The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds significantly reduced armed conflict, suggesting it was successful in limiting rebel groups' ability to finance violent activities. @christinebinzel.bsky.social @dietmarfehr.bsky.social @andreaslink.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis. ‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Link & info in post #2.

✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17

Welcome to the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! We’re kicking off with Development Economics. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, incl. @saralowes.bsky.social as keynote and Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social as invited speakers. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk!

@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4. tinyurl.com/zzem65nx

Version 2 of my dropbox command is out. This tool locates a user’s Dropbox folder automatically and adds an option to search a secondary drive before moving to the primary one. Installation instructions at github.com/arpie71/drop.... (Thanks to @kevinhorourke.bsky.social for suggesting changes)

In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can winegrowing cause rural development? @wahlfabi.bsky.social and I have just published our little piece on this in the European Historical Economics Review! academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #econhist #economics #history

Join us for the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) Conference at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, September 4-6, 2025. Submission is open until February 15 via ehesconference.org

🚨 What are the long-term effects of imperialism & authoritarianism on voting behavior? 🚨 I recently gave a presentation that speaks to this question at Stanford University's @theeuropecenter.bsky.social. It’s based on a paper with D Gingerich. Here is the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Np...

📢 10th DENeB PhD Workshop 📢 happening June 6th, 2025, at @pik-potsdam.bsky.social! We’re excited to have Karlijn Morsink as our keynote speaker! A great opportunity for PhD students. Sponsored by Geo.X 🔗 Apply by March 10th, 2025, here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Full CfP in the comments ⬇️

Paper is: invention of modern innovation. Neffke et al They are going to ask how human societies learn as the sum of knowledge expands ideas.repec.org/p/egu/wpaper/2… 1/?

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

Have you been hearing the term 'Geoeconomics' everywhere lately but aren't quite sure what it really means? Then this paper has you covered and will tell you all about the current state of the literature www.ifw-kiel.de/publications...

Thema #Rente #GRV wird (zu Recht) wieder mal heiß diskutiert, auch Dank der tollen ZDF Doku (unten). Ich hatte vor zwei Jahren mit @martinwerding.bsky.social und Jörg Rocholl (BMFBeirat, ESMT) darüber gesprochen. youtu.be/gPC8eToIOlU?... www.zdf.de/dokumentatio...

Pls share: Davide Cantoni and me are looking for pre-doc research assistants to work on projects in international economics and econ history! For details, see: bit.ly/4gSNIVh

#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

An overview of recent empirical and methodological advances in the study of historical intergenerational mobility trends, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, and Tamar Matiashvili https://www.nber.org/papers/w33330

ADHD diagnoses of kids are 14% more likely on Halloween (62.7 per 10,000 child-visits) compared with surrounding weekdays (55.1 per 10,000). Kids are just more excited because it's the best holiday and doctors misdiagnose. www.nber.org/papers/w33232

Is your research in Historical Political Economy and are you based in Europe? @beckerbastian.bsky.social, @cathrinmohr.bsky.social and I seek to map the current state as well as the future potential of the field in Europe. Help us to do so by taking our 15-minute survey: forms.gle/kXXsGQZUVtrH...

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/...

Calling all theoretical and empirical political economy scholars! 📢 Join us in beautiful Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻 for the next EPCS Conference. We also welcome work on related topics like public econ, development or political science. ✍️ #EPCS2025 #PoliticalEconomy #Riga

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

My book "Paleoeconomics" is now available in online book stores. It offers a chronologically structured overview of the economics of prehistory from the first hominins to the rise of states in 3500 BCE. It builds on rapidly growing research in several fields. 1/6 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Apply and join our team to conduct pioneering research on international educational migration!

Our work on artisanal gold mining (#ASgM) is conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal! ASgM provides livelihoods for 130-270 million people. We assembled new data to estimate its (large) deforestation footprint. 🎇 📈📉 🌳 novafrica.org/wp-content/u...

On February 28, 2025, Utrecht University will host a #FRESH meeting on Empire and Economic Development Keynote lecture by Tirthanker Roy (LSE) Local organizers: Maanik Nath and John Tang More details in the below 👇

Why was Central Europe characterized by political fragmentation? I answer this question in my new article out in JHPE: nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

🚨Updated working paper! 🚨 I am happy to have the latest draft of this paper out. My coauthor, Jordan Adamson, and I created a new dataset on ancient battles in the ancient Mediterranean and we used it to examine conflict between 600 and 30 BCE. 🧵below: #EconSky

🚨 Call for Papers! The 2025 EAYE Annual Meeting is at King’s College London @KingsCollegeLon from May 27-29, 2025! Submit your extended abstracts or full papers and join top junior economists from around the world! 🗓️Deadline: December 1, 2024

🚨 Job Market Paper 🚨 If 6 million individuals *voluntarily* put themself in a life-and-death situation, what drove them to make that choice? My job market paper examines how perceived fairness affected the decision to voluntarily enlist in the US during WW2 #EconJMP #EconJMC #EconTwitter [1/8]

📣Hey #EconSky #EconJobMarket Join us on 7 Nov at 9am GMT/8pm AEDT for AYEW JMC Roundtable/Q&A Session! We have an amazing panel- Dr. @saraspaziani.bsky.social, Dr. Lisa Botbol and Prof. @essobecker.bsky.social -who will share insights/advice for the job market. Register: forms.gle/yHEs7ppZiHoU...

Thrilled to (finally) share my working paper on the electoral impact of French repatriates from Algeria. The Algerian War and the repatriation of over 1 million French Algerians (pieds-noirs) remain a sensitive and essential chapter for understanding French politics. shorturl.at/hh9Ro

31 Oct: Happy Reformation Day ⛪ 🧵An overview of some social science research on causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation (1/N)

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'd like to offer mentorship to a PhD student. I was blessed with a pretty high amount of support & kindness in my own PhD. That's a culture I value. Can offer support, interest, experience with the process. Note: I am early career, not an AP, not established. Form below

The Magna Carta is often mentioned in the literature on the effects institutions, in particular with regard to property rights. This column by Mark Koyama explains the development that led to the Magna Carta: open.substack.com/pub/markkoya...

Railroad network expansion in Germany increased creation of new ideas and formed specialized knowledge clusters. New ideas were formed by combining ideas from cities connected by railroad. But denser network meant that new ideas diffused less on average. www.caterinachiopris.com/_files/ugd/b...

The Dawes Act of 1887 forced assimilation and expropriated American Indians. It increased child & adult mortality by so much that life expectancy at birth declined by 20%. www.nber.org/papers/w33057

New paper with @jvoth.bsky.social "From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler" Click (pdf) 👉 lnkd.in/g2wtSvUm