Papers and speakers for this seminar will be: ‘Surnames, Status and Schools: A Long-term View of the Social Ladder in Colombia’ by Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri (London School of Economics) with Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes); ‘The Impact of State-Provided Education: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act’ by Benjamin Milner (University of Alberta); ‘Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error’ by Zach Ward (Baylor University)