I’m 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!

Meredith Paker appointed as Associate Professor in Economic and Social History

I’m excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January I’ll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where I’ll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls College.

Our working paper is out!

just 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

Good question! I have no idea!

Can’t 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

Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!

The 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...

Unsure 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 “jobs have rents” before industrialisation 

Grinnell 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 📉📈 www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

This website looks exactly like Twitter, hi!