Previous Annual Conferences - Cliometric Society

1961

G.W. Bertram, “The Process of Canadian Industrialization, 1870-1900”
Robert Fogel, “The Social Savings Attributable to American Railroads in the Inter-regional Distribution of Agricultural Products in 1890: An Application of Mathematical Models to a Problem of History”
J. H. McRandle and J.P. Quick, “An Econometric Study of Strategic Decisions with Respect to the Anglo-German Naval Armaments Race, 1900-1914”
George G. S. Murphy, “The Simple Structure of Some Historical Methods”
William Parker, “A Statistical Framework for Agricultural History”
John W. Snyder, “Ancient Sumerian Economic Documents”

1962

Dorothy Brady, “Some Aspects of the Effect of Technological Change on the Price Structure”
Paul David, “British Domestic Investment of the 1860s”
Lance Davis, James Quirk and R. Saposnik, “A Simulation Model of the Northern World”
Richard Easterlin, “North on the Antebellum American Economy”
Robert Gallman, “National Output in the 19th Century”
William Parker, “Output of the Farm Sector, 1840-1890”
M. Simon and H. Segal, “A Simulation Model of British Economic Relationships with the Underdeveloped World of the 19th Century”

1963

Dorothy Brady, “The Prices of Consumer Durable Goods”
John Dales, “Industrialization as a Force Toward Retardation in the Rate of Canadian Economic Growth”
Robert Fogel, “The Position of Rails in the Market for American Iron 1840-1860: A Palaeontological Reconstruction”
Eugene Genovese, “Food Costs of Slaves and Profitability of Slavery in the Antebellum South”
Charles Levin, “A Theory of Regional Economic Growth” Douglass North, “Trends in Ocean Freight Rates”
Douglass North, “Trends in Ocean Freight Rates”

1964

Rondo Cameron, “Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization”
Richard DuBoff, “Electrification and Capital-Output Ratios in American Manufacturing, 1880-1954: Some Preliminary Findings”
Richard Easterlin, “Interrelations Between Long Swings in Demographic and Economic Growth, U.S., 1820-1960”
Gordon Marker, “Internal Migration and Economic Opportunity: France, 1872-1911”
William Parker and Robert Gallman, “Civil War Southern Agriculture”
Roger Ransom, “Returns on the Ohio Canals: 1836-1860”
Eugene Smolensky, “A Model of Urban Growth: San Diego Case Study”
Peter Temin, “The Costs of Blast Furnace Operation in 1890”
Harold Williamson, “Mass Production, Mass Consumption, and American Industrial Development”

1965

Robert Basmann, “The Role of the Economic Historian in the Predictive Testing of Proffered Economic Laws”
John Bowman, “The Embattled Farmer Revisited”
Paul David, “The Mechanization of Grain Harvesting in the Antebellum Midwest”
Heywood Fleisig, “The Costs of Mechanical Cotton Harvesting in the 19th Century”
Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, “U.S. Iron Industry in the 19th Century”
Robert Gallman and Edward Howle, “Capital Stock Estimates, 1840-1860”
Allen C. Kelley, “International Migration and Economic Growth: Australia, 1865-1935”
Marvin McInnis, “Regional Income Differentials in Canada”
Mancur Olsen, “Some Alleged ‘Shortage of Money’ in Medieval Europe”
Thomas Orsagh, “Trends in the Location of the German Smelting Industry, 1870-1914”
William Whitney, “The Structure of the American Economy in the Late 19th Century: An Exercise in Historical Input-Output Analysis”

1966

J. Fred Bateman, “The Evolution of the Dairy Industry” John Bowman, “The Embattled Farmer Revisited and Revisited Again”
Richard Easterlin, “Economic-Demographic Interactions and Long Swings in Economic Growth”
Irwin Feller, “The Diffusion of the Draper Loom”
William Parker, “This Little Pig Went to Market”
Matthew Simon and David Novak, “European Imports as a Source of American Supply: 1870-1914”
Sam Bass Warner, “Industrial Location and City Growth: The Food Processing Industry”

1967

Thomas Alexander, “Economic Facts and Political Reality: Alabama, A Preliminary Survey”
William Aydelotte, “The Conservative and Radical Interpretations of Early Victorian Social Legislation”
Thomas Berry, “Gold, Prices, and the Local Economy: San Francisco in the Nineteenth Century”
James Faust, “The Yeoman and the Westward Movement”
Henry Gemery, “Productivity Growth, Process Change and Technical Change in the Glass Industry: 1899-1935”
Alice Jones, “Approaches to Wealth Estimates in the Colonial Period”
Donald McCloskey, “The Demise of the British Steel Industry: Murder, Natural Causes or Suicide?”
Henry McClure, “The Philadelphia Housing Picture, 1774-1775”
J. David Singer, “Status, Alliances, and Foreign Relations: A Model of International Reactions”
Sam Bass Warner, “Patterns of Urban Segregation: Philadelphia in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries”

1968

Raymond Battalio and John Kagel, “Structure of Ante-Bellum Southern Agriculture: South Carolina, A Case Study”
Noel Butlin, “The Economics of Slavery”
William I. Davisson and Dennis J. Dugan, “Growth and Wealth in the Colonial Economy, 1641-1682”
Stanley L. Engerman, “Regional Incomes in the Nineteenth Century”
G. Flueckiger, “Technical Change in the Iron and Steel Industry: An Application of Automaton Theory
Robert Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, “A Model for the Explanation of Industrial Expansion During the Nineteenth Century with an Application to the American Iron Industry”
Robert Gallman, “The Self-Sufficiency of Cotton Plantations”
R. Marvin McInnis, “Economic Development and Changing Industrial Structure”
Lloyd Mercer, “Private and Social Rates of Return: The Central Pacific Railroad, A Case Study”
William D. Nordhaus, “The Optimum Life of a Patent”
Joseph Stiglitz, “Choice of Technique, Technical Change and Patterns of Growth”
Gary Walton and James Shepherd, “Estimates of ‘Invisible’ Earnings in the Balance of Payments of the British North American Colonies, 1768-1772”
Gavin Wright and Peter Passell, “Production Functions in Cotton Farming in the Nineteenth Century”

1969

Raymond Dacey, “Aspects of the ‘Counterfactual Controversy'”
Raymond W. Goldsmith, “Comparative Financial Developments Since the Late 19th Century”
George W. Grantham, “French Agricultural Technology in the Nineteenth Century–A Statistical Enquiry”
Alexander Korns, “Real Wages and Foreign Trade in the Civil War Era”
Diane L. Lindstrom, “Southern Dependence Upon Interregional Grain Supplies: A Review of the Trade Flows, 1840-1860”
Donald McCloskey, “Did Britain Fail?”
Franklin F. Mendels, “Population Pressure and Rural Industrialization in Early Modern Europe”
Larry Neal, “Investment Behavior by American Railroads, 1897-1914”
Thomas J. Orsagh, “A Model for the Dispersion of the Migrant Labor Force and Its Results for the US, 1880-1920
Richard E. Sylla, “Banking Market Structure and Capital Mobilization after the Civil War”
Larry T. Wimmer, “The Gold Crisis of 1869: A Problem in Domestic Economic Policy and International Trade Theory”
Gavin Wright, “The Distribution of Agricultural Wealth in the South and Economies of Scale, 1850-1860”

1970

John Coatsworth, “Railroad Social Saving and Mexican Development”
Paul A. David, “Learning by Doing and Tariff Protection: A Reconsideration of the Case of the Antebellum U.S. Cotton Textile Industry”
Albert Fishlow, “Import Substitution and Industrialization in Brazil”
Jerry Green, “The Effect of the Iron Tariff in the US 1847-1859: The Estimation of a General Equilibrium System with Non-Traded Goods”
Duncan McDougall, “The American Tariff System, 1870-1914”
George Murphy, “Economic Opportunities for Blacks in the American South, 1866-1914”
Larry Neal and Paul Uselding, “Immigration: A Neglected Source of American Economic Growth, 1790-1912”
Peter Passell and Maria Schmundt, “Pre-Civil War Land Policy and the Growth of Manufacturing”
Clayne Pope, “The Effect of the Antebellum Tariff on Income Distribution”
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, “Problems in the Economic History of Southern Agriculture: 1865-1880”
Maurice Willinson, “European Migration to the US: An Econometric Analysis of Aggregate Labor Supply and Demand”
Richard Zeckhauser and Peter McClelland, “Estimates of US Interregional Migration and Their Relevance to a Model of Interregional Growth, 1800-1850”

1971

Stephen DeCanio, “Tenancy and the Supply of Cotton in the South: 1881-1914”
Gerald Flueckiger, “Specialization, Training and Technological Equilibrium”
C. Knick Harley, “On the Persistence of Old Techniques in the Face of Advancing Technology: The Case of Nineteenth Century Shipbuilding”
Edward L. Hester, “The Significance of Western and Southern Commodity Flows in Coastal Shipping Trade Routes, 1819-1857”
Allen C. Kelley and Jeffrey G. Williamson, “Writing History Backwards: Meiji Japan Revisited”
E. Phillip LeVeen, “British Slave Trade Suppression Policies, 1820-1865: Impact and Implications”
Frank David Lewis, “The Relative Movement of Labour from Agriculture to Manufacturing in the U.S., 1869-1899: A General Equilibrium Approach”
Jonathan J. Pincus, “Towards a Positive Theory of Tariff Formation”
James Shepherd and Samuel H. Williamson, “Coastal Shipping in the American Colonies, 1768-1774”
Robert Paul Thomas and Ben Baack, “The Enclosure Movement and the Supply of Labor During the Industrial Revolution”

1972

Stanley Engerman and Robert Fogel, “The Market Evaluation of Human Capital: The Case of Slavery”
Richard Freeman, “Black-White Income Differences: Why Did They Last So Long? The Role of Educational Discrimination”
George Grantham, “The Demand for Labor and the Introduction of Labor-Saving Techniques in French Agriculture, 1850-1880”
Glenn R. Hueckel, “The French Wars and Britain’s Income Distribution, 1790-1815”
Ronald Lee, “Population in 18th Century England: An Aggregate Time Series Analysis”
Stephen A. Marglin, “What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Function of Hierarchy in Capitalist Production”
Clyde Reed, “Relative Price Movements and Population Change in Pre-Industrial England”
Lee Soltow, “Models of the Age-Specific Values of Slaves and Free Men in 1860”
Gavin Wright, “The Political Economy of Government Spending: An Econometric Analysis of the New Deal Years”

1973

Robert C. Allen, “The Shift to Mineral Fuel: Ohio Valley Blast Furnaces”
Daniel Baugh, “The Cost of Poor Relief in Southeast England, ca. 1790-1834”
Michael Bordo, “The First Round Effects of Monetary Change: An Historical Approach”
Alexander Field, “Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development: Massachusetts, 1837-1865”
Robert Klepper, “The Economic Bases for Agrarian Protest in the U.S., 1870-1900: A Preliminary Report on the 1890s”
Don Leet, “Human Fertility and Agricultural Opportunities in Ohio Counties: From Frontier to Maturity, 1810-1860”
Donald McCloskey and Richard Zecher, “How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913”
Edward Meeker, “Health Trends of Southern Blacks, 1850-1910: Some Preliminary Findings”
Ramon Myers, “The Economic Organization of Team Farming in China Since the Revolution”
Richard Steckel, “U.S. Slave and Free White Fertility: A Preliminary View”

1974

Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill, “The Evolution of Property Rights: A Study of the American West”
Don DeVoretz, “Some Impacts of Canadian Westward Migration on Fertility Patterns, 1891-1921”
David D. Haddock, “The Origins of Regulation: Competing Theories and Critical Tests”
Marvin McInnis, “Farm Households, Family Size, and Economic Circumstances in Mid-19th Century Ontario”
Richard W.T. Pomfret, “The Introduction of the Mechanical Reaper in Ontario 1850-70”
Nicholas Sargen, “The Choice of Farm Power in the Northern Plains, 1920”
Richard Sutch and Roger L. Ransom, “The Impact of the Civil War and of Emancipation on Southern Agriculture”

1975

Philip Coelho and James Shepherd, “Regional Differences in Real Wages: The U.S. 1851-1880”
Nick R. R. Crafts, “Determinants of the Rate of Parliamentary Enclosure”
Stephen DeCanio and Joel Mokyr, “Inflation and the Financing of the American Civil War”
Stefano Fenoaltea, “Risk, Transaction Costs, and the Organization of Medieval Agriculture”
Gerald Gunderson, “Economic Trends in the Late Middle Ages: A Test of the Common Case for Diminishing Returns”
Joel Guttman, “Tenant-Rights, Uncertainty and Agricultural Investment: The Irish Land Question Revisited”
Roger Hinderliter and Hugh Rockoff, “Banking Under the Gold Standard: An Analysis of Liquidity Management in Leading Financial Centers”
John James, “The Development of the National Money Market, 1888-1911”
Charles Maier, “The Political Contests of Inflation”
Thomas Skidmore, “The Politics of Economic Stabilization in Latin America”
Marie E. Sushka, “An Economic Model of the Money Market in the US, 1820-1860”

1976

Steve Easton, “Able-Bodied Relief in England and Wales, 1855-1910”
Alexander Field, “Occupational Structure, Dissent, and Educational Commitment: Lancashire, 1841”
David Galenson, “British Servants and the Colonial Labor System: An Analysis of the Length of
Indenture”
Michael Haines, “Industrial Work and the Family Life Cycle, 1889-1890”
Laurence Kotlikoff, “Toward a Quantitative Description of the New Orleans Slave Market”
Gloria L. Main, “Inequality in Early America: The Evidence of Probate Records form Massachusetts and Maryland”
Howard P. Marvel, “Factory Regulation: A Reinterpretation of Early English Experience”
Michelle McAlpin, “The Demographic Effects of Famines in Bombay Presidency, 1871-1931”
Philip Mirowski, “The Plague and the Penny-Loaf: The Disease-Dearth Nexus in Stuart and Hanoverian London”
Joel Mokyr and N. Eugene Savin, “Stagflation in Historical Perspective: The Napoleonic Wars Revisited”
Terrence Thomas, “The U.K. Full Employment Budget Surplus During the Interwar Period: A Measure of the Deflationary Impact of Fiscal Policy”

1977

Richard F. Alford, “The Estimation of the Probability of a Bryan Victory in 1897”
Daniel K. Benjamin and Lewis A. Kochin, “Searching for an Explanation of Unemployment in Interwar Britain”
Joan A. Hannon, “The Immigrant Worker in the Promised Land: Human Capital and Ethnic
Discrimination in the Michigan Labor Market, 1888-1890″
Gary D. Libecap, “Economic Variables and the Development of the Law: The Case of Western Mineral Rights”
Paul F. McGouldrick and Michael B. Tannen, “Did American Manufacturers Discriminate Against Immigrants Before 1914?”
Pamela J. Nickless, “Women Working and Change in Labor Productivity in the New England Textile Industry: 1830-1860”
Joseph D. Reid, Jr., “Sharecropping and Tenancy in American History”
Hugh Rockoff, “Prices and Ration Control During World War II and the Consumer Price Index”
Warren C. Sanderson, “New Interpretations of the Decline in Fertility of White Women in the United States, 1800-1920”
Tom Ulen, “The Interstate Commerce Commission as a Cartel Manager: Was It Necessary?”
Kenneth I. Wolpin, “An Analysis of Crime in England and Wales: 1894-1967”

