📢 #CallForPapers - The Economics of Longevity and Ageing 9-11 July 2026 | University of Cambridge Deadline: 27 February 2026 Organisers: Martin Ellison @oxfordecondept.bsky.social, Tiernan Evans @eitoxford.bsky.social, Eric French cepr.org/events/econo... #EconSky

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

COUNTDOWN The Number One demographic fact of 2025: The US birth rate for women ages 40-44 (12.7 per 1000) is now higher than for those ages 15-19 (12.6) bsky.app/profile/phil... Happy New Year!

There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality" by Tine M. Eriksen, Amanda P. Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, and Peter R. Thingholm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🆕 How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil Today on VoxDev, Vinicius Cicero (Denison University) & Laura Heras-Recuero (American University) discuss how commodity booms deepened inequality in Brazil: https://ow.ly/1Gln50XLkzV

IT LIVES! First draft: 2011 This draft: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xh3sg... In between: 12 years of being under review (of which half are on us). +1 coauthor. For me personally: a few moves, a few jobs, a few kids.

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8-hour workday led to + employment in Denmark, especially among unskilled & female workers. Earnings fell in provincial towns but less in Copenhagen, where union membership was higher & wages rose to offset shorter hours. M Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, C Worm Hansen cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

super happy that @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and I have been awarded a grant from the Swedish Research Council! It's a three year project called "Top incomes, inequality and economic change: Sweden, 1911–1950" -- the abstract is in the image. I think that this can lead to some interesting research! 🤓

Great talk by Marius Fredagsvik Gunnesmo at Lund EKH’s “Makromackan” seminar today! About the labour market effects of the 8 hour working day reform in Denmark in 1919. Read the WP here: cepr.org/publications...

I usually don’t share personal things, but this one is different, so I’ll make an exception: Today I got tenure. I’m very happy and relieved at the same time, and grateful to those who supported me along the way.

Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print @theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨 In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->

📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜 What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox? My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%. 🧵👇 1/6

🚨 We're hiring (again)! @sdueconhist.bsky.social is looking for both a Predoc and a Postdoc (3-yr fixed-term AP) to join our growing team. Predoc: 👉 Apply by May 16 here: bit.ly/hedg-predoc Postdoc / Assistant Professor 👉 Apply for by May 22 here: bit.ly/hedg-ap #EconSky #EconRA

Both positions are part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded project. The Predoc will also collaborate with Volha Lazuka and support the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) @sdueconhist.bsky.social . Come join our dynamic and talented group at SDU! 🧠📈

Call for Applications: DAAD Guest Professorship in Health Economics Spend winter term 2025/26 at CINCH in Essen – collaborate, teach, and enjoy a vibrant research environment. Deadline: May 1, 2025 Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social #healtheconomics #econsky #teachecon

"Want to understand how local and national politics intertwine to shape old-age pension systems? Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies? Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?

🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨 1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas 2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth www.nber.org/papers/w33542 @nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social

after years in the making (/w @anthonywray.bsky.social) it's finally out in JHR: jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/1.... We show long-run (education, disability, and occupation) and intergenerational (father-son) effects of lower health capital in childhood using sibling-FE design and some cool data.

What is an important fact about the world that you wish more people would know? Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life. And here is my article about it. ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...