Annual Conference 2026 – Provisional Programme
Cheng Kin Ku Building
London School of Economics
10 – 12 April 2026
Provisional Conference Programme
Friday 10 April
0900-1030 Meeting of Economic History Society Publications Committee (CKK 2.09)
1030-1330 Meeting of Economic History Society Council (CKK 2.13)
1200-1700 Registration (Ground Floor Foyer [CKK])
1400-1530 New Researchers’ Session I (9 parallel sessions)
NR1A: The Medieval Economy
(chair: Nicholas Karn) (Thai Theatre)
Currencies in Contest: Monetary Decentralization and Monetary Capacity in Song China
Zoey Ziyue Shen (London School of Economics)
Peasant Women and Property: A Hampshire Case Study, c.1300-c.1400
Emily Bolton (University of Southampton)
Risk and Value in Medieval Leases
Gregory Salter (London School of Economics)
NR1B: Natural Resource Booms and Busts
(chair: ) (CKK 1.07)
100 Years of Manufacturing: Long-term Consequences of the Indiana Gas Boom
Assaf Abraham (University of Mannheim)
From Boom to Bust: The Structural Transformation of Chile After the Nitrate Collapse
Alejandra Rodríguez-Morales (University of Lucerne)
In the Midst of Chaos, There is Also Opportunity: Directed Technical Change in German Engineering Under Oil Scarcity during WWII
Jil Brauner (Humboldt University Berlin)
NR1C: International Migration in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(chair: Eric Strobl) (Alumni Theatre)
How Does Land Privatisation Affect Migration? Evidence from Galicia During the Age of Mass Migration
Ángel Muñiz-Mejuto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Greener on the Other Side? The Motivations for Chinese Migration into the Shanghai International Settlement, 1853–1943
Qingrou Zhao (University of Edinburgh)
Bushfire, Human Mobility and the Role of Agricultural Linkages: Evidence from Southeastern Australia, 1917–87
Costanza Maria Fileccia & Julia Schlosser (University of Bern)
NR1D: Working Conditions
(chair: John Turner) (CKK 1.04)
Asymmetric Shocks in Preindustrial Labour Markets: Evidence from the 1630–1631 Plague in Venice
Alessandro Brioschi (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Organization of Individual Workers’ Working Time in a Preindustrial Ironworks, 1765–94
Mikel Navarro-Satrustegui (University of the Basque Country)
“La Salute non si vende”: Workplace Deaths in Italian Post-War Industry, a Provincial Analysis, 1951–91
Edoardo Rappa (University of Siena)
NR1E: Latin America
(chair: Andrew Primmer) (CKK 1.15)
Regional Variation in the Provision of Primary Education in Chile between 1850 and 1925: Territorial Expansion and State-Building
Orr Yoeli-Rimmer (Universitat de Barcelona)
(Un-)Persistent Conflict? The Effects of First Globalization Coffee Boom in Colombia
Daniel Sanchez (Paris School of Economics)
Distributive Conflict, Economic Policy, and Macroeconomic Volatility in Argentina, 1890–2020
Ana Laura Catélen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)
NR1F: Welfare and Living Standards
(chair: Jennifer Aston) (Wolfson Theatre)
Welfare Retrenchment and Social Unrest
John Zhang (London School of Economics)
The Standard of Living of Female Offenders in Durham, Newcastle and County of York, 1853–88
Kerri Armstrong (Northumbria University)
From Pensions to Pupils? Schooling, Resource Constraints and Old Age Pensions in Ireland, 1901–11
Tiarnán Heaney (Queen’s University Belfast)
NR1G: Russian/Soviet Empires in the Twentieth Century
(chair:) (CKK 2.14)
Nomadic Pastoralism, Colonization and Conflict: Evidence from Central Asia, 1868–1916
Pavel Bacherikov (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Hard Budgets, Harsh Measures: Shadow Banking and State Terror in Stalinist Finance, 1928–40
Alex Royt (University of Pennsylvania)
Picking Winners? Trade and Investment Policy in Cold War Eastern Europe
Marco Cokic (London School of Economics)
NR1H: Social and Religious Identities
(chair: Tommy Murphy) (CKK 2.06)
Getting Religion: Identity Formation in the Protestant Reformation
Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich)
Education, Language, and Identity: Evidence from Nation-Building in Northern Sweden
Alexandra Sandström (Uppsala University)
Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools
Cyril Thomson (University of Bologna)
NR1I: Financial Crises in the Early Twentieth Century
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
The Political Consequences of Financial Crisis: Evidence from Early 20th-Century China
Wanda Wang (University of Hong Kong)
Panic, Gold, and Market Relief: Evidence from Narrative SVARs, 1890–1927
Justin Raymond Eloriaga (Emory University)
Correspondent Banking and Institutional Adaptation: Evidence from Banca Commerciale Italiana’s New York Branch, 1921–41
Federico Castelli (Sciences Po Toulouse)
1530-1600 Tea (Mezzanine/Lower Ground Floor Foyer)
1600-1730 New Researchers’ Session 2 (9 parallel sessions)
NR2A: Early Modern Money
(chair: Julie Marfany) (Thai Theatre)
Monetary Shock and Fiscal Reform: Evidence from Late Ming China
Jiongyi Xue (University of Hong Kong)
Who Needs Money? Varying Levels of Monetisation across 17th-Century England and Wales
Laura Burnett (Exeter University)
Early Modern Trade Payments: Shackled by Specie or Set Free by the Pen?
