Studying Social Mobility in Past Societies

Welcome Addresses
Marco Bonetti Director, Dondena Research Center
Catherin De Vries Vice-Rector, Bocconi University

Introduction
Guido Alfani Principal Investigator of the SMITE Project, Bocconi University

Session I: Methods and Measures for Studying Social Mobility in the Past

Chair Catherin De Vries Bocconi University

Open elites? Social mobility, marriage and family in Florence (1282-1494)
John Padgett University of Chicago

Property and Social Mobility in Dudelange, Luxembourg (1766-1872)
Sonia Schifano University of Luxembourg, and Antoine Paccoud Liser, London School of Economics

Assortative Mating and Intergenerational Mobility, England (1837- 2020)
Neil Cummins London School of Economics

Session II: Social Mobility, Crises in Mortality and Other Shocks

Chair: Samuel K. Cohn University of Glasgow

Measuring Social Mobility in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The Approach of the SMITE Project
Guido Alfani Bocconi University

Pandemics and Social Mobility. The Case of the Black Death
Francesco Ammanati University of Florence, Nicoletta Balbo Bocconi University, and Guido Alfani, Bocconi University

Rent Seeking and Wealth Concentration Under Oligarchic Governmental Institutions. Political Economy Lessons from the Seventeenth Century
Felix Schaff London School of Economics

For Information
dondena.research@unibocconi.it