Iβm thrilled about all of the new opportunities this role will bring and deeply grateful to my amazing colleagues and students at Grinnell for all of their support the past three years!
02.09.2025 16:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@mmpaker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Grinnell College β’ PhD at Oxfordβ’ π¬π§ economic history, labor econ β’ views my own. www.meredithpaker.com
Iβm thrilled about all of the new opportunities this role will bring and deeply grateful to my amazing colleagues and students at Grinnell for all of their support the past three years!
02.09.2025 16:55 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January Iβll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where Iβll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls College.
02.09.2025 16:54 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1Our working paper is out!
16.06.2025 16:28 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0just attended a presentation of this paper in Lund -- excellent stuff! very exciting about new methods to grapple with problems with scarce data in economic history -- here, applied to wages in England since the 1200s.
thank you @mmpaker.bsky.social !
Thank you so much Erik! You have such a fantastic group at Lund @judyzara.bsky.social
18.03.2025 19:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Good question! I have no idea!
11.03.2025 11:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Canβt wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history
10.03.2025 02:40 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!
10.03.2025 02:39 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=462...
29.11.2023 18:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Unsure how this stuff flies in the bluesky, but obsessed as I am with monopsony in early modern labour markets, delighted to say that the important collaboration w @phwallis and @mmpaker has yielded doi.org/10.1017/S002... a paper that shows βjobs have rentsβ before industrialisation οΏΌ
15.11.2023 18:23 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Grinnell is hiring two tenure-track faculty this year (at any level) in macroeconomics, broadly construed. Reach out if you want to learn more about our generous research support, amazing undergrads, and lovely colleagues! #EconSky ππ www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
25.09.2023 21:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This website looks exactly like Twitter, hi!
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