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Econ 325 Social Science History

Term: Fall
Date and Time	Speaker(s)	Title (click for more details)	Location
Wed, Sep 23, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Xavier Duran Northwestern University	Formation of Expectations and the Expected Private Profitability of the First Transcontinental Railroad	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Sep 30, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Richard Sutch UC Berkeley	Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Oct 7, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Jeffrey Greenbaum UC Berkeley	Land Endowments, Child Labor, and the Development of Public Schooling: Evidence from Early 20th Century U.S.	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Oct 14, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Estefania Santacreu-Vasut UC Berkeley	Diversity and Institutions: Theory and Evidence from the Spread of Industrialization	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Oct 21, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Nathan Nunn Harvard University (visiting Stanford)	The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Oct 28, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Kris Mitchener Santa Clara University	Arresting Bank Panics: Fed Liquidity Provision and the Forgotten Panic of 1929	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Nov 4, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	L. Kamran Bilir and Petra Moser Stanford University	Do Stronger Patent Rights Encourage Technology Transfer? Evidence from the U.S. Accession to the Paris Convention in 1887	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Nov 11, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Christopher K. Paik Stanford University	Historical Underpinnings of Institutions: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Nov 18, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Nancy Qian Yale University	The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Nov 25, 5:45PM		Thanksgiving Week	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Dec 2, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Estefania Santacreu-Vasut UC Berkeley	Diversity and Institutions: Theory and Evidence from the Spresad of Industrialization	Econ Bldg 351

Term: Winter
Date and Time	Speaker(s)	Title (click for more details)	Location
Wed, Feb 10, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Seema Jayachandran Stanford University	Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Feb 17, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Alex Whalley UC Merced Shawn Kantor UC Merced	Separating the Roles of Church and State in the Ascendancy of American Higher Education, 1900-1914	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Feb 24, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Ludger Woessman University of Munich	The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Values and Human Interactions Ninety Years after the Fall of the Habsburg Empire	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Mar 3, 4:00PM - 5:30PM	Fabian Waldinger University of Warwick	Peer Effects in Science (Joint meeting with Social Science and Technology Seminar)	Note Special Time and Location SIEPR B*
Wed, Mar 10, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Steve Nafziger Williams College	How Did Ivan's Vote Matter? The Political Economy of Local Democracy in Tsarist Russia	Econ Bldg 351

Term: Spring
Date and Time	Speaker(s)	Title (click for more details)	Location
Wed, Apr 7, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Peter Zeitz	Short-Run Incentives and Myopic Behavior: Evidence from State-Owned Enterprises in China	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Apr 14, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Alexander Field Santa Clara University	Behavioral Economics: Lessons from the Military	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Apr 21, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Pauline Grosjean Univeristy of San Francisco	A History of Violence: Testing the 'Culture of Honor' in the US South	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Apr 28, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Debin Ma London School of Economics	Incentives and Information: an Institutional Analysis of the Traditional Chinese State and Great Divergence in the Early Modern era	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, May 5, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Rick Hornbeck Harvard University	The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, May 12, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Aldo Musacchio Harvard Business School	The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, May 19, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Petra Moser Stanford University	How much did the US gain from the arrival of German-Jewish Emigres? Nazi expulsions & American scientific innovation (Joint with Social Science and Technology Seminar)	Gunn SIEPR Bldg Room 120
Wed, May 26, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Kaivan Munshi Brown University	Identity and Mobility: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest	Econ Bldg 351
Wed, Jun 2, 1:30PM - 3:00PM	Dan Trefler University of Toronto	International Trade and Institutional Dynamics: A Death in Venice (With Diego Puga)	Econ Bldg 351