1978

Eric Almquist, “A Quantitative Description and Analysis of Regional Socio-Economic Variation in Ireland Before the Great Famine”
Lee Alston, “Technical Change, Costs of Contracting, and the Decline of Farm Tenancy in the South, 1930-1960”
Ronald Batchelder and Herman Freudenberger, “A Theory of the Development of the Modern Bureaucratic Organization: The Nation State in Europe”
Mark Hopkins, “Emancipation: The Dominant Cause of Postbellum Stagnation”
Brenda Kahn, “Price Expectations in the 1860s and 1890s”
Nathaniel Leff, “Socio-Cultural Conditions in the Economic Retardation of 19th Century Brazil: A New Look”
Bradley Lewis, “Featureless Plains Featured: The Effects of 19th Century Midwestern Railroads”
Randall Mariger, “Predatory Price Cutting: The Standard Oil of New Jersey Case Revisited”
Franklin Mendels, “Peasant Household Structure in 19th Century France: An Economic Approach”
Joel Mokyr, “Poverty and Population in Pre-Famine Ireland: Old Issues and New Data”
Cynthia Taft Morris, “Patterns of Industrialization in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: A Cross-Section Econometric Study”
Carl Mosk, “Fecundity, Infanticide, and Food Consumption in Japan”
William Nye, “The British Money Market During the 1860s”
Mancur Olson, “The Political Economy of Comparative Growth Rates”

1979

Robert C. Allen, “The Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of 18th Century Enclosures”
Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman, and Thomas Weiss, “The Manuscript Census as a 19th Century Data Source”
Fred Bateman, Jeremy Atack and Thomas Weiss, “The Diffusion and Adoption of Steam Power: Risks and Returns in 19th Century Manufacturing”
Louis Cain and Donald G. Paterson, “Factor Biases and Technical Change in Manufacturing: The American System, 1850-1919”
James A. Dunlevy, “On the Alleged Avoidance of the South by 19th Century Immigrants”
Carville V. Earle, “Entering the Modern Age: A Geographical Interpretation of Labor Markets,
Industrialization, and the ‘Working Class’ in the Antebellum U.S.”
Claudia Goldin, “Women in the American Labor Experience: Issues, Life-Cycle Participation, and Earnings Functions”
William S. Hallagan, “Contract Cheating: A Case Study of the Japanese in California Agriculture”
Frank Lewis and R. Marvin McInnis, “The Relative Efficiency of French and English Farmers in Lower Canada: 1851”
Paul McGouldrick, “Women’s and Men’s Pay in American Manufacturing from 1895 to 1969”
Lars G. Sandberg, “Ignorance, Poverty, and Economic Backwardness in the Early Stages of European Industrialization: Variations on a Grand Theme by Alexander Gerschenkron”
Kenneth Sokoloff and Georgia Villaflor, “Some New Evidence on Nutrition, Migration, and Military Participation in Colonial and Revolutionary America”

1980

Stefano Fenoaltea, “Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective: A Model”
Peter W. FitzRandolph, “The Rural Furnishing Merchant in the Postbellum U.S.: A Study in Spatial Economics”
David W. Galenson, “The Market Evaluation of Human Capital: The Case of Indentured Servitude”
David D. Haddock, “Determinants of Industrial Concentration in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1907 to 1979”
John James, “Structural Change in U.S. Manufacturing, 1850-1890”
Lars Jonung, “Monetization and the Behavior of Velocity in Sweden, 1871-1913”
William H. Lazonick, “Industrial Relations, Work Organization, and Technological Choice: U.S. and British Cotton Spinning”
Robert N. McCauley, “Geology, Technology, and the Organization of Extraction in British Coal Mining”
William Mass, “The Adoption of the Automatic Loom, 1890-1920”
Joel Mokyr and Cormac O’Grada, “A Statistical Reconstruction of a Pre-Industrial Micro-Economy”
Alexander M. Thompson III, “Technological Innovation and the Control of Work: The Case of U.S. Coal Mining, 1865-1930”
Eugene Nelson White, “State Deposit Insurance”

1981

Edward Ames, “The Public Land Office as an Institutional Innovation”
Barry Eichengreen, “Did Speculation Destabilize the French Franc in the 1920s?”
Mark Friedberger and Richard Jensen, “Growing Money in the Corn Belt: Passing Wealth to Children, 1880-1915”
Ethan Harris, “Monetary Policy in Colonial America”
Elizabeth Hoffman and Joel Mokyr, “The Immiserizing Potato in Ireland Before the Famine”
Alan Heston and Dharma Kumar, “Some Correlates of Land Fragmentation in South Asia”
Cathy McHugh, “The Family in the Southern Cotton Mills, 1880-1915”
Philip Mirowski, “A New Theory and History of Fixed and Circulating Capital”
Kevin Rock, “Were Rural Interest Rates Usurious? An Option Pricing Model”
Joseph Ryan, “Silver and the Indian Economy, 1870-1892”
Steven Webb, “A Fiscal Model of the German Money Supply, 1919-1923”

1982

Michael Bernstein, “Long-Term Economic Growth and the Great Depression in American Capitalism, 1929-1939”
George Boyer , “The Role of Speenhamland Policies in Rural England During the Early 19th Century”
Evsey D. Domar and Mark Machina, “On the Profitability of Russian Serfdom”
Stefano Fenoaltea, “The Industrialization of Italy, 1861-1913: A Progress Report”
Price V. Fishback, “Blacks, Immigrant Native Whites and Death in the West Virginia Coal Industry”
David Haddock, “The Abolition of Northern Slavery”
William H. Lazonick and Thomas Brush, “A Quantitative and Historical Examination of the Experience of Lawrence Mill #2 in Lowell, 1834-1855”
Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Was the Transition from the Artisanal Shop to the Small Non-Mechanized Factory Associated with Gains in Efficiency: Evidence from the US Manufacturing Censuses of 1820 and 1850”
Barbara L. Solow, “Caribbean Slavery and Economic Growth: The Eric Williams Hypothesis”
Warren Whatley, “Labor for the Picking: The Effects of New Deal Policies on Southern Agricultural Labor Markets”

1983

Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie, “Rent-Seeking in the South: Implications for Federal Welfare Spending in the 1930s and 1940s”
Jeremy Atack, “Optimal Plant Size and Industrial Structure Before the Modern Industrial Corporation”
Farley Grubb, “The Market for Immigrant Servants: Pennsylvania 1745-1746”
Gary D. Libecap and Steven N. Wiggins, “Contractual Responses to the Common Pool: Prorationing of Crude Oil Production”
David C. Mowery, “Industrial Research and Firm Size, Survival, and Growth in American Manufacturing, 1921-46: An Assessment”
Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, “Life Cycle Saving, Portfolio Disequilibrium, and Trends in the American Economy in the 19th Century”
Joseph D. Reid, Jr. and Michael M. Kurth, “Public Employees in Political Firms”
Mark Thomas, “The Liberal Social Reforms and the Distribution of Income, 1906-1910”
Eugene Nelson White, “A Reinterpretation of the Banking Crisis of 1930”
Jeffrey G. Williamson, “Butter, Guns and Crowding Out During the British Industrial Revolution”
Donghyu Yang, “Notes on the Wealth Distribution of Farm Households in the U.S., 1860: A New Look at Two Manuscript Census Samples”

1984

John Brown, “The Quality of Life and the Standard of Living: The Case of the Cotton Textile Industry of Northwest England, 1806-1850”
Colleen M. Callahan, “Movements in Aggregate Price Uncertainty in the U.S.”
Gregory Clark, “British Economic Performance Since the Late 19th Century–Why Did the British Choose to be Inefficient?”
Philip Coelho, “An Examination into the Causes of Economic Growth”
Carolyn Crane, “The Industrial Revolution and Its Effect on the Market for Child Labor”
John Komlos, “Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy–A Study of the Secular Changes in the Standards of Living and Economic Development, 1720-1920”
Richard F. Muth, “Economic Development in Late Medieval Europe”
Larry Neal and Eric Schubert, “The First Rational Bubbles: A New Look at the Mississippi and South Sea Schemes”
Martha L. Olney, “Toward an Understanding of the Consumer Durables Revolution of the 1920s”
Morton Owen Shapiro, “An Economic-Demographic Model of 19th Century U.S. Population Growth and Distribution”
Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway, “The Banking Crisis of 1930-1933 and the Labor Market”

1986

John Brown, “Were Housing Markets Working? The Economic Roots of the Crisis in Housing–Evidence from Basel, 1889”
Susan Carter, “Schooling and Fertility in Antebellum America”
Gregory Clark, “Impatience, Poverty and Open Field Agriculture”
Brad DeLong, “The Comparative Costs of Returning to Gold: Britain and France in the 1920s”
Price V. Fishback and Dieter Lauszus, “Sanitation in Coal Towns During the Early 20th Century”
Gerald Friedman, “‘Low Dues and Communist Soup’: Strike Success and Union Ideology in the U.S. and France: 1880-1914”
Henry A. Gemery, “British Immigration to the US, 1771-1812: Evidence from the Marshals’ Returns of Enemy Aliens”
Anthony O’Brien, “Decision Rules and Nominal Wage Rigidity at the Beginning of the Great Depression”
Leandro Prados, “Was Spain Different? Spanish Historical Backwardness Revisited”
David Wheelock, “The Consistency of Federal Reserve Open-Market Policy 1924-1933”
David Weiman, “Farmers and the Market in Pre-Industrial America: A View from the Georgia Up-Country, 1860”

1987

Loren Brandt and Thomas J. Sargent, “Interpreting New Evidence about China and U.S. Silver Purchases”
S.N. Broadberry, “Crowding Out or Crowding In? The British War Economy 1939-45”
Charles W. Calomiris and R. Glenn Hubbard, “International Adjustment Under the Classical Gold Standard: Evidence for the U.S. and Britain, 1879-1914”
Martin J. Eisenberg, “Politics, Compulsory Attendance, and Schooling Investment: The Iowa Way”
James Foreman-Peck, “Some Measures of Foreign Investment and Exploitation for Britain and India Before 1914”
R.G. Gregory, V. Ho, L. McDermott, and J. Hagan, “The Australian Labour Market During the Thirties”
Timothy J. Hatton, “The Demand for British Exports 1870-1913”
William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld, “The Relative Economic Efficiency of Public versus Private Electric Utilities at the Turn of the Century”
Alan Heston, “The Camel and the Wheel Revisited”
Daniel M.G. Raff and Lawrence H. Summers, “Did Henry Ford Pay Efficiency Wages?”
Barbara N. Sands, “Farmers’ Risk in the Post-Bellum South: An Econometric Comparison of Alternative Models”
Donald F. Schaefer, “Agricultural Displacement at the Southern Frontier: A Test of the Phillips Hypothesis”

1988

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman, “Whom Did Protective Legislation Protect in 1880?”
Dan Barbezat, “The AVI and the German Steel Cartels 1925-1939”
Brian Binger, Elizabeth Hoffman and Gary Libecap, “Experimental Methods to Advance Historical Investigation: An Examination of Cartel Compliance by Large and Small Firms”
Gregory Clark, “Factory Discipline and Self-Control: The Rise of the Factory in the 19th Century”
Trevor Dick and John Floyd, “Balance of Payments Adjustment Under the International Gold Standard: Canada, 1872-1913”
Timothy Guinnane, “The Life-Cycle Context of Migration: Leaving Home in Rural Ireland, 1901-1911”
Iftekher Hasan and Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr., “Contagious Bank Runs in the Free Banking Period”
Douglas J. Puffert, “Spatial Network Externalities: A Model with Application to the Standardization of Railway Gauge”
Ane Quade, “Enclosure and the Sexual Division of Labor in England, 1750-1775”
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Drainage in the Pays d’Auge 1700-1848: The Weight of Uncertain Property Rights”
Kenneth Snowden, “Historical Returns on Stocks, Bonds and Commercial Paper, 1872-1925”
Jeffrey G. Williamson, “The Impact of the Corn Laws Just Prior to Repeal”

1990

Howard Bodenhorn, “Intra-Regional Financial Market Integration in Antebellum America: Evidence from the Early Pennsylvania Banks”
Loren Brandt, “Reinterpreting the Slowdown in Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Labor Surplus or Labor Constraint?”
Elise S. Brezis, “Did Foreign Capital Flows Finance the British Industrial Revolution?”
Charles Calomiris and Charles Kahn, “The Efficiency of Cooperative Interbank Relations: The Suffolk System”
Michael Suk-Young Chwe, “Why Were Worker Whipped? Pain in a Principal-Agent Model”
David Gabel, “The Cost of Competition in the Telephone Industry”
Christopher Hanes, “Explaining a Decrease in Cyclical Wage Flexibility in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Shawn Kantor, “Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered”
Margaret C. Levenstein, “The Feasibility and Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre-World War I Bromine Industry”
Ronald C. Necoechea, “Retirement Made Simple: Annuities in Medieval England”
Jeffrey G. Williamson, “Unemployment, Implicit Contracts, and Compensating Wage Differentials: Michigan in the 1890s”
Susan Wolcott, “British Culpability and the Collapse of Indian Textile Demand”

1991

Linda Barrington, “Beneath the Poverty Line: The Measurement and Demographic Composition of Poverty in the United States, 1939”
Nancy Breen, “The Effects of Hours Legislation for Women on San Francisco Workers”
Alan Dye, “Sugar Technology and the Expansion of the Cuban Central Factory, 1903-1929: The Impact of Continous-Processing on Mill Capacities”
Dennis Halcoussis, “Economic Losses Due to Forecasting Error and the U.S. Populist Movement”
Michael J. Haupert, “The Role of Reputations in a Competitive Banking Regime”
Gary Libecap, “From Patronage to Merit and Political ‘Neutrality’ in the Federal Government Labor Force”
Charles E. Miles, “Game Theory, Institutions, and Stateless Societies: Historical and Cross-cultural Evidence”
Martha Olney, “Credit is Credit is Credit…Or Is It? Household Borrowing in Early Twentieth Century U.S.”
Mario Pastore, “The Causes of Indigenous Serfdom and Slavery in a Peripheral Spanish Colony: An Economic Hypothesis”
Bertrand Roehner, “Market Prices and Market Integration: The Case of Nineteenth Century France”
Pierre Sicsic, “City Farm Wage Gaps in Late Nineteenth Century France”
John G. Treble, “Absenteeism and Effort: Labour Supply at the Garesfield Bute Pit, Co., Durham, June 1890-July 1892”

1992

Leonid Borodkin and Carol Leonard, “The Rural Urban Wage Gap in Tsarist Russia During Industrialization, 1870-1913”
Alex Field, “The Economic Significance of Telegraphy for Nineteeth Century American Manufacturing”
Louis Ferleger and William Lazonick, “The Industry Cluster and the Developmental State: The Case of U.S. Agriculture”
George Grantham, “House of Cards? Reconstructing the Agral Fixed Capital Stock of France 1789-1914′
Louis Johnston, “How Well Does the Neoclassical Growth Model Explain Nineteenth Century American Growth? A Simulation Study”
Shawn E. Kantor and Price Fishback, “The Income Effects of Worker’s Compensation in the U.S.”
L. Lynne Kiesling, “Institutions, Insurance and Informal Networks for Mixed Good Provision During the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-1865”
Thomas Maloney and Warren Whatley, “Degrees of Inequality: The Advance of Black Workers in the Northern Meatpacking and Steel Industries, 1910-1940”
Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, “Anglo-American Commodity Price Integration and Real Wage Convergence: The Late Nineteenth Century Experience”
Ben Polak, “The Evolution of an Integrated English Capital Market: Some Tentative Evidence”
Wade E. Shilts, “British Joint Stock Companies: The Gain from General Limited Liability, 1856-1900”
John Wallis, “Form and Function in the Public Sector: State and Local Governments in the U.S. 1902-1982”

1993

Loren Brandt and Arthur Hosios, “Incentives, Credit and Payment Patterns: An Investigation of Rural Labor Contracts from China in the 1930s”
Susan B. Carter, “‘Rotten Kids’ or ‘Manipulative Parents’? New Evidence on Household Decision Making in Turn-of-the-Century America”
Karen Clay, “Trade, Institutions, and Law: The Experience of Mexican California”
Dora L. Costa, “Providing for Old Age: Land, Retirement, and Fertility Among American Farmers”
Christopher Hanes, “Changes in the Cyclical Behavior of Real Wage Rates, 1879-1990”
Sukkoo Kim, “Expansion of Markets and the Geographic Distribution of Economic Activities: The Trends in US Regional Manufacturing Structure, 1860-1987”
Stephan Klasen, “Excess Female Mortality During Early German Development: An Analysis of Village Genealogies”
Peter Lindert, “What Limits Social Spending?”
F. Michael Scherer and William Comanor, “Rewriting History: The Early Sherman Act Monopolization Cases”
Richard Sullivan, “Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in Great Britain and Ireland, 1852-1876”
Anand Swamy, “Credit Constraints and Inequality: Evidence from Rural Punjab, c. 1920-40”
Werner Troesken, “The Political Economy of the Sherman Antitrust Act: New Empirical Evidence”

1994

Joyce Burnette, “Testing for Gender Segregation in the Unskilled Labor Market of Industrial Revolution Britain”
Gregory Clark, “Government Debt and Private Capital Markets in England, 1720-1837”
Philip R.P. Coelho, and Robert A. McGuire, “The Economic Consequence of Biological Factors: The Slave Trade in the New World”
Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. and Iftekhar Hasan, “Bank Runs and Restriction of Payments”
Gillian Hamilton, “The Duration of Apprenticeship in Early 19th Century Montreal: The Roles of Human Capital and Uncertainty”
Randall Kroszner, “The Political Economy of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s Bail-Out of the U.S. Banking System during the Great Depression”
Mary MacKinnon and Barton Hamilton, “Quits and Layoffs in Early 20th Century Labour Markets”
Joel Mokyr and Rebecca Stein, “Science, Health and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand”
Randall Nielsen, “Prices and Famine in Early-Modern England: An Analysis of Tudor-Stuart Public Policy”
Stephen Quinn, “Coordination and Control of Inter-Banker Balances: The Debt Clearing Network of London’s Goldsmith-Bankers”
Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch, and Samuel H. Williamson, “Protecting Soldiers and Republicans: Civil War Pensions, the Protective Tariff and the Failure of the Social Insurance Movement in the Progressive Era”
Yishay Yafeh, “Corporate Ownership, Profitability and Bank-Firm Ties: Evidence from the American Occupation Reforms in Japan”

1995

Dora L. Costa, “The Political Economy of National Health Insurance, California 1918-1994”
Caroline Fohlin, “Relationship Banking and Firm Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from the Heyday of the German Universal Banks”
Lisa Geib-Gundersen and Elizabeth Zahrt, “A New Look at US Productivity Growth: Evidence from the IPUMS on Unspecified Laborers, 1880-1900”
Stephen Haber, “Capital Markets in the Early Stages of Industrialization: The Brazilian Cotton Textile Manufacture, 1866-1934”
Christopher Hanes, “Bilateral Monopoly and Nominal Wage Rigidity in the Downturns of 1893, 1929, and 1981”
Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Gilles Postel-Vinay, “No Revolution Without Politics or Institutions: France 1789-1815”
Peter C. Mancall, “The Economy of the Eastern Woodlands”
Rebecca Menes, “Machine Politics and Municipal Spending”
Donald L. Morrow, “Ideology, Self-Interest, and Trade Policy: Evidence from the 1787 Constitutional Convention”
Alan M. Taylor, “Latifundia as Malefactor in Latin American Economic Development? A View From the Pampas: Scale, Tenancy, and Agricultural Operations in Argentina, c. 1890-1914”
Hans-Joachim Voth, “Crime and the Use of Time in 18th Century London”
Simone A. Wegge, “A Test of the Theory of Chain Migration for 19th Century European Migrants”

1996

Gregory Clark and Susan Wolcott, “Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and Performance in Indian Cotton Textiles, 1900-1938”
Farley Grubb, “The Transatlantic Market for British Convict Labor: An Economic Analysis”
Joan Underhill Hannon, “Explaining Nineteenth Century Dependency Rates: Interplay of Life Cycles and Labor Markets”
Randall Kroszner, “Were the Good Old Days Really that Good? Evolution of Corporate Ownership and Governance Since the Great Depression”
Sumner LaCroix, “Coevolution of Property Rights in Land and Man in Java, 1757-1900”
Timothy Leunig, “Lancashire at its Zenith: Factor Costs, Industrial Structure and Technological Choice in the Lancashire Cotton Industry 1900-1913”
Joseph Mason, “The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance to Banks During the Great Depression”
Carolyn Moehling, “State Child Labor Laws, the Labor Market Participation of Children, and Family Labor Supply Decisions”
Leslie Moscow, “Charity and the Bequest Motive: Evidence from Seventeenth Century Wills”
Barbara Sands, “Famine and China’s Early Centrally Planned Economy: Failure Insights into a Political-Economic Black Box”
Stefanie Schmidt, “Compulsory Education Laws and the Growth of American High School Attendance, 1914-1934: Evidence from the 1940 Census and a Case Study of New York State”
Tarik Yousef, “Egypt’s Interwar Economic Retardation: Lopsided Development or Capital Starvation?