David Gagie (University of York)
NR2B: Encouraging Industrialisation
(chair: Stephen Broadberry) (CKK 1.07)
Leapfrogging or Path Dependence? Water Mills and Long-Run Growth in the Scottish Industrial Revolution
Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast)
Can Protective Tariffs Induce Industrial Consolidations? Theory and Evidence from the Great Merger Movement
Alonso Ahumada (University of Edinburgh)
The Comparative Advantage That Didn’t Shift: An Anglo-Indian Cotton Textile Comparison, 1860–1940
Alex Nagar (University of Oxford)
NR2C: Migration and Expansion in the US
(chair:) (Alumni Theatre)
Migration, Diffusion of Ideas and the Rise of the American Labor Movement: Evidence from the American Civil War
Pablo Zarate (University of Mannheim & ZEW Mannheim)
The Social Consequences of Technological Change: Evidence from US Electrification and Immigrant Labour
Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia)
Annexation and the Making of the Sunbelt
Kaan Cankat (Princeton University)
NR2D: Extracting Resources
(chair:) (CKK 1.04)
How Much Can Elites Extract? Subsistence Constraints and the Long-Run Evolution of Top Incomes, 1700–2020
Andrés Irarrázaval Garcia Huidobro (London School of Economics)
Understanding Local Economic Effects of Resource Extraction: The Importance of Linkages
Ann-Kristin Becker (University of Cologne)
Electricity and the Geography of Industrial Development in a Latecomer Country: Italy, 1901–21
Andrea Xamo (Università degli Studi di Verona)
NR2E: Knowledge and Financial Transfers in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Asia
(chair: Janet Hunter) (CKK 1.15)
From Customs to Firms: Employees of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service and Entrepreneurship
Yanran Li (Peking University)
Becoming Asia’s First Industrial Nation: The Absorption of Foreign Manufacturing Knowledge in Japan, 1900–37
Tom Learmouth (London School of Economics)
The Money Wormhole: Hong Kong and the Yen Bloc During the Pacific War
Tsz Ho Wong (University of Edinburgh)
NR2F: Managing Family and Wealth
(chair: Yakup Akkuş) (Wolfson Theatre)
Circumventing Inheritance Law, Mitigating Confiscation: Waqf Strategies of Provincial Elites in Ottoman Anatolia, 1750–1826
Bekir Emre Aşkin (Atatürk University)
Work, Marriage, and Motherhood in Derbyshire: Analysing Women’s Employment and Fertility Histories Using Split-Population Models
Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge)
Wealth Accumulation in World War II, Paris
Pierre Brassac (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid &World Inequality Lab)
NR2G: Assessing Colonial Legacies
(chair: Dácil Juif) (CKK 2.14)
The Legacy of Rubber: Long-Term Effects of Colonial Experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Adrià Mateu-Romero (University of Mannheim)
Quantifying Colonial Injustice: An Economic Approach to Reparations Using Counterfactuals
Leo Dolan (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Peter Gibbon (Independent Scholar) & Sam Jones (University of Copenhagen)
The Barrier-Breaking Iron Tracks of Growth: Geographical Segregation, Misallocation, and Productivity in Apartheid South Africa
Timothy Ngalande (Stellenbosch University)
NR2H: British Local Government and Regulation in the Nineteenth Century
(chair: Sara Horrell) (CKK 2.06)
Taming Mighty Wildernesses: Housing Reform and Neighbourhood Change in Manchester, 1851–1901
Emily Chung (University of Cambridge)
Town Councils and their Local Water Company: Co-Operation, Conflict and Motives for Municipalisation
Sheila Pugh (London School of Economics)
Trade and Health Externalities: Live Animal Imports in 19th-Century Britain
Grant Goehring (Boston University)
NR2I: Economic Theory and Thought
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
Media Influences in the New Culture Movement: The Impact of Lady’s Journal on the Formation of Female Professionals in China
Ningning Ma (Jinan University) & Meng Liu (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)
Establishment and Differentiation: Alvøen’s Network of Materials, 1871–81
Anders Fylling (University of Bergen)
The Technological Possibilities Frontier and Economic Shrinking
Anthony Smythe (Stockholm University)
1730-1830 Open meeting for women in economic history (all welcome) (Wolfson Theatre)
1730-1830 Council reception for NRs and 1st-time delegates (tbc)
1830-1915 Plenary lecture (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
Aaron Reeves (London School of Economics)
1930-2300 Reception & Dinner
(The View, Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn Fields) delegates must pre-book at registration
Saturday 11 April
0900-1030 Academic Session 1 (10 parallel sessions)
AS1A: EHS Centenary Session 1: The History of the Society
(chair: Judy Stephenson) (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
The Foundation and Early Years of the Economic History Society, 1926-65
Maxine Berg (University of Warwick)
“Whatever Happened to Social History?” Social History in the Work of the Economic History Society, 1926-2026
Richard Trainor (University of Oxford)
Living with the Econ: Economic History in Britain and the Economic History Society, since 1969
Pat Hudson (Cardiff University)
One Century of Economic History
Thales Zamberlan Pereira (São Paulo School of Economics) & Lúcia Centurião (FGV)
AS1B: Trade Trends from the Nineteenth Century to Today
(chair:) (CKK 1.07)
Suez
David Jacks (National University of Singapore), Chris Meissner (UC Davis) & Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin)
Margins of Trade in the Long Run: Italy, 1880–2022
David Chilosi (King’s College London), Giovanni Federico (NYUAD) & Andrea Incerpi (Capgemini)
Africa Declining and Rising and the Global Commodity Cycle
Rebecca Simson (University of Oxford)
AS1C: Improving Health and Living Standards in Italy
(chair:) (CKK 1.04)
A Golden Age for All? Income Inequality and Social Classes in Italy, 1951–73
