Welcome!

This is the website of Cliometrics Study Group organised by Economic History graduate students at the University of Tokyo.

We hold a weekly meeting to read and discuss academic articles on economic history and applied microeconomics with historical data.
Our current focus is on the interplay of culture and institutions in history.

Schedule

Date Paper
July 15th, 2021 Bau & Fernandez (2021) NBER WP
The Family as a Social Institution
July 8th, 2021 Acemoglu & Robinson (2021) NBER WP
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework
July 1st, 2021 Acemoglu & Robinson (2021) NBER WP
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework
June 17th, 2021 Michalopoulos & Xue (2021) QJE
Folklore
June 10th, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.11-13
June 3rd, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.10
May 27th, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.8-9
May 20th, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.7
May 14th, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.5-6
May 7, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.3-4
April 29, 2021 North (2005)
Understanding the Process of Economic Change: Chap.1-2
April 22, 2021 Bisin & Verdier (2020) WP
Phase Diagram in Historical Economics: Culture and Institution
April 16, 2021 Malis, Querubin, Satyanath (2020) WP
Persistent Failure? International Interventions Since World War II
April 2, 2021 Bisin & Federico (2021) CEPR WP
Merger or Acquisition ? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics
March 18, 2021 Lowes (2020) NBER WP
Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics
March 12, 2021 Acemoglu, Egorov, Sonin (2020) NBER WP
Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence
Feb. 26, 2021 Research Presentation by Erika
Feb. 19, 2021 Research Presentation by Shuhei
Feb. 12, 2021 Ogasawara & Igarashi (2021) WP
The Impacts of the Gender Imbalance on Marriage and Birth: Evidence from World War II in Japan
Feb. 05, 2021 Greenwood, Guner, Kopecky (2019) NBER WP
The Wife’s Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
Jan. 29, 2021 Persson & Tabellini (2020) WP
Culture, Institutions and Policy
Jan. 22, 2021 Nunn (2020) NBER WP (Cont.)
Jan. 15, 2021 Nunn (2020) NBER WP
History as Evolution
Jan. 8, 2021 Yamasaki (2019) WP
Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development: Evidence from Japan
Dec. 30, 2020 Voth (2020) CEPR WP
Persistence - Myth and Mystery
Dec. 25, 2020 Becker, Rubin, Woessmann (2020) CEPR WP (Cont.)
Dec. 18, 2020 Becker, Rubin, Woessmann (2020) CEPR WP
Religion in Economic History : A Survey
Dec. 11, 2020 Mokyr (2019) WP
Attitudes, Aptitudes, and the Roots of the Great Enrichment
Dec. 04, 2020 Valencia Caicedo (2020) CEPR WP
Historical Econometrics: Instrumental Variables and Regression Discontinuity Designs
Nov. 18, 2020 Giuliano & Matranga (2020) NBER WP
Historical Data: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them
Nov. 11, 2020 Cantoni & Yuchtman (2020) NBER WP
Historical Natural Experiments: Bridging Economics and Economic History
Oct. 28, 2020 Okazaki (2005) EEH
The role of the merchant coalition in pre-modern Japanese economic development: An historical institutional analysis
Oct. 21, 2020 Qian (2008) QJE
Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
Oct. 03, 2020 Abramitzky, Delavande, Vasconcelos (2011) AEJ: Applied
Marrying up: The role of sex ratio in assortative matching
Sep. 26, 2020 Nunn (2008) QJE
The long-term effects of Africa’s slave trades
Sep. 11, 2020 Hoffman (2019) Handbook of Cliometrics
Institutions
Sep. 04, 2020 Diebolt & Perrin (2019) Handbook of Cliometrics
Cliometrics of Growth
Aug. 28, 2020 Burnette (2019) Handbook of Cliometrics
Gender in Economic History
Aug. 20, 2020 Margo (2019) Handbook of Cliometrics
Labor Markets
Aug. 13, 2020 Goldin (2019) Handbook of Cliometrics
Human Capital
Aug. 06, 2020 Temin (2019) Handbook of Cliometrics
Economic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect
From Apr. 10, 2020 to Jun. 28, 2020 Sawai & Tanimoto (2016)
The Economic History of Japan: From the Early Modern Era to the Present