1997

Timothy Hatton, “How Much DId Immigrant ‘Quality’ Decline in Late 19th Century America?”
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, “Threat of a Capital Levy, Expected Devaluation and Interest Rates in Interwar France”
Louis Johnston, “The Growth of the Service Sector in Historical Perspective: Explaining Trends in US Sectoral Output and Employment, 1840-1990”
Sukkoo Kim, “U.S. Urban Development, 1790-1990”
Emily Mechner, “Paupers and Planters: The Transition to Sugar in Barbados, 1638-1674”
Gary Richardson, “Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution: Craft Guilds, Reputations, and Insurance in 14th Century England”
Kenneth Sokoloff and Zorina Khan, “Patent Institutions, Industrial Organization, and Early Technological Change: Britain and the United States, 1790-1850”
Richard Sylla, Jack Wilson, and Robert Wright, “America’s First Securities Markets, 1790-1830: Emergence, Development and Integration”
Melissa Thomasson, “Tax Policy, Group Insurance, and Health Insurance Demand: New Evidence on How the 1954 Tax Subsidy Encouraged Market Expansion”
Werner Troesken, “Typhoid Rates and the Public Acquisition of Waterworks, 1880-1920”
John Wallis, “Early American Federalism and Economic Development, 1830-1902”
Robert Weiner, “Rediscovery of a ‘Lost’ Natural-Resource Market: Petroleum Derivatives in the 19th Century”

1998

Gregory Clark, “Too Much Revolution: Agriculture in the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1860”
William Collins, “Race, Occupational Mobility, and Government Intervention in the World War II Era”
Guillaume Daudin, “A Mercantilist Model of Growth and Trade in 18th Century France”
Alexander Field, “The Telegraphic Transmission of Financial Asset Prices and Orders to Trade: Implications for Economic Growth, Trading Volume, and Securities Market Regulation”
Caroline Fohlin, “Bank Oversight and Firm Capital Structure: Evidence from Pre-World War I Germany”
Farley Grubb, “Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude: An Incomplete-Contract Approach”
Christopher Hanes, “The Rise and Fall of the Sliding Scale”
Gunnar Persson and Mette Ejrnaes, “Market Integration and Transport Costs in France 1825-1900: A Threshold Error Correction Approach to the Law of One Price”
Albrecht Ritschl, “Measuring the Nazi Recovery: An Assessment of Public Expenditure and Its Effects on Aggregate Activity, 1933-1938”
Daniel A. Schiffman, “Financial Distress, Bankruptcy and Railroad Operations: 1928-1940”
Richard Sicotte, George Deltas, and Konstantinos Serfes, “The Influence of Multi-market Contact on the Organization of Early Twentieth Century Steamship Conferences”
Lucia Tsai, “The Spatial Aggregation of Automobile Manufacturing Activities in the American Midwest”

1999

Liam Brunt, “An Arbitrage Model of Crop Rotation”
Richard DePolt, “Behind the Scenes: An Interindustry Analysis of the United States, 1859”
Joseph Ferrie, “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm (When They’ve Seen Schenectady?) Rural-to-Urban Migration in 19th Century America, 1850-70”
George Grantham and Franque Grimard, “Female Labour Force Participation in Nineteenth Century France and the 1851 Census of Population: A Quantitative Analysis”
Bishnupriya Gupta, “Collusion in the Indian Jute Industry in the 1930s: Why Did it Not Work?”
C. Knick Harley and Nicholas F. R. Crafts, “Productivity Growth During the First Industrial Revolution: Inferences from the Pattern of British External Trade”
Ian Keay, “Technology, Efficiency and Entrepreneurial Failure: Canadian and American Manufacturing Firms, 1907-1990”
Harry Kitsikopoulos, “Peasants’ Standards of Living and Capital Formation in Pre-plague England: Some Regional Contrasts”
Peter Rousseau, “Share Liquidity and Industrial Growth in an Emerging Market: The Case of New England 1854-1897”
Christian Stogbauer, “Spatial Insights into the Relationship between Unemployment and the Nazi Vote: Twilight at the End of the Weimar Republic”
James Sullivan and Henry Siu, “Is the Skill Premium Technologically Driven? Evidence from the Ford Motor Company”
Mark Toma, “Monetary Policy and the Great Depression: The Role of a Monopoly Federal Reserve”

2001

Gregory Clark: The Secret History of the Industrial Revolution
Clemens, Michael and Jeffrey G. Williamson: Where Did British Foreign Capital Go? Fundamentals, Failures and the Lucas Paradox, 1870-1913.
Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff: The Evolution of Suffrage in the New World: A Preliminary Examination
Alexander J. Field: Mid-Century Multifactor Productivity Growth in Relation to Current Trends
Gillian Hamilton and Aloysius Siow: Class, Gender and Marriage
Jac C. Heckelman and John H. Wood: Political Monetary Cycles: The Independent Treasure versus the Federal Reserve
Chulhee Lee: Intra-Household Transfers and Old-Age Security in America, 1890-1950
J. Ernesto Lopez-Cordova and Christopher M. Meissner: Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era
Jakob B. Madsen: Wage Rigidity, Price Rigidity and Supply During the Great Depression
Sharon Ann Murphy: Nineteenth-Century Rural Wealth Accumulation: A Microeconomic Analysis
John E. Murray: Government insurance, worker health, and labor supply in turn-of-the-century Europe
Werner Troesken: The Limits of Jim Crow: Race and the Provision of Water and Sewerage Services in American Cities, 1880-1925

2002

Edmund Cannon and Liam Brunt: Do Banks Improve Financial Market Integration?
Metin Cosgel: The Economics of Ottoman Taxation
Jan deVries: The Price of Bread & the Standard of Living in the Dutch Republic
Mauricio Drelichman: The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease, 1501-1650
Yadira Gonzales de Lara and Ente Einaudi: Institutions for Contract Enforcement and Risk-Sharing from Debt to Equity in Late Medieval Venice
Mark Guglielmo: Illinois Bank Failures During the Great Depression
Mark T. Law: The Origins of State Food Regulation
Mu Yang Li: The Political Economy of Fiscal Development in Nineteenth Century China
Jason Long: Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility in Victorian Britain
George Selgin: Steam, Not Air, and the Gold Standard
Solomos Solomou and Christiano Andrea Ristuccia: Electricity Diffusion and Trend Acceleration in Inter-War Manufacturing Productivity
Hans-Joachim Voth: Why Was Stock Price Volatility So High During the Great Depression? Evidence from 10 Countries During the Inter-War Period

2003

Douglas W. Allen and Clyde Reed: The Duel of Honor: Screening for Unobservable Social Capital
John C. Brown and Daniel Bernhofen: Estimating the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: The Case of Japan
Benjamin R. Chabot and Christopher Kurz: That’s Where the Money Was. Foreign Bias and English Investments in the United State
Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen: The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece
Gerald Friedman: Has the Forward March of Labor Halted? Union Growth and Decline in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Sharon G. Harrison and Mark Weder: Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?
Ryan S. Johnson: A New Deal for the Forgotten Man? Wages, Unions, and the Distribution of Transitory and Permanent Employment During the Inter-War Period
Brooks Kaiser: Private Provision of Public Goods: The Athenian Trierarchy as a Game of Mechanism Design
Gary Richardson and Ching-Yi Chung: Deposit Insurance in Developing Economies: Lessons from the Archives of the Board of Governors and the State Deposit Insurance Experiments
Isabel Schnabel: The Great Banks’ Depression – Deposit Withdrawals in the German Crisis of 1931
James I. Stewart: Migration to the Agricultural Frontier and Economic Mobility, 1860-1880
John Wallis and Namsuk Kim: Financial Markets in the Depression of 1837 to 1843

2005

John Devereux and Marianne Ward, “Why America? Relative UK/US Labor Productivity Revisited.”
Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta, “Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence: Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage, 1600-1850.”
Jesse Czelusta, “The Historical Non-Existence of Resource Endowments.”
Mike Haupert, “Is it Work or is it Play? The Evolution of the Professional Baseball Labor market.”
Nicholas Crafts and A.J. Venables, “Fogel vs Chandler: Revisiting the Social Savings of American Railroads in 1890.”
Robert Allen, Debin Ma, Jan Luiten Van Zanden, “Wages Prices, and Living Standards in China, Japan and Europe 1738-1925.”
Joerg Baten and Kirsten Labuske, “Patenting Abroad and Human Capital Formation.”
Ari Van Assche and James Roumasset, “Malthus to Solow: A New Classical Approach to Induced Innovation.”
Stacey Jones, “Dynamic Social norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women’s Higher Education, 1965 to 1980.”
Stephen Quinn, “How did the Early Bank of England Increase Government Credibility?”
Marc Flandreau and Clemens Jobst, “Clio and the Economics of International Currencies.”
Daniel E. Bogart, “The Diffusion of Turnpike Trusts in Eighteenth Century Britain: An Analysis of Institutional Change.”

