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64402-01 - Colloquium: Migration, Networks and Religion - New Insights from Economic History (1 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2022 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Sascha Becker (sascha.becker@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Schedule: Monday, 21 March 2022 1400-1530: Lecture 1: Forced Migration in History (1530-1600: Coffee break) 1600-1730: Lecture 2: Networks and Migration Tuesday, 22 March 2022 0830-1000: Lecture 3: Religion in Economic History (1000-1030: Coffee break) 1030-1200: Lecture 4: Publishing (in Economic History) Not part of the course, but potentially of interest: SEMINAR 12:30 to 13:45 (seminar room S 13) This short course is a “topics course”. Participants will be expected to read the papers in the syllabus. All readings can be found in this Dropbox folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tshfk5oo9jbhx9g/AACTne2iG8TJsLkvrDb4ZGp7a?dl=0 |
| Bibliography | Bibliography: Note that the bibliography includes several surveys. Those are marked with a *. Naturally, those cover a lot of different papers, without going into every single detail. The other papers papers will be discussed in detail, including identification strategies. Forced Migration in History: * Becker, Sascha O. (2021) “Lessons from Forced Displacement in History”, paper following from the 2021 Noel Butlin Lecture, prepared for the Australian Economic History Review. * Becker, Sascha O. and Andreas Ferrara, (2019) “Consequences of forced migration: A survey of recent findings,” Labour Economics 59, 1–16. Becker, Sascha O., Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean, Nico Voigtländer, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (2020) “Forced migration and human capital: evidence from post-WWII population transfers,” American Economic Review 110 (5), 1430–1463. Networks and Migration: Becker, Sascha O., Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand and Fabian Waldinger (2021) “Scholars at Risk: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany” (old version: CEPR Discussion Paper 15820). Current version: November 2021, see Dropbox folder. Buggle, Johannes, Thierry Mayer, Orcan Seyhun Sakalli, and Mathias Thoenig (2020) “The Refugee’s Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Migration out of Nazi Germany,” CEPR Discussion Paper 15533. Spitzer, Yannay (2018) “Pogroms, Networks, and Migration: The Jewish Migration from the Russian Empire to the United States”, 1881–1914, mimeo (version May 25, 2018). Religion in Economic History: * Becker, Sascha O., Jared Rubin and Ludger Woessmann (2021) “Religion in Economic History: A Survey”, In: Bisin, Alberto and Giovanni Federico (eds.) Handbook of Historical Economics, Chapter 20, Elsevier: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815874-6.00029-0. Whole handbook: https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-handbook-of-historical-economics/bisin/978-0-12-815874-6 |
| Comments | Lecturer: Sascha O. Becker, Monash University and University of Warwick |
| Weblink | Weblink to ADAM |
| Course application | Registration: Please enrol in MOnA. EUCOR-Students and students of other Swiss Universities have to enrol at the students administration office (studseksupport1@unibas.ch) within the official enrolment period. Enrolment = Registration for the exam! |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | See individual dates | ||
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 21.03.2022 | 14.00-17.30 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S14 HG.32 |
| Tuesday 22.03.2022 | 08.30-12.00 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Seminarraum S16 HG.39 |
| Modules |
Modul: Fachlich-methodische Weiterbildung (Doctoral Studies - Faculty of Business and Economics) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Exam: The exam will be a take-home exam consisting of two parts: 1) A referee report on a paper to be distributed by the lecturer, on a topic related to the course. 2) An outline for a research paper related to the course, to be developed by the student. Deadline: tba |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration, dereg: cancel course registration |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Business and Economics , studiendekanat-wwz@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Faculty of Business and Economics |