Graduate Student Workshop 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
8:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
1113 Social Sciences & Humanities, UC Davis
8:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
1113 Social Sciences & Humanities, UC Davis
The All-UC Group in Economic History hosted a graduate student workshop Saturday, Oct 7 at UC Davis. Martha Olney and Gregory Clark were the organizers. The workshop featured presentations by graduate students of papers based on their Ph.D. research, comments and suggestions on the papers by faculty and students, as well as a general discussion of strategies for the job market.
Program of Events
8:30-8:50 Coffee, Bagels and Pastries
8:50-9:00 Introductions
9:00-10:50 Session 1: Economic Growth (55 minutes each)
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:30 Session 2: Rights Granted and Rights Taken Away (40 minutes each)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:50 Session 3: Bombs & Death, State Formation in China (40 minutes each)
2:50 – 3:05 Coffee Break
3:05-4:55 Session 4: Labor Markets, Entered by Choice or Perhaps Not (55 minutes)
4:55 – 5:35 Session 5: Farmers and the Great Depression (40 minutes)
5:35 – 6:00 Wrap up, submit questions for dinner discussion.
7-9 Dinner at Seasons Restaurant (102 F St, Davis)
Discussion of the job market process and strategies by the faculty.
8:50-9:00 Introductions
9:00-10:50 Session 1: Economic Growth (55 minutes each)
- Meng Xu, UCLA, “Regional Competition and Economic Growth: Winners and Losers from Market Integration.”
- Kara Dimitruk, UC Irvine, “Political Barriers to Changing Property Rights: Evidence from 17th Century English Parliament.”
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:30 Session 2: Rights Granted and Rights Taken Away (40 minutes each)
- Abhay Aneja, UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business, “Political Power, Public Employment, & Private Wage Convergence: The Labor Market Effects of the Voting Rights Act.”
- Jaime Arellano-Bover, Stanford University, “Displacement, Diversity and Mobility: Career Consequences of Japanese American Internment.”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:50 Session 3: Bombs & Death, State Formation in China (40 minutes each)
- Keith Meyers, University of Arizona, “The M.A.D. Consequences of Policy: Measuring Adaptive Responses to Fallout Induced Productivity Shocks.”
- Joy Chen, Stanford University, “State Formation and Bureaucratization in Early China: A Conceptual Framework and Related Empirical Evidence.”
2:50 – 3:05 Coffee Break
3:05-4:55 Session 4: Labor Markets, Entered by Choice or Perhaps Not (55 minutes)
- Michael Poyker, UCLA, “Economic Consequences of Coercive Institutions: Evidence from the US Convict Labor System.”
- Paul Lombardi, UC Davis, “Coping with Income Shocks by Doing More of the Same.”
4:55 – 5:35 Session 5: Farmers and the Great Depression (40 minutes)
- Todd Messer, UC Berkeley, “Was There a Farm Channel to the Great Depression in the United States? New Evidence from County-Level Data on Farm Foreclosures.”
5:35 – 6:00 Wrap up, submit questions for dinner discussion.
7-9 Dinner at Seasons Restaurant (102 F St, Davis)
Discussion of the job market process and strategies by the faculty.
