Jean Lacroix

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

📢 Virtual Workshop on French Economic History

At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present:

“Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali”

Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.

I had a great time ! As usual with this group, great atmosphere and great comments!

Thanks a lot for hosting me!

📢 New initiative: we are launching a monthly virtual seminar in French Economic History to share and discuss the latest research in the field!

🌍 Open to all interested in #econhist.

👉 Info & updates: sites.google.com/view/vwfhe/h...

This workshop is co-organised by
@pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @victorgayeco.bsky.social, @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, @thomasbaudin.bsky.social, @mariebgl.bsky.social‬.

Members of #econhist, @echistsoc.bsky.social, @theehes.bsky.social — please circulate! Many of you may be interested 🙌

Happy to share this great news! For a summary of the paper, read @pgmeon.bsky.social great thread here 👇🏻

Comments welcome!!

We use data on bankruptcies during the rail expansion in 19th century Britain. In a small geographic cell, a connection to the rail increased employment and bankruptcies in manufacturing. Market integration triggered organizational changes in this sector. Some workers exited as a result.

New Working Paper with the amazing @korntob.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/CESifoWPLocal.

It is also my first CESifo Working Paper.

In short: We study "local reallocation": the exit of some workers from production even though employment increases in the same area and industry.

A short explanation 👇

You want to know more about a sadly topical issue? Join us for the "Divided Societies at War" session at #EPSA2025 (room -1.A.03). Chaired by @emmylindstam.bsky.social.

More info: coms.events/epsa2025/dat...

Excited to join @cesifo.org ! A dynamic and policy-oriented network! My stay there was super stimulating!

You can there discover the work of our PhD students!

This is a joint workshop organized with @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, Felipe Starosta de Waldemar, @jwolfersberger.bsky.social, Hugo Molina, financially supported by @univparissaclay.bsky.social.

A short reminder that there are only 12 days left to apply for PhD positions at @cergic.bsky.social at ENS de Lyon!

Come and work with @sophiehatte.bsky.social, @elisamougin.bsky.social, @jadeponsard.bsky.social and many more!

www.cergic-lyon.fr/joinus

Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be held in London on Nov 6-7, 2025. Organized by @nicolasajz.bsky.social, Cevat Aksoy and myself.

The submission deadline is July 4. Apply here (and share widely):

sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

I had a blast! Thanks for the comments.

🧵Tentative de cartographie des élections législatives de 1848, les premières après la Révolution de Février et la proclamation de la Deuxième République.

⬇️1ère carte : nuance en tête par canton.

Looking forward to it. Don't hesitate to write me if you are in Dublin and want to have a chat. I will stay until the 25th.

Public trust in science is more important than ever. But what happens when scientists openly share their political opinions on social media?

Our updated paper with @eleala.bsky.social & @walraslaw.bsky.social shows how academics’ political expression affects their credibility

Democratic norms can be internalized and transmitted within families. We observe that in 1940 France with @jeanlacroix.bsky.social & @koosterl.bsky.social 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hi all, the APSR is now also here: @apsrjournal.bsky.social (please, RT or whatever it's called here).

Tried to put together a list of pol econ people (both theory and empirics) on bsky: go.bsky.app/UhWxdmh

Probably missing a lot of names: let me know who I should add!

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITIES 🚨

We are looking for an assistant professor (fixed-term) and PostDocs (1-2 yrs) for our new Political Economy of Global Development Lab.

AP job Posting here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... and, 1-2 years post doc, www.ivr.uni-stuttgart.de/dokumente/Po...

Please share widely!

Workshop Call 📢📢

Second edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop.

The organizers are @didacqueralt.bsky.social and me and we'll have Ken Scheve (Yale) as keynote speaker.

In Barcelona on July 8 and 9, 2024.

Send us your papers by March 7:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hey, first post here :)
Gael Le Mens and I just uploaded a paper about scaling political text using ChatGPT. This approach is fast, cost-efficient, and reliable. We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2311.16639

Looking forward! And see you there!!

After a successful kickoff event, the virtual workshop in HPE is resuming next Thursday (Oct 5) with an exciting paper by
@maajanmor.bsky.social and Carles Boix titled “Social Democracy and the Birth of Working-Class Representation in Europe”. Discussant comments by Alex Fouirnaies.

I am new to the other side and excited to discover new interesting researchers! Do not hesitate to indicate me which interesting people I should follow around here!