09:00     Session D1 (Room 3) – Political economy

Green front, brown tide? Agriculture, the great depression and the collapse of the Weimar Republic

Pablo Martinelli (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)

You Reap What You Know: Observability of Soil Quality, and Political Fragmentation

Thilo R. Huning (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Fabian Wahl (University of Hohenheim)

Slavery and the Origin of Local Fiscal Capacity in Brazil

Andrea Papadia (London School of Economics)

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             Session D2 (Room 4) – Productivity

Market access and agricultural productivity across the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of the 19th century

Alexander Reinold (Vienna University)

Is there a Latin American pattern? An analysis of agricultural productivity growth in the second half of the XX century

Miguel Martín-Retortillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Vicente Pinilla (Universidad de Zaragoza), Jackeline Velazco (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) & Henry Willebald (Universidad de la República)

No Policy is an Island: Finance and Food Security in India

Andre Butler (Research Fellow, IFMR-LEAD, India) and Camille Boudot (University of Edinburgh, UK)

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11:00      Refreshments

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11:30      Session E1 (Room 3) – Crises and depressions

The impact of depression and deglobalization on agricultural outcomes: Insights from interwar Ireland

Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin and LSE) and Tara Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin)

Commodity Prices and Recovery from Financial Crises during the First Global Era

Peter H. Bent (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Was there a Farm Channel to the Great Depression in the United States? New Evidence from County-Level Data on Farm Foreclosures

Kilian Rieder (University of Oxford) and Todd Messer (University of California, Berkeley)

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             Session E2 (Room 4) – Technology and human capital

Colonial technology, human capital and African development. The case of Italian Libya

Mattia C. Bertazzini (London School of Economics)

The effect of prices, climate, institutional and technologic changes on agricultural production in Northeast Anatolia in the second half 19th century

Ekin Mahmuzlu (Boğaziçi University)

South African agricultural productivity during apartheid: More Machines, Better Machines... or Better Workers?

Jan C. Greyling (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

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13:30     Lunch

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14:30     Session F1 (Room 3) – Demography and human capital

Assessing the Quantity-Quality Trade-off in Child Outcomes Before Modernization in the U.S.

Hui Ren Tan (Boston University)

Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in 19th-century Spain

Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (University of Cambridge) and Domingo Gallego (University of Zaragoza)

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             Session F2 (Room 4) – Rural vs urban

Was there a “rural penalty” in late 19th-century Southern Europe? Evidence from Catalan military heights

Ramon Ramon-Muñoz (University of Barcelona) and Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz (University of Murcia)

Delayed modernization: Enfranchising of peasants and its impact on urbanization dynamics on Polish territories

Maciej Bukowski (Warsaw University) and Piotr Koryś (Warsaw University; Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)