Time: Wednesdays 1-2pm
Venue
- Weeks 1-5: PAR. LG.03
- Weeks 6-7: KSW 1.01
Spring Term 2024
1 May
- Ruoran Cheng (LSE)
- Location Fundamental and Institutional Settings: Type of Routes and Location of Cities in Past Two Millenniums China
8 May
- Sheila Pugh (LSE)
- What worked? Water supply in mid-nineteenth century English towns
15 May
- Daniel Lowery (Harvard)
- Pre-Modern Succession and Modern Success: the Institutional Foundations of Stability and Development
22 May
- Eric Nicholas Robertson (UVA)
- Malthusian Population Theory and Famine Policy in British India
29 May
5 June
- Etienne Bacher (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
- Migrants' voices
12 June
- Matthew Purcell (LSE)
- Disparity in the golden age of medicine: The Hill-Burton Act and fetal and infant health in the US South
4 October
- Zane Jennings (LSE)
- EIC bonds and the Company’s financial transition to a permanent stock, 1665-1675
11 October
- Jens Boberg (University of Gothenburg)
- The Politics of Growth Before GNP
18 October
- Julius Koschnick (LSE)
- Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution
25 October
- Justin Schwartz (King’s College)
- The freedom of the Common stock’: Ostrom, Diggers, and the Management of Common Pool Resources in the 17thCentury
8 November
- Charles Smith (LSE)
- The Great Rotation: Safe Assets Gone Bad
15 November
- Yuchen Lin (University of Warwick)
- Coeducation, Female Human Capital Accumulation, and the Evolution of Gender Norms
22 November
- Eoin Dignam (LSE)
- The Demographic Transition and Adaptation to Climate Change in 19th Century France
29 November
- Lukas Diebold (University of Mannheim)
- Golden Fetters or Credit Boom Gone Bust? A Reassessment of Capital Flows in the Interwar Period
6 December
- Aurelius Noble (LSE)
- The Persistence of Aristocratic Wealth: Institutional Measures, Family Measures and Social Mobility, 1858-1907
Winter Term 2024
17 January
- Hillary Vipond (LSE)
- Grandfathered Out: Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain (Job Market Paper)
24 January
- Ruoran Cheng (LSE)
- Trade Potential and the Distribution of economic activities: From Neolithic Villages to the Unified Empire (7000BP - 2000BP)
31 January
- Ziming Zhu (LSE)
- Grim Up North? Regional Variations in Intergenerational Mobility in England, 1881-1911.
07 February
- Mitchell William Harvey (Stanford)
- Opportunists or Patriots? Financial Coalitions and the Ceding of Scottish Autonomy
14 February
- Víctor Pérez-Sánchez (LSE)
- Follow Castile! Managing silver monetary policy in early-modern Europe
28 February
- Louis Henderson (Oxford)
- Innocence and experience: early childhood education as an externality in late eighteenth-century London
06 March
- Nick Fitzhenry (LSE)
- Mortality in the Century of Apartheid, 1924-1958: Data Quality & Evidence from Large Cities
13 March
- Isabel Hincapie Correa (Berkeley)
- Development Traps and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from the Panama Canal
20 March
- Nick Peyton (LSE)
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Pilgrimage of Grace
27 March
- Yifan Zhang (Toulouse)
- The Persistence of Son Preference: Cultural Transmission of Chinese Migrants in Taiwan