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Political Change, Social Mobility and Wealth Distribution in Historical Perspective
10:00am
Welcome Address
Marco Bonetti Director, Dondena Research Center, Bocconi University
10:15pm
Session I
Political Change and Wealth Distribution
Chair Luca Mocarelli Bicocca University of Milan
Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Politics and Wealth in the Florentine Republic
Mattia Fochesato Bocconi University
The Effects of Land Redistribution. Evidence from the French Revolution
Noel Johnson George Mason
University
Rural Elites and Redistribution. Evidence from the English Poor Laws
Jonathan Chapman New York
University Abu Dhabi
Reversal of Fortune or Persistence of Wealth? Institutions and Inequality in a Caribbean Slave Plantation Economy, 1750s to 1917
Stefania Galli University of Gothenburg
The Distributive Consequences of the Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe
(ca. 1500-1800)
Guido Alfani Bocconi University
2:00pm
Session II
Social Mobility
Chair Guido Alfani Bocconi University
Surnames Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Present. Long-Term Persistence of Status in Colombia
Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri The
London School of Economics and Political
Science
Political Change, Social Mobility, and Inequality. The Case of Fascist Italy (1922-1943)
Giacomo Gabbuti University of Oxford
Real Land of Opportunity?
Intergenerational Persistence of Class in Finland from the 18th to the 21st Century
Petri Roikonen University of Helsinki
Family Matters in a Meritocracy. Networks, Exams, and Officialdom in the Joseon Dynasty (Korea)
Christopher Paik New York University
Abu Dhabi
4:30pm
Session III
Political and Socio-Economic Inequality
Chair Mattia Fochesato Bocconi University
Colonial Influences, Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Inequality. Evidence from Christian Converts in Urban British Africa
Jacob Weisdorf University of Southern
Denmark
Explaining Inequality. Wealth Mobility, Inheritance, and Household Extinction in Rural Japan, 1685-1872
Yuzuru Kumon Bocconi University
In Thrall to Coal. Mining and Multiple Deprivation (England, 1800-2015)
Ryah Thomas University of Oxford
Republic of Clinents. Patronage and Power Concentration in Poland-Lithuania, 1468-1795
Mikolaj Malinowski Lund University
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Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy
Bocconi Department of Social and Political Sciences
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