The call for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, organized in Milan by @dondenacentre.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social, also with the support of ISPI, is now open! Early-career researchers, join us for this great experience! (deadline May 15).
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PEJ welcomes submissions to its collection “Selected papers on Microeconometrics” edited by João Santos Silva (U. Surrey).
Deadline: 31 July 2026
Learn more: link.springer.com/collections/...
(Submission guidelines and links in the comments)
#PortugueseEconomicJournal #EconSky #CallForPapers
Looking forward to talking at OCIS next week about the bright and dark side of pandemics and state capacity @oxford-esh.bsky.social #echist www.oxcis.ac.uk/events/levia...
What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years?
Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life.
It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood.
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Eradicating child stunting was a central feature of the modern health transition. A new paper reviews 923 child growth studies in 122 countries 1814-2016 to show massive decline in child stunting in the 20th century even in hi income countries & surprising heterogeneity in the regional trajectories.
isitcredible.com is my new website. You will find a public archive of automated reports on journal articles from across the full domain of human knowledge. You can also use it as a private service to get feedback on your own work.
It will be a huge honour to deliver the 2026 #HajnalLecture at the University of Manchester. It will also be something of a homecoming: Manchester was not only the place I grew up, it shaped my love of Economic History. #Manchester #EconHist @manchester.ac.uk #ArthurLewisLab @nunopgpalma.bsky.social
There is still time to apply for the 2026 Datini-Ester seminar on "Craft Guilds & Unions"! All PhD students working on these topics are welcome to apply! Join us in beautiful Prato (Tuscany) for this funded experience! (deadline November 15)
www.istitutodatini.it/ester/htm/ca...
And shoutout to former LSE Economic History staff and PhD students Stephen Broadberry,
@cliochris.bsky.social and @nunopgpalma.bsky.social who have been cited as well. The scientific statement can be found here: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025...
CALL FOR PAPERS
A workshop at LSE next April on 'Uses and Abuses of the Murdock Atlas in Social Science Research'. We're looking for cross-disciplinary engagement to think critically about what this widely used source means, what it can & can't tell us. Submit by Nov 14
www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...
Was thrilled to write this for @broadstreetblog.bsky.social (which I recommend for anyone interested in historical political economy)
www.broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-...
#EconSky Another reminder that European economic history was a core element in the training of early 20th century economists. Consider Howard Levi Gray and Edwin Francis Gay's course offerings for 1909-10 at Harvard... www.irwincollier.com/harvard-euro...
🥳 Shameless self-promotion annoucement!
Honored to have received the Figuerola Prize for the best article published in the European Review of Economic History in the last 2 years, for «Anatomy of a Premodern State», with Lenor F. Costa & António Henriques!
Did you know that 40% of big game hunters in the Americas were women, and so too were 40% of brewers in medieval London? Find out about women’s involvement in the economy from the Stone Age to the present in my new book #Economica - out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social #econhist
Want to read an “erudite, ambitious & richly global” book that “sets a new standard in economic history”? Then my forthcoming book #Economica is for you. If you’re in the UK, for tonight only you can get 25% off if you preorder @waterstones.bsky.social: www.waterstones.com/book/economi... #SUMMER25
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20556
Transplanting Craft Guilds to Colonial Latin America: A Large Language Model Analysis cepr.org/publications... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxford-esh.bsky.social #echist
Looking forward talking about “Controlling Contagion” at the Radboud Conference next week, and learning more answers to its key question: “How Did We Lift the Burden?” www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... @oxford-esh.bsky.social @timriswick.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
‼️Come join us for the RIDGE Growth and Development in Macro Workshop!
December 11-12 in beautiful Montevideo🇺🇾
Submission deadline 👉 September 30
More info & submission link 👉 ridge.org.uy/wp-content/u...
"After a natural experiment is first used, other researchers often reuse the setting, examining different outcome[s]..."
"...we use simulations based on real data to illustrate the multiple hypothesis testing problem that arises when researchers reuse natural experiments."
Hostility toward homosexuality remains common in many of the world’s largest countries—
This chart shows the share of people who say homosexuality cannot be justified across five of the world’s most populous countries.
Together, these countries are home to nearly half of the global population.
Just four weeks to go until the publication of my new book #ECONOMICA: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social on 28 August. It’s time to place women at the heart of economic history. #womenwealthpower #econhist
This figure shows the percent of political science articles that at least have a reproduction archive. {a pretty low bar in and of itself, but still}
Steady improvement, but still a long way to go!
Finally out in print: Testing Marx, with @charlottebartels.bsky.social and Niko Wolf! History of thought with numbers. Have a look: direct.mit.edu/rest/article... (open access)
Deadline tomorrow for the “New Economic History of Brazil” conference in September. Come join us in the historical district of Belém in Lisboa! Details: nofuturepast.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/c...
"Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution"
New @cepr.org discussion paper by Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, Jonathan Chapman, and @nunopgpalma.bsky.social cepr.org/publications...
We are looking to hire post-doc interested in working on migration, citizenship, and diaspora. Come join us in Münster! Generous contract + no teaching for 2 years.
Many details and link to job add here:
sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe...
Please PM me incase you have questions!
A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @arthurlewislab.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #echist
🧩 The takeaway?
Institutions also operate locally. Local legal actors — even unpaid ones — can shape economic trajectories in powerful ways.
The state was heavily involved with the First Industrial Revolution.
Link to the paper:
documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...
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JPs helped towns capitalize on the Industrial Revolution:
⚙️ Industrial towns near coalfields grew faster with more JPs;
📈 JPs helped enforce contracts, settle disputes, and foster trust;
The effects appear gradually over time! The choice of the outcome year is not critical.
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