Economic History and Development
Sponsored by the Center for Economic History and the von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
9:10 am Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley Haas), Teaching to the Tests: An Economic Analysis of Educational Institutions in Late Imperial and Republican China
10:10 am break
10:30 am Bhashkar Mazumder (Chicago Fed), The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement (with Dan Aaronson)
11:30 am lunch
1:00 pm Tarek Hassan (Chicago Booth), The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification (with Konrad Burchardi)
2:00 pm break
2:20 pm Lakshmi Iyer (HBS), The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 (with Noel Maurer)
3:20 pm adjourn and coffee with graduate students