Seminar in Economic History

From Bronze to Algorithm: The Story of China in Ten Technologies Speaker David Yang, Faculty Associate. Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Director, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University. Contact Emily Dietzel...

The Social Construction of Race During Reconstruction Speaker Richard Hornbeck, John P. Gould Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

Three Regimes of Human Development in Twentieth-Century America: Biological Growth, Health, and Human Capital Speaker Nicholas Reynolds, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution Speaker David Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families: New Estimates using Larger Samples Speaker Shari Eli, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity and Forced Labor Speaker Marlous van Waijenburg, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

Persistence in Season of Birth: A New Linkage-Free Measure of Black Intergenerational Mobility Speaker Shariq Mohammed, Assistant Professor of Economics, Northeastern University. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

The University Speakers Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University. David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu

The Economic Geography of American Slavery Speaker Suresh Naidu, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University...

Directed Technical Change: Insights from Rural Electrification in the U.S. Speaker Martin Fiszbein, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University. Contact Emily Dietzel edietzel@fas.harvard.edu