2006

Naomi Lamoreaux and Kenneth Sokoloff, “The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?”
Petra Moser, “War and Ethnic Discrimination: Evidence from Applications to the New York Stock Exchange, 1873-1973.”
Saumitra Jha, “Trade, institutions and religious conflict in India.”
Stefano Fenoaltea, “Economic Decline in Historical Perspective: Some Theoretical Considerations.”
Latika Chaudhary,”Social Divisions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Colonial India.”
Kris Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier, “Was the Gold Standard a Monetary Veil or a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval? Evidence from 250,000 Sovereign Debt Prices”
Albert Carreras, M. d. Mar Rubio and César Yáñez, “Economic Modernisation in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1890 and 1930: A View from Modern Energy Consumption”
Eric Hilt, “Corporate Ownership and Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century.”
Steven Nafziger, “Land Communes and Factor Market Imperfections: Micro-Evidence from Late 19th-Century Russia.”
Karen Clay and Werner Troesken “Lead Pipes and Infant Mortality.”
William Troost, “Accomplishment and Abandonment: The Freedmen’s Bureau and Black Literacy Rates.”
Michael Kevane and William Sundstrom, “Expansion of Public Libraries in the United States, 1870-1930.”

2007

Michael Huberman and Chris Meissner, “Are Your Labor Standards Set in China? Evidence from the First Great Wave of Globalization, 1870-1914.”
Warren Whatley, “From Gold Coast to Slave Coast: West Africa in the Emerging Atlantic Economy, 1450-1850.”
Se Yan, “Economic Openness, Industrial Development and Income Distribution in China, 1860-1936.”
Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason, “Rational Divetiture in Real Options-Based Liquidation Cycles: Evidence from Failed Bank Assets in the Great Depression.”
David Clingingsmith, “Social Bilingualism, Language Consolidation, and
Leah Boustan, “Inside the Black Box of ‘White Flight’: The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods.”
Mark Dincecco, “Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Finances in Europe, 1650-1914.”
John Parman, “The Expansion of Public Schools and the Decline of American Mobility.”
Christina Gathmann and Henning Hillmann, “From Privateers to Navy: How Seapower Became a Public Good.”
Regina Grafe and Oscar Gelderblom, “How to Beat (Very) Imperfect Markets? Re-thinking the Comparative Study of Commercial Institutions in Pre-modern Europe.”
Grant Miller, “Women’s Preferences and Child Survival in American History.”
Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller, “Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets.”

2009

Susan B. Carter, “Celestial Suppers: The Political Economy of America’s Chop Suey Craze, 1900-1930”
Gary Richardson and Dan Bogart, “Pragmatic Politicians, Adaptable Rights, and London’s Expansion during the Industrial Revolution”
Claudia Rei, “Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires”
Nicola Tynan, “Innovation by London’s Water Companies: Filtration as a Response to Error”
Rafael Dobado and David Guerrero, “The Integration of Western Hemisphere Grain Markets in the Eighteenth Century: Early Progress and Decline of Globalization”
Jonathan Fox, Price Fishback and Paul Rhode, “The Economic Response to Climate Change in the Farm Sector: The United States 1895-1969”
Jeffrey Greenbaum, “Child Labor and the Development of Public Schooling: Evidence from Early 20th Century Georgia”
Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis, “The Price of Skill in Early Modern Europe: An Analysis of Apprenticeship Premiums, 1710-1750”
Jessica Hennessey, “The Adoption of Constitutional Home Rule: A Test of Endogenous Policy Decentralization”
Marianne Ward and John Devereux, “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective”
Bill Lord, Matthias Cinyabuguma and Christelle Viauroux, “American Demographic Transition and Married Female Labor Force Participation: What Role for Health?”

2010

Claude Diebolt, Antoine Parent and Jamel Trabelsi, “Expansionary Monetary Policy Under Liquidity Trap: 2009 in Light of 1929. A Counterfactual Analysis”
Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth, “Older and Wiser? The Ages of Criminals in Victorian London”
Pilar Nogues-Marco, “Did Bullionims Matter?: Castilian Monetary Policy and Silver Smuggling in the Early 18th Century”
Matthew Jaremski, “Bank-Specific Default Risk In The Pricing Of Free Bank Note Discounts”
Karine van der Beek, “Technology-Skill Complementarity on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution: New Evidence from England (1710-1770)”
Isabelle Sin and Ran Abramitzky, “Book Translations as Information Flows: How Detrimental was Communism to the Flow of Ideas?”
Olivier Accominotti, “London Merchant Banks, the Central European Panic and the Sterling Crisis of 1931”
Marianne H. Wanamaker, “Did Industrialization Cause the American Fertility Decline? Evidence from South Carolina”
Lars Boerner and John William Hatfield, “The Economics of Debt-Clearing Mechanisms in Europe from the 13th to the 18th Century”
Mrdjan M. Mladjan, “Accelerating into the Abyss: Financial Dependence and the Great Depression”
Ahmed S. Rahman and Darrell J. Glaser, “The Value of Human Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution – Evidence from the U.S. Navy”
Robert G. Hammond and Lee A. Craig, “The Markets for Slaves and Lemons: A (Partial) Solution to the Antebellum Puzzle”

2011

Tim Leunig, “The welfare benefits of new products, new processes and new discoveries: what can we learn from social savings estimates?”
Noel Johnson, “Trade, Taxes, and Terroir”
Tuan-Hwee Sng, “Size and Dynastic Decline: the Principal‐Agent Problem in Late Imperial China, 1700-1850”
Greg Niemesh, “Ironing Out Deficiencies: Evidence from the United States on the Economic Effects of Iron Deficiency”
Kris Mitchener, “Searching for Irving Fisher”
Gregory Clark, “Was there ever a Ruling Class? Rare Surnames and Long Run Social Mobility in England, 1837-2011”
Melissa Thomasson, “Did Sheppard-Towner Save Babies? Mothers? Evidence from State-Level Data”
Christopher Hanes, “Causes and Effects of the American Real Estate Boom of the 1920s: Evidence from City Cross Sections”
Eric Hilt, “Democratic Dividends: Stockholding in New York, 1791-1826”
Mohamed Saleh, “Laborers, Scribes, and Financiers: Modernization and Inter-Religious Human Capital Differentials in Mid-19th Century Egypt”

2012

Eric Monnet, “Monetary policy without interest rates. An evaluation of quantitative controls during France’s Golden Age, 1945-1973”
Marlous van Waijenburg and Ewout Frankema, “Structural impediments to African growth? New evidence from real wages in British Africa, 1880-1965”
Timothy Guinnane, Howard Bodenhorn, and Thomas Mroz, “Sample selection bias in the historical heights literature”
Aldo Musacchio and Andre Martinez-Fritscher, “Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930”
Andrea Matranga, “Seasonality, Storage and Farming: Explaining the Neolithic Revolution as a Global Phenomenon”
Katharine Shester, “The Local Economic Effects of Public Housing in the United States, 1940-1970”
Daniel Fetter, “The Home Front: Understanding the rapid wartime increase in home ownership”
Martha Bailey and Nicolas Duquette, “How the U.S. Fought the War on Poverty: A Quantitative Analysis of the Politics and Economics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity”
Dan Bogart, “A Small Price to Pay: Regulation and Rates of Return in British Infrastructure during Industrialization”
Zeynep Hansen, Gary Libecap, and Scott Lowe, “The Political Economy of Major Water Infrastructure Investments in the Western United States: AnHistorical Analysis”
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley, “Private Gains from Public University Research: The Case of Productivity Spillovers from AgriculturalExperiments Stations”
Petra Moser and Ryan Lampe, “Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 30 Industries in the 1930s”

