MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER

9:30 – 10:00   WELCOME

• 10:00 – 10:30 Stefan Nikolić, Railways and economic development in a small agrarian economy: Bulgaria, 1880–1910
• 10:30 – 11:00 Gianni Marciante, The Rise of the Knowledge Economy

11:00 – 11:30   COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 – 12:00 Nico Meffe, Calling up Change: How the Spread of the Telephone Expanded Employment Opportunities for American Women from 1880 to 1940
• 12:00 – 12:30 Georgios Tsiachtsiras, Railroads and Literacy: Evidence from Italy
• 12:30 – 13:00 Luigi Pascali, The Republic of Letters and the Rise of the West

13:00 – 15:00   LUNCH

• 15:00 – 15:30 Andrea Xamo, The Spark and the Rail: The Effects of Railway Electrification in Italy, 1901–61
• 15:30 – 16:00 Michele Zampa, Paving the Way: Highway Access and the Reconfiguration of Local Labor Markets in Italy
• 16:00 – 16:30 Flavio Malnati, Fast Car to Boom and Bust: Transportation Technology and Its Causal Effects on Rural Economic Development

20:00   SOCIAL DINNER, Venue TBA

TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

• 10:00 – 10:30 Masahiro Kubo, Regime Change and Local Industrialization: Evidence from the Meiji Restoration
• 10:30 – 11:00 Tom Görges, Railways and the Educational Elite: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Denmark

11:00 – 11:30   COFFEE BREAK

• 11:30 – 12:00 Victoria Bel, The Long-Term Impact of Railways on Economic Development and Nation-Building: Evidence from Ethiopia
• 12:00 – 13:00 Keynote speaker — James Fenske

13:00 – 15:00   LUNCH

• 15:00 – 15:30 Zahra Behrouzmoghadam, Transport Accessibility and Population Change in Spain (1800–1930): Evidence from a Reconstructed Multimodal Network

15:30 – 16:00   David Escamilla-Guerrero, The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Railroads on Mexico-US Migration (TBC)