ECONOMIC HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Economics Department
FALL 2009
September 23** Ajit Singh, University of Cambridge,
Anti LLSV? Results from the
Cambridge Research on Law, Finance and Development (Paper 1, Paper 2)
October 21 Marie
Duggan, Keene State College
The Financial Crisis of 1810: Indians and
Spaniards in California
React to Spain's Imperial Collapse
November 18 Susan Pennybacker, Trinity College
“From Scottsboro
to Munich": "transnationalism" and the history of the 1930s
December 2 Feridoon Koohi-Kamali, Levy
Economics Institute of Bard College
Child Gender Bias in Ethiopia, Iran, and India: The Rothbarth
Intrahousehold Allocation Model Re-examined
** Please
note this seminar will take place in Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St.
Except where otherwise noted, the Workshop meets in the 9th Floor conference room of Thompson Tower on Wednesdays beginning at 4:00 PM. Papers are available a week or more in advance at this site: courses.umass.edu/econ802. For further information, please contact J. Mohan Rao at rao@econs.umass.edu