The Past Speaks

The program of the next conference of the Canadian Network for Economic History / Réseau Canadien D’Histoire Économique looks really interesting.
A Conference in Memory of Mary MacKinnon and Alan Green

2011 Conference Program
Thursday, June 2 – Saturday, June 4

University of Ottawa Building and Room TBA

Thursday, June 2

Coffee
8:30 am – 8:45 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:45 am – 9:00 am

Session 1: 20th Century Canadian Migration

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Chair: Herb Emery (Calgary)

Alan Green and David Green (UBC)
“Immigration and the Canadian Wage Distribution in the First Half of the 20th Century”

Byron Lew (Trent)
“Interprovincial Migration in Canada: 1901-1951, and Beyond”

Alexander Armstrong (Queen’s, PhD Candidate) and Frank Lewis (Queen’s)
“The Characteristics of European Immigrants to Canada in the 1920s: A Cross-Country Comparison”

Break
10:30 am – 10:45 am

Session 2: Supplying Human Capital

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Chair: Kris Inwood (Guelph)

Chris Minns (LSE)
“The Consequences of the Feminization of School Teaching: Evidence from British Columbia, 1900-1930”

Almos Tassonyi (Ontario Ministry of Finance and Calgary, PhD Candidate)
“Education Finance in the Slump: Ontario, 1921-1941”

Jessica Bean (Denison)
“Not Much Use Disliking It: Labor Supply among Female Home Workers in London, 1897-1908”

Lunch
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

Business Meeting
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Session 3: Financial Intermediaries

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Chair: Patrick Coe (Carleton)

Livio DiMatteo (Lakehead) and Angela Redish (UBC)
“The Evolution of Financial Intermediation: Evidence from 19th Century Ontario Microdata”

Michael Bordo (Rutgers), Angela Redish (UBC) and Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers)
“Why Didn’t Canada Have a Banking Crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or 1893)?”

Mauricio Drelichman (UBC) and Hans-Joachim Voth (Pompeu Fabra)
“Dumb Money and Bankers’ Profits in Early Sovereign Lending: The Case of Genoese Loans to Philip II”

Break
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Session 4: Savings Behaviour

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Chair: David Jacks (SFU)

Herb Emery (Calgary) and Stuart Wilson (Regina)
“Sickness Insurance vs. Self-Insurance and the Role of Precautionary Savings”

Gregory Clark (UC Davis) and Gillian Hamilton (U of Toronto)
“Wealth and Fertility in New France”

Ann Carlos (Colorado), Erin Fletcher (Colorado, PhD Candidate) and Larry Neal (Illinois)
“Share Portfolios in the Age of Financial Capitalism”

Informal Dinner
The Courtyard
21 George Street, Byward Market
7:00 pm
Friday, June 3

Sessions to be held as part of the 2011 CEA Annual Meetings
Room and Building Location Announced in CEA Program

CEA/CNEH 1: The Development of Institutions

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Chair: Gillian Hamilton (U of Toronto)
Discussants: TBA

Christian Dippel (U of Toronto, PhD Candidate)
“Elite Persistence Under De Jure Institutional Change: The Post-Slavery Plantation Colonies”

Fabio Braggion (Tillburg) and Lyndon Moore (U de Montreal)
“The Economic Benefit of Political Connections in Late Victorian Britain”

Patrick Coe (Carleton) and Shaun Vahey (ANU)
“The Argumentation of Economic Historians”

Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am

CEA/CNEH 2: Globalization

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Chair: Ruth Dupre (HEC)
Discussants: TBA

Kris Inwood (Guelph) and Ian Keay (Queen’s)
“Transport Costs, Trade Policy and Canadian Industrial Development: Iron and Steel in a Small Open Economy, 1870-1913”

Concha Betran (Valencia) and Maria Pons (Valencia)
“Comparing Past and Present Wage Inequality in Two Globalization Periods”

David Jacks (SFU)
“Defying Gravity: The Re-Orientation of Canadian Trade in the Interwar Period”

Lunch
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

CEA/CNEH 3: Invited Lecture in Memory of Mary MacKinnon

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Introduction by Chris Minns (LSE)

George Boyer (Cornell)
“Work for their Prime, and Workhouse for their Age: A Regional Analysis of Elderly Pauperism in Victorian Britain”

Break
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

CEA/CNEH 4: Invited Lecture in Memory of Alan G. Green

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Introduction by Frank Lewis (Queen’s)

Timothy Guinnane (Yale)
“The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists”
Saturday, June 4

Sessions to be held as part of the 2011 CEA Annual Meetings
Room and Building Location Announced in CEA Program

CEA/CNEH 5: Importing and Exporting Human Capital

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Chair: Ian Keay (Queen’s)
Discussants: TBA

Catherine Massey (Colorado, PhD Candidate)
“The Effect of Immigration Quotas on Immigrant Skill Composition: Evidence from the Frontier”

Javier Torres (UBC, PhD Candidate)
“Immigrants’ Occupations in 1911 Canada”

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania)
“Morbidity and Mortality on Convict Voyages to 19th Century Australia”

Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am

CEA/CNEH 6: War, Prohibition and Keynes

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Chair: Almos Tassonyi (Ontario Ministry of Finance and Calgary)
Discussants: TBA

John Cranfield (Guelph) and Kris Inwood (Guelph)
“Stayers and Leavers, Diggers and Canucks: The 1914-1918 War in Comparative Perspective”

Ranjit Dighe (SUNY Oswego)
“Business Week, the Great Depression and the Coming of Keynesianism to America”

Benoit Dostie (HEC) and Ruth Dupre (HEC)
“The People’s Will: Referendums and Alcohol Prohibition in International Perspective”

Lunch
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm