"We provide a guide for researchers on how to estimate gene-environment (GxE) interplay, using school-starting age as a case study. We argue that gene-environment (G x E) studies can help (i) assess treatment effect heterogeneity, (ii) test theoretical predictions, and 👇 1/

How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper (with Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, and Jonathan Chapman @jnchapman-econ.bsky.social, we show that Justices of the Peace — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth. 🧵👇1/7

30 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS 🗣️Jonathan Chapman presents 'Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution' Chair: Steven Pincus ✍️ cepr.org/events/inter... #EconSky

Interested in doing a Marie Curie #postdoc fellowship in Italy @ UNIBO with me? Happy to supervise applications in social science genomics 🧬 health 🏥 and human capital 👩‍🏫 * Check whether you qualify marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... * Send me your CV and proposal * 🤞

Predoc opportunity available! Arthur Lewis Lab Predoctoral Fellow, The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester. 2 year position to be announced soon. In the meanwhile, informal enquiries / expressions of interest can be sent to Nuno Palma (by email, please.)

Experimental validation, which links economic preferences to choices in incentivized elicitations, may fail to produce reliable new measures, from Jonathan Chapman, Pietro Ortoleva, Erik Snowberg, Leeat Yariv, and Colin Camerer https://www.nber.org/papers/w33520

Submissions for the UNIBO Young economists workshop on social economy now open! Full info here: x.com/DSE_Unibo/st...

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 4-year postdoc position to work on my ERC project HARSH - Uncovering the Roots of Harsh Parenting. 📍 Dep. of Economics @DSE_Unibo, Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹 📅 Deadline: March 14, 2025 💡 Learn more and apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #econtwitter #econjobmarket #ejm