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Bocconi University - Room AS03, Via Röntgen 1 - Milano
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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



Organized by
Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy

Bocconi Department of Social and Political Sciences


For Information
Dondena Research Center
tel +39 025836.5384
dondenaresearch@unibocconi.it

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