2014

Brian Beach, “Do markets reward constitutional reform? Lessons from America’s state debt crisis”
Mike Matheis, “Local Economic Impacts of Coal Mining in the U.S. 1870 to 1970”
Yannay Spitzer and Ariell Zimran, “Migrant Self-Selection: Anthropometric Evidence from the Mass Migration of Italians to the United States, 1907-1925”
Nathan Foley-Fisher and Eoin McLaughlin, “Sovereign Default in Ireland, 1932”
Richard Baker, “Finding the Fat: The Relative Impact of Budget Fluctuations on African-American Schools”
Katherine Eriksson and Gregory Niemesh, “The Impact of Migration on Infant Health: Evidence from the Great Migration”
Rui Esteves, “Archomania: Venality and Private Finances on the Eve of the French Revolution”
Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, “American Colonial Incomes 1650-1774”
Vellore Arthi, ““The Dust Was Long in Settling”: Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl”
Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon, “Variations in price and quality of grain, 1750-1914: quantitative evidence and empirical implications.”
Roy Bailey and Tim Hatton, and Kris Inwood, “Health Height and the Household: England and Wales at the Turn of the 20th Century”
Costanza Biavaschi and Corrado Giulietti, and Zahra Siddique, “The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization”

2015

Michela Giorcelli, “The Effect of Management Practices and Technology Diffusion on Firm Performances: Evidence from the US Marshall Plan in Italy”
Charles W. Calomiris, Matthew Jaremski, Haelim Park, and Gary Richardson, “Liquidity Risk, Bank Networks, and the Value of Joining the Federal Reserve System”
Cong Liu, “Distributional Effects of International Trade: Evidence from China in The Early Twentieth Century”
Dan Bogart, “There can be no Partnership with the King: Regulatory Uncertainy and Investment in the English East Indian Company”
Jessica Bean, “Women’s Work and Wages during the First World War in Britain”
Emek Basker, Chris Vickers, And Nicolas L. Ziebarth, “What Killed the Independent Grocery Store? Lessons from the 1929 Census of Distribution”
Taylor Jaworski, “World War II and the Industrialization of the American South”
Joshua Lewis, and Edson Severnini, “The Value of Rural Electricity: Evidence from the Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid”
Joanna Short, “The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Demand for Life Insurance among U.S. Working-Class Families”
Lisa D. Cook, Trevon D. Loga, And John M. Parman, “Segregation and Lynching”
Alex W. Chernoff, “Firm Heterogeneity and the Gains from Technological Adoption: Theory and Measurement”

2016

Shiue, Carol H. Shiue, “Social Mobility in the Long Run: An Analysis with Five Linked Generations in China, 1300 – 1900”
Réka Juhász, “Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade”
Joyce Burnette and Maria Stanforos, “Is it who you are, where you work, or with whom you work that matter for earnings? Gender and peer effects among late nineteenth-century industrial workers”
Xavier Duran and Marcelo Bucheli, “Holding up the Empire”
Stephen Broadberry and John Wallis, “Shrink Theory: The nature of long run and short run economic performance”
Matthew T. Gregg, “The Enduring Effects of American Indian Boarding Schools”
David Aikman, Oliver Bush, and Alan M. Taylor, “Monetary versus Macroprudential Policies: U.K. Bank Rate and Credit Policy Tools in the Era of The Radcliffe Report”
Santiago Pèrez , “Moving to opportunity: Railroads, Migrations and Economic Mobility”
Michael Gou, “Did capital requirements in the early 20th century United States promote bank stability?”
Alice Kuegler, “The Responsiveness of Inventing: Evidence from a Patent Fee Reform”
Remi Jedwab, Noel Johnson, and Mark Koyama, “Bones, Bacteria and Break Points: The Heterogeneous Spatial Effects of the Black Death and Long-Run Growth”
Jeremiah E. Dittmar and Ralf R. Meisenzahl, “State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany”

2018

Abstracts from papers at the 2018 Cliometric Conference hosted by Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.

2019

Abstracts from papers at the 2019 Cliometric Conference hosted by The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

2020

Cancelled due to COVID-19

2021

Recording of 2021 Virtual Cliometric Conference hosted by Chapman University.

2022

Paper titles from the 2022 conference hosted by Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Francois Velde, “A Model of Economic Activity in San Francisco During the 1918 Influenza Epidemic”
Ezra Karger, “The Democratization of Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement”
Matias Cabello, “The Counter-Reformation, Science, and Long-Term Growth: A Propaganda-Driven Myth?”
Matthew Curtis, “Cultural Inheritance and the European Marriage Pattern”
Andrew Garib, “Poor Man’s Castle? Debtor Protections, Land Ownership, and Inequality in Antebellum America”
Eric Edwards, “Private Benefits and Public Goods” Agricultural Drainage in the Unites States 1850-1969”
Gianni Marciante, “When Nation Building Goes South: Draft Evasion, Government Repression, and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia”
Lillian Gateo, “Employee Stock Ownership and Productivity: An Analysis of the Rise and Fall of the ESOPs During the Great Depression”
Elissa Ana Maria Iorgulescu, “Grain Futures Trading During the Interwar Period: Introducing a New Dataset and Evidence
Colin Sharpe, “Where the King’s Writ Did Not Run: Common Law and Development Along the English-Welsh Border, 1290-1510”
Rowena Gray, “Making a Police Officer: Police Quality after the Spoils System in the Urban U.S.”
Matthew Suandi, “Promoting to Opportunity: Evidence and Implications from the U.S. Submarine Service”
Pawel Charasz, “Burghers into Peasants: Political Economy of City Status in Congress Poland”
Julia Zimmermann, “Enemies within the gates: Evidence from Stalin’s ethnic cleaning campaign”
Matt Pesner, “The Expansion of Social Security and the Decline of Elderly Public Assistance”
Andreas Ferrara, “The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right”
Claire Celerier, “The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Minorities: Evidence form the Freedman’s Saving Bank”
Ethan Schmick, “Flexner Era Medical School Closures, Physician Markets, and Mortality in the Unites States”
Vitalia Yaremko, “The Long-Term Consequences of the 1932-33 Famine: Evidence from Post-Soviet Ukraine”

2024

Paper titles from the 2024 conference hosted by American University in Washington, DC.

Wolfgang Keller, “Human Capital Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming”
Mauricio Drelichman, “Castilian Wages and Living Standards in the Long Run: Toledo 1517-1800”
Li Duan, “Charting the Needham Puzzle, A Long-Term Perspective on Book Writing in China”
Martin Rotemberg, “Gaining Steam: Incumbent Lock-in and Enrant Leapfrogging”
Tamar Matiashvili, “Cultural Links and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Industry in Late Imperial Russia”
Ariell Zimran, “Environmental Migration and Race during the Great American Drought, 1935-1940”
Amy Cross, “Impact of WWI Dependency Deferments on Women’s Labor Force Participation”
Jun Fang, “The Balancing Act of Indirect and Direct Rule: Evidence from the Qing Empire”
Paul Lowood, “Fiscal Capacity, Railway Federalism, and German Railway Development 1835-1885”
Matteo Ruzzante, “Brigandage and the Political Legacy of Monarchical Legitimacy in Southern Italy”
Felix Schaff, “Inheritance and Inequality in a pre-Modern Economy”
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