Cliometric Society Sponsored ASSA Sessions

2024 ASSA Sessions

The Long-Run Effects of Parental Wealth Shocks on Children, by Cache Ellsworth, Ian Fillmore, Adrian Haws and Joseph Price

Life-Cycle Effects of Comprehensive Sex Education, by Volha Lazuka and Annika Elwert

Surveillance & Political Development: Evidence from the Secret Police Files of the Russian Empire, by Julia Zimmermann and Theocharis N.Grigoriadis
“American relief and the Soviet famine of 1921-22”, by Natalya Naumenko, Andrei Markevich, and Volha Charnysh
“Shipping times in the Mediterranean since 1760”, by Gregori Galofre, Eduard Alvarez-Palau, and Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine)
“The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006”, by Rowena Gray, Ronan Lyons, Allison Shertzer, and David Agorastos
“Inflation, World War II Bond Ownership, and the Rise of Republicans”, by Eric Hilt, Gillian Brunet, and Matthew Jaremski
“The World War II U.S. Rubber Famine: Genesis and Consequence”, by Alexander Field
“Are Capital Controls Binding?” by Victor Degorce
“Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline”, by Victor Gay, Paula Gobbi, and Marc Goni
“Life-Cycle Effects of Sex Education”, by Volha Lazuka, Annika Elwert
“Revisiting Skinner: Counting Counties in Song China”, by Tuan-Hwee Sng

2023 ASSA Sessions

A Shot in the Arm of Public Health: Did the 1954 Salk Polio Vaccine Field Trial Promote Vaccine Access?, by Keith Meyers

Do Pandemics Change Healthcare Preferences? Evidence from the Great Influenza, by Rui Pedro Esteves, Kris James Mitchener, Peter Nencka, and Melissa A. Thomasson

Enemies within the gates: Evidence from Stalin’s ethnic cleansing campaigns, by Julia Zimmerman

“Medical technology and the mortality transition: Lessons from free supplies of antitoxin in Massachusetts”, by Casper Worm Hansen and Philipp Ager

“Government policy, and anti-vaccination movements: Quantitative evidence from 19th-century England,” by Johnathan Chapman

“The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States,” by RaeAnn Robinson and Barry Chiswick

“Catching-up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s-1880s,” by Elena Korchmina and Stephen Broadberry

“Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire,” by Hanna Schwank

“The Roots of the Modern American Presidential Campaign,” by Laura Salisbury and Francisco Pino

“Media and Assimilation: Evidence from the Golden Age of Radio,” by Gianluca Russo

“Recessions, Constraints, and Public Education: Impact of the Great Depression on the High School Movement,” by Pawel Janas

“Muddling Through or Tunnelling Through? UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism during the Great Inflation,” by Oliver Bush, Michael Bordo, and Ryland Thomas

“Protectionism and Industrialization in Colonial India,” by Sharbani Bhattacharjee

“Does trade liberalization boost innovation? Evidence from French industrial sectors in the 19th century,” by Carla Salvo

The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy,” by Mattia Bertazzini and Michela Giorcelli

“Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire,” by Giorgio Chiovelli, Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis R. Martínez, Juan D. Torres, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo

“The Hedonic Price of British Noble Husbands”, by Stefania Marcassa

“Racial diversity and team productivity: Evidence from American Whaling,” by Metin Cosgel and Michele Baggio