Economic History and Cliometrics Lab: Seventh Annual Conference

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Day 1

08:30        Registration
09:10     Opening remarks
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (PUC Chile and EH Clio Lab)

09:20     SESSION 1: Work in Progress 1
•“Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Conflict in Africa”
Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (PUC Chile, EH Clio Lab) with O. Özak.
• “Disrupting higher education: Evidence from Chile in the 1970s”.
Felipe González (PUC Chile and EH Clio Lab)

10:50   KEYNOTE SPEAKER
“The Strength of Weak Ties: Education Externalities and Intergenerational Mobility in Benin”.
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University)

12:20 Lunch

13:50 SESSION 2: Long-run Impact of Historical Events

• “Trust Unraveled: The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War”.
Felipe Valencia (Vancouver School of Economics) with A. Tur Prats.
– Discussant: Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (PUC Chile and EH Clio Lab)

• “The Historical Legacy of (Pre?) Colonial Indigenous Settlements in Mexico”.
Fernando Arteaga (Penn and GMU)
– Discussant: Francisco Gallego (PUC Chile and EH Clio Lab).

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