DATE

SPEAKER

Monday, October 2, 2000

Organizational Meeting

Monday, October 9, 2000

Paul Gregory (University of Houston. Co-authored with Genia Belova, and Valery Lazarev. "Dictators and Cars." 

Monday, October 16, 2000

Jayne Toman, Yale University and Stanford University. "Plantation Management Before and After Emancipation in the US Cotton South."

Monday, October 23, 2000

Timothy Guinnane, Yale University.  Co-authored with John Brown, Clark University. "The Fertility Transition in Bavaria, 1880-1910."

Thursday, October 26, 2000

Manuel Traitenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER. Co-Authored with Nate Rosenberg. "A General Purpose Technology at Work:  The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late Century 19th Century USA."
(Joint with the SIEPR-CREG. Time:  12:15-1:30. Place: SIEPR Library. Lunch will be served.)

Monday, October 30, 2000

Ralph Shlomowitz, Flinders University. Co-authored with Lance Brennan & John McDonald.  "Health and Economic Well-Being in British and Independent India: Evidence from Recorded Height and Weight Measurement."

Monday, November 6, 2000

Timur Kuran, USC.  "The Private Provision of Public Goods under Islamic Law: The Blocked Potential of the Traditional Waqf System."

Monday, November 13, 2000

Maristella Botticini, Boston University. Co-authored with Aloysius Siow.  "Why Dowries?"

Monday, November 20, 2000

Tim Hatton, TBA.

Monday, November 27, 2000

Mu Yang, Stanford University.  "Public Finance, Political Order, and Imperial China Economic Failure."

Monday, December 4, 2000

Reading Week.