I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

We are thrilled to welcome our new members on the advisory board of @rhi-ihr.bsky.social !! (@rug.nl, @middecon.bsky.social, @melanie-xue.bsky.social)

Drawing on sources like Civil War records and ancient Chinese poetry, economic historians @andyferrara.bsky.social & @melanie-xue.bsky.social discuss how their work informs contemporary debates on the economic dimensions of gender and race. egc.yale.edu/news/260119/...

New NBER working paper with Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs. I'd never found a review article on this topic that met my needs as a PhD class reading, so we sought to fill this gap. NBER : www.nber.org/papers/w34605 Ungated: seemajayachandran.com/womens_power_JEL.pdf

Joel Mokyr at Nick Crafts 70th birthday conference in 2019 at @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social

Big day for LSE and Economic History! Philippe Aghion (LSE Econ), Peter Howitt and Economic Historian Joel Mokyr were awarded this year's Sverige Riksbank (Nobel) Prize. On top of that, our recent PhD graduate (2024) @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social has been cited in the scientific statement 🥳

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL). I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome! seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

Now on the Long Run: 'Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire' by Melanie Meng Xue (LSE) & Boxiao Zhang (Renmin) ehs.org.uk/imperial-chi...

Cool 🧵 by @melanie-xue.bsky.social elsewhere — reminded me of buying a book called “China’s Examination Hell” for someone starting NY bar exam prep. x.com/Melanie_Xue/...

How did the Qing use medicine to strengthen the empire? Chinese medical and political/economic history... join us at the IHR/online on Tuesday 6 May to hear Yitong Qiu (UCL). register www.history.ac.uk/events/rulin...

This #ScholarSunday take some time to read my latest paper in the EHR ✅ Iron age trade ✅ Reconstructed trade routes ✅ The resource curse ✅ Ancient export led growth ✅ Verifying Pliny’s great complaint A throwback to a more globalised time... #EconSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We look forward to welcoming @melanie-xue.bsky.social of @lseechist.bsky.social to @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for Friday's @quceh.bsky.social seminar: ​Enlightenment Under Autocracy: The Origins of Liberalism in China ceph.ie/events/28-03... #EconSky #Economics #EconomicHistory #NSRPproject

Tomorrow Xizi Luo will present our joint work at the Cambridge History of Memory and Emotions Workshop! Looking forward to it