Giacomo Gabbuti (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) & Edoardo Rappa (University of Siena)
Cultivating the Disaster: Latifundia, Natural Hazards and Infectious Diseases in Pre-Industrial Sicily
Tancredi Buscemi (LUMSA University) & Vania Licio (University of Cagliari)
From Fields to Factories: Malaria Eradication and Structural Transformation in Post-War Italy
Vitantonio Mariella (University of Southern Denmark), Paolo Buonanno, Giampaolo Lecce & Laura Ogliari (University of Bergamo)
AS1D: Money and Markets in the Middle Ages
(chair: Phillipp Schofield) (Thai Theatre)
Money, Commercialisation and Plague in Early Medieval England
Rory Naismith (University of Cambridge)
‘Receiving Against the Assize’: Migrants, Labourers and Sub-Tenants in an English Village, 1302–49
Christopher Briggs (University of Cambridge)
The Geography of Commercialization: A Regional Study of Medieval English Markets
Jordan Claridge (London School of Economics) & James Davis (Queen’s University Belfast)
AS1E: Regional Perspectives on Modern Britain
(chair:) (CKK 2.14)
A New History of Deindustrialisation in England and Wales, 1921–71
James Evans (Department for Business and Trade)
Structural Change, Labour Reallocation, and Mismatch During the Great Depression
Meredith Paker (University of Oxford)
Reconstructing a Historical Time Series of UK Regional Economic Growth: New Insights into Long-Run Inequality and Industrial Change
Sandy Stewart, Graeme Roy, Sayantan Ghosal (University of Glasgow) & Niall MacKenzie (University of Strathclyde)
AS1F: International Banking Networks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(chair:) (CKK 2.06)
Agents, Sentiment and The Baring Crisis of 1890
Tehreem Husain (University of Oxford) and Michael Aldous (Queen’s University Belfast)
Foreign Banks’ Competition in Asia in the Age of Imperialism: A Network Analysis
Stefano Battilossi (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Florian Ploeckl (University of Adelaide), Youssef Ghallada (London School of Economics) & Aditi Dixit (Wageningen University)
Striving for Global Connectivity: Correspondent Banking and the Internationalisation of German Universal Banks, 1960–85
Sabine Schneider (University of Oxford)
AS1G: Varieties of Schooling
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
The Complementarity of Education and Skills in Industrializing Britain
Alexandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University), Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics) & Julius Koschnick (University of Southern Denmark)
When Women Were Better at Maths: Proto-Industry, Schools, and Numeracy in 18th-Century Germany
Esther Sahle (University of Copenhagen)
Early-life Trade Exposure, Education, and Labour Market Outcomes: Microeconomic Evidence from China’s Treaty-Port Era
Jordi Vidal-Robert, Vladimir Tyazhelnikov & Carlton Li (University of Sydney)
AS1H: War, Peace and Aid: Successes and Failures of Internationalism
(chair:) (CKK 1.15)
Peace Rules! The Impact of a Rule-Based International Order on Peace
Rui Esteves, Dominic Roehner & Francisco Eslava (Graduate Institute Geneva)
American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921–22
Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University), Volha Charnysh (MIT) & Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki & New Economic School, Moscow)
Postwar Multilateralism, Debt Restructuring and the Paris Club, 1955-58
Uziel González-Aliaga (University of Oxford)
AS1I: Degrees of Unfreedom in Labour Markets
(chair:) (Alumni Theatre)
The Shadow of Freedom: Mission Stations, Outside Options, and the Productivity of Coerced Labour in the Cape Colony
Calumet Links, Dieter Von Fintel & Lisa Martin (Stellenbosch University)
The Structure of Slavery and Serfdom in Pre-Industrial China
Christoph Hess (University of Cambridge)
From Slavery to Freedom: Labour, Technological Change, and Institutional Innovation on the Salt Islands of the British Caribbean, c.1774–1845
Kimberley Thomas (University of Leeds)
AS1J: Lifespan Inequalities
(chair:) (Wolfson Theatre)
Gender Inequality in Lifespan in Historical China, 1000–1960 CE
Sijie Hu & Zhiwu Chen (University of Hong Kong)
Outliving your Parents: Evidence from Sweden and the Netherlands over Two Centuries
Ingrid van Dijk (Lund University)
Intergenerational Mobility’s Role in the Social Gradient in Mortality: A Study of the Netherlands, 1883–2024
Kristina Thompson & Sara Wiertsema (Wageningen University)
0900-1030 Meet the Editor (by invitation only) (CKK 1.16)
1030-1100 Coffee (Mezzanine/Lower Ground Floor Foyer)
1100-1230 Academic Session 2 (10 parallel sessions)
AS2A: EHS Women’s Committee Session: Women in Economic History
(chair: Alka Raman) (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
TBC
Maxine Berg (University of Warwick)
TBC
Amy Erickson (University of Cambridge)
TBC
Pat Hudson (Cardiff University)
TBC
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
TBC
Janet Hunter (London School of Economics)
AS2B: Business Strategies in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe
(chair:) (CKK 1.07)
Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Switzerland
Dino Collalti (University of Bern)
Marking the Market: Trademark Protection and Creamery Prices in Denmark and Ireland
Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark)
Management, Strategy and Performance of Dutch Family Firms: Evidence from the 1950s
Isa Sulter & Abe de Jong (University of Groningen)
AS2C: Sanitary Interventions and Health Outcomes
(chair: ) (CKK 1.04)
Public and Private Water Provision and Health Outcomes in Industrializing Britain
Toke Aidt, Romola Davenport, Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge) & Bernard Harris (Strathclyde University)
The Impact of Sanitary Interventions on Scottish Urban Mortality Patterns, 1855−1901
Hannaliis Jaadla (University of Cambridge)
Fermentation as a Cultural Health Technology: Evidence from Meiji Japan
Vivek Nandur (University of Chicago) & Gabriel Brown (Stellenbosch University)
AS2D: Medieval State Finance
(chair:) (Thai Theatre)
Living Off Their Own? Domain-Funded Rulership and the Dispensability of Taxation in Late Medieval Tyrol
Lienhard Thaler (University of Vienna)
Revenue Allocation and Institutional Formation in Early Ottoman Bosnia
Yasin Arslantaş (Anadolu University) & Leonard Kukić (University of Vienna)
Feudal Power and the Rural Economy of Late Medieval Holland
Arie van Steensel (University of Groningen) & Rombert Stapel (International Institute of Social History)
AS2E: Religion and Growth
(chair:) (CKK 2.14)
The Spanish Legacy in the US Southwest
Francisco Eslava (IHEID) & Felipe Valencia Caicedo (Brown University)
Religion and Post-Slavery: Church Competition in Colonial Jamaica, 1828–1920
Fabio Gatti & Eric Strobl (Bern University)
Colonial Origins of African Population Growth? Evidence from Lutheran Missionary Registers in Northern Tanzania, 1890–1960
Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Utrecht University) & Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen)
AS2F: Saving and Lending in Interwar Europe
(chair:) (CKK 2.06)
Après le Déluge: Managing Balance Sheet Contraction after the First World War
Verena Gradinger (SOAS University of London & Global Climate Forum Berlin), Armin Haas (GCF), Andrei Guter-Sandu (University of Bath and GCF) & Steffen Murau (GCF, Freie Universität Berlin, Boston University)
Savings Decisions in Times of Economic and Political Crises: A Microeconomic Analysis of German Savings Accounts, 1929–45
Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer (University of Hohenheim) & Jochen Streb (University of Mannheim)
Financing the Fascist Wars: The Bank of Italy and the Consorzio per le Sovvenzioni sui Valori Industriali, 1936–43
Michele Santoro, Mario Perugini (University of Catania) & Marianna Astore (University of Insubria)
AS2G: Impacts of Education and Upskilling
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
Pioneering Pathways: Female High School Exam Graduates and Career Development in Denmark and Norway, 1875–1910
Kristin Ranestad (University of Oslo)
Escaping Adversity Through Pre-School Attendance in Early 20th-Century Sweden
Louise Cormack, Annika Elwert, Luciana Quaranta (Lund University) & Volha Lazuka (Southern Denmark University)
Female Occupational Upskilling in England and Wales in the Early 20th Century
Melanie Luhrmann, Arnaud Chevalier, Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway), Julian Costas-Fernandez (University of Surrey) & Myra Mohnen (University of Ottawa)
AS2H: Rural Politics and Productivity
(chair:) (CKK 1.15)
Inside the Property Rights Black Box: The Political Economy of the Rural Land Registry, Spain 1845–1932
Joan Roses (London School of Economics) & Juan Carmona Pidal (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Market Access, Credit and Productivity in Turkish Agriculture in the 1930s
Marvin Suesse (Trinity College Dublin) & Ulaş Karakoç (Kadir Has University)
Land Reforms and Postcolonial Redistribution of Political Power
Rowaida Moshrif (Paris School of Economics), Mohamed Saleh (London School of Economics) & Allison Spencer-Hartnett (University of Southern California)
AS2I: Labour Markets in Colonial Colonies
(chair:) (Alumni Theatre)
Sugar Plantation Abandonment in Colonial Jamaica
Eric Strobl (University of Bern) & Barry Higman (Australian National University)
Profiting from the Wage Gap: Accounting, Race, and Extraction in the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1931–39
Andrew Primmer (University of Bristol)
Long-Term Inequality in a Mining Economy: Lessons from Northern Rhodesia
Ellen Hillbom (Lund University) & Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen)
AS2J: Material Culture and Economic Change in North-West Europe, 15th-18th Centuries
(chair: Chris Briggs) (Wolfson Theatre)
Objects of Desire in the Material Renaissance: Lotteries and Consumer Cultures in the Low Countries, 15th-17th Centuries
Bruno Blondé & Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp)
Cheap Consumer Goods in London’s Custom Accounts c.1400–1560
Eliot Benbow (Institute of Historical Research), María Grove-Gordillo (Universität Bamberg), Justin Colson, Stephen Gadd (Institute of Historical Research), & Werner Scheltjens (Universität Bamberg)
Bequests in Wills as a Measure of Economic Change in England, 1540–1790
Jane Whittle (Exeter University)
1100-1230 Meet the Editor (by invitation only) (CKK 1.16)
1230-1345 Lunch (Mezzanine/Lower Ground Floor Foyer)
1230-1345 New Researcher Poster Session (Ground Floor)
Inequality in the Early Middle Ages: Distribution of Wealth and Societal Changes in Lombard Northern Italy
Francesco Azzoni (Bocconi University)
Reluctant Citizens? Conscription Evasion and the Making of State Capacity in Liberal Age Italy, 1862-1912
Nicola Fresco (University of Siena)
Social Mobility and Industrialization in Milan, 1880-1910: Exploring the Modernization Thesis
Simone Frisoni (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
New Estimates of Gender Inequality in Ancient Middle East from Chalcolithic to Iron Age: Evidence from Bioarchaeological Sources
Luyuan Guan (University of Tübingen)
Geography of Power: Electrification, Industrial Location and Labour Conflict in Italy, 1883-1911
Laura Hastings Mela (University of Siena)
Gender and Empire: Manipuri Market Women under British Colonial Rule, 1904-1940
Zuzubee Huidrom (University of Edinburgh)
Banking on the Press: Financial Advertising and Book Trade Investors in 1690s England
Can Kazan (University of Cambridge)
Conditional Sales in Late Imperial China: A Case Study of Yongtai County, Fujian, 1490-1950
Yunyufei Luo (University of Oxford)
When Wealth Wasn’t Health: Typhoid Mortality and Social Status in Late 19th-Century Ireland
Samantha Maitland (University of Auckland)
Gender and Justice: Women’s Legal Engagement in the Gold Coast Colony, 1861-1940
Giulia Martini (University of Gothenburg)
Civil Servants Pouring Pints: Government Alcohol Monopolies and Crime
Padraig McKee (Queen’s University Belfast)
Occupational Gender Segregation in Austria: Evidence from Newspaper Job Advertisements, 1850-1950
Wiltrud Mölzer (University of Graz)
Women, War and Work: Female Labour in Bavaria during the First World War
Miriam Mueller (Paris School of Economics)
Residency Requirements in Welfare Policy: Implications for Migration and Economic Mobility
Catherine O’Donnell (Boston University)
Beneath the Surface: Tracing the Historical Roots of Russia’s Resource Dependence, 1880-2022
Aleksandra Parshina (Public University of Navarre)
Environmental Shocks and Family Adjustment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl
Freya Rubel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Real Protection: Tariffs, Prices, and Policy Inertia in Peru, 1900–1940: Evidence on the Determinants of Trade Policy in a Price-Driven Tariff System
Raisa Maria Rubio Cordova (University of Gothenburg)
Altruism, Authority, and Allocation: Private Charity and Parish Relief in Early Modern England
Jingwen Shi (London School of Economics)
Skin Tone and Racial Inequality in the US
Kamelia Stavreva & Donato Onorato (Columbia University)
Grassroots Industry and Institutional Synergy: An Empirical Re-evaluation of the Economic Impact of Wartime Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement, 1938-1945
Zhen Zhang (University of Edinburgh)
1345-1515 Academic Session 3 (10 parallel sessions)
AS3A: EHS Centenary Session 2: Economic History and Policy
(chair: Chris Colvin) (discussant: Tim Leunig) (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
From Blue Book to Blueprint: Colonial Economic History and Post-Colonial Nation-building in Malaysia
Thomas E. Kingston (University of California, Berkeley)
From Economic Theory to Policy Catastrophe
Netanel Ben-Porath (Northwestern University)
Economic History, Transformative Research and Policy-making in the Basque Country: Lessons from a Long-standing Collaboration between Economists, Economic Historians and other Social Scientists
Jesús M. Valdaliso (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU), Edurne Magro & James R. Wilson (University of Deusto)
Writing Contemporary African Economic History: What Can it Bring to the Policy Discourse?
Rebecca Simson (University of Oxford)
“To kick over an idol”? – The Political Economy of British Socialism and the ‘Modernisation’ of the Labour Party, 1983-92
Finian Smyth (University of Oxford)
Bringing Financial History to Regulators and Investors
John D. Turner (Queen’s University Belfast)
AS3B: Medieval and Early Modern Retail Trade from Italy to India
(chair: Giovanni Ceccarelli) (CKK 1.07)
Geographical Typicality and Consumer Preferences in Late Medieval Tuscany: Quantitative Insights from Cheesemongers’ Account-Books, 1380–1420
Fabrizio Ansani (King’s College London)
Contested Cheese: Imported Dairy, Religious Prohibitions, and Urban Markets in Fatimid–Mamluk Egypt
Muhammad El Fiky (King’s College London)
Mughal South Asian Trade Policy – Institutional Responses to Global Trade in the 17th Century
Safya Morshed & Edmond Smith (University of Manchester)
AS3C: Tying (and Untying) the Knot: Marriage Outcomes
(chair:) (CKK 1.04)
Counting the Cost of Divorce: New Evidence from the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, 1858–1923
Jennifer Aston (Northumbria University)
Spousal Occupations in the 20th-Century Yangtze Valley
Ying Dai (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) & Jingying Wang (University of Zurich)
Financial Deregulation and Fertility Decisions: The Unintended Consequences of Banking Legislation
Lukas Diebold & Julian Soriano-Harris (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
AS3D: Money and Migration in Early Modern Spain
(chair:) (Thai Theatre)
Castilian Wages in the Long Run: Toledo, 1517–1800
Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia) & David González Agudo (University of Valencia)
Office Mania: Asset Market Bubble in 17th-Century Castile
Victor M. Gomez-Blanco (University of Alcalá) & Mauro Hernandez (UNED)
The First Numbers of the Americas
Leticia Arroyo Abad (CUNY) & José Antonio Espín-Sánchez (Yale University)
AS3E: Infrastructure and Institutions in Colonial India
(chair:) (CKK 2.14)
Transportation and Health: Evidence from Colonial India
Daniel Gallardo-Albarran (Wageningen University), Jordi Caum-Julio (University of Barcelona), Malik Altaf Hussain (George Mason University) & Maanik Nath (Utrecht University)
Uncertainty and Cooperation: Evidence from Colonial India
Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) & Mattia Bertazzini (University of Nottingham)
From British to License Raj: Trade Disruptions, Political Connections and the Rise of Protectionism in India
Björn Brey (Norwegian School of Economics)
AS3F: Financial Intermediation Before Banks
(chair:) (CKK 2.06)
Risk and Return in Roman Egypt
Paul Kelly (London School of Economics)
The Holy Creditors: Usury Lending by Buddhist Temples in Early Medieval China
Yangyang Liu (London School of Economics)
Women Lenders in Lima in the Pre-banking Era
Luis Zegarra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)
AS3G: Innovation and Lobbying in the Industrial Revolution
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
Success and Failure in England’s Patent System: New Evidence from Patent Applications, 1783–1834
Joe Lane (University of Reading) & Stephen Billington (Ulster University)
Competition and Innovation during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from France
Lukas Rosenberger (LMU Munich), Christopher Sims & Zincy Wei (Northwestern University)
Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence
Alexander Yarkin (University College Dublin)
AS3H: Fiscal and Monetary Decision-Making During the Interwar Period
(chair: Olga Christodoulaki) (CKK 1.15)
Recovering Expectations: The Treasury’s View in Interwar Britain
Jason Lennard (London School of Economics) & Martin Ellison (University of Oxford)
The Political Economy of Britain’s Return to Gold in 1925
Kirsten Wandschneider (University of Vienna) & Pamfili Antipa (London School of Economics)
The Central Bank as Safe Haven: Evidence from Interwar Spain
Enrique Jorge-Sotelo (Universitat de Barcelona)
AS3I: Long Distance Trading Networks c.1700-1850
(chair:) (Alumni Theatre)
Triangle or Quadrilateral? An Analysis of the British Slave Trade in Global Perspective
Karolina Hutkova, Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics), Ernesto Dal Bo (University of California), Lukas Leucht (University of Oxford) & Giorgio Riello (EUI)
Beyond the East India Companies: Lisbon’s Role in the China Trade, 1770–1830
Susana Münch Miranda (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Cesaltina Pires & João Paulo Salvado (University of Évora)
Knowledge and Merchant Networks and the Rise of the British Textile Trade between 1820 and 1840
Alexander Appleton (University of East Anglia)
AS3J: Structural Changes and Income Inequality/Mobility
(chair:) (Wolfson Theatre)
Income Inequality and Structural Change in the Netherlands, 1850–1920
Bram van Besouw & Auke Rijpma (Utrecht University)
The More Things Change … : Income Inequality in British Tanganyika, 1925–60
Sascha Klocke (Lund University)
Elites of Elites: Generational Mobility of Bannermen and Han Chinese Elites during the Qing Dynasty, 1614–1854
Xizi Luo (University of Manchester)
1400-1530 Meet the Editor (by invitation only) (CKK 1.16)
1515-1545 New Researcher Poster Session (Ground Floor)
Inequality in the Early Middle Ages: Distribution of Wealth and Societal Changes in Lombard Northern Italy
Francesco Azzoni (Bocconi University)
Reluctant Citizens? Conscription Evasion and the Making of State Capacity in Liberal Age Italy, 1862-1912
Nicola Fresco (University of Siena)
Social Mobility and Industrialization in Milan, 1880-1910: Exploring the Modernization Thesis
Simone Frisoni (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
New Estimates of Gender Inequality in Ancient Middle East from Chalcolithic to Iron Age: Evidence from Bioarchaeological Sources
Luyuan Guan (University of Tübingen)
Geography of Power: Electrification, Industrial Location and Labour Conflict in Italy, 1883-1911
Laura Hastings Mela (University of Siena)
Gender and Empire: Manipuri Market Women under British Colonial Rule, 1904-1940
Zuzubee Huidrom (University of Edinburgh)
Banking on the Press: Financial Advertising and Book Trade Investors in 1690s England
Can Kazan (University of Cambridge)
Conditional Sales in Late Imperial China: A Case Study of Yongtai County, Fujian, 1490-1950
Yunyufei Luo (University of Oxford)
When Wealth Wasn’t Health: Typhoid Mortality and Social Status in Late 19th-Century Ireland
Samantha Maitland (University of Auckland)
Gender and Justice: Women’s Legal Engagement in the Gold Coast Colony, 1861-1940
Giulia Martini (University of Gothenburg)
Civil Servants Pouring Pints: Government Alcohol Monopolies and Crime
Padraig McKee (Queen’s University Belfast)
Occupational Gender Segregation in Austria: Evidence from Newspaper Job Advertisements, 1850-1950
Wiltrud Mölzer (University of Graz)
Women, War and Work: Female Labour in Bavaria during the First World War
Miriam Mueller (Paris School of Economics)
Residency Requirements in Welfare Policy: Implications for Migration and Economic Mobility
Catherine O’Donnell (Boston University)
Beneath the Surface: Tracing the Historical Roots of Russia’s Resource Dependence, 1880-2022
Aleksandra Parshina (Public University of Navarre)
Environmental Shocks and Family Adjustment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl
Freya Rubel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Real Protection: Tariffs, Prices, and Policy Inertia in Peru, 1900–1940: Evidence on the Determinants of Trade Policy in a Price-Driven Tariff System
Raisa Maria Rubio Cordova (University of Gothenburg)
Altruism, Authority, and Allocation: Private Charity and Parish Relief in Early Modern England
Jingwen Shi (London School of Economics)
Skin Tone and Racial Inequality in the US
Kamelia Stavreva (Columbia University)
Grassroots Industry and Institutional Synergy: An Empirical Re-evaluation of the Economic Impact of Wartime Chinese Industrial Cooperative Movement, 1938-1945
Zhen Zhang (University of Edinburgh)
1515-1545 Tea (Mezzanine/Lower Ground Floor Foyer)
1545-1715 Academic Session 4 (10 parallel sessions)
AS4A: EHS Centenary Session 3 (Roundtable): The Future of Economic History
(chair: Eric Schneider) (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
Discussants: Guido Alfani (Bocconi University), Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen), Rui Pedro Esteves (Graduate Institute Geneva), Jane Humphries (University of Oxford), & Mary O’Sullivan (University of Geneva)
AS4B: Commodities and Trade in Twentieth Century Africa
(chair:) (CKK 1.07)
The Dynamics of an Export Monoculture: Cocoa Cultivation in Ghana, 1891–2010
Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge)
Exporting the American Dream? US-Africa Trade under Colonial Rule, 1914–45
Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics)
Colonial Agricultural Specialization and Its Legacies: Uganda’s Cotton Sector in Long-Run Perspective
Michiel de Haas & Dagmar Schalken (Wageningen University)
AS4C: Adapting to the Weather
(chair:) (CKK 1.04)
Weather Events and Spatial Diffusion of Conflict in the Ming and Qing Era, 1368–1911
Robert Elliott, Sami Bensassi (University of Birmingham), Eric Strobl (University of Bern) & Kai Cheng (Tsinghua University)
Extreme Climate Events and Colonial Welfare: Evidence from Jamaica’s Poor Relief System, 1886–1938
Julia Schlosser, Eric Strobl (University of Bern) & Nekeisha Spencer (University of the West Indies)
Rural Adaptation to Drought: Evidence from Colonial Java
Pim de Zwart (Wageningen University) & Maanik Nath (Utrecht University)
AS4D: Private and Public Institutions in the Ottoman Empire/Türkiye
(chair:) (Thai Theatre)
The Long-Term Financial Trajectory of Ottoman Foundations (Waqfs): A Political Economy Perspective
Pinar Ceylan (University of Cambridge) & Christopher Markiewicz (Ghent University)
The Cost of Preindustrial Communications: Horses, Fees, and Taxes in the Ottoman Relay System
Ali Coşkun Tunçer (University College London) & Choon Hwee Koh (UCLA)
Dynamics of Firm Entry, Exit, and Reorganization: Firm Histories in Istanbul, 1926–50
Cihan Artunc (Middlebury College) & Seven Agir (Middle East Technical University)
AS4E: Fiscal and Financial Responses to Shocks in the 1970s
(chair:) (CKK 2.14)
Fiscal Financing Regimes and Nominal Stability: An Historical Analysis
Oliver Bush (Bank of England)
Investor Reactions to Corporate Decolonization: New Evidence from 1970s Sweden
Linus Siming (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Global Shocks, Domestic Policies, and Financial Integration: Inflation Dynamics, 1973–79
Paolo Di Martino & Marco Molteni (University of Turin)
AS4F: Accounting and Finance in Early Modern Europe
(chair:Pamfili Antipa ) (CKK 2.06)
Reading Numeracy through Accounting Sources: The Use of Numerals in European Accounts, 14th–17th Centuries
Raffaele Danna (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Intermediating Sovereign Debt: Italian Bankers in 16th-Century France
Olivier Accominotti & Nadia Matringe (London School of Economics)
The Price of Town Foundations: Evidence from Early Modern Sicily
Carlo Ciccarelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Peter Groote (University of Groningen) & Kerstin Enflo (Lund University)
AS4G: Industry and Mobility in the US
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
Legacy of Servitude: Long-Run Intergenerational Mobility in the US
Taylan Alpkaya (University of Mannheim)
When and Why did US Auto Assemblers Agglomerate in Detroit?
Xavier Duran (Universidad de los Andes), Ramana Nanda (Imperial College London) & Olav Sorenson (UCLA)
The Long-Run Unintended Consequences of the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’
Alexandra Lopez Cermeño (Lund University), Joan Roses (London School of Economics) & Alexander Klein (University of Sussex)
AS4H: Managing Political Movements in the Twentieth Century
(chair:) (CKK 1.15)
The Making of the German Model of Industrial Relations
Felix Kersting (Humboldt University Berlin) & Iris Wohnsiedler (Economic and Social Research Institute)
Radical Political Ideology and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Italy, 1900–70
Giacomo Domini, Samuele Murtinu (Utrecht University) & Mario Daniele Amore (Bocconi University)
Militantism and Non-Violence in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Valeria Rueda (University of Nottingham)
AS4I: Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe
(chair:) (Alumni Theatre)
Women’s and Men’s Work in Early Modern Italy: A Reappraisal
Mattia Viale (University of Verona), Andrea Caracausi, Verónica Gallego Manzanares (University of Padova) & Cinzia Lorandini (University of Trento)
Early Evidence of Paid Work in Social Reproduction: Wetnurses’ Wages in Florence, 1632–1914
Giuliana Freschi & Maria Enrica Virgillito (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Gender, Working Hours, and Evidence for the Industrious Revolution in England, 1700–1850
Nicholas Collins (University of Exeter)
AS4J: Housing and Living Standards
(chair:) (Wolfson Theatre)
Public Transportation and Declining Overcrowding: Evidence from Early 20th-Century London
Andrew Seltzer & Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway)
Rental Prices and the Cost of Living in the United States, 1914–2006
Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin), Allison Shertzer (FRB Philadelphia) & Rowena Gray (UC Merced)
Red Vienna and Friedrich Hayek: Public Social Housing, Competitiveness, and Social Well-Being
Mario Holzner (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) & Michael Huberman (Université de Montréal)
1715-1830 EHS Annual General Meeting (Wolfson Theatre)
1915-2000 Conference Reception & Books Launch (all delegates invited) (De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms)
Kindly supported by:
2000-2400 Conference Dinner & Bar (De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms) delegates must pre-book at registration
Sunday 12 April
0930-1130 Academic Session 5 (10 parallel sessions)
AS5A: Census Linking in Economic History: Methodological and Analytical Progresses
(chair:) (CKK 1.15)
Understanding British Internal Migration via Individual-Level Quasi-Longitudinal Data
Guillaume Proffit (University of Cambridge)
Using Name Embeddings to Improve Match Rates in Census Linking
Alexis Litvine, Guillaume Proffit (University of Cambridge), Torben Johansen & Christian Dahl (University of Southern Denmark)
Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning Approach
Christian Dahl, Torben Johansen (University of Southern Denmark), Sam Il Myoung Hwang & Munir Squires (University of British Columbia)
Reproducible and Agentic LLM Workflows in Historical Data Extraction: Insights from Nobility Data in Degener’s Werist’s, 1911
Timur Öztürk (University of Bayreuth)
AS5B: East Asia Banking Globalization: Panics, Manias, and Turbulences in the Twentieth Century
(chair: Catherine Schenk) (CKK 1.07)
Panic Without Failure? Public Anxiety in 1930s China
Xiaoyun Tang (King’s College London)
Credit, Correspondents, and Urban Finance: Shanghai and Tianjin’s Global Correspondent Networks, 1920–45
Yitong Qiu (University College London)
The Structure of Banking Industry and Financial Stabilities: Experiences of Pre-war Japan
Mariko Hatase (Hitotsubashi University)
Colonial Banking Turbulence and Wartime Financial Control: The Korean Peninsula’s Financial Transformation from the 1920s to the mid-20th Century
Wen Zhang (Shandong University)
AS5C: The Black Death in England
(chair: Jane Whittle) (CKK 1.04)
The Disease That Would Not Let Go: Plague Outbreaks and their Wider Demographic Implications in Late-Medieval England, c.1348–1520
Philip Slavin (University of Stirling)
Mapping the Black Death in Medieval England
Alex Brown (Durham University)
Rural Justice and the Black Death: Amercements at Wakefield, 1300–1400
Stephanie Brown (University of Hull)
Work and Infirmity: The Sick Leave Rights of Peasants in Medieval England
Grace Owen (Durham University)
AS5D: European Labour Markets Before Industrialisation
(chair: Judy Stephenson) (Wolfson Theatre)
The Black Death as a Structural Labour Market Transformation? A New Perspective from the Labour Share
Spike Gibbs (King’s College London), Jordan Claridge (London School of Economics) & Vincent Delabastita (Radboud Universiteit)
Invisible Labour, Visible Gap: The Gendered Labour Market in the Medieval Southern Low Countries, 1270–1600
Sam Geens (University of Antwerp)
Unveiling the Roots of Regional Disparities in Italy: Evidence from Real Wages, 1300–1860
Leonardo Ridolfi, Gabriele Cappelli & Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena)
Casual or Annual Labour? Work Organization on Family Farms in Sweden, 1860–1900
Patrick Svensson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
AS5E: Regional Economic Growth and Inequality in the European Periphery since 1900
(chair:) (CKK 2.14)
Imperial Inequality: Regional GDP in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1830–1913
Max-Stephan Schulze (London School of Economics)
How Industrialized was the Habsburg Empire? A Spatial Analysis
Tamas Vonyo (Bocconi University) & Stefan Nikolic (Loughborough University)
Regional GDP Disparities in the Interwar and Restored Independent Baltic States
Zenonas Norkus & Jurgita Markevičiūtė (Vilnius University)
Economic Geography of Interwar Poland: County-Level Estimates of Output, Population, and Employment
Nikolaus Wolf, Jan Jozef Kiljanski (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) & Marcin Wronski (Szkola Glowna Handlowa w Warsawie)
AS5F: Financial Assets and Markets
(chair:) (CKK 2.06)
Art and Finance in the Age of Capital: Prices and Returns in Britain and France, 1800–1914
Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat (London School of Economics)
Do Stock Exchanges Matter for Economic Growth? Firm Finance and Investment Efficiency of Dutch Exchange-Listed Firms, 1881–1940
Pieter Drok, Abe de Jong, Thalassa de Waal & Josef Lilljegren (University of Groningen)
Asset Management in the Long Run: The Scottish Investment Trust, 1888–2021
Graeme Acheson (University of Strathclyde), Gareth Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast) & Patrick Herbst (University of Stirling)
Has the Regulatory Cycle Weakened? Evidence from a Century of Lawmaking
Thilo NH Albers (University of Münster), Alexander Nützenadel & Tobias Scheib (Humboldt University Berlin)
AS5G: Technology and Skills in the Industrial Revolution
(chair:) (CKK 2.04)
A Sectoral Analysis of Steam Power Diffusion in the late 18th Century: The British Coal Mining and Iron Smelting Industries
Harilaos Kitsikopoulos (NYU, retired)
Spinning for the Market: Women’s Work, Households, and Regional Variation in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Kathryn Gary, Malin Nilsson & Mats Olsson (Lund University)
Within-Occupational Change in an Industrializing Economy: Technology-Task Complementarities in Sweden, 1864–1924
Jakob Molinder (Uppsala & Lund Universities) & Erik Hellberg (Uppsala University)
The Queen of Inventions: How Home Technology Shaped Women’s Work and Children’s Futures
Esther Arenas Arroyo (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
AS5H: Trade and Tariffs
(chair: ) (Thai Theatre)
Trading in Chains: The Political Economy of British & French Wool, 1764-89
Mary O’Sullivan (University of Geneva)
International Trade, Commodity Production and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia
Mark Hup (Chinese University of Hong Kong) & Pim De Zwart (Wageningen University)
Unequal Protection? Trade Policy in the Interwar Dutch Empire
Markus Lampe (WU Vienna), Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke (CNRS & Sciences Po, Paris) & Pim De Zwart (Wageningen University)
Economic Decline and the Changing Composition of Britain’s Exports, 1958-72
Charles Read (University of Oxford)
AS5I: Gender and Work in the Industrial World
(chair:) (Alumni Theatre)
Job Composition, Gender and Income Inequality in the Long Run: Sweden, 1870–1950
Erik Bengtsson (Lund University) & Jakob Molinder (Uppsala University)
It Takes Two: Gendered By-Employment and Living Standards of Chinese Families in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 19th-20th Centuries
Ziang Liu (King’s College London)
World War I and Female Labour Force Participation: The Case of England and Wales
Victor Gay (Toulouse School of Economics) & Benjamin Milner (University of Alberta)
The Evolution of the Gender Gap in the Labour Market: A Meso-level Analysis
Corinne Boter & Selin Dilli (Utrecht University)
AS5J: Inequality in Pre-Modern Times
(chair:) (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
The Third Check: Private Property, Malthus, and the Origins of Agrarian Civilization
Robert Allen (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy
Felix SF Schaff (Utrecht University) & Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
Urban Investment, Rural Development, and Inequality in Early Modern Holland
Bram Hilkens (Utrecht University)
Wealth Inequality in 16th-Century Scandinavia
Martin Andersson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
1130-1200 Coffee (Mezzanine/Lower Ground Floor Foyer)
1200-1315 Tawney Lecture (Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
Historical Economics versus Economic History
Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin)
1315-1415 Lunch (Mezzanine/Lower Ground Floor Foyer)
1315-1415 Job Market: session for students and postdocs (CKK 2.04)
