4月1日的Academic Session I 学术讨论分为7个议题

ASIA: Female Labour Force Participation

(chair: ) (Ramphal 0.14)

1. Cotton handloom weaving c.1780-1813; women and children hiding in plain sight?

Keith Sugden (University of Cambridge)

2. Marriage is hard work: Women’s work in the breadwinner economy

Joseph Day (University of Bristol)

3. The gender wage gap during import substitution industrialisation, 1940-80

Enrique de la Rosa Ramos (King’s College London)

ASIB: Colonial Public Goods

(chair: Avner Offer) (Ramphal 1.03)

1. Decolonisation and the efficiency of public goods provision: Evidence from India

James Fenske & Bishnupriya Gupta, Yuchen Lin (University of Warwick) & Latika Chaudhary (Naval Postgraduate School)

2. Institutions, local agency, and allegiance: Healthcare provision in colonial India

Jordi Caum Julio (Universitat de Barcelona)

ASIC: The British Capital Market

(chair: Rui Pedro Esteves) (Ramphal 1.04)

1. The trade in sovereign debt and investors’ social circles in late 17th-century England

Ling-Fan Li (National Tsing Hua University)

2. The South Sea Company and the restructuring of national debt: Origins, winners, and losers

François Velde (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

3. When land dominates access to finance: Crowding out effects of land enclosures during Britain’s industrial revolution

4. Karine van der Beek, Lior Farbman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) & Tomer Ifergane (London School of Economics)

ASID: Monetary History

(chair: Stuart Henderson) (Ramphal 1.13)

1. Domestic and international financial integration in Switzerland, 1846-93

Rebecca Stuart & Daniel Kaufmann (University of Neuchatel)

2. The Gold Standard and the rules of the game: Lessons from the Uruguayan experience

Gastón Díaz (Universidad de la República) & Nektarios Aslanidis (Universitat Rovira e Virgili)

3. Adjustments and vicissitudes: The indirect banknote issuance in Republican China, 1915-49

Meng Wu, Nuno Palma (University of Manchester), Xin Dong (University of Liaoning) & Debin Ma (University of Oxford)

ASIE: Long-term Drivers of Inequality

(chair: Bernard Harris) (Ramphal 1.15)

1. Globalization, welfare, and inequality: Evidence from transoceanic market integration, 1815-1913

David Chilosi (King’s College London) & Giovanni Federico (NYU, Abu Dhabi)

2. The unequal effects of the early 1980s UK recession

Meredith Paker (Grinnell College)

3. Subjective well-being during Spain’s decline, 1570-1700

Leandro Prados de la Escosura & Carlos Álvarez-Nogal (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

ASIF: Economic Geography

(chair: Anna Missiaia) (Ramphal 2.41)

1.The growth of English medieval towns, 1066-1524

Mark Casson (University of Reading) & Catherine Casson (University of Manchester)

2.The geography of economic opportunity in 19th-century Canada

Chris Minns (London School of Economics), Luiza Antonie, Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) & Fraser Summerfield (St Francis Xavier University)

3. Mind your language: The decline of the Irish language in 19th-century Ireland

Alan Fernihough, Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast) & Eoin McLaughlin (University College Cork)

ASIG: Technology Diffusion

(chair: ) (Ramphal 3.41)

1.Rethinking URK: Travelling facts, knowledge transfer, and the case of painting on cloth with indigo

Alka Raman (London School of Economics)

2.The great speed up: Early telecommunications development in the Andes, Colombia, 1850-1930

Carlos Brando (CESA)

3.The international market for inventions: The UK and the USA in the interwar period

Anna Spadavecchia (University of Strathclyde)

Academic Session II 学术讨论分为7个议题

ASIIA: The Politics of Numbers

(chair: Jim Tomlinson) (Ramphal 0.12)

1.Mortality and the Poor Law in England and Wales c.1830-1860 – an exploratory analysis

Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge) & Gabriel Mesevage (King’s College London)

2. The rhetoric of numbers: Political economy of standard of living measurements in Victorian and Edwardian England

Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester)

3. What counts in the periphery? Evidence from Indian and Nigerian National Accounts

Maria Bach (University of Lausanne) & Wilhelm Aminoff (American University of Paris)

ASIIB: Female Empowerment

(chair: Jane Humphries) (Ramphal 0.14)

1.Women’s wages and empowerment: Pre-industrial Japan, 1600-1890

Yuzuru Kumon (Norwegian School of Economics ) & Kazuho Sakai (University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo)

2.Women as capital lenders in 19th-century Yorkshire: Evidence from the Registers of Deeds

Joan Heggie (Independent scholar)

3.Becoming ‘co-ed’: A Protestant gift to China

Yiling Zhao, Se Yan & Ningning Ma (Peking University)

ASIIC: The Legacies of Colonialism

(chair: Bishnupriya Gupta) (Ramphal 1.03)

1.How well do we understand cotton imperialism in Africa? A comparative approach

Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University)

2.Rethinking ‘gentlemanly capitalism’: The 1847 financial crisis and the British Empire

Charles Read (University of Cambridge)

ASIID: Global Finance

(chair: Catherine Schenk) (Ramphal 1.04)

1.Living La Vida Loca? Investing in Latin America, 1870-1929

Áine Gallagher, Gareth Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast) & Richard Grossman (Wesleyan University)

2.Tax havens’ tacit advent: The history of offshore economy beyond myths and misconceptions, late 19th-century post-war era

Christophe Farquet (Université de Genève)

3.Foreign exchange controls and deviations from the Law of One Price in FX markets, 1895-2020

Victor Degorce (EHESS)

ASIIE: Social Mobility and Exclusion

(chair: Chris Minns) (Ramphal 1.13)

1.A medieval ‘middling sort’:? The relationship between wealth, political authority, and inequality in East Anglian villages, c.1300-c.1550

Spike Gibbs (University of Mannheim)

2.Residential segregation in the Ottoman Empire, 1650-1870

Gürer Karagedikli (Middle East Technical University) & Ali Coşkun Tunçer (University College London)

ASIIF: Taxation

(chair: ) (Ramphal 1.15)

1.Financing the nations: A story of rent-seeking

Graeme Roy (University of Glasgow), Stuart McIntyre (University of Strathclyde) & James Mitchell (University of Edinburgh)

2.‘Hidden in open view’: Estate Duty and attitudes to inherited wealth

Marie Fletcher (University of the West of Scotland) & John Wilson (Northumbria University)

3.The distributive effects of consumption taxes

Sara Torregrosa-Hetland (Lund University) & Oriol Sabaté (Universitat de Barcelona)

ASIIG: Trade and Protectionism

(chair: Kevin O’Rourke) (Ramphal 2.41)

1.How to survive in a protectionist world? Switzerland’s trade policy during the last globalization, 1870-1913

Léo Charles (University of Rennes)

2.The rise of American and German exports to Australasia, 1890-1913: Composition or competition?

Brian Varian (Newcastle University)

3.Were currency depreciations in the 1970s and 1980s beggar-my-neighbour?

Jonas Ljungberg (Lund University)

New Researcher Poster Session (Ramphal 0.03/0.04)

1.Industrialization and the return to labour: Evidence from Prussia

Ann-Kristin Becker (University of Cologne)

2.What makes an economic expert? ‘Money doctors’ in the late Victorian era, 1870-1900

Dana Brahm (University of St Gallen)

3.Time use and gender in England, 1700-1850

Nicholas Collins (University of Exeter)

4.Rethinking the impact of economic growth: A comparative study of rural market and subaltern economies in early modern Italy, 1650-1800

Alberto Concina (KU Leuven)

5.From a Labyrinth to the Deus ex machina: Institutionalising the organisational change of Mitsubishi, 1946-93

Shengjie Ding (King’s College London)

5.Regional variations in agricultural output and urbanisation rates of China during the Southern Song (1127-1279), Jurchen Jin (1115-1234), and Mongol Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties

Zhao Dong (University of Oxford)

6.The wealth and poverty of preindustrial nations: Evidence from South Asia, 1870-1930

Joseph Enguehard (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

7.Racial inequality in infectious disease mortality in South African cities, 1910-48

Nick Fitzhenry (London School of Economics)

8.The vagrant and the 1388 Cambridge Statute: A turning point?

