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This document contains abstracts of papers presented at an academic conference. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to economics, history, and social development. Each paper presents empirical evidence and analysis to shed light on specific phenomena or historical events. The research is conducted using different methodologies and data sources, providing valuable insights into these complex subjects. The summaries provide a brief overview of each paper's main findings and contribute to the understanding of various social and economic phenomena. [Extracted from the article]

Examines the rhythms of production in the Montgolfier paper mill, one of the largest in eighteenth-century France. View of historians on early industrial work; What Montgolfier output registers reveal.

Antonio Iodice, I University of Exeter and University of Genoa i SESSION 2: HISTORICAL LABOR MARKETS The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation During the 1910s, twelve U.S. states passed and implemented the country's first minimum-wage laws. First, where rivers shift states form, and existing states expand their capacity. Lee J. Alston, I Indiana University i , Marie Duggan, I Keene State College i , and Julio Ramos, I Pennsylvania State University i SESSION 11: FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT Financing Industrialization in Russia and Germany A large literature debates what system best promotes the accumulation and allocation of capital, especially in late-industrializing countries, where capital market imperfections may be severe. In contrast, this paper leverages detailed firm-level data from late 19th-century Sweden showing that a sharp increase in industrial tariffs has a heterogeneous impact across firms: Initially low-productivity firms see an increase in productivity while initially high-productive firms experience a decline. [Extracted from the article]

We study European demand for American state bonds after the state debt crisis of the 1840s to establish this finding. Peter Nencka and Enrico Berkes, I The Ohio State University i SESSION 12: BANKING SERVICES FOR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES Generating African-American Wealth through Banking Compiling a new dataset of banks owned and managed by African Americans from 1907 to 1930, I provide the first analysis of the contribution of African-American banks to the increase in economic welfare of African-American communities. Following a national bank holiday in 1933, New York state bank regulators suspended the publication of balance sheets of state-charter banks for two years, whereas national-charter bank regulators did not. We find that state-charter banks experienced less deposit outflows than national-charter banks in 1933. [Extracted from the article]

Lists several abstracts of papers presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Economic History Association. Papers on the Black death and the medieval economy; Papers on property rights and the distribution of wealth and welfare; Papers on economic history and the consumer; Papers on institutions of governance and economic growth; Abstracts of papers on the financial prehistory of the United States.

This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure that can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We provide three methods for using this secondary variable to deal with non-classical measurement error in a binary treatment: set identification, bias reduction via sample restriction, and a parametric bias correction. We demonstrate the usefulness of our methods by replicating four recent economic history papers. Relative to the initial analyses, our results yield markedly larger coefficient estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a summary of papers which where presented to the annual general meeting of the Economic History Association. Development of the nineteenth-century water law; Identification of the cultivation practices and cropping patterns in Gujarat's Kaira district during the nineteenth century; Explanation of high crop yields during the late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century in Ireland.

This document is a program for the 2023 Economic History Association meetings, which acknowledges the individuals and organizations involved in the event's success. It also provides information about the upcoming 2024 meeting, which will focus on the theme of "Globalization: Perspectives from the Past." The document includes a list of research papers that will be presented in various sessions, covering a wide range of topics such as trade costs, institutions and labor markets, state building and reform, race in the U.S., science and knowledge diffusion, and more. These papers offer valuable insights into different aspects of history and social movements, making them relevant for library patrons conducting research on these specific topics. [Extracted from the article]

The Program Committee, chaired by Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado), welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that fit the theme of the conference. Papers should be submitted individually, but authors may suggest to the Committee that three particular papers fit well together in a panel. The Economic History Association announced the 2021 prize winners at the Annual Meeting held in Tucson, Arizona. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents abstracts of papers given at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association on topics including economic aspects of the European territorial state, land inequality and human capital from 1820 to 2000, and dividend policy in the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

Abstracts are presented for multiple papers presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Economic History Association including "Why Didn't Canada Have a Banking Crisis in 2008?" by Michael Bordo, Angela Redish and Hugh Rockoff, "When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery, 1870-1940," by Jeffrey G. Williamson, and "God and Risk: The Role of Religiosity in Rural Banking in Early-Twentieth-Century Netherlands," by Christopher L. Colvin.

A series of abstracts are given from papers presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Economic History Association, including "Biological Welfare Change and Variation in Mid- to Late-Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania: Evidence From the Stature of the Pennsylvania National Guard," by Timothy Cuff, "Land Abundance and Economic Institutions: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914," by James Fenske, and "The Emergence of Wage Discrimination in U.S. Manufacturing," by Joyce Burnette.

Abstracts are presented for featured papers given at the 2012 annual meeting of the Economic History Association, including "The Collapse of the Continental Dollar: The Turning Point and Its Causes, An Alternative History of Financing the American Revolution, 1775-1781," by Farley Grubb, "Risk, Agricultural Technology, and Contractual Choice: Evidence from Confucius’s Lineage in Late Qing China (1759-1901)," by Helen Yang, and "The Belle Epoque of International Finance: The French Portfolio, 1880-1913," by Rui Esteves.

