Fall 2017

Title 

Speaker 

Date

The state, contested land and Islamic philanthropy in the shadow of sectarianism in Bahrain 1860-2016 

Raj Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London)

21/9/2017

Terms of trade during the first globalization: an empirical analysis (with Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Jungito) 

David Chilosi (LSE/ Groningen University)

28/9/2017

Value creation, value capture, and the Book-of-the-Month Club, in its own time and in the time of Amazon 

Daniel Raff (The Wharton School/ NBER)

12/10/2017

The colonial drain. Taxation, real wages, and households' living standards in the Dutch Empire, 1820-1913 

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (UU)

19/10/2017

 

No seminar

26/10/2017

Can kings create towns that thrive? Long run consequences of town plantations on urbanization and agricultural surplus  

Kerstin Enflo (Lund University)

2/11/2017

The diversity of labor market institutions and entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: past and present

Selin Dilli (UU)

9/11/2017

no seminar

16/11/2017

Slavery, labour and debt servitude in the seventeenth-century Spanish Philippines

Stephanie Mawson (University of Cambridge)

23/11/2017

The Great Depression in Africa

Johan Fourie and Tim Ngalande (Stellenbosch University)

30/11/ 2017

Legacies of indirect rule? Native authority spending and local economic development in British Africa (with Leigh Gardner)

Jutta Bolt (Groningen University)

7/12/2017

Female labour force participation of married women: the United States, 1860-2010

Richard Zijdeman and Auke Rijpma (IISH/ UU)

14/12/2017:

12.45-14.15