J.M.W. Turner – “Going to School, for Rogers's 'Poems'” and the quantitative landscape of vocational training and education in Britain
New paper alert 🚨 🚨
Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England
Together with co-authors @sdepleijt.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social, we set out to solve one of the most intriguing puzzles of the Industrial Revolution
Finally in print in the JEH: Nikolaus Wolf and I study the Congress of Vienna as a natural experiment that changed European borders and may have left Prussia with the geography that would unify the German Empire. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚨Video ist Online
(Rechts-)Populismus: Altes Problem, junge Stimmen
youtu.be/fkkVFYv_cL8?...
🙏 an Luisa, @juliusk.bsky.social und @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
Hat Spaß gemacht und ich habe auch was dazugelernt!
Natural resources, including alluvial minerals such as diamonds, have been at the centre of brutal wars in Africa. This column evaluates one of the first schemes aimed at preventing the illicit exploitation of natural resources to promote peace: the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The introduction of the diamond certification scheme significantly reduced armed conflict. Rebel groups were less likely to engage in armed conflict, and their operations became geographically more concentrated. This suggests that the certification scheme was successful in limiting rebel groups’ ability to finance violent activities.
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds significantly reduced armed conflict, suggesting it was successful in limiting rebel groups' ability to finance violent activities.
@christinebinzel.bsky.social @dietmarfehr.bsky.social @andreaslink.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨
At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis.
‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️
Link & info in post #2.
✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍
✅YES‼️
Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎
We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior
🧵 👇 1/17
Na das war letztes Jahr ja auch nicht anders ;) (Dortmund im Finale)
Welcome to the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! We’re kicking off with Development Economics. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, incl. @saralowes.bsky.social as keynote and Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social as invited speakers. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk!
@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4.
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
Version 2 of my dropbox command is out. This tool locates a user’s Dropbox folder automatically and adds an option to search a secondary drive before moving to the primary one. Installation instructions at github.com/arpie71/drop.... (Thanks to
@kevinhorourke.bsky.social for suggesting changes)
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some wine grapes
Can winegrowing cause rural development? @wahlfabi.bsky.social and I have just published our little piece on this in the European Historical Economics Review! academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #econhist #economics #history
Join us for the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) Conference at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, September 4-6, 2025. Submission is open until February 15 via ehesconference.org
🚨 What are the long-term effects of imperialism & authoritarianism on voting behavior? 🚨
I recently gave a presentation that speaks to this question at Stanford University's @theeuropecenter.bsky.social. It’s based on a paper with D Gingerich.
Here is the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Np...
📢 10th DENeB PhD Workshop 📢 happening June 6th, 2025, at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social!
We’re excited to have Karlijn Morsink as our keynote speaker!
A great opportunity for PhD students. Sponsored by Geo.X
🔗 Apply by March 10th, 2025, here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Full CfP in the comments ⬇️
Paper is: invention of modern innovation. Neffke et al
They are going to ask how human societies learn as the sum of knowledge expands
ideas.repec.org/p/egu/wpaper/2…
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🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in 🧵 (1/n)
Have you been hearing the term 'Geoeconomics' everywhere lately but aren't quite sure what it really means? Then this paper has you covered and will tell you all about the current state of the literature www.ifw-kiel.de/publications...
Thema #Rente #GRV wird (zu Recht) wieder mal heiß diskutiert, auch Dank der tollen ZDF Doku (unten). Ich hatte vor zwei Jahren mit @martinwerding.bsky.social und Jörg Rocholl (BMFBeirat, ESMT) darüber gesprochen.
youtu.be/gPC8eToIOlU?...
www.zdf.de/dokumentatio...
Pls share: Davide Cantoni and me are looking for pre-doc research assistants to work on projects in international economics and econ history! For details, see: bit.ly/4gSNIVh
#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
An overview of recent empirical and methodological advances in the study of historical intergenerational mobility trends, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, and Tamar Matiashvili https://www.nber.org/papers/w33330
ADHD diagnoses of kids are 14% more likely on Halloween (62.7 per 10,000 child-visits) compared with surrounding weekdays (55.1 per 10,000).
Kids are just more excited because it's the best holiday and doctors misdiagnose.
www.nber.org/papers/w33232
Is your research in Historical Political Economy and are you based in Europe? @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @cathrinmohr.bsky.social and I seek to map the current state as well as the future potential of the field in Europe. Help us to do so by taking our 15-minute survey: forms.gle/kXXsGQZUVtrH...
If you are interested in working with historical German data, this special issue of the German Economic Review gives an overview of existing research and available dataset, including our article on patent data (co-author: Jochen Streb):
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
Calling all theoretical and empirical political economy scholars! 📢 Join us in beautiful Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 for the next EPCS Conference.
We also welcome work on related topics like public econ, development or political science. ✍️ #EPCS2025 #PoliticalEconomy #Riga
Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...
My book "Paleoeconomics" is now available in online book stores. It offers a chronologically structured overview of the economics of prehistory from the first hominins to the rise of states in 3500 BCE. It builds on rapidly growing research in several fields. 1/6 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Apply and join our team to conduct pioneering research on international educational migration!
The image shows the front page of the paper. The paper is titled "Artisanal mining in Africa. Green for Gold?" authored by Victoire Girard, Teresa Molina-Millan, and Guillaume Vic and its abstract reads as follow: The livelihoods of 130 to 270 million people depend on artisanal mining. Artisanal mining is a labor-intensive, often illegal, extractive activity. We combine geological knowledge and a source of exogenous temporal variation to construct the first proxy for artisanal gold mining in Africa – the main form of artisanal mining. We establish that an increase in the potential value of artisanal mining is a significant driver of deforestation. The historical increase in the gold price accounts for 8% of deforestation continent-wide, 28% in gold suitable areas. In parallel, artisanal mining increases local economic wealth and may provide an alternative livelihood in case of weather shock jeopardizing agricultural output. Finally, mining-induced deforestation seems rooted more in the direct clearing of trees for the activity than in indirect deforestation triggered by increased local demand.
Our work on artisanal gold mining (#ASgM) is conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal!
ASgM provides livelihoods for 130-270 million people. We assembled new data to estimate its (large) deforestation footprint. 🎇 📈📉 🌳
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