Spring 2017

Title 

Speaker 

Date

Climatic Shocks Shape Innovation in Science and Technology: The Role of Climate Reconsidered

Carsten de Dreu (Leiden University/UvA)

16/2/2017

Quantifying the unquantifiable: Informal charity in Southern Europe, seventeenth and eighteenth century

Julie Marfany (Durham University)

23/2/2017

Access to the trade: citizens, craft guilds, and social and geographical mobility in early modern Europe

Maarten Prak (Utrecht University)   

2/3/2017

Women’s wages and the gender wage gap: A comparative study on the impact of structural change in the Dutch and British labour markets, 1750-1914 

Corinne Boter (WUR)

9/3/2017

Winner takes all: Palm Oil and Cluster Competition (1900-1970 ca.)

Valeria Giacomin (Copenhagen University)

16/3/2017

Drivers of economic and social transformation in pre-industrial southern Africa to 1830: climate, trade and the Portuguese factor

Matthew Hannaford (Utrecht University)

23/3/2017

Distant relatives? Demographic determinants of long-term developments in intergenerational proximity; the Netherlands 1650-1899

Tine de Moor (Utrecht University)

30/3/2017

Unreal Wages? A new empirical foundation for the study of living standards and economic growth in England 1260-1860

Jane Humphries (Oxford University)           

6/4/2017

Cancelled

Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline

Erik Hornung (University of Bayreuth)       

13/4/2017

(Real) Wages in Late Medieval England: Evidence from Agriculture 

Jordan Claridge (LSE)          

20/4/2017