The Political Economy of Maize in East Africa, 1900-2020: How cheap food turned expensive β African Economic History Network
New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...
01.08.2025 10:29 β π 36 π 14 π¬ 3 π 2
Civil servant / politician?
31.07.2025 20:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-6
31.07.2025 19:41 β π 610 π 77 π¬ 12 π 6
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teaching
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teaching
Feel like I need to update this comic to add that both professor and student are using chatgpt www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teaching
09.07.2025 18:38 β π 57 π 10 π¬ 4 π 1
Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
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modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) estimators, tailored to potentially
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π¨ We have finalized our DID textbook!
Youβve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.
π Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & DβHaultfΕuille.
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25.06.2025 06:50 β π 232 π 66 π¬ 2 π 6
π¨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature
21.06.2025 11:04 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
11.06.2025 16:41 β π 223 π 73 π¬ 12 π 8
Congrats!!
11.06.2025 10:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It happened before. The key question is if it makes non-wealthy people more efficient at their job, or if it replaces them.
29.05.2025 08:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The deadline for the Predoc and AP positions @sdueconhist.bsky.social has been extended! Apply by June 1.
26.05.2025 08:03 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Maybe a combination of the slow recovery since '08 reducing total unemployment and recessions hitting non-college grads harder?
01.05.2025 07:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
π Donβt miss out on the opportunity to join our wonderful unit in beautiful
GΓΆteborg, Sweden!
2-3 fully funded doctoral position in Economic/Business history
βοΈJoin a young and supportive bunch of researchers with the unique opportunity to develop your own research agenda!
24.04.2025 08:05 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Golddiggermyten
Γgteskab. Det er en indgroet forestilling i samfundet, at kvinder i hΓΈjere grad end mΓ¦nd gifter sig til status og velstand. Men det er en myte, viser nyt studie.
π¨π’ Gregory Clark in the media! π¨π’
The βgolddiggerβ myth gets a reality check! π°π HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history.
π Read the article here: www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/idee...
#EconHist #SocialMobility
14.04.2025 09:47 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
If you have questions about these vacancies, I'm happy to chat π
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
08.04.2025 12:46 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Leto's popularity was in the Laandstrad. Too much Great House cooperation would be a threat.
04.04.2025 10:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hi folks!
Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?
Call for ASREC conference is out!
Preceded by grad student workshop.
Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.
Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org
31.03.2025 07:47 β π 11 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
2-3 PhD students in Economic History
2-3 PhD students in Economic History
The Department of Economy and Society at the School of
π¨We are recruiting!
If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you!
π― Fully funded incl. social security
π― 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History
π― Friendly and supportive environment
Check out our research if youβd like to know more about us.
28.03.2025 07:46 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2
A student asking himself whether he should adopt the ideas of a traditional teacher or one working on the Scientific Revolution
Iβm happy to announce that my JMPπ¨π¨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolutionβ is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this. For lots of history, new micro-data &natural experiments, read on ->->->
24.03.2025 13:15 β π 17 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
Thursday and Friday was the 14th annual workshop on Growth, History and Development. But this year was different. This year marks the 150 year anniversary of women's access to university in Denmark. And what an obvious theme for a workshop on economic history. (1/x)
@sdueconhist.bsky.social
10.03.2025 09:47 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
π’ We're Hiring! π’ I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @sdueconhist.bsky.social to work on research in health care, education, and medical innovation in the US.
πFully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
πDeadline: 7 April
Come be part of an exciting research environmentβapply now! β¨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq
05.03.2025 13:02 β π 11 π 15 π¬ 0 π 1
π¨π¨π¨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark π¨π¨π¨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!
21.02.2025 14:31 β π 19 π 13 π¬ 2 π 3
At that point it is a book surely!
19.02.2025 07:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
New on the GPIH website: Anna Akasheva's dataset of prices for construction materials in Nizhny Novgorod, 1859-1917! #econsky #econhistory
17.02.2025 14:53 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
New on the GPIH website: Elena Korchmina's dataset of wages, prices, and living standards for Moscow, 1553-1851! #econsky #econhistory
07.02.2025 17:12 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Associate Prof of English at Bucknell University | As if!: Queer Criticism Across Difference (Duke University Press, 2025) out August 15: https://dukeupress.edu/as-if
Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
PhD student at @ndecon.bsky.socialβ¬
Working on sovereign debt and international finance.
βͺοΈ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
βͺοΈ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
βͺοΈ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
βͺοΈ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics
https://www.jcr-econ.org/ hosted at @zbw-leibniz.bsky.socialβ¬. Supported by @jherzstiftung.bsky.social
Editors: W. Robert Reed, @mariannesaam.bsky.social, Dennis Wesselbaum, @chuanliu.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Econ @uniofreading.bsky.social. Development Economist. Research Associate @odid-qeh.bsky.social
Interested in social protection, refugees, informality. πΎ
(Mental) health economics
Bio: PostDoc @cinchessen.bsky.social , UDE, previously CHE York. Associated with HEDG, York and RWI Leibniz.
He/him/his.
https://sites.google.com/view/christoph-kronenberg/home
Professor of Technology and Economic Policy | Co-founder of causalscience.org | Associate Editor at Journal of Causal Inference | Executive Team at Academy of Management TIM Division
The official feed of the Department of Economics at NHH - Norwegian School of Economics.
https://www.nhh.no/en/departments/economics/
Professor at UCLA, Managing Editor of the JEEA
Website: http://wacziarg.bol.ucla.edu/
Author of Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and the comic SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
New book: http://www.acityonmars.com/
Almost a labor economist
PhD candidate in Economics @ROA, Maastricht
Labor/Education/Behavioral/Experiment Economics; Social Data Science
Views my own
zhuziyue.com
#econtwitter #econsky
Research & campaign for @FairFin. History of capitalism, critical finance, political economy - Phd researcher @eui-history.bsky.social (he/him)
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale advances interdisciplinary research to shape public policy and support democratic deliberation.
Econ prof University of Zurich.
Faculty affiliate at JPAL, CEPR, CESifo.
Board member IIPF, Helvetas, GAIN.
#EconSky
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Bologna. Behavioral Economics, Economic History, Political Economy.
history and politics @ oxford
climate, finance, spanish and english literature, etc
