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Lecture Titles, Abstracts and Reading materials William N. Goetzmann July 9, “Learning from Historical Market Prices” Stock prices and interest rates over different periods of history provide useful data for testing historical as well as economic theories. This overview explores selected examples from the author’s experience with a variety of historical price series: art prices, housing prices, stock prices and bond prices.?The challenges of using prices are also discussed, including problems of collection, selection biases and survival biases. July 10, 15:10-16:30?? “Integrating quantitative methods with historical evidence: news, diaries and printed images; a case study of the first stock market crash.” July 11, 8:30-9:50? “Potential for market history in China: what we can learn from the Shanghai Stock Exchange Project.” James Lee July 12, 15:10-16:30 “Historical Demography and the MIT Eurasian Population and Family History Series” July 13, 8:30-9:50 “The Genealogy of Inequality” Li-An ZHOU July 11, 15:10-16:30 “Culture, Religion and Economic Development” July 11, 16:45-17:30 “The Governance of Marine Customs in the Qing Dynasty: A Comparative Institutional Analysis” Lecture 1 Culture, Religion and Economic Development In this lecture, I will first give a critical review of the growing literature on the role of culture and religion in the process of economic development. The limitations of current empirical studies and directions of future research in China’s context will be discussed. Then I will talk about my recent research on the role of Christianity in the modernization of the Chinese education system. This study utilizes historical documents on the Christian evangelism in the early twenty centuries in China as well as a large county-level dataset on the education and economic characteristics in 1920. In this joint study, we find that the enrollment in the government-sponsored schools is positively associated with the influence of Chri