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Unequal Chances & Unequal Outcomes in Economic History

February 6-7th, 2015
Caltech University
24 Beckman Behavioral Biology Labs (BBB)
Pasadena, CA

Workshop Program

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Day 1

“Capital [i.e. Wealth] in the Nineteenth Century: Definition, Distribution and Disposition”
By Richard Sutch, UC Riverside


“Watersheds in Infant Mortality: Massachusetts, 1880 to 1915”
By Marcella Alsan, Stanford and Claudia Goldin, Harvard


“Intergenerational wealth mobility in France, 19th and early 20th century”
By Jérôme Bourdieu, Lionel Kesztenbaum, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, INRA
 

“After the Rentier Society: The Great Shocks of the Twentieth Century Reconsidered”
By Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics, Gilles Postel-Vinay, INRA, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech


“How Important is Inherited Wealth? England 1858-2014.”
By Gregory Clark, UCD and Neil Cummins, LSE
 

Day 2
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“Cotton Boom, Slavery, and Land Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Egypt”
By Mohamed Saleh, Toulouse

“Colonial Institutions, Slavery, Inequality, and Development: Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil”
By William R. Summerhill, UCLA

"Where Has Modern Equality Come From? Luck and Smart Paths in Economic History"
By Peter Lindert, UCD

“US Distributional National Accounts, 1913-2013.”

By Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics, Emmanuel Saez, UCB, Gabriel Zucman, LSE

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