2025 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The Economic History Association and President Paul Rhode would like to thank the following for making the 2025 meeting a success:
Program Committee—Hoyt Bleakley (Chair), Shari Eli, Debin Ma1, Eric Monnett, Marlous Van Waijenburg
Local Arrangements Committee—Daniel Raff (Chair), Allison Shertzer, David Mitch, Warren Whatley
Dissertation Prize Committee—Vincent Geloso (Gerschenkron Chair), John Parman (Nevins Chair), Leigh Gardner, Joshua Hausman
The EHA Board of Trustees
Mike Haupert, Executive Director
Taylor Land, Administrative Coordinator
Jeremy Land, Meetings Coordinator
Adam Grimshaw, Conference Assistant
Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Conference Assistant
University of Pennsylvania History Department
Wharton School of Business
University of Michigan
Mike Cerneant and Finaeon
Helena Schöb and De Gruyter Brill
Susan Wolcott, Mary Rodgers, and Caroline Fohlin
Laurie Mirman and Site Services
Mary Averill and Audrey Ferrante
Elyce Rotella, Maria Stanfors, Leah Boustan, and Price Fishback
Claudia Goldin
Eric Hilt
Ellan Spero and Amanda Gregg
Andy Ferrara and Kara Dimitruk
We also thank the dissertation conveners, session chairs, and discussants:
Guido Alfani, University of Bocconi
Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York
Devin Bissky Dziadyk, University of Toronto
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
Michael Briskin, Boston University
Joy Chen, Renmin University of China
Geoff Clarke, Brandeis University
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University
Dora Costa, UCLA
Jamein Cunningham, University of Texas
Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, University of Utah
Alan Dye, Barnard College
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University
Pei Gao, National University of Singapore
Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics
Vincent Geloso, George Mason University
Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College
Anne Hanley, Northern Illinois University
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University
Joshua Hausman, University of Michigan
Thomas Helgerman, University of Minnesota
Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago
Aparna Howlader, Chatham University
Matt Jaremski, Utah State University
Mark Koyama, George Mason University
Jean Lacroix, Paris-Saclay University
Sophie Li, University of Southern Denmark
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Elijah Locke, Northwestern University
Matthew Lowenstein, Stanford University
Stephen Luck, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin
Chicheng Ma, University of Hong Kong
Debin Ma, Tsinghua University
Brian Marein, University of Toronto
Tamri Matiashvili, Stanford University
Mike Mei, Colgate University
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Eric Monnet, Paris School of Economics
Steve Nafziger, Williams College
Peter Nencka, Miami University
Nuno Palma, University of Manchester
John Parman, College of William and Mary
Alexander Persaud, Richmond University
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University
Ahmed Rahman, Lehigh University
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Lukas Rosenberger, Ludwig Maximilians Universität-Munich
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Elyce Rotella, University of Michigan
Jared Rubin, Chapman University
Mariya Sakharova, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics
Ethan Schmick, Marquette University
Carole Shammas, University of Southern California
Allison Shertzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Maria Stanfors, Lund University
Brian Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Melissa Thomasson, Miami University
Lillian Trotter, Wofford College
Itzchak Tzachi Raz, Hebrew University
Gertjan Verdickt, University of Auckland
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh
Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto
Wenbing Wu, University of Melbourne
Weiwen Yin, University of Macao
Jingwen Zheng, George Washington University
Nicolas Ziebarth, University of Missouri
2026 MEETING OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION 18–20 SEPTEMBER 2026
The eighty-sixth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in St. Louis, Missouri on 18–20 September 2026. The theme of the meeting is “Structure and Change in Economic History.” The papers chosen are as follows.
