Do the preindustrial roots of gender inequality lie in exogenous forces or also in human institutions? “Dividing the Spoils: Inheritance Institutions and Gender Inequality before Industrialization” @felixschaff.bsky.social @cepr.org ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬ cepr.org/publications...

NEW PAPER in JEconGrowth 👁 What did the Protestant Reformation do to wealth & inequality? link.springer.com/article/10.1... (This project goes back to my job market days @lseechist.bsky.social — glad to finally see it published!)

What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Writing in The Economist, @politicsoxford.bsky.social's @tabouchadi.bsky.social i argues that the Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy: ow.ly/ZCwv50VCpE4

Had fun podcasting with Tyler Cowen on “Controlling Contagion”, guilds, and the persistence of bad institutions @PrincetonUPress @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/she...

Apply for a 3-year PhD position (75%) in our DFG project on the triangle of German Democratic Capitalism w/ @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @trgn.bsky.social What is the interplay between the German growth model, housing & voting behavior? How did industrial change affect inequality?

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

Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news… press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Paper in Explorations in Economic History by @guidoalfani.bsky.social, #NuffieldCollege Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Victoria Gierok and Felix Schaff #EconSky #EconomicHistory

New work by @guidoalfani.bsky.social et al., "Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the beginning of industrialization," Explorations in Economic History, 2024. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Expands Alfani's findings that the greater economic equality after the Black Death was real.

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/...

I made a "starter pack" for economic and financial historians! Let me know if I need to add someone to the list! go.bsky.app/FdNNFQD