If Canadian universities had a bit of vision, they would be launching a Manhattan project to poach every US-based top researcher. And the federal government would be drastically expanding tri-council funding and creating an expedited review process for those holding NSF and similar grants.

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Educational inequality in prison admissions is now much greater than racial inequality for all major crime types, a pattern researchers link to the end of the war on drugs and shifts in the demand for low-education workers. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Broadstreet.blog is now on Substack!

📢 Broadstreet has relaunched its blog, now on Substack! We’re honoured to feature our research in the first post! "Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation and Contemporary Land Values" with @billywoom.bsky.social @tradecosts.bsky.social Check it out ! 🌍

New Broadstreet post! Featuring guest contributors @billywoom.bsky.social, @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social, and @tradecosts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico

It's not difficult to predict what the UK can expect in the near future.

📢 Excited to share new research with @billywoom.bsky.social, @pse.bsky.social, and Luis Baldomero Quintana L. @global-wm.bsky.social! In this @voxdev.bsky.social post, we explore how colonial legacies shape spatial inequalities and their implications for urban development today. 🌆🌇🏙️

JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...

Seán Kenny had me on his economic history podcast, available here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Just arrived on Bsky and this just out: "Comparative Development in Colonial Africa" guest edited by K. Frederick, F. Meier zu Selhausen, and D. Juif, published at the RHI-IHR. Articles by Chiseni-Bolt, @tomwestland.bsky.social, Alexopoulou-Frankema, and L. Dolan: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...