Yale Economic History Graduate Student Conference
A conference sponsored by the Yale University Program in Economic History
Conference organizers: Gavin Wright (Stanford) and Will Damron (Yale).
This conference features presentations by PhD students working on various topics in economic history.
To limit the size of the conference and encourage discussion, participation is by invitation only, and we will expect all participants to have read all of the papers in advance. Contact Will Damron if you are not presenting but would like to participate. Zoom links will be provided upon registration.
PDFs of the papers will be password-protected; we will upload papers as they arrive.
Please note all times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Yale Economic History Graduate Student Conference
Each presenter will have 10 minutes to make some remarks, which will then be followed by approximately 40 minutes of questions, comments, and discussion. As such, all attendees are expected to have read the papers. There will be no formal discussants.
Papers are password-protected. Please contact Noel Sardalla for the password.
Friday, March 25:
11:00 – 11:10am: Welcome
Session 1: Moderator: Will Damron
11:10am – 12:00pm: Lukas Althoff (Princeton University): “The Geography of Black Economic Progress After Slavery”
12:00 – 12:50pm: Alex Taylor (George Mason University): “Public Symbols and Voting Behavior: Evidence from Confederate Symbols in the Post-Reconstruction South”
12:50 – 1:50pm: Lunch Break
Session 2: Moderator: Maggie Jones
1:50 – 2:40pm: Andrew Garib (Rutgers University): “Poor Man’s Castle? Debtor Protections, Land Ownership, and Inequality in Antebellum America"
2:40 – 3:30pm: Jason Tercha (Binghamton University): “Becoming a ‘Guano Man’: Creating Antebellum Northern Virginia’s Fertilizer Market”
3:30 – 3:50pm: Break
Session 3: Moderator: Gavin Wright
3:50 – 4:40pm: Vitaliia Yaremko (University of California - Berkeley): “The Long-Term Consequences of the 1932-33 Famine: Evidence from Post-Soviet Ukraine”
Saturday, March 26:
Session 4: Moderator: Gavin Wright
11:00 – 11:50am: Thomas Storrs (University of Virginia): “Red Dawn in Greensboro: The Evolution of Home Mortgage Markets during the Interwar Period”
11:50 – 12:40pm: Will Damron (Yale University): “Electrification of the North Carolina Textile Industry: 1905-1926”
12:40 – 1:40pm: Lunch
Session 5: Moderator: Will Damron
1:40 – 2:30pm: Youn Baek (NYU Stern): “Beet sugar: an inducement mechanism for agglomeration spillover”
2:30 – 3:20pm: Jake Kantor (NYU Stern): “Flood Control and Twentieth Century US Economic Development”
3:20pm – 3:40pm: Break
Session 6: Moderator: Maggie Jones
3:40pm – 4:30pm: Jay Dhar (University of Arizona): “The Diffusion of Automobiles and Motortrucks on American Farms in the 20th Century”
4:30pm: Closing Remarks