Given the increasing geopolitical interest in the Arctic, here is some classical music to match: the stunningly beautiful "Cantus arcticus" by Einojuhani Rautavaara ❤️ open.spotify.com/track/5gyMOu...

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Hey #EconTwitter! We are now accepting submissions for Season 12 of the Applied Young Economist Webinar! Deadline: Sunday, 25 January 2026 Submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… (Email us your paper if you cannot access it) Details below⬇️

Incredible how little attention this is getting outside Germany. "In its third full day, a ... power failure in Berlin resulting from an arson attack...tens of thousands...making do without heat, electricity, cellphone service & warm food or drinks." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w...

The #QJE received 2,212 new submissions during 2024:Q4 – 2025:Q3. 1,524 (69%) submissions were desk rejected and 688 were sent to referees. If sent to referees, median days to first decision = 34.5, mean days = 39, max days = 98. Thank you for your submissions, and to our referees!

This is quite funny 🤣 @assameeting.bsky.social

These are great panels! Please join us if you can. The autocracy panel features papers by 1. Liu, @luozhaotian.bsky.social, Qiu, & @shuyiyu.bsky.social 2. @jackpaine.bsky.social 3. @fantinity.bsky.social, Ritter, & Shadmehr 4. Zhaotian (again), @spantoja.bsky.social, & me

Three SIOE @sioecon.bsky.social sessions on Sat 3rd Jan 2026 at @assameeting.bsky.social Philadelphia 0800-1000: Education, Immigration, and Knowledge Diffusion 1015-1215: Econometric Issues in Comparative Economics 1430-1630: Models of Autocracy See you there!

This has made me cry - such an uplifting story

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

QS ranking requests are going out. If you need reminding about how awesome Warwick is, have a look at this website: warwick.ac.uk/about/excell...

The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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 ->

AASLE is happy to announce that #AASLE2026 will be organised by @pku1898.bsky.social in Beijing, China 10-12 December 2026. More details will follow soon and the call for papers will be announced in April 2026; stay tuned! #EconSky

This week we're very honored to have @essobecker.bsky.social from @warwickecon.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social visiting us! 🤩 On Thursday, Sascha will give a seminar on "Colonialism Inc.: The Private Interests Behind Germany's Imperial Ambitions". Welcome to Växjö! www.sobecker.de

After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply: HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW? In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?

Over the course of several Saturdays, I ran (alone) or walked (with family/colleagues) the full length of the a 78-mile (126 km) Oxford Canal, from Hawkesbury Junction (north of Coventry) to Oxford via Rugby and Banbury. Beautiful countryside ❤️ 👉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_...

RFBerlin rocks 🎅🤶🦌🛷🧑‍🎄

4th Diversity & Human Capital Workshop, June 9-10, 2026! Flagship event at the #Economics Department @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk: 🎙️ Keynote Speakers: Sascha Becker (@essobecker.bsky.social) Cynthia Kinnan (@cynthiakinnan.bsky.social) Helmut Rainer 🔗 sites.google.com/view/diversi...

PhD Students in Econ (and related fields): Join us at Warwick for a 3 day conference in May 2026! There will be sessions covering all major fields, along with two great keynotes and plenty of time to socialise with peers. We look forward to your submission (deadline: 31/01/2026), more info below.

TOMORROW (3 December) AYEW Development & Gender Workshop! Join us at 9pm AEDT/ 10am GMT to listen to Xuchao Gao (SMU), Soumi Bose (BITS Pilani), Júlia Sbroglio Rizzotto (USP) & Balasurya Sivakumar (OsloMet) Sign up for Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...

See you in Uppsala 🇸🇪 🎉

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

"With 4.8 million UK-born citizens now living elsewhere, perhaps it’s about time to develop a strategy on emigration and the starting point needs to be better data." John Mahon argues that we need a better understanding of people leaving the UK https://ukandeu.ac.uk/who-is-emigrating-from-the-uk/

Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years. Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO

Keynote in Dresden 🇩🇪 tomorrow. Christmas market from tower of Kreuzkirche ❤️

Seminar at Birmingham University. Pleasure to see the great Eric Melander 🎉

TOMORROW (26 November) AYEW Macro/International/Trade Workshop! Join us at 9pm AEDT/ 10am GMT to listen to Gerard Camats Penella (UAB & BSE), Mohammad Zeqi Yasin (University of Glasgow) & Meng Yu Ngov (KCL) Sign up for Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...

if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990 China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

#StandWithUkraine Ukrainians truly need this right now — even if as a sign of solidarity. And constant, stubborn solidarity goes a long way.

New survey on religion and gender with the amazing @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social & @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social 🎉

Ben Shieldaig.

Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_... (See thread below for an overview)

TOMORROW (19 Nov) AYEW Education Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT(9pm AEDT) to listen to Mincer Chou (UChicago), @stnavdeev.com(@uva.nl),@kaveendravasu.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) & @subarnabanerjee.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de). Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...

We are continuing the RFBerlin Masterclass Series with @essobecker.bsky.social’s lecture on the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens. www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

I am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026 econjobmarket.org/positions/12... If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Über die „Schuld“ in „Schulden“ Der ökonomische Blick. In germanischen Sprachen steckt im Wort für Schulden auch die Schuld. Das macht etwas mit uns. mit @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social www.diepresse.com/20294445/ueb...

📢Where and How to Build 1.5 million homes in Britain? New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

VoxEU column now up for my paper on "Wars, Taxation and Representation" with @essobecker.bsky.social, @andyferrara.bsky.social and @luigipascali.bsky.social. Full paper available here: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Yes, if we are missing important papers on gender and religion, let us know 🙏

We wrote a survey on gender 🚻 and religion 🛐 Such a pleasure to work with @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social and @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social ❤️

The amazing Ricardo Dahis has created a web calendar with all Economics seminars in Melbourne: @monashuniversity.bsky.social Melbourne U, Deakin U and beyond. Such a great public good. melbourne-economics.org

Reformation Day coverage of our research (2020 ASR and 2025 SocForces) describing Martin Luther as hyper-influencer 👉 2020