Workshop in Economic History

Program

May 22, 2025 – Meet at Radisson Blu, Uppsala.

9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee

9.30-10.05 Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu (U Chicago) – Coercive Growth

Discussant: Martín Fernández (LISER)

10.05-10.40 Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) – Industrialization and the return to labor: Evidence from Prussia

Discussant: Jakob Molinder (UU)

10.40-11.10 Short papers presentations I:

Sebastian Ellingsen (U of Bristol) – Communities of Commerce

Yan Hu (U of Edinburgh) – Minority Bureaucrats’ Networks and Career Progression

11.40-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.35 Mattia Colombo (ESE Rotterdam) – Early Life Conditions, Time Preferences, and Savings

Discussant: Sophie Li (USD)

13.35-14.10 Davide Coluccia (U of Bristol) – Liberation technology? The impact of the sewing machine on women

Discussant: Luca Repetto

14.10-14.40 Short papers presentations II:

Melissa Rubio Ramos, University of Cologne

Teppo Lindfors, Lund University

14.40-15.10 Break

15.10-15.45 Michael McRae (Trinity College Dublin) – Black by Popular Demand

Discussant: Mounir Karadja

15.45-16.20 Alexander Yarkin (UC Davis & LISER) – Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence

Discussant: Erik Prawitz (Linneaus U and IFN)

16.20-16.40 Break

16.40-17.15 Sophie Li (USD) – Returns to Education for Women in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Discussant: Ricard Grebol (UU)

17.15-17.45 Short papers presentations III:

Max Posch (U of Bristol) – Markets Make Humans WEIRDer

Carmela Accettura (UC3M) – Bella ciao! The Legacy of Women from the Italian Resistance

17.45 End of conference day

19.30 Dinner at Bacàn

May 23, 2025 – Meet at Radisson Blu, Uppsala.

9.00-9.35 Timo Stieglitz (PSE) – Industrialization, Returns, Inequality

Discussant: Davide Coluccia (U of Bristol)

9.35-10.10 Andreas Link (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) – The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the West

Discussant: Mattia Colombo (ESE Rotterdam)

10.10-11.00 Poster session & break

Marius Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, Eva Forslund, Cristian Navarro Serrano, Viacheslav Savitskiy, Andrea Tizzani, Sara Värn

11.00-12.00 Keynote speech: Elias Papaioannou, London Business School

12.00-13.15 Lunch

13.15-13.50 Aurélie Gillen (U of Luxembourg) – Bugged Out: Locust Plagues, Migration, and Adaptation in 19th Century US

Discussant: Viacheslav Savitskiy (Korea UBS)

13.50-14.25 Lydia Assouad (Harvard & LSE) – Leadership and Nation-Building

Discussant: Max Posch (U of Bristol)

14.25-14.55 Break

14.55-15.30 Martín Fernández (LISER) – Migrant Voices

Discussant: Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen (U of Copenhagen)

15.30-16.05 Tommaso Colussi (U Cattolica Milano) – Pilgrims and crusaders

Discussant: Michael McRae (Trinity College Dublin)