So, as was recently announced, I'll be dealing with all of the great working papers flowing into this series in the future. Keep them coming! ehes.org/working-pape...

Wonder what has been happening with this for the past year? In August I gave this presentation at the Data Intensive Research Conference at IPUMS. In brief, OccCANINE is now better and more robust. For now, check the video: youtu.be/pwq1E6087vE?...

What a pleasure to chair a fantastic session on advanced methods at the WEHC in Lund with @cedricchambru.bsky.social — and to learn about fancy work in NLP, census linking, and more!

A true pleasure visiting the @camunicampop.bsky.social group to discuss my research on the effect of first nature Geography on Economic Development. (1/3)

Did you eat butter this Easter? Was it Lurpak? 🧈 New publication in Business History. It naturally leads to a little reflection I would like to share with you. And it also leads to a small corner of economic history that needs reinterpretation🧵

📢 New publication alert! Paul Sharp, @christianvedel.bsky.social e, @xenia-tsoukli.bsky.social , and Eoin Mclaughting have published a new article: "Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War"🇮🇪🇩🇰🐮

#SophieYiwenLi @christianvedel.bsky.social #PaulSharp #TorbenJohansen @mjdcurtis.bsky.social #SarahWashbrook #GregoryClark @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social are attending the @EcHistSoc conference at the University of Strathclyde on April 4-6.🇬🇧 #EHS2025

My brilliant colleague's paper is finally available in working paper form. It is an important piece of the puzzle in understanding the intellectual origin our modern world. Julius essentially measures the 17th century scientific revolution using modern NLP tools. Absolutely fascinating!

📢 We're Hiring! 📢 I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @sdueconhist.bsky.social to work on research in health care, education, and medical innovation in the US. 👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk 👉Deadline: 7 April Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq

Thursday and Friday was the 14th annual workshop on Growth, History and Development. But this year was different. This year marks the 150 year anniversary of women's access to university in Denmark. And what an obvious theme for a workshop on economic history. (1/x) @sdueconhist.bsky.social

Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.

Instruktøren for kryolit-dokumentaren tager til genmæle i P1 Orientering - men svarene er langt fra overbevisende: www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-or... For mig at se er dokumentaren et eksempel på misinformation, som det oftest praksiseres i politik og på sociale medier. 🧵 (1/4)

Have other university ITs become just as overzealous or are we blessed with a particularly impossible setup? in recent years, under the disguise of cybersecurity, we have gradually lost all authority over our work computers (e.g., what software to access) & now everything is subject to bureaucracy.

Real footage of a synthetic control model

New working paper on the Milk Wars in early 20th century Ireland. We look at the role of creamery competition in aggravating violence in the Irish countryside during the war of independence ehes.org/working-pape...

job opening in copenhagen:

#EconHist

Great workshop on historical microdata at CES/LMU today! Look forward to the rest of it tomorrow. Image from lunch at Munich's Englisher Garten. Presentations included, among others: @mreiske.bsky.social @christianvedel.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social @cathrinmohr.bsky.social

We are now live in this place as well. Follow for updates on Economic History research from our group of curious economic historians and posts related to it.

CfP: 14th Annual Workshop on Growth, History, and Development 1/ 📚 Join us as we reflect on 150 Years of Women’s University Education in Denmark (1875–2025)! This year’s theme celebrates progress, explores ongoing challenges, and envisions future directions for women in academia and beyond.

This platform has grown explosively since the election, but growth has slowed down the past few days. Should we be concerned? No. A temporary plateau was inevitable given the heterogeneity of social media users. From my point of view Bluesky is already over the hump 1/

Tweeting is the generic term for posts on twitter-like platforms. You can tweet on Threads, Mastodon, X and BlueSky - and a number of other platforms yet to be invented. Currently my favorite Twitter is BlueSky.

I thought I was safe. I thought it was over.

Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Looking to hire a talented and dedicated econometrician? I highly recommend Nadja van't Hoff. We collaborated with Arthur Lewbel on "LiM and the CC-LATE", R&R at the REStat. In her JMP, she develops novel identification results for settings with non-binary, ordered treatments. nadjavanthoff.com

Denmark becomes first country in world to introduce climate tax on livestock emissions, also agreement on N reduction and land use change, supported by broad majority in Parliament and main farmer organisation. Yes, there are criticisms but still extraordinary achievement

There are now FIVE economic-history-related starter packs, listed in order of their emergence...: EH1 @benmschneider.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... EH2 @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... Historical Political Economy @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack...

🚨New publication alert!🚨 Blue Sky has been growing fast lately—a testament to how platforms adapt and thrive in dynamic environments. Adaptability for SoMe users, but even more for industries facing challenges like energy crises. We explore adaptation to the WWI energy crisis in a new paper🧵👇 (1/7)

My research focuses on two broad areas: (i) the role of human capital in economic development, and (ii) innovative starter packs that 3-4 people care about.

🚨New language model for historical occupations🚨 OccCANINE is a new tool, which turns occupational descriptions (in all their pesky variety) into standard HISCO codes. Accurate, multilingual and fast. Developed by Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen, and myself (1/12)

Our group is looking for a 3-year postdoc with expertise in Health Economics to work on a project with my wonderful colleague Seetha Menon (www.seetha-menon.com) , consider applying! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Wonder what I have been doing since I finished my PhD? Together with my coauthor Christian M. Dahl, I have been working on the refinement of an algorithm to automatically classify HISCO codes from occupational descriptions (1/3). youtu.be/vQh4MiUR4Xo?...