Past Seminars in Quantitative History
2012-2013
Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge (4 March 2013)
Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881:
Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books
Peter Solar, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (18 February 2013)
Opening to the East: Shipping between Europe and Asia, 1770-1830
2011-2012
Samantha Williams, University of Cambridge (12 March 2012)
How generous was the old poor law?
Romola Davenport, University of Cambridge(23 January 2012)
The transformation of the urban epidemiological regime in England, 1750-1850
2010-2011
Mark Thomas (14 March 2011)
Chamberlain, Tariff Reform and the Edwardian Economy
Gary Libecap (1 February 2011)
Large scale institutional changes: Land demarcation within the British Empire
2009 - 2010
Cristiano Ristuccia (10 May 2010)
General purpose technologies and economic growth: Electrical diffusion in the manufacturing centre before WWII (co-authored with Solomos Solomou)
Steve Broadberry (26 April 2010)
British Economic Growth, 1300-1850
Oscar Gelderblom (24 March 2010)
The Evolution of Commercial Law in Europe (1250-1650)
Jameson Wooders (22 February 2010)
Production and Consumption in Early Modern Berkshire, 1650-1750
Alessandro Nuvolari (25 January 2010)
Mr. Woodcroft and the Value of English Patents, 1617-1841
D' Maris Coffman (26 October 2009)
Incidence Analysis of the Restoration and Hanoverian Excise:
A Case Study of the Brewing Industry
2008 - 2009
Cristiano Ristuccia (8 June 2009)
Machine Tools and Mass Production in the Armaments Boom:
Germany and the United States 1929-1944 (co-authored with Adam Tooze)
Alejandra Irigoin, College of New Jersey (9 March 2009)
A Stakeholder Empire:
The political economy of Spanish imperial rule in
America
Elena Martinez Ruiz, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid (2 March 2009)
The financing of the Spanish civil war and its macroeconomic consequences: a revision
Erik Buyst (27 October 2008)
Changes in the occupational structure of 19th-century Belgium: sources, methods and first results
Dan Bogart (20 October 2008)
Adaptable Property Rights: Britain's Property System
2007 - 2008
Elisa Newby (13 May 2008)
Sustainable Monetary Policy
Lessons and Evidence from the Suspension Period 1797-1821
Natalia Mora-Sitja (co-authored with E. Camps, M. Camou and S. Maubrigades) (26 February 2008)
Globalization and wage inequality: a gendered approach
Tim Guinnane (co-authored with Sheilagh Ogilvie) (19 February 2008)
Demographic responses to economic shocks: Württemberg, 1646-1914
Cristiano Ristuccia (5 February 2008)
Does political consensus affect financial credibility? Evidence from Italy under fascism
Kerry Hickson (13 November 2007)
Quantifying health and welfare gains in twentieth century England and Wales: An initial contribution
Bob Allen (16 October 2007)
Real wages around the world
2006 - 2007
Eugene M. White, Rutgers University (22 May 2007)
The Crash of 1882, Counterparty Risk, and the Bailout of the Paris Bourse
Michael Bordo, Pitt Professor of Economic History, Faculty of Economics (8 May 2007)
Monetary Policy and Stock Market Booms and Busts in the Twentieth Century
François Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (13 February 2007)
Chronicles of a deflation unforetold
Tony Wrigley, Department of Geography (23 January 2007)
Revisiting Rickman: English County Population Totals 1600-1800
Roman Studer, Nuffield College, Oxford University (21 November 2006)
India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the efficiency of grain markets in eighteenth- and nineteenth-Century India
Craig Muldrew, Faculty of History (7 November 2006)
Measuring the contribution of spinning to household earnings and the national economy in England 1550-1770
2005 - 2006
Jim Oeppen (28 February 2006)
‘Measuring the efficiency of mortality changes: past, present and future
Jelle van Lottum, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam (31 January 2006)
The Dutch Republic, England and migration in the North Sea region. Some remarks on the Dutch dominance on the international labour market (1550-1800)
William St-Clair, University of Cambridge (25 October 2005)
The Political Economy of Reading
Adam Tooze, University of Cambridge (18 October 2005)
Arming the Reich: Quantifying the Armaments Production of Nazi Germany
2004 - 2005
Alex Shepherd, University of Cambridge (6 June 2005)
‘Worth little or nothing’: The 'poor' as witnesses in the early modern English church courts
Tim Guinnane, Yale University (23 May 2005)
Regional Banks for Micro-credit Institutions: ‘Centrals in the German Cooperative System before the First World War’
Robert Millward, University of Manchester (28 February 2005)
Economic and Institutional Factors in Electricity Network Integration in Western Europe c.1900-50
Knick Harley, University of Oxford (31st January 2005)
Prices and Profits in Cotton Textiles during the Industrial Revolution
Richard Smith and Neil Rushton, University of Cambridge (15th November 2004)
Comparing tithe and manorial demesne grain output before and after the Black Death. Evidence from southern England
Mark Harrison, University of Warwick (19th October 2004)
Why the Rich Won: Economic Mobilization and Development between the Two Wars
2003-2004
Nick Crafts, London School of Economics
(Co-Author: Abay Mulatu) (19th April 2004)
How did the Location of Industry Respond to Falling
Transport Costs in Britain before World War I?
Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Cambridge (10th May 2004)
Gender and Livelihood in early modern Germany
Peter Temin, MIT (co-authored with Hans-Joachim Voth) (8th March 2004)
Credit Rationing and Crowding Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862
Stephen Broadberry, University of Warwick (co-authored with Bishnupriya Gupta) (16th February 2004)
The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800
Regina Graefe, London School of Economics (2nd February 2004)
When Norway Ruled the Waves:
Shipping Services and Trade Induced Growth in the C19th Revisited (Yet Again)
Seminar in Quantitative Economic History (2000 - 2003)
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2002-2003
Richard Steckel, University of Ohio, LSE (28 November 2002)
Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
David Greasley, University of Edinburgh, 14 November 2002
A New Monetary Regime and the End of the Great Depression in New Zealand
Cormac O'Grada, University College Dublin (31 October 2002)
Adam Smith and Amartya Sen: Markets and Famines in Pre-Industrial Europe
2001-2002
Peter Temin, MIT and Harvard (25 April 2002)
Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire
Jean Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA/and INRA-LEA Paris 2001-2002 (14 March 2002)
The size of the Ante: Inequality, Financial Markets and Growth in Paris 1780-1907
Christopher M. Meissner, King's College, Cambridge (28 February 2002)
Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banks and the Success of Connected Lending
Maristella Botticini, Boston University/University of Brescia 2001-2002 (21 February 2002)
Marriage Markets and Intergenerational Transfers in Comparative Perspective
Gail Triner, Rutgers University (17 January 2002)
Contagion in Brazil and Argentina in the 1890s
2000-2001
Liam Brunt, Nuffield College, Oxford (16 November 2000)
Climate, technology and wheat production in the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Oliver Grant, St John's, Oxford (9 November 2000)
The Kuznets Curve in 19th Century Germany
Stephen Broadberry, Warwick University (2 November 2000)
Explaining Comparative Productivity in Services: Technology and Organisation in Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990
N.F.R. Crafts, London School of Economics (19 October 200)
The Solow Productivity Paradox in Historical Perspective
Timothy Leunig, London School of Economics (12 October 2000)
Learning by Doing in the New England Textile Industry
Albrecht Ritschl, University of Zurich (5 October 2000)
Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?