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Economic History Mini-Conference

October 10, 2026 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm PDT

The conference will take place at the CCPR (Fourth Floor, Room 4240 Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E. Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA 90095). We will strictly enforce time limits. 

 

Poster session participants:

  • Jacopo Ballabio (UCLA), Chronos and Kairos: Concepts of Time and Economic Development
  • Tamri Matiashvili (Stanford), Talent, Trust, and Health: The Effects of the First Female Physicians
  • Wenni Yang (UC-Davis), Doctors With(out) Borders:  Effects of Easing Occupational Licensing for Foreign-trained Physicians 
  • Rebecca Brough (UC-Davis), Creating Career Women: Access to Teaching Jobs and Women’s Long-run Outcomes
  • Santiago Cantillo-Cleves (UCSD), Rallying the Mass Media: News Networks and the Geography of Political Campaigns
  • Tiffany Ho (UC-Merced), Refugee Placement and Voting Outcomes in the United States
  • Jessica Lyu (UC-Davis), Electricity Transmission Lines and Land Development in the Pacific Northwest
  • Riccardo Di Cato (UCSD), Seeds of Market-Based Capitalism: Financial Innovation and China’s Modernization
  • Yujing Huang (UCLA), The Long-Term Returns to University Infrastructure: Evidence from Post-WWII Military Surplus Property Transfers
  • Guillaume Wegmueller (Caltech), Commerce Must Go On: Marine Insurance and Market Resilience during the French Revolutionary Wars
  • Igor Kolesnikov (UC-Berkeley), Landowners into Bureaucrats: Franchise Expansion and Local Administration in the Russian Empire 
  • Beryl Larson (UC-Davis), Rural Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from the Federal Land Utilization Program
  • Arun Ramesh (UCLA), Participation and Public Goods Provision: The Community Development Programme in India
  • Talia Lieberman (UCLA), The Iron Curtain is Not Soundproof: The Effect of Foreign Media in Eastern Europe
  • Yavuz Selim Kaçmaz (UC-Davis), From the Village, to the Village: Teacher Localization and Human Capital in Turkey
  • Nick Shankar (UC Berkeley), Critical Junctures and the Economic Origins of Autocracy
  • Juan David Torres (Stanford), Social Learning and Technological Change: American Agricultural Fairs

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  • Date: October 10, 2026
  • Time:
    9:00 am - 4:30 pm PDT
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Details

  • Date: October 10, 2026
  • Time:
    9:00 am - 4:30 pm PDT
  • Event Category:

Organizer

UCLA CCPR