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Looking for a postdoc for next year? I'm looking for candidates for a Marie Curie fellowship, please apply if you're interested in labor markets, gender and fertility: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

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Why is MENA witnessing an exceptionally rapid collapse in marriage and fertility? My next essay introduces my new theory. Complimentary subscription to my blog to anyone who knows my answer 🙂

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Firing the federal workforce like this is illegal and hurts our national security, our communities, and our economy. It costs you money.

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Campop blog #36: Who did older people live with in the pre-industrial English past? Richard Smith shows that, as today, they lived independently for as long as possible, and rarely moved in with married children @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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I did my first consultancy for someone producing historical fiction this week. More people should write fiction about mining!

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Hadn't appreciated Indonesia's stunning progress against $2.15 poverty: 75% poor 1984, less than 2% 2023. (Or if you prefer: 142m people in 1998, 5m people 2023) pip.worldbank.org/country-prof...

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Three fully-funded PhD fellowships. Proposals on “History of Knowledge” theme, linking it to the History of Capitalism research group, and focusing on the history of innovation and IP (copyright, patents, trade marks) are particularly welcome. Open geographical & temporal scope from 1500 - present

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"Del 'milagro' a la realidad: Dictadura, transición y democracia desde la historia económica" -- ahí estaremos el próximo 24 de febrero, con algunos colegas como @paularodmod.bsky.social, debatiendo sobre la economía del franquismo y la transición. ¡Quedáis invitados!

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It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

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Las tasas de masculinidad al nacer en España (sex ratio at birth) alcanzaron valores muy altos a principios de los 80s (108-109 niños por cada 100 niñas). ¿Qué estaba pasando?

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Sharing a dataset with the number of boys and girls in Europe between 1841 and 1911: 21 countries, 1080 regions, 10 age-groups (23,260 observations in total): sites.google.com/view/missing...

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Call for papers, #Gretl Conference. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/busi...

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Can't recommend this workshop enough!

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🚨 We are hiring for an Assistant Professor in Rural and Agricultural Economics! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50152/ #econsky

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As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

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In December 2024, 223 new R-packages were published on CRAN. TwoTimeScales is one of the top 40 packages according to Joseph Rickert. Shutout to @egorkotov.bsky.social and his spanishoddata also appearing among the top 40! 🤩🥳 www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/dece...

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USA vs Australia and Great Britain, 1800 - 2015. Source, Maddison Project.

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There is just one more week until the deadline to apply for the Postdoc position in Economic History! #EconSky

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2025 démarre en beauté pour le séminaire Expertises économiques et actions environnementales, avec une séance sur l'actualisation avec @undercoverhist.bsky.social et Liliana Doganova 🤩 Vendredi 10/01, 11h-13h, Mines Paris et Visio Détails t.ly/LZ2Gy Inscriptions t.ly/jthg8

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Last publication of last year, with Pavel Kuchar (#9 together) in Oeconomia: The Knowledge Gap in Economics: What Does the Public Know about the Economy and What Do Economists Know about the Public? In it we respond to the widespread belief that the public is economically ignorant: "They aren't!"

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The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)

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Enrollment is now open for the 4th edition of the Master's in Computational Social Sciences at UC3M! No prior knowledge of programming or stats is needed—perfect for social sciences grads. Questions? Contact us or ask to be connected with our student ambassadors! Please, share!

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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

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A reminder that the ESR is inviting papers for a special issue on “Energy, Environment and Climate Change Economics” edited by Dr. Niall Farrell @esri.ie, Dr. Kelly de Bruin @esri.ie and Dr. Jason Harold (UniGalway). Details below, submission deadline of Feb 14th 2025 www.esr.ie/index.php/es...

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FRED finally gets its due! Everybody Loves FRED: How America Fell for a Data Tool www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

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Visiting Research Fellowship 2025 at the University of Glasgow Library! - Applications Now Open through 📅 January 6 w/ 🥁 ... the Scottish Business Archive, one of the largest #bizhis archive in Europe, https://buff.ly/4eY5nJp ℹ️ 👉 https://buff.ly/4ijiOXf

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We’re hiring two predocs / research assistants at @cephie.bsky.social @quceh.bsky.social hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

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Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola

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#EconPhD students of the world: submit! This is an amazing PhD conference, year after year, organized by a fantastic crew of @warwickecon.bsky.social PhD students 👇

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Why must overleaf be down during a morning where I was eager to work on stuff 😭

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I was traveling yesterday, so, the #GretlEconHis #AdventCalendar starts today. I will upload an Economic History database in #Gretl format until the 24th. github.com/Tamboduc/Gre...

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Who else but the French would have a graphic of the most ephemeral prime ministers?!

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Please share widely! We have two open postdoctoral positions in my lab: lopezuribelab.com/join-the-lab/ Some details below👇👇👇

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I was traveling yesterday, so, the #GretlEconHis #AdventCalendar starts today. I will upload an Economic History database in #Gretl format until the 24th. github.com/Tamboduc/Gre...

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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/...

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#Polisky folks: Bocconi University is looking for AP in Environmental Politics & Policy 🌏 Offer: Great group of political scientists working at awesome social science university in a fabulous city 🙌 🚨 Deadline: 30th of November Please share 🔁 Apply 🔗 & ℹ️ : jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?type=&dep=SPS

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We are now on @bsky.app - please follow us if you are interested in business, economic or financial history.

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Excited to debut my new paper, "Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits,” joint with @cortesgustavos.bsky.social. We document that building permits predict financial market volatility across a century of U.S. economic history. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=485...

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Call for expressions of interest: #PhD in #economichistory, Iberus Inter.Doc #MSCA action @marrv.bsky.social and I are looking for a candidate to apply for a Ph.D position at UPNA, project: #Energy Inertia: the path dependence of previous investments in our current and future energy systems

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Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany? I am scouting! Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13. www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

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Submitting a descriptive paper from a Harvard zip code be like

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Call for expressions of interest: #PhD in #economichistory, Iberus Inter.Doc #MSCA action @marrv.bsky.social and I are looking for a candidate to apply for a Ph.D position at UPNA, project: #Energy Inertia: the path dependence of previous investments in our current and future energy systems

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