Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Economics - Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, Rome
Sala delle Lauree
Due to limited places, please send an email indicating the days in which you intend to participate to francesco.fioremelacrinis@uniroma1.it
Programme of the workshop
Friday 21 April
10:45-11:00: Welcome
Session 1 (chair: Carla Salvo)
11:00-11:45: Carlo Ciccarelli, Railways and the European Fertility Transition
11:45-12:15: Coffee break
12:15-13:00: Gianluca Ferrittu, Seeds of change: child labor, technology, and structural change during the agricultural transition
13:00-14:00: Lunch
Session 2 (chair: Claudio Petrillo)
14:00-14:45: Elise Brezis, Will Robotics lead to changes in leadership and inequality?
14:45-15:30: Matias Cabello, Science and Growth: lessons from the Counter-Reformation 15:30-16:00: Coffee break
Session 3 (chair: Francesco Fiore Melacrinis)
16:00-16:45: Jacob Weisdorf, The effect of mechanisation on wages and employment: Evidence from the historical diffusion of steam-power
16:45-17:30: Carla Salvo, Does trade liberalization boost innovation? Evidence from French industrial sectors in the 19th-century
Saturday, 22 April
Session 4 (chair: Jacob Weisdorf)
9:00-9:45: Mauro Rota, The Power of Electricity in Italy
9:45-10:30: Elona Harka, Books Go Public: The Consequences of Monastic Libraries Expropriation on Innovation
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
Keynote address (chair: Mauro Rota)
11:00-12:00: Petra Moser, Political Persecution in Science
12:00-13:30: Closure and lunch