World Congress of Cliometrics 2013

Honolulu, Hawaii

July 1, 2013
  • Jeremy Atack, Matthew Jaremski, and Peter Rousseau, “American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War”
  • Jean-Pascal Bassino, Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Masanori Takashima, “Japan and the Great Divergence, 725-1890”
  • Chiaki Morguchi and Tuan-Hwee Sng, “Taxation and Public Goods Provision in China and Japan before 1850”
  • Jessica Bean, “Intergenerational Labor Supply in Interwar London”
  • Qian Lu (University of Maryland) and John Wallis, “From Partisan Banking to Open Access”
  • Bishnupriya Gupta and Tetsuji Okazaki, “When Did Japan Overtake India?: Lessons from Cotton Mills”
  • James Feigenbaum (Harvard University), “A New Old Measure of Intergenerational Mobility: From Iowa 1915 to 1940”
  • Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Angelo Riva, and Eugene N. White, “Can Moral Hazard Be Avoided? The Banque de France and the Crisis of 1889”
  • Yuyu Chen, Hui Wang, and Se Yan, “The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China”
  • Silvi Berger (University College Dublin), “Residential Exodus from Dublin c.1900: Municipal Annexation and Preferences for Local Government”
  • Joyce Burnette and Maria Stanfors, “Gender and Wage Growth: Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing c. 1900”
  • Nicolas Ziebarth, “Public Information, the Radio, and Bank Runs in the Great Depression”
  • Andrea Matranga (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “The Best Mistake in the History of the Human Race”
  • Daniel Marcin (University of Michigan), “The Revenue Act of 1924: Publicity, Tax Cuts, and Response”
  • Yukiko Abe and Giorgio Brunello, “On the Historical Development of Regional Differences in Women’s in Women’s Participation in Japan”
  • Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito, “World Trade: 1800-1938”
  • Alan de Bromhead (University of Oxford), “Women Voters and Party Preference in Weimar Germany”
  • Melinda Miller, “Assimilation and Economic Performance: The Case of Federal Indian Policy”
  • Beverly Lemire, “Men of the World: English Mariners, Plebeian Consumerism and New Worlds of Fashion in an Era of Global Trade, c. 1600-1800”
  • Yasuo Takatsuki, “Informational Efficiency under the Shogunate Governance: Concentration and Integration of the Rice Market in Tokugawa Japan”
  • Jules Hugot (Sciences Po) and Camilo Umana Dajud, “Who gained from Suez and Panama?”
  • Ralph Hippe, “Remoteness equals Backwardness? Human Capital and Market Access in the European Regions: Insights from the Long Run”
  • Concepción Betrá and Michael Huberman, “International Competition in the First Wave of Globalization: New Evidence on the Margins of Trade”
  • Eric Schneider (University of Oxford), “Real Wages and the Household: The Impact of Women and Children’s Labour Force Participation on Real Wages in Pre-Modern England”
  • Marta Felis-Rota, Jordí Marti Henneberg, and Laia Mojica, “A GIS analysis of the Evolution of the Railway Network and Population Densities in England and Wales, 1851-2000”
  • Haiyun K. Chen (Simon Fraser University) and Leanna Mitchell (Simon Fraser University), “Cooperation, Competition, and Linguistic Diversity”
  • David Jacks, “Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade”
  • Carl Kitchens, “Sparking Fertility: The Rural Electrification Administration and Fertility in the United States 1930-1940”
  • Gisela Rua, “Fixed Costs, Network Effects, and the International Diffusion of Containerization”
  • William J. Collins and Marianne Wanamaker, “The Great Migration in Black and White: Understanding Black-White Differences using Linked Census Data”
  • Edward Kosack (University of Colorado, Boulder), “The Bracero Program and Effects on Human Capital Investments in Mexico, 1942-1964”
  • James Fenske and Namrata Kala, “Climate, Ecosystem Resilience and the Slave Trade”
  • Steven Nafziger, “Russian Serfdom, Emancipation, and Land Inequality: New Empirical Evidence”
  • Farley Grubb, “The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment”
  • Zachary Ward (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Birds of Passage: Self-Selection of Return Migrants in the Early 20th Century”
  • Christina Mumme and Joerg Baten, “Does Inequality Lead to Civil Wars? A Global Long-Term Study Using Anthropometric Indicators (1816-1999)”
  • Robert Warren Anderson, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama, “Pogroms and Expulsions: From the Persecuting to the Protective State”
  • Rafael González-Val, Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, “Market Potential and City Growth: Spain 1860-1960”
  • Yannay Spitzer (Northwestern University), “The Dynamics of Mass Migration: The Economics of the Jewish Exodus from the Pale of Settlement”
  • Alex Hollingsworth (University of Arizona), “The Impact of Sanitaria on Pulmonary Tuberculosis Mortality: Evidence from North Carolina, 1932-1940”
  • Stephanie Collet and Peter Sims (London School of Economics), “From Chaos to Order: National Consolidation and Sovereign Bonds in Uruguay 1890-1914”
  • Rafael Dobado Gonzalez and Alfredo García-Hiernaux, “West versus East: Grain Market Integration and the Great Divergence”
  • Tim Hatton, “American Immigration Policy: The 1965 Act and Its Consequences”
  • Carolyn M. Moehling, Melissa A. Thomasson, and Jaret Treber, “The Swan Song of the Country Doctor: Flexner and the Economics of the Practice of Medicine”
  • Ling-Fan Li, “Financial Market Integration in Western Europe, 1400-1700; Evidence from Exchange Arbitrage”
  • Rodrigo Parral Duran (University of Arizona), “Contractual Commitments in New Spain: The Local Allocation of Quicksilver in Zacatecas, 1740-1780”
  • Alexander J. Field, “The Savings and Loan Crisis in the Shadow of the 2000s”
  • Alan Dye, “Where Are All the Yankees? Ownership and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1929”
  • Anna Missiaia (London School of Economics and Political Science), “Market vs. Endowment: Explaining Early Industrial Location in Italy (1871-1911)”
  • Darrell J. Glaser and Ahmed S. Rahman, “Sea Power and Maritime Trade in the Age of Globalization”
  • Michael D. Bordo and Pierre Siklos, “Central Bank Credibility and Reputation: An Historical Exploration”
  • Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich, “Labor Surplus, Mass Mobilization and Peasant Welfare: Russian Agriculture during the Great War”
  • Florian Ploeckl, “It’s all in the Mail: the Urban Geography of the German Empire”
  • Dustin Frye (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Politics, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Growth: A Case Study of the Interstate Highway System”
  • Ross Knippenberg (University of Colorado, Boulder), “By How Much Did Railroads Conquer the West?”