SESSION 1: CULTURE AND KNOWLEDGE
Alexander Taylor, University of Evansville, and Jacob Hall, The Ohio State University, “The King’s French: The Political Economy of Language”
Chicheng Ma, University of Hong Kong, and Maoran Lin, University of Hong Kong, “Distance to Bacon: The Search for the Culture of Growth in Historical China”
Pablo Zarate, University of Mannheim, ZEW Mannheim, “Migration, Diffusion of Ideas and the Rise of the American Labor Movement: Evidence from the American Civil War”
SESSION 2: INSTITUTIONS AND BELIEFS
Matthias Weigand, Harvard University, Cathrin Mohr, Kiel Institute and the University of Hamburg, and Davide Cantoni, LMU Munich, “Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700–1850”
Neil Cummins, London School of Economics, and Aurelius Noble, Transkribus, “Quantifying Belief in God. The Long Run Decline of Sincere Faith in England 1300–1850”
Yifan Zhang, Northwestern University, “The Transmission of Son Preference”
SESSION 3: FINANCE AND CULTURE
Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat, London School of Economics, “Painted Lemons: Evidence from the Art Market on the Importance of Credibility for Information”
James (Landin) Smith, University of Mississippi, and Daria Bakhareva, University of Mississippi, “Credit Without Color Lines: Chinese Grocers and Black Migration in the Mississippi Delta”
Riccardo Di Cato, University of California, San Diego, and Jiachen Li, Renmin University of China, “Seeds of Market-Based Capitalism: Christian Missionaries and China’s Modernization”
SESSION 4: SLAVERY AND LAND REFORM
Karine van der Beek, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tomer Ifergane, Tel Aviv University and LSE, Walker Ray, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, LSE, and CEPR, and Lior Farbman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and The Bank of Israel, “Land Reforms in Developing Financial Markets: Lessons from England’s Land Enclosures 1750–1830”
Tim Kooijmans, National Taiwan University, Abe de Jong, University of Groningen, and Peter Koudijs, New York University, “Finance and the Slave Trade”
Adam Tucker, University of Maryland College Park, “Land of the Free or Home of the Enslaved? Slavery, Institutions, and Wealth Transmission in Colonial Maryland”
SESSION 5: FIRMS AND INNOVATION
Cihan Artunç, Middlebury College, and Seven Agir, Middle East Technical University, “Same Old Business: Legal Forms and Firm Dynamics of Entry, Exit, and Reorganization”
Ashley Wong, Columbia University, Andrew T. Hendrickson, Tilburg University, and Francesca Truffa, University of Michigan, “The Diversity Paradox: Evidence from College Coeducation”
Marvin Suesse, Trinity College Dublin, and Elena Korchmina, University of Bologna, “Minorities and Industrialisation: Evidence from the Russian Empire”
SESSION 6: HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Matthew Curtis, University of Southern Denmark, and Vincent Geloso, George Mason University, “Canadian Evidence on the American Antebellum Puzzle”
Molly Ball, University of Rochester, “Beyond GDP per Capita and Fertility in São Paulo, Brazil: Birth Outcomes in the Hospital Maternidade, 1915–1970”
Shizhuo Wang, New York University, “Screwworms”
SESSION 7: HUMAN CAPITAL
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder, Carl Kitchens, Florida State University, and Luke Rodgers, Florida State University, “Human Capital Decisions in Resource Booms”
Daniela Vidart, University of Connecticut, “Learning by Mail: The Impact of Correspondence Schools in Early 20th Century America”
Fernanda Rojas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gabriel Cruz, University of Maryland, “My Mother Was a Suffragette: The Intergenerational Effects of Women’s Right to Vote”
SESSION 8: IDEOLOGY AND STATE CAPACITY
Eric Robertson, University of Virginia, “Economic Ideas and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Malthusian Training in British Indian Bureaucracy”
Gerda Asmus-Bluhm, University of Hohenheim, Marvin Suesse, Trinity College Dublin, Andrei Markevich, University of Helsinki, and Julia Zimmermann, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, “Institutional Reform and Revolutionary Mobilization: Evidence from Late Imperial Russia”
Kexin Feng, Yale University, and Elizaveta Brover, Yale University, “Rise of the Red: Ideology and Dissent in Early Republican China”
SESSION 9: IMMIGRATION
Hannah Postel, Duke University, and David Escamilla-Guerrero, University of Saint Andrews, “The Impact of Immigration Restrictions on Third-Country Economies: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act”
Sergio Eduardo Lopez Araiza Bejar, Northwestern University, “Overnight Americans: Economic Assimilation of Mexican Crossed by the Border”
Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez, Yale University, Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York, Joseph Price, Brigham Young University, and Chris Vickers, Auburn University, “From Immigrants to Emigrants: Puerto Rico in the Age of Mass Migration”
SESSION 10: INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Alonso Ahumada Paras, University of Edinburgh, “Can Protective Tariffs Induce Industrial Consolidations? Theory and Evidence from the Great Merger Movement”
Christopher Meissner, University of California, Davis, and Alexander Klein, University of Sussex, “Tariffs and Manufacturing Productivity: New Evidence from the Gilded Age”
Anne Schaller, Saint Louis University, and John Mayo, Georgetown University, “A Fresh Look at the Origins and Impetus for Antitrust”
SESSION 11: INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
Beau Bressler, University of California, Davis, “Building Segregation: The Long-Run Neighborhood Effects of American Public Housing”
Shih-Yen Pan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and John Clegg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “High Water Everywhere: Carceral Effects of the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood”
Yu Qiu, University of Pittsburgh, “Fathers in Offices, Sons in Jobs: Intergenerational Returns to Local Political Offices”
SESSION 12: INSURANCE
Andrew Sinclair, California Institute of Technology, Yaohua Li, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Sicheng Zhao, Tsinghua University, “Confucian Clans as Financial Intermediaries: Why Insurance Thrived but Banking Lagged in China”
Pawel Janas, California Institute of Technology, “Mobilization Savings, Shaping Regions: The Financial Geography of U.S. Life Insurance”
Mallory Hope, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Guillaume Wegmueller, California Institute of Technology, “Two Shores, One Market? A Test of Insurance Market Integration between Britain and France, 1769–1771”
SESSION 13: RACE AND INEQUALITY
John Clegg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Michael Weaver, The University of British Columbia, “Counterfactual Reparations: The Effects of Federal Wealth Transfers to Black Sailors during the Reconstruction Era”
Taylan Alpkaya, University of Mannheim, “Legacy of Servitude”
Richard Bluhm, University of Stuttgart, CESifo, Luca Perdoni, ifo Institute, LMU Munich, and Julian Wichert, Leibniz University Hannover, “Rethinking Redlining: Environmental Inequality within and between U.S. Neighborhoods”
SESSION 14: LABOR MARKETS
Amy Cross, University of Alaska, Anchorage, “Which Men Didn’t Go ‘Over There’?: WWI Dependency Deferments and Women’s Labor Force Participation”
Huixin Bi, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Nora Traum, HEC Montreal, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Greg Woodward, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, “Worker and Firm Search in the Labor Market: Evidence from Classified Advertisements”
Yicheng Chen, Boston University, “The G.I. Bill Beyond College: Credit, Training, and the Rise of Veteran Farmers”
SESSION 15: MIGRATION
Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School, James Fenske, University of Warwick, and Yannick Dupraz, French National Center for Scientific Research, “A Century of Language Barriers to Migration in India”
Steven Smith, Colorado School of Mines, Eric Alston, University of Colorado, Bryan Leonard, University of Wyoming, and Joseph Price, Brigham Young University, “Ownership in the Land of Opportunity: Land Rights and Economic Mobility in American History”
Yi-Ju Hung, National Chung Cheng University, and Jack Chapel, University of Southern California, “The Great Migration and Southern Inequality”
SESSION 16: POLITICAL ECONOMY
Giacomo Domini, Utrecht University, Mario Daniele Amore, Bocconi University, and Samuele Murtinu, Utrecht University, “Radical Political Ideology and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Twentieth-Century Italy”
John Zhang, London School of Economics, “Welfare Retrenchment and Social Unrest”
Netanel Ben Porath, Northwestern University (visiting MIT), “Democratizing Education? Schooling as an Elite Strategy in Times of Reform”
SESSION 17: PUBLIC HEALTH
Martin Saavedra, Rutgers University, “Legislating Longevity: State Public Health Laws and Mortality in the Early Twentieth Century”
Tamar Matiashvili, Stanford University, “Talent, Trust, and Health: The Effects of the First Female Physicians”
Chris de Mena, University of California, Davis, “Relative Responsibility: Compulsory Support of Elderly Parents”
SESSION 18: TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
Mark Hup, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Pim de Zwart, Wageningen University, “International Trade, Commodity Production and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia”
Leigh Gardner, London School of Economics, “From the Outside In: Imperial Preference and American Trade with Colonial Africa”
Peiyuan Li, Duke Kunshan University, and Kang Zhou, Zhejiang University, “Nixon’s Visit to China: Technology Transfer, Fertilizer Plants, and Development in Pre-Reform China”
SESSION 19: UNIONS
Harrison Chang, University of Toronto Economics Department, “Economic Depression and Labor Union Formation: Evidence from the Panic of 1873”
Miriam Venturini, University of California, Riverside, “The Imperfect Union: Labor Racketeering, Corruption Exposure, and Its Consequences”
Po-Shyan Wu, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Assault on the Low-Wage Economy: Federal Wage-Hour Law and Southern Industrial Development”
SESSION 20: CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT
Gabriel Leon-Ablan, King’s College London, “Slave Revolts and Emancipation: Evidence from the British Empire”
Kaiqi Liu, Maastricht University, and Hannes Rusch, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, “Slave Raiding”
Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore, “When Peace Made the State: State Capacity in Song China”
