Social Mobility in Preindustrial Europe

SMITE Conference

Social Mobility in Preindustrial Europe

10:00AM

Welcome Addres
Gianmario Verona Rector, Bocconi University

Opening of Proceedings
Marco Bonetti Director, Dondena Research Center, Bocconi University

10:15AM

Introduction
Social Mobility Across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800: An Overview
Guido Alfani Bocconi University

10:45AM

Session I
Long-Term Trends in European Social and Economic Mobility

Chair
Marco Bonetti Bocconi University

The Historical Record on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility. What We Know and What We Do Not Know
Marco Van Leeuwen Utrecht University

Social Mobility in the Republic of Venice, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Benedetta Crivelli Bocconi University, Matteo Di Tullio University of Pavia, Mattia Viale Bocconi University

Moving Up in Poor Flanders. Social Mobility in the Early Modern Period (1560-1800)
Wouter Ryckbosch Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Wouter Ronsijn Ghent University

Socioeconomic Mobility in Southern Europe in the Long Run: The Area of Barcelona, 16th-19th Centuries. Gabriel Brea-Martìnez Lund University, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora Open University of Catalonia

2:00PM

Session II
Socioeconomic Mobility on the Eve of Industrialization

Chair
Letizia Mencarini Bocconi University

Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution. England, 1754-2021
Gregory Clark University of California, Davis, Neil Cummins London School of Economics and Political Science

A Case Study of Rising Land Inequality in Germany Between the 18th and 19th Centuries
Simone Wegge The City University of New York

Intergenerational Mobility in 19th-Century Italy. A Case-Study Approach
Giuliana Freschi and Marco Martinez, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

4:00PM

Session III
Exploring the Mechanisms of Social and Economic Mobility

Chair
Samuel K. Cohn University of Glasgow

Life-Cyclic Social Mobility Between Middle and Old Age Among Urban Middle Classes. Southern Germany, 17th to 18th Century
Ludwig Pelzl European University Institute

Multigenerational Transmission of Wealth. Florenze, 1404-1480
Marianna Belloc Sapienza University of Rome, Francesco Drago University of Catania, Mattia Fochesato Bocconi University, Roberto Galbiati CNRS-Sciences Po

The Unequal Spirit of the Protest Reformation. Particularism and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany
Felix S. Schaff London School of Economics and Political Science

Living Off the Land? Land Accumulation and Socio-Economic Mobility in Early Modern Holland
Bram Hilkens Erasmus University Rotterdam

For Information
dondena.research@unibocconi.it