Friday, November 20 / 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM • Room 405 (4th Floor)

Session 81
Opening up Opportunity: Economic and Societal Change

Chair: Fangqi Wen, Ohio State University
Discussant: Tommy Andersson, Department of Economic History, Lund University

1. On the Market: Women's Work, Local Industry, and Nuptiality in Derbyshire, 1881-1911 • Emma Diduch, University of Cambridge.

2. Shared Knowledge, Shared Lives: Literacy Spillovers in Rural Spanish Households, 1906–1920 • Opeyemi Femi-Oladunni, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

3. Do Grandmothers Matter? Grandparental Effects on Occupational Status during the 19th and 20th Centuries in France • Jiaxuan Huang, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

4. Relative Cohort Size, Labor Flows, and Economic Opportunity in the United States, 1910-2040 • Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota.

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