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August 27
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No Meeting
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September 3
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Labor Day Holiday - No Meeting
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September 10
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Latika Chaudhary,
Hoover Institution
Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India
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September 17
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Stephan Klasen,
University of Gottingen (Germany)
Gender Bias in Mortality in Ireland around 1870-1930
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September 24
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Christopher Meissner,
University of California, Davis
Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization
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October 1
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No Meeting
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October 8
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Nico Voigtlaender,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
The Three Horseman of Growth: Plague, War and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe
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October 15*
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Monday, 12-1 p.m., 119 Moses Hall
Efraim Benmelech,
Harvard University
The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence
from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century (with Tobias Moskowitz)
Joint with Comparative Economics and Financial Economics Seminars
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October 22
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Diego Sasson,
Stanford University
Risk Sharing and the Industrial Revolution: A Macroeconomic Approach
(with Avner Greif)
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Octobeer 29
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Eric Chaney,
University of California, Berkeley
Economic Development, Religious Competition, and the Rise and Fall of Muslim Science
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November 7*
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Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Nathan Nunn,
Harvard University
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Joint with Departmental Seminar
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November 12
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Veteran's Day Holiday - No Meeting
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November 19
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Dora Costa,
University of California, Los Angeles
To Be Announced
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November 26
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Jonathan Rose,
University of California, Berkeley
Hoover's Truce: Nominal Wage Rigidity in the Onset of the Great Depression
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December 3
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Joachim Voth,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: A Reconstruction of Spain's Fiscal Position,
1560-1598 (with Mauricio Drelichman and Hans-Joachim Voth)
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