Andrew Hamilton (Queen’s University Belfast)

9.Vienna’s Gesellschaften m.b.H. Rise and decline of a new legal form of economic partnership, 1906-34

Michael Hödl (University of Vienna)

10.Extreme climate and infrastructure investments: The case of colonial Jamaica

Joel Huesler (University of Bern)

11.‘Praise the people or praise the place’: Labour market responses to a technological shock in 20th-century Sweden

Jonathan Jayes (Lund University)

12.The range of influence of a Polish small town in the 16th century: The example of Pilzno and Tuchów

Patryk Kuc (Jagiellonian University)

13.The early-modern “Fed”? Castile as the monetary leader in Europe, 1575-1680

Víctor Pérez-Sánchez (London School of Economics)

14.For the common good or for private profit? Incentives to invest in new water supplies for 19th-century English provincial towns

Sheila Pugh (London School of Economics)

15.Innovation and market structure: Evidence from British manufacturing in the Golden Age

Kyle Richmond (Queen’s University Belfast)

16.Capital considerations and choice of business partner for cross-cultural traders: German and Scandinavian merchants in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1840-1920

Daniel Riddell (Northumbria University)

17.Gender, occupation, and geographical diaspora of people involved in property transfers in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1736-84

Catherine Ryan (Teesside University)

18.Impact of climate-related hazards on British West Indian exports, 1850-1960

Julia Schlosser (University of Bern)

19.Embarrassment of riches? Socioeconomic and material (in)equality in Amsterdam, 1630-1780

Bas Spliet (University of Antwerp)

20.Banning women’s political activity: Collective action and female labour market outcomes in 20th-century Germany

Iris Wohnsiedler (Trinity College Dublin)

21.Like father Like son? Intergenerational immobility in England, 1851-1911

Ziming Zhu (London School of Economics)

Academic Session III 学术讨论分为7个议题

ASIIIA: Demography and Gender

(chair: Eric Schneider) (Ramphal 0.12)

1.Death or marriage? Epidemic-induced redistribution of, and access to, land in a 17th-century rural community

Daniel Curtis & Bram van Besouw (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

2.Conflict and gender norms: Evidence from India

Bishnupriya Gupta, James Fenske (University of Warwick), Mark Dincecco & Anil Menon (University of Michigan)

3.Frontier history and gender norms in the United States

Joanne Haddad (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego), Abel Brodeur (University of Ottawa) & Martin Fiszbein (Boston University)

ASIIIB: Time, Space, and Work in Early Modern England

(chair: Jane Whittle) (Ramphal 0.14)

1.The working day in early modern rural England

Mark Hailwood (University of Bristol)

2.Spaces of commerce in early modern England

Hannah Robb (University of Exeter)

3.The working year: Holidays, Sundays, and work days in early modern England

Taylor Aucoin (University of Exeter)

ASIIIC: Challenges and New Directions in Teaching Economic and Social History*

(chair: Brian Varian) (Ramphal 1.03)

1.Who, why, and what for? Teaching economic and social history in a time of crisis

Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford)

2.Economic life as cultural history

Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)

3.Big business and management in Britain

John Wilson (Northumbria University)

*Session linked to the publication of the 3rd edition of 20th Century Britain

ASIIID: Macroeconomic History

(chair: Jason Lennard) (Ramphal 1.04)

1.Monetary and fiscal policy in interwar Britain

David Ronicle (Bank of England)

2.European agriculture and the Great Depression: New evidence from farm accountancy data

Marina Chuchko (University of Vienna)

3.‘Muddling through or tunnelling through?’ UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism during the Great Inflation

Ryland Thomas, Oliver Bush (Bank of England) & Michael Bordo (Rutgers University)

ASIIIE: State Capacity

(chair: Stephen Broadberry) (Ramphal 1.13)

1.Designing heaven’s will: The job assignment in the Chinese Imperial Civil Service

Li Chen (University of Gothenburg) & Inácio Bó (Southwestern University of Finance & Economics)

2.Incredible commitment: Oligarchy and state failure in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Mikolaj Malinowski (Groningen University)

3.Justices of the Peace: Legal foundations of the Industrial Revolution

Daniel Bogart (University of California, Irvine), Nuno Palma (University of Manchester), Jonathan Chapman (University of Bologna) & Tim Besley (London School of Economics)

ASIIIF: Slavery

(chair: ) (Ramphal 1.15)

1.Claiming a right, buying freedom: Manumission in the Cape Colony, 1825-34

Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch University)

4.London agents and the collection of slavery compensation, 1835-43

Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield) & Mike Anson (Bank of England)

5.‘Slaverie’ before slavery: An Acte for the Punishment of Vagabondes, 1547

Judith Spicksley (University of Hull)

6.ASIIIG: Barriers to Entry and Segregation

(chair: ) (Ramphal 2.41)

7.The effects of censorship on early mass media: A cliometric approach to the American comics industry, 1895-1969

E. André Lhuillier (Harrisburg University)

8.How Hollywood survived: Sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1948-2018

Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics)

9.Prisons and homophobia

Michael Poyker (University of Nottingham) & Maxim Ananyev (University of Melbourne)

Academic Session IV (7 parallel sessions)

ASIVA: Fertility Transition

(chair: Gabriele Cappelli) (Ramphal 0.12)

1.Financial development and fertility: A test of the old-age support hypothesis in pre-famine Ireland

Áine Doran (Ulster University)

2.Women’s education and fertility in Italy at the onset of the demographic transition

Gianni Marciante (University of Warwick) & Carlo Ciccarelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

3.Railways and the European fertility transition

Carlo Ciccarelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata), James Fenske (University of Warwick) & Jordi Martí Henneberg (University of Lleida)

ASIVB: Inequality over the Long Run

(chair: ) (Ramphal 0.14)

1.Poverty and fiscal extraction in early modern Germany

Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford), Guido Alfani (Bocconi University) & Felix Schaff (European University Institute)

2.Inequality under serfdom: Income and its distribution in early 19th-century Russia

Elena Korchmina (University of Southern Denmark) & Mikolaj Malinowski (Groningen University)

3.Did the rich get richer? Evidence from the Parisian Estates, 1882-1927

Amaury de Vicq (University of Groningen & Paris School of Economics) & Angelo Riva (European Business School & Paris School of Economics)

ASIVC: Colonialism and Institutions

(chair: ) (Ramphal 1.03)

1.Determining the history of the Great Divergence in the Ottoman Empire

Tamer Güven (Utrecht University)

2.Pueblos de Indios c.1800 and municipal development in Mexico

Luz Arias (CIDE)

3.The economic impact of the Haitian Revolution, 1789-1837

Aaron Graham (University College London)

ASIVD: International Banks

(chair: ) (Ramphal 1.04)

1.Foreign banks and the European capital market during the first globalization

Wilfried Kisling (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) & Marco Molteni (University of Oxford)

2.International banks and London connections during the 1907 crisis: An empirical analysis

Marco Molteni (University of Oxford), Wilfried Kisling (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) & Sebastián Alvarez (Graduate Institute Geneva)

3.Juggling between economic and politic crises: The Argentine banking system in the interwar period, 1926-34

Sebastián Alvarez (Graduate Institute Geneva) & Gianandrea Nodari (University of Geneva)

ASIVE: Economic Growth in Italy

(chair: Tancredi Buscemi) (Ramphal 1.13)

1.Land inequality and long-run growth: Evidence from Italy

Pablo Martinelli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) & Dario Pellegrino (Bank of Italy)

2.Collective bargaining and internal migration: The effect of regional wage equalization in Italy after 1969

Andrea Ramazzotti (London School of Economics)

3.The Socialist experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the effect of labour-managed socialism on economic development

Magnus Neubert (IAMO Halle & Halle-Wittenberg)

ASIVF: Agricultural History

(chair: Spike Gibbs) (Ramphal 1.15)

1.What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage? Evidence from Kent, 1600-1750

Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol) & Liam Brunt (Norwegian School of Economics)

2.Binding poor children by the acre: The origins and economic logic of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in southwest England, c.1670-1750

James Fisher (University of Exeter)

3.Capitalism, commercialisation, and cooperatives in the ‘global countryside’, 1900-70

Nikolay Kamenov (University of Basel)

ASIVG: Health

(chair: Melanie Meng Xue) (Ramphal 2.41)

1.Prosperity, or pollution? Mineral mining and regional growth in industrialising Japan

Kota Ogasawara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

2.Selective mortality and height: How strong was survival bias in the past?

Eric Schneider (London School of Economics)

3.Inheritance customs, the European marriage pattern and female empowerment

Matthew Curtis, Paula Gobbi, Joanne Haddad (Université Libre de Bruxelles) & Marc Goñi (University of Bergen)

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