Enslaved and Enslavers Turned Educators: Teacher Identity and Black Achievement

In this session of the International Macro History Online Seminar, join us for a presentation on "Enslaved and Enslavers Turned Educators: Teacher Identity and Black Achievement" by Lukas Althoff, Stanford University and Marco Tabellini, Harvard Business School and CEPR.

Lukas Althoff is Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He studies the causes and consequences of inequality using tools from applied microeconomics and economic history. He is a Faculty Fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, an Affiliated Member at CESifo, a Special Sworn Status Researcher at the US Census Bureau, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

Marco Tabellini is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit at Harvard Business School and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), and at IZA. He studies the political and the economic effects of immigration. His research also seeks to understand which factors facilitate or hinder immigrant assimilation, how the presence of different ethnic groups in a society influences inter-group relations, and to what extent migration can be a tool to foster the political and the social integration of under-represented segments of the population. To answer these questions, Marco has focused on the early twentieth century US, which was characterized by the massive inflow of Europeans and by the first migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North of the US. More recently, Marco has also analyzed the effects of the second Great Migration of African Americans between 1940 and 1970, investigating how this episode contributed to the development of the Civil Rights movement, both in the South and in the North of the United States.

IMHOS seminars

The spring 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from February, 12th to May, 28th 2025 and will take place virtually bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00pm (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion.

The detailed programme and more info is available under "Spring 2025 Programme" here : https://cepr.org/imhos

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The International Macro History Online Seminar (IMHOS) is a joint initiative of the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of universities and institutions: Banque de France, Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Association of Banking History, European Historical Economics Society, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Business School Cambridge, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Queen’s University Belfast, Rutgers University, Sciences Po, Santa Clara University, Solvay Business School, Universitat de Barcelona, University Carlos III Madrid, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of Geneva, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Yale University.