Location: Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place Friday, October 13 Lunch and Registration at Clay Restaurant at the Gardiner Museum, 111 Queens Park, 3rd Floor 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Break and Walk to Munk School 1:00 pm – 1:30 pmSession 1: Infrastructure and Politics in the United States 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Jeff Chan (Wilfrid Laurier) The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Port 1870-1900 Tianyi Wang (University of Toronto) and Hui Ren Tan (NUS) McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from the Hollywood Blacklist Joshua Lewis (Université de Montréal) and Edson Severnini (Carnegie Mellon University) Coal and the Composition of Workers in U.S. Cities
Break 3:00 pm – 3:15 pmSession 2: Race and Discrimination in the United States 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm David Rosé (Wilfrid Laurier University), Maggie Jones (Emory), Trevon Logan (Ohio State) and Lisa Cook (Michigan State University) Black-Friendly Businesses in Cities during the Civil Rights Era Purnoor Tak (London Business School) and Claire Célérier (University of Toronto) Finance, Advertising and Fraud: The Rise and Fall of the Freedman's Savings Bank Pablo A. Valenzuela Casasempere (University of British Columbia) Highway Site Selection and Race: Evidence from the US Interstate Highway System
Break 4:45 pm – 5:00 pmMary MacKinnon Memorial Lecture 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Introduction by Shari Eli (Toronto) Suresh Naidu (Columbia) Title: The Great North American Union Divergence: New Evidence from Survey Data
Graduate Student Dinner - Piano Piano Restaurant (88 Harbord Street) 8:00 pm - 9:30pm Graduate Students only
Saturday, October 14 Breakfast/Coffee 8:30 am – 9:00 amSession 3: The Indigenous Peoples 9:00 am – 10:30 am Casey Pender (Carleton University) The Potlatch as Memory Maggie Jones (Emory University), Donn Feir (Victoria) and Angela Redish (UBC) Indigenous Wealth in the Early 20th Century Rob Gillezeau (University of Toronto), David Cuberes (Clark), Donn Feir (Victoria), Motohiro Kumagai (Brown) and Sadia Mansoor (Clark) The Effect of Horse Adoption on Native American Nations
Break 10:30 am – 10:45 amSession 4: Health and Social Welfare Programs 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Shari Eli (University of Toronto), Price Fishback (Arizona), Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) and James Uguccioni (Mercer Group) The Emergence of the Modern Welfare System: Evidence from the Mothers' Pension Program Livio Di Matteo (Lakehead University) The Cliometrics of Long-Term Health Spending, 1900 to 2020 Michael Huberman (Université de Montréal), Michael Hödl (Universitat Wien) and Mario Holzner (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) There Goes the Neighborhood: The Contrary Example of Social Housing in Red Vienna, 1923-1933
Lunch 12:15 pm – 1:30 pmSession 5: Longitudinal Data 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Fraser Summerfield (St. Francis Xavier University), Luiza Antoine (Guelph), Kris Inwood (Guelph), Chris Minns (London School of Economics) and Tianning Zhu (London School of Economics) A New Longitudinal Dataset of Canadian Women, 1871-1901: Preliminary Findings Sam Il Myoung Hwang (UBC), Deaglan Jakob, and Munir Squires (UBC) Health effects of cousin marriage: Evidence from U.S. genealogical records Ian Keay (Queen’s University) and Daniel Teeter (Queen’s University) Immigrant Assimilation in Canada, 1901-1921: A Panel Data Approach
Break 3:00 pm – 3:15 pmSession 6: Fertility Declines 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Andriana Bellou (Université de Montréal), Emauela Cardia (Université de Montréal) and Joshua Lewis (Université de Montréal) From Boom to Bust: The Great Depression and Women's Fertility Victor Gay (University of Toulouse), Paula E. Gobbi (ULB) and Marc Goñi (Bergen) Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline
Break 4:15 pm – 4:45 pmKeynote Speaker 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon) Title: Medical School Closures, Market Adjustment, and Mortality in the Flexner Report Era
Reception and Dinner Starting at 6:30 pm Oxley Public House, 121 Yorkville Avenue.
Sunday, October 15 Breakfast/Coffee 8:30 am – 9:00 am Business Meeting 9:00 am – 9:30 amSession 7: Market Power, Workers, and Institutions 9:30 am – 11:00 am Louis Henderson (University of Oxford) The Political Economy of Social Immobility and Occupational Entitlements in Industrialising Coventry, c. 1790-1850 Lukas Leucht (UC Berkeley), Davis Kedrosky (UC Berkeley) and Chiara Motta (UC Berkeley) Market Structure and Competition for Indigenous Labor Jamal Dillman-Hasso (University of Michigan) The Charter of the Land
Break 11:00 am – 11:15 amSession 8: Europe 11:15 am – 12:15 am Alyssa Rusonik (HEC Paris) Rebuilding the Future: The Economic Origins of Renaissance Rome Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia) and David González Agudo (Universitat de València) Castilian Wages and Living Standards in the Long Run: Toledo 1517-1800
Thanks and Concluding Remarks 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm