Check out the April 2026 issue (24,2) of @jeeanews.bsky.social Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social
Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...
academic.oup.com/jeea/issue
A grim subject for most, but a pleasure for me to chat with the excellent @soumayakeynes.ft.com on the Economics Show of @financialtimes.com about three centuries of economic warfare and sanctions www.ft.com/content/2404...
In the past few weeks, I’ve shown Claude Code to (economist) friends & colleagues and, as a byproduct, created a presentation around using Claude Code for Economic Research. I‘ve now turned that presentation into a more in-depth blog post that you can find here: perikl.is/posts/2026/c...
Check out our new paper in SPPS.
#econsky TOMORROW (25 Mar): Behavioral & Experimental Economics Workshop!
Join us at 11am GMT/ 10pm AEDT and listen to Francesco (Bocconi), @nanakojoainooson.bsky.social
(UCapeCoast), Juan (TilburgU) & Feng (HongKongPolyU).
Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
I'm very excited that you all can now read about Itinerant Rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 919-1519 in the @ajpseditor.bsky.social! Thank you @claranw.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social and Jørgen Møller for a great collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Happy to see our paper "The Church as Arbiter" with @cboix.bsky.social now available online at @thejop.bsky.social. Here 👇
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ACES is pleased to accept applications for its 2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy, August 12-14 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Details and application instructions available here: conta.cc/4l2ox5I Application deadline April 15.
#Centralisation spreads responsibility thin; #autonomy concentrates it. In the European Journal of Political Economy, Ferraresi, Herrmann, Loiacono, Rizzo & Secomandi find that where town halls keep and manage most #tax the result is higher #income.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...
New post: “The printing press, identity, and the formation of diaspora in early modernity - my review of Sebouh Aslanian's book”
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
New submission format at SBE:
“Replications as Registered Reports”
link.springer.com/journal/1118...
You can get "in-principle acceptance" before data collection even begins; final paper gets published regardless the results, if the study is conducted rigorously.
#EconSky
Prof. Noel Johnson (GMU) on our co-authored work on the 1857 Rebellion and vaccine hesitancy in colonial India. #EconSky
Did a podcast on my research with @malikaltaf.bsky.social on the 1857 Rebellion, British massacres, and smallpox vaccine hesitancy in Colonial India. open.spotify.com/episode/6Qfw...
📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers
The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉
Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below)
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in The Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis,” by Almelhem, Iyigun, Kennedy, and Rubin (@jaredcrubin): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
![The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...]
Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:643p6z4ydk2xnwv77maa6eec/bafkreidctt57eseamimgzctkjtu2ly2vmsugcjwcrargerohe5bljg7jie)
The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...] Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.
This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
Just want to mention two articles of mine since we are talking about the hilariously-named "Credibility Revolution."
1. "Randomized Controlled History?" It explores design-based inference approaches to history and finds them mostly problematic. (www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...)
The world's time zones visualized on a spinnable, interactive globe.
Try out the code - it'll default to your current time zone and show you times around the world!
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries
Code: gist.github.com/walkerke/c4a...
Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
#Stata #geoboundary has been bumped to v1.22 to include #WorldBank 's latest official boundary data that now provides upto ADM2 level shapefiles.
Installations+code+more info on GitHub:
github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...
Up soon SSC!
More than a decade of effort went into this magnificent dataset. What an incredible public good. People need to know how hard it is to do rigorous empirical work in political science.
For our next seminar at the Demography Department at Cedeplar, UFMG, we have the extraordinary Ridhi Kashyap @ridhikashyap.bsky.social presenting. Don´t miss it! The Zoom link is below. We see you all tomorrow, October 8, at 2 pm Brazilian time 👇 💡
Zoom link: lnkd.in/e5UC-M54
#demography
🚨New Working Paper 🚨
Did Catholic missions have an impact on American Indigenous communities? Were the effects different depending on the origin of the missionaries? These are things I examine in this paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (1/6)
I am proud to announce that my book "As Gods Among Men. A History of the Rich in the West" has been awarded the Ranki Biennial Prize by the Economic History Association!😊👇
Now on Early View: 'Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)'.
By Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio & Mattia Fochesato.
@guidoalfani.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Why was the Irish Famine was so severe? Why did the North and South develop differently? Is Ireland ‘rich’?
If you want to find out, CEPH is pleased to announce that registration is open for our online course, "The Development of the Irish Economy". Register here:
ceph.ie/the-developm...
I'm excited to launch a YouTube channel about econometrics and practical coding / productivity tools. Please consider subscribing so that others can more easily find these resources!
www.youtube.com/@structurale...
Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Come and check out our next Formal Demography Working Group meeting with @phbocquier.bsky.social ! Sign up on our website to receive the link. If you have an ideia/paper/ work in progress you would like to present please feel free to reach out to us!
formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