This article presents several research papers related to banks and asset markets during war and depression. "The Great Banks' Depression: Deposit Withdrawals in the German Crisis of 1931," uses monthly balance-sheet data of all major German credit banks, and further analyze deposit withdrawals and bank failures in the German banking and currency crisis of 1931. "International Financial Crisis Contagion in the Interwar Period," examines international financial markets and the links between them using a newly hand-collected data set for more than 300 company stocks, encompassing weekly equity-market observations for 13 countries.

Presents abstracts of the papers presented at the 2000 Economic History Association meeting. `Sources of African-American Economic Progress in the Labor Market in the Twentieth Century,' by James Heckman and Petra Todd; `Race and Home Ownership: A Century's View,' by William Collins and Robert Margo; `The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,' by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the Economic History Association's 2012 annual meeting on topics including the history of trade and transport costs, the the economic history of cities, and the relationship between railroads and economic development.

The article presents abstracts of research related to economic history. These include "Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity," "Institutional Innovation and the Creation of Liquid Financial Markets: The Case of the American Over-the-Counter Market," and "Geographic and Regulatory Frontiers in Commercial Banking: Private Banking in the United States, Scotland and Germany in Early Industrialization."

The article presents abstracts of research in economic history, including "Original Sin, Good Housekeeping and Empire: The Relation Between Currency Risk and Default Risk," "Clio and the Economics of International Currencies" and "How Much Did the U.S. Government Value its Troops' Lives in World War II?: Evidence From Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles."

Comments on articles about the British economic history. Discussion on money market; Details of capital investments; Status of financial integration in the country.

Comments on an article about private banking in the United States. Discussion on the work of economist Herman Kross; Details of economic history; Perception on the role of private bankers.

Comments on articles about economic and business history in the United States. Details of private banking; Views on capital accumulation.

Comments on an article about the agricultural productivity of Pennsylvania in 18th century. Discussion on economic development; Details of income distribution; Performance of the agriculture sector in the state.

The Economic History Association announced the winners of various prizes at their Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Notable winners include Cormac O'Grada and Morgan Kelly for the Arthur H. Cole Prize, Hannah Postel for the Allan Nevins Prize, Lukas Rosenberger for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize, Carol Heim for the Jonathan Hughes Prize, Leigh Gardner for the Lindert-Williamson Prize, David Todd for the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Price Fishback for the Gallman-Parker Prize, James Fenske for Excellence in Refereeing, and James Kung for Exceptional Service. The association also announced the theme for their 2024 meeting, which will focus on globalization throughout history. Additionally, they awarded grants and fellowships to young scholars in the field of economic history. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents various editorial notes from the June 2012 issue. A correction is offered for the March 2012 book review erroneously entitled "Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution." A list of people thanked for contributing to the 2011 Economic History Association's meetings is given, including Martha Bailey, Joseph Mason, and Douglas Puffert. A list is also provided of paper titles for the 72nd annual meetings to be held between September 21-23, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The article offers information on the September 12-14, 2014 Economic History Association Meetings at the Renaissance Downtown Columbus Hotel in Columbus, Ohio with the theme "Political Economy and Economic History" and on the March 27-29, 2015 Economic History Society Annual Conference at the Telford, England campus of the University of Wolverhampton. Participants in the 2013 Economic History Association Meetings are thanked for their service.

This document provides summaries of several doctoral dissertations in the field of economic history. The first dissertation focuses on Chinese immigration and exclusion in the United States, challenging previous assumptions and highlighting the impact of anti-Chinese laws. The second dissertation explores expanding financial participation in the early 20th century, examining employee stock ownership programs and the impact of the Liberty Loan Program during World War I. The third dissertation examines disparities in access to opportunity in the United States, particularly focusing on the intergenerational effects of anti-Black institutions. These dissertations contribute valuable data, methods, and findings to their respective fields of study. Another dissertation explores various aspects of inequality in America, focusing on racial and gender disparities in access to opportunity. Lastly, a dissertation focuses on the drivers of labor market inequalities throughout economic history, examining intergenerational mobility and the impact of the feudal system. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the role of economic history in economics and the views of Modern Economic Historian on how relevant the past is to economics today. Topics include the appeal of modern economic historians to the broader economic audience, how historical events have affected economic development and how the relevance of economic history is reflected in the increase in economic history publications.

Comments on an essay written by Donald McCloskey about the achievements of economic history. Role of economic history in the development of quantitative facts in history; Difference of cliometrics with other schools of economic history.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Secrecy, Firm-Specific Human Capital, and Enforceable Debt Contracts in Ancien Regime Taxation,' by Gregory La Blanc, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

The article offers information on the 2013 Economic History Association annual meeting to be held at the Hilton Arlington Hotel in Washington, D.C. from September 20-22.

The Journal of Economic History has issued a correction notice for an article titled "Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy." The correction addresses an error in the listing of a coauthor for a paper referenced in the article. The correct reference is provided, and the editors and publisher apologize for any confusion caused. The correction notice is reported by Brian A'Hearn and Valeria Rueda. [Extracted from the article]

The article previews the annual meeting of the Economic History Association to be held at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 15-17, 2006.

