California-Irvine), Gary Richardson (University of California-Irvine), Vellore Arthi (University of California-Irvine)

Monumental Effects: Confederate Monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South, Alexander Taylor (George Mason University)

The Great Depression Bank Deregulation Wave, Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt) and Chenzi Xu (Stanford)

The Long-Run Effects of Parental Wealth Shocks on Children, Adrian Haws (Cornell), Ian Fillmore (Washington University), Cache Ellsworth (University of Wisconsin Madison), Joseph Price (Brigham Young University)

Friends of Economic History Reception

6:00-8:00 pm, Saturday, January 6th

Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Presidio B

Hosted by the Economic History Association and the Cliometric Society

Please join us to reminisce about the past with old friends and ponder the future with new acquaintances.

Michael Haupert

Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Executive Director, Economic History Association

2140 Wittich Hall