Economic History and

Development: Common Insights

Preliminary Program

October 9, 2010

Note: All events will be held in Shapiro Hall, Room 129 or in the Faculty House

8:00-8:50 Coffee / Breakfast

8:50-9:00 Welcome remarks

Chair for Sessions 1 and 2: Steven Nafziger, Williams College

9:00-9:45: Session 1, Adrienne Lucas (Wellesley): “Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya” w/ Isaac M. Mbiti (Discussant: Latika Chaudhary, Scripps & Steven Nafziger, Williams)

9:45-10:30 Session 2, Pinar Keskin (Wesleyan): “Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short and Long-Run Impacts of Groundwater Access” w/ Richard Hornbeck (Discussant: Tara Watson, Williams)

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

Chair for Sessions 3 and 4: Chris Kingston, Amherst

10:45-11:30 Session 3, John Maluccio (Middlebury), “Intergenerational Effects of Undernutrition.” (Discussant: Tobias Pfutze, Oberlin)

11:30-12:15 Session 4, Sarah Pearlman (Vassar):  “Crime, Informality and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico” w/ Ariel Ben-Yishay (Discussant: Jenny Wahl, Carleton)

12:15 – 1:30 Lunch

Chair for Session 5: Alan Dye, Barnard

1:30-2:15 Session 5, Masami Imai (Wesleyan): “Contingent Capital and Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from British Equity Markets Before World War I” w/ Richard Grossman (Discussant: Jerry Caprio, Williams)

2:15-2:30 Coffee Break

Chair for Sessions 6 and 7: Leticia Arroyo Abad, Middlebury

2:30-3:15 Session 6, David Weiman (Barnard): “Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform” w/ Scott A. Redenius (Discussant: Ellis Tallman, Oberlin)

3:20-4:05 Session 7, Ashok Rai (Williams): “Financial Fragmentation and Insider Arbitrage” w/ Stefan Klonner (Discussant: Bishnupriya Gupta, Warwick)

4:05-4:15 Coffee Break

Chair for Session 8: Anand Swamy, Williams

4:15-5:00 Session 8, Eric Hilt (Wellesley): “Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Age of Finance Capitalism” w/ Carola Frydman (Discussant: Bill Gentry, Williams)

5:00-6:45 Free time

6:45 Drinks and Keynote Lecture, Faculty House

Keynote Speaker: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech – “The Final Frontier; History, Wealth, and Death in Paris 1807-2007.”

8:00 Dinner, Faculty House