2025-2026
Jin Wang (Arizona) - Education and the Democratic Revolution in China in the Early 1900s
Zhen Gu (Arizona) - Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the US 1910-1940
Joan J. Martinez (Berkeley) - Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages
Gabrielle Grafton (Brown) - The Great Migration and Those Left Behind
Danielle Graves Williamson (BU) - Southern Academies: The Proliferation of All-White Private Schools after Brown and Their Legacy for Students
Grant Goehring (BU) - Contagious Cargo: Health Externalities from Livestock Trade during Early Globalization
Matt Briskin (BU) - Teacher Supply and Long-Run Student Outcomes: Evidence from World War II
Cristian Navarro (CEMFI) - Autocrats Remake the State: Evidence from Francoist Spain
Christopher Sims (Northwestern) - The Origins of the Nitrogen Revolution
Zhaodong Zhang (Oxford) - Crisis and Elite Composition in Late Qing China: The Loyalty-Competence Trade-off, 1825-1911
Paige Montrose (Pittsburgh) - Without Deliberate Speed: The Effects of Southern Out-migration on School Desegregation
Pietro Creanza (Princeton) - Factories of Ideas? Big Business and the Golden Age of American Innovation
Victor De Gorce (Princeton) - Covered Interest Parity: The long-run evidence
Qiyi Zhao (Stanford) - Technological Change and the Market for Books, 1450-1550
Devin Bissky Dziadyk (Toronto) - Little School on the Prairie: A Push for Structural Transformation
Sara Benetti (UBC) - The Social Consequences of Technological Change: Evidence from US Electrification and Immigrant Labor
Beau Bressler (UC Davis) - Building Segregation: The Long-Run Neighborhood Effects of American Public Housing
Madeleine Ho (UC Davis) - Exploring the Role of Political Connections in Employment: Evidence from U.S. Elections, 1850-1930
Patrick Molligo (UCLA) - The G.I. Bill and vocational school
Mukun Niu (UIUC) - Silk and Gender Equality: Evidence from a Female-Intensive Industry in China
Xiaohan Wang (UIUC) - Natural Disasters and Occupational Mobility in US Agriculture: Evidence from the 1927 Mississippi Flood
Anne Schaller (Vanderbilt) - Competitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era
Joao Tampellini (Vanderbilt) - Immigration Raids and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from the 1920 Palmer Raids
Eric Robertson (UVA) - Economic Ideas and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Malthusian Training in British Indian Bureaucracy
Matthias Caesmann (Zurich) - Getting Religion: Identity Formation in the Protestant Reformation