Hoyt Bleakley is an economic historian. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He was previously a Senior Investigator at Robert Fogel’s Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. Bleakley works on health, human capital, intergenerational mobility, and regional economics. His recent projects involves (i) modelling the comparative development of regions in the Americas and (ii) tracking three generations in the 19th-Century US South to follow up on participants in a large land lottery in Georgia. He has also investigated the impact of historical disease eradication efforts on economic performance in the US and in Latin America.