  • Haelim Park (University of California, Irvine), Gary Richardson, and Brian Yang, “Deposit Insurance Reduced Depositor Monitoring: Quasi-Experimental Estimates from the Creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance”
  • Brooks Kaiser, “Bioeconomic Factors of Natural Resource Transitions: The US sperm whale fishery of the 19th century”
  • Gabriele Cappelli (European University Institute), “Escaping from a Human Capital Trap? Italy’s Regions and the Move to Centralised Primary Schooling, 1861-1936”
  • Nina Boberg-Fazlic and Paul Sharp, “North and South: Social Mobility and Welfare Spending in Preindustrial England”
  • Xing Li, Megan MacGarvie, and Petra Moser, “Dead Poet’s Property: Copyright and the price of intellectual assets”
  • Amélie Charles, Olivier Darné, Claude Diebolt, and Laurent Ferrara, “A New Monthly Chronology of the US industrial Cycles in the Prewar Economy”
  • Pei Gao (London School of Economics), “The Uneven Rise of Modern Education in China in the Early 20th Centur”
  • Leonard Dudley, “Necessity’s Children? The Inventions of the Industrial Revolution”
  • Marc Goñi Tràfach (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), “Institutional Innovation and Assortative Matching: the London Season, 1700-1914”
  • Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis, “A Tale of Two Regimes: Educational Achievement and Institutions in Portugal, 1910-1950”
  • Robert Warren Anderson, “The Inquisition and Scholarship”
  • Sebastian Fleitas (University of Arizona), Price Fishback, and Kenneth Snowden, “Market Exit and Institutional Change: B&L Mortgage Contracts During the Great Depression”
  • Wayne Liou (University of Hawai’i), “Effects of Annexation on Labor in Hawai’i”
  • Alessandro Nuvolari and Michelangelo Vasta, “Independent Invention in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861-1913”
  • Meng Xue (George Mason University), “Technology Shocks, Relative Productivity, and Son Preference: The Long-Term Impact of Historical Textile Production”
  • Lawrence Katz and Robert Margo, “Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective”
  • Alexandru Minea and Antoine Parent, “Public Debt and Economic Growth through History: New Evidence from a Macroeconometric Retrospective Analysis”
  • Richard B. Baker (Boston University), Carola Frydman, and Eric Hilt, “From Plutocracy to Progressivism? Measuring the Value of McKinley’s Presidency for MajorCorporations”
  • Kris Inwood, Les Oxley, and Evan Roberts, “Tall, Active and Well Made? New Insights into Maori Health, c.1700-1976”
  • Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg (Northwestern University), “Exogenous or Endogenous Colonial Institutions? Lessons from a Comparison of Tax Systems in British and French Africa, 1880-1940”
  • Evan Roberts , Kris Inwood, and Les Oxley, “Height, Weight and Mortality in the Past: New Evidence from a Late Nineteenth Century New Zealand Cohort”
  • Theresa Gutberlet (University of Arizona), “Railroads and the Regional Concentration of Industry in Germany 1861 to 1882”
  • Helen Yang (George Mason University), “Dual Landownership as Tax Shelter: How Did the Chinese Solve Ricardo’s Problem?”
  • Kris Mitchener, Kirsten Wandschneider, “Capital Controls and Recovery from the Financial Crisis of the 1930s”
  • Krzysztof Karbownik (Uppsala University) and Anthony Wray (Northwestern University), “Childhood Illness and Occupational Choice in London, 1870-1911”
  • Elisabeth Perlman (Boston University) and Steven Sprick Schuster (Boston University), “Delivering the Vote: The Political Effect of Free Mail Delivery in Early TwentiethCentury America”
  • Eric B. Golson, “German and British Balance of Payments with the European Neutrals in the Second World War”
  • Brendan Livingston, “Murder and the Black Market: Alcohol Prohibition’s Impact on Homicide Rates in American Cities”