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294-page working paper anyone? www.iza.org/publications...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

New Paper! Can temporary war mobilization reshape an economy in the long run? 📜 In a paper with @aneeshap.bsky.social, we study how World War II economic mobilization transformed India. Link: www.nber.org/papers/w33246

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Migration as an escape valve from Malthusian dynamics after the discovery of the New World! #MarginalRevolution - Societies with high fertility or late transition: larger diasporas! - Opening of valve (steamship) contributed to transition to modern growth! 👉 www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Migration as an escape valve from Malthusian dynamics after the discovery of the New World! #MarginalRevolution - Societies with high fertility or late transition: larger diasporas! - Opening of valve (steamship) contributed to transition to modern growth! 👉 www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of life? What would you remember as bringing satisfaction, meaning, and purpose to your life? These are the modest questions that David Lagakos, Stelios Michalopoulos and I try to answer by "interviewing" over 1,400 Americans.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I am an economist. I may not have read Marx or Smith, but I did read "Potty Training in 3 Days" - properly historicizing my son's own methods of knowledge production.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Léonard Wantchekon's autobiography is spectacular. What a life. Tortured by the regime in Benin in his student days. Years in prison. Escaped to Nigeria, then Côte d'Ivoire, from there to Canada. PhD at Northwestern, first job at Yale. Founder of the African School of Economics. Highly recommended 👇

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

If you're at ASSA, consider going to the ASREC session on Sunday 8-10am, where my co-author @romainwacziarg.bsky.social will be presenting our paper "Malthusian Migrations"!

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Additionally, historical institutions and differential human capital investments contribute to the Nigerian case. Interesting example of how a comprehensive understanding of economic, cultural, and historical factors is needed to explain within country differences link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Another edition of "All new work is elaborating on the old": an article in the latest QJE generates TFP estimates for England over six centuries & confirms the Nef Thesis of 1934. Before Crafts, before Wrigley, Nef had said most of it 90 years ago

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

🧵 (1/N) I love long-distance train rides. In 2024, I was fortunate to enjoy four long-distance train trips: Trip #1: 5283 km 🇺🇸 Trip #2: 2313 km 🇦🇺 Trip #3: 5551 km 🇺🇸 (minus 661 km) Trip #4: 3787 km 🇺🇸 A short thread 🧵

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

Day 2 of total shutdown of England. No trains, trams, or anything running in the entire country on xmas and boxing day. Just waiting for the zombie apocalypse now.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Teach them young! Look what I found in my toddler’s drawer. @worksinprogress.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

We are delighted to announce that @cergic.bsky.social will be hosting a 3-day Summer School in Empirical Research Methods The event will take place in Lyon from 1-3 July 2025 Program and additional information at www.cergic-lyon.fr/summer-school

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote for @nytimes.com about Manchester's disappearing music venues, and what happens when developers exploit a city's cultural legacy. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/r...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

This is really interesting so I’ll do a thread translating-summarizing it. 1/

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

I read Paul Seabright's great book for my JEL review traveling by train from Boston to Los Angeles ❤️ Pic #1: crossing the Hudson River: Albany, NY Pic #2: Chicago, IL Pic #3: Amtrak observation car through the Rockies Pic #4: clouds in New Mexico 👉 The review (pdf): www.aeaweb.org/articles/pdf...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

As always, amazing work from the @worksinprogress.bsky.social team!

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New Blog! 🚨 GDP is everywhere in development. But in Zambia in 2010, the national accounts were prepared by just one (1!) person. How much can we trust developing country GDP? A 🧵 and post on Morten Jerven's 2013 classic, Poor Numbers, on how African GDP is actually made—

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

🚨Job Market Paper Here! NOW ON BLUESKY!! Are we fully examining every aspect of contemporary agrarian reforms to understand their true impacts? In my JMP I analyze the effects of public land transfers (PLT) versus expropriations, the primary land allocation methods used in Latin America reforms

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Excitingly, I’m on @prospectmagazine.co.uk’s list of 2024 top thinkers. It’s great list but I’d be chuffed if people would vote for me: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/worlds... (like #Strictly, the judges produce a leader board but the public vote decides)

submitted 86 days ago • 23 comments

British universities lowering standards to maximize revenue? Who could have guessed? How shocking!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

We’re doing this again! If you’re a PhD student going on the job market and want your innovation-related paper to be included in the list, email a title, abstract, and link to [email protected] by the end of November mattsclancy.substack.com/p/innovation...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Turning off social media personalisation reduced toxic content exposure by 27%, BUT... Heavy consumers of toxic content just worked harder to find it - sharing what they found at higher rates & switching platforms. This suggests that algorithmic fixes alone won't solve online toxicity.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder why Austin landlords suddenly became a lot less greedy.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

You thought naming my paper "French" was a great idea? Me too! Until I found out Google Scholar can’t find it.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Peak District ⛰️

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great paper. With other papers, it's the solid beginning of a paradigm shift. Preference-based theories' paradoxes might be cognitive-based theories' regularities. Exactly as Saturn doesn't really invert its movement -- it just looks so from Earth. But we're not yet there. Small 🧵

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Hello #EconSky, Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity in the economics of Identity. Come work with Prof. @ammapanin.bsky.social and me at #UCLouvain. 2 days left to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against women is a major public health and inequality concern. It's not clear what causes it or how to reduce it. Gaby Deschamps' JMP considers that IPV is positively correlated with motherhood, and asks if we can understand why. www.gabrieladeschamps.com/research

submitted 93 days ago • 11 comments

I'm extremely grateful that "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) had such a strong 1st week! What is this book about? Why did I write it? Why should you care? A thread: 1/n

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments