VonGremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History

Schedule for Spring 2008

Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383, unless otherwise noted.

The workshop organizer is Dora Costa.

Apr 2	Michael Rothschild  (Princeton and UCLA) :  "Early Intervention"
Friday, Apr 11	NO WED SEMINAR :  "NBER COHORT STUDIES MEETING -- ALL DAY FRIDAY"
Apr 16	Ran Abramitzky  (Stanford) :  "Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Marriage by Class"
Tuesday, Apr 22	Jesse Shapiro  (University of Chicago GSB) :  "Competition and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers -- NOTE -- TUESDAY 3:30" Note: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Bunche Hall 9383 Joint with Albert Family Fund Seminar in Applied Microeconomics
Apr 30	Maristella Botticini  (Boston University and Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino) :  "Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets? (joint with Aloysius Siow)"
May 7	Bozhong Li  (Caltech and Tsinghua University) :  "An Early Modern Economy in Another End of Eurasia--A study of the economic structure of Songjiang in 1820s"
Tuesday, May 13	Hoyt Bleakley  (University of Chicago GSB) :  "NOTE -- TUESDAY 3:30, JOINT WITH APPLIED Portage Sites, City Formation, and Increasing Returns in U.S. History"
May 21	:  "ALL UC OVER THE WEEKEND"
May 28	Timothy Guinnane  (Yale University) :  "Institutions and Demographic Reactions to Shocks: Württemberg, 1546-1914 (joint with Sheilagh Ogilvie)"
Jun 4	Aldo Musacchio  (Harvard Business School) :  "Bylaws and Finance: Corporate Statues, Shareholder Rights, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950"