{"id":872,"date":"2017-04-24T18:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/?p=872"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:15:39","slug":"economic-history-course-for-phd-in-economics-2016-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/2017\/04\/24\/economic-history-course-for-phd-in-economics-2016-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic History course for Phd in Economics 2016-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Economic History course for Phd in Economics (16 hours)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main idea of this course is to present a broad introduction to different fields of research – both on macroeconomic and microeconomic perspective – which actually are at the frontier of the field. The course focuses on some different broad topics. Another aim of the course is to introduce students to the discussion of virtues and limitations of different historical sources and methodologies.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 29th<\/sup> March 2017<\/strong>: 16-18 <\/strong>
\nJochen Streb (University of Mannheim) –\u00a0Does Social Security Crowd Out Private Savings? The Case of Bismarck\u2019s System of Social Security<\/span>
\n<\/em>Topic: <\/strong>Welfare<\/p>\n

Tuesday 2th<\/sup> May 2017<\/strong>: 15-17 <\/strong>
\nGiovanni Federico –\u00a0A tale of two globalizations: gains from trade and openness 1800-2010<\/span>
\n<\/em>Topic: <\/strong>Trade<\/p>\n

Thursday 11th<\/sup><\/strong> May 2016<\/strong>: 11-13<\/strong>
\nMichelangelo Vasta –\u00a0The geography of innovation in Italy, 1861-1913: evidence from patent data<\/span>
\n<\/em>Topic: <\/strong>Innovation<\/p>\n

Wednesday 17th<\/sup><\/strong> May 2017<\/strong>: 12-14<\/strong>
\nGiovanni Federico –\u00a0Traditional agriculture and the gender gap: evidence from Italy<\/span>
\n<\/em>Topic: <\/strong>Gender<\/p>\n

Monday 22nd<\/sup> May 2017<\/strong>: 15-17<\/strong>
\nAlessandro Nuvolari (Sant\u2019Anna\u00a0 School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) –\u00a0\u201cUniting Souls\u201d and counting skills: age heaping in the first Italian national <\/em>censuses<\/em>, 1861-1881
\n<\/em><\/span>Topic:<\/strong> Human capital<\/p>\n

Monday 30th<\/sup><\/strong> May 2017<\/strong>: 12-14<\/strong>
\nGiovanni Federico –\u00a0The terms of trade during the first globalization: an empirical analysis
\n<\/em><\/span>Topic: <\/strong>Trade<\/p>\n

Thursday 1st<\/sup> June 2017<\/strong>: 11-13
\n<\/strong>Michelangelo Vasta –\u00a0What makes a successful entrepreneur? Historical evidence from Italy (XIX-XX centuries)
\n<\/em><\/span>Topic: <\/strong>Entrepreneurship<\/p>\n

Wednesday 7th<\/sup><\/strong> June 2017<\/strong>: 11-13
\n<\/strong>Michelangelo Vasta –\u00a0Can school centralization foster human capital accumulation? A quasi-experiment from early-20th<\/sup>-century Italy
\n<\/em><\/span>Topic: <\/strong>Human capital<\/p>\n

The “rules of the game” of the course are the following. First of all the course requires your <\/strong>active role in the discussion<\/strong> of the seminars. What I mean is that you make direct questions to the speakers during the seminars. Moreover, each student must write one extended Review Report<\/strong> (RR)<\/strong> for one of the paper presented. The RR should be articulated as follow: i) discuss context and research questions; ii) assess source, historical material and data; iii) provide a discussion of approach and methods; iv) suggest improvements and refinements for the analysis. Finally, all students have to organize themselves in groups (2 students, max 3) and prepare an Economic History Research Project (RP)<\/strong> which must contain: i) a well-defined research question; ii) sources to be used; iii) methods; iv) conclusions.<\/p>\n

Final evaluation will be based on class participation (25%) and on the quality of RRs (25%) and RP (50%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Economic History course for Phd in Economics (16 hours) The main idea of this course is to present a broad introduction to different fields of research – both on macroeconomic and microeconomic perspective – which actually are at the frontier of the field. The course focuses on some different broad topics. Another aim of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docenti-deps.unisi.it\/michelangelovasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}