Comments on several essays about the interwar period in the context of economic history. Effects of tariff and other trade restrictions on international trade and national incomes during the post-1929 economic recession; Impact of fascism on the politico-economic development of Italy.

The article announces awards, grants, and fellowships presented by the Economic History Association to economy students Trevon D. Logan, Natalya Naumenko, and Juan Sebastian Galan along with details on 2018 Economic History Association meeting to be held from September 7-9, 2018 at Quebec, Canada.

The back matter of the June 2011 issue is presented, issuing calls for papers for the 2012 annual conference of the Economic History Society and advertising for academic publications by the Cambridge University Press.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Lessons for the United States and the European Community for the Integration of High- and Low-Income Economies,' by Cletus C. Coughlin and David Wheelock, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Reviews three articles that revealed three important causes of the growth of government in the 20th-century. Paper by Ben Baack and Edward Ray that seeks the origins of the American military-industrial complex; Paper by Colin Forster that demonstrates how well-intentioned reform, aimed at helping a particular group, actually harmed that group; Paper by Hugh Rockoff that is concerned with the origins and effects of the Federal Budget Act of 1921.

The author discusses developments at the journal during his tenure as its editor. He comments on the role of the journal's employees, such as Jeremy Atack, Sue Isaac and Sabrina Boschetti, in establishing a system that allows authors to submit articles to the journal through the Internet. He comments on the inclusion of the journal's articles in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database and suggests that the journal is seeking manuscripts by political scientists and articles focusing on economic historical theories and global history. He comments on the acceptance rate of submitted manuscripts and the amount of time it takes for articles to be approved for publication in the journal.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Sugar, Strategy, Sovereignty: Toward a Political Economy of the Overthrow and Annexation of Hawaii,' by Christopher Grandy and Sumner J. La Croix, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

This article focuses on the 2004 Economic History Association Meetings. Some of the meetings are: War Will Get You There; Credit and Wealth Unterdenlinden; Civil Action; Bombs, Germs and Invaders; Managing Political Uncertainty; Institutions of Unequal Pay; Growth and Conflict; Economic History Society Annual Conference Call for Academic Papers.

The article announces Economic History dissertation awards including Arthur H. Cole Prize to Joshua Lewis, Allan Nevins Prize to Tyler Beck Goodspeed and Alice Hanson Jones Prize for outstanding book to Gavin Wright; EHA Grant and Fellowship Awards to James Lee and Anne Ruderman and Ariell Zimran and offers information on the 2015 Economic History Association Meetings at Nashville, Tennessee from September 11 to 13, 2015.

Presents information on several information resources on economic history. Papers of James J. Hill, architect of the Great Northern Railroad, from the James Jerome Hill Reference Library in Saint Paul, Minnesota; `Guide to Records in the New York State Archives,' from the New York State Archives; `Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics, and Culture,' from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

The article presents abstracts of papers given at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association on topics including firm incorporation and productivity in Imperial Russia, intergenerational economic mobility in Iowa from 1915 to 1940, and self-selection of return migrants from the U.S.

The article presents various note and news reports for the journal, including a correction to the article "Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering," by Henning Hillmann and Christina Gathmann, from the September 16, 2011 issue, the awarding of the Jonathan R. T. Hughes Prize to Ann Carlos, and announcing the 2012 Economic History Association meeting to be held September 21-23 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Abstracts are presented for poster sessions presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Economic History Association, including "Productive Assets Down Under: The Economics of Italian Prisoner of War Employment in Australia During and After the Second World War," by Johann Custodis, "Constraints on Local Governance: Historical Legacies on Native American Reservations," by Christian Dippel, and "After It Was Over, Over There: World War I Veterans and Interwar Labor Markets," by Ethan Doetsch.

The article discusses awards presented to economic historians and conferences such as the 2011 Economic History Association Meetings at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts from September 9-11, 2011. Award recipients include Rui Esteves of Oxford University, Daniel Fetter of Wellesley College, and Colleen Callahan of American University. The article also lists fellowship and grant recipients such as Matthew Jaremski of Vanderbilt University, Dongwoo Yoo of Ohio State University, and Jeremiah Dittmar of American University.

Economists ignore caring labor since most is provided unpaid. Disregard is unjust, theoretically indefensible, and probably misleading. Valuation requires estimates of time spent and the replacement or opportunity costs of that time. I use the maintenance costs of British workers, costs which cover both the material inputs into upkeep and the domestic services needed to turn commodities into livings, to isolate the costs of paid domestic labor. I then impute the value of unpaid domestic labor from these market equivalents, and aggregate across households without domestic servants. Historically, unpaid domestic labor represented c. 20 percent of total income, a contribution that suggests the need to revise some standard narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning U.S. economic development success. This view relies on the "Pristine Myth" of an empty undeveloped land, but the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized territory of sovereign Indigenous Nations. We demonstrate that the development of strong property rights for European/American settlers was mirrored by the attenuation and increasing disregard of Indigenous property rights. We argue that the dearth of discussion of the dispossession of Indigenous nations results in a misunderstanding of some of the core themes of U.S. economic history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on international trade in Venice, Italy from 1303 to 1351.