Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

🚨2 PhD positions at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de 📝 APPLY NOW!!! ⏳ Deadline: 25 Oct 2025. Start date: January 2026 or later. 2x75% TV-L E13. Please share within your networks.🙏 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/5...

🚨 #CallForPapers We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Migration Forum. 🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025. Submit your work now and share with colleagues! #MigrationForum2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...

We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #EconSky

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 I'm excited to share my latest research, “Building Capacity in the Public Administration” (with @annagumpert.bsky.social ). We examine a key tool for building administrative capacity: seconding officials from high-capacity to low-capacity public administrations.

We have a new working paper: Using new data on individual bankruptcies from 19th Century Britain, we find that most bankruptcies occurred where the economy was booming. Check out Jean‘s great summary here!

If you're more broadly interested in how the legacies of historical industrialization have shaped both long-term shifts and contemporary regional inequality in Germany, you may also want to check out this very cool paper by @sebastiantbraun.bsky.social‬ et al. 👇 bsky.app/profile/seba...

Thrilled to see our paper “Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019” published in the Journal of Economic Growth! Shows that 19th-c. industrialization was a key driver of the shifts in regional prosperity across Germany over the past century. 🔓 Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

🎉 Exciting news! Our Cluster of Excellence @econtribute.bsky.social will be funded for another seven years by @dfg.de! We’re excited to continue our journey together. Many thanks to all involved! Find out more here: econtribute.de/funding-exte... #ExStra @unibonn.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

BeNA is on Bluesky! Since 2004, we’ve been connecting early-career labor economists in and around #Berlin. Follow us to stay up to date with the network and our events! #BeNA #laborEcon #econsky

Are you a PhD student or Postdoc working on topics in Empirical Economics? Please apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop 👇 ⏰ Deadline to apply: June 30, 2025.

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

REMINDER: I am looking for two PhD students to work with me on super exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education, joining an extremely vibrant environment in Munich, @ifoeducation.bsky.social & @econmunich.bsky.social 🤩🚀 Deadline in 11 days ⏰ #EconSky #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #JobAlert

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Come join me and my applied micro colleagues in St Andrews! We are looking for a full prof (chair) in applied micro! Feel free to drop me a note if you'd like to talk about the position. #EconSky www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

📣 We’re hiring! 📣 Join @woessmann.bsky.social and my team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social as a PhD student to conduct super-exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education 🤩🚀 Reach out if you have any questions! 💪🏻🙏🏻 @cesifo.org

Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.

Devastating news that @iza.org is effectively closing down 😔 It was (or at the moment, is) a wonderful institute and the network was tremendously helpful in dissaminating work in labour economics. IZA will sorely be missed 😢 So sorry for all IZA employees!

🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools in a hands-on-approach. Join us 11-22 August 2025!

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy" By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social

Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28

Vermögen ist in Deutschland ungleich verteilt. Was sind die Gründe dafür? Darüber diskutieren wir mit @charlottebartels.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social bei unserem virtuellen #ReStart Talk am 17. Februar! Infos und Anmeldung hier👉: econtribute.de/de/event/res... @barbaraboelmann.bsky.social

🚨 Reminder: Submission deadline is February 9th, 2025! Don't miss your chance to be part of the workshop. #Workshop #Deadline

🆕 RFBerlin-CReAM #DiscussionPaper by @essobecker.bsky.social, @pdavidboll.bsky.social, and @jvoth.bsky.social: "Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner’s Guide and a Stata Package" 🧵 (1/4)

📢 #CallForPapers @cepr.org and RFBerlin invite submissions for the RFBerlin-CEPR Annual #Symposium in #Labour Economics. Keynotes by: John Friedman (Brown U. & Opportunity Insights) and Heather Sarsons (UBC Economics & CEPR). 📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 More details & submit here: ow.ly/wZGK50U923u

📢We are hiring 📢 We look to fill a Postdoc position in Economic History! 5-year position funded by ERC project „Entrenched: Elite Capture and Social Mobility“ jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/1964 Deadline: Jan 17, 2025 Please spread widely! @econtribute.bsky.social #EconSky

Very nice summary of our new paper on how 19th-century industrialization led to economic decline post-WWII:

GER special issue on new data frontiers in German Economic History, with excellent contributions on population and fertility, innovation and patenting, foreign trade, financial markets, and economic inequality 👇 www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...

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/...

Our latest research with Toman Barsbai and Christoph Winter is now forthcoming in JOLE! 📄 We explore how labor market conditions at arrival shape migrants’ integration, showing that arriving during recessions pushes migrants into lower-paying jobs—a persistent effect lasting over 10 years.

Powerful map illustrating 100 years of economic change in West Germany, from this paper by Paul Berbée, @sebastiantbraun.bsky.social and Richard Franke: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉 The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run. 📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] See thread below:

And another starter pack for those of you who are interested in German economic history, including economists and economic historians who have worked on topics related to German economic history... go.bsky.app/U3ibbB

Thrilled to see that our paper (w/ Jan Stuhler) on the labor market careers of war widows after 1945 has now been published in JPubE. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on migration economics! Check it out: go.bsky.app/39gHy57 Feel free to nominate yourself or others to add to the list!

Thrilled to see that our paper (w/ Jan Stuhler) on the labor market careers of war widows after 1945 has now been published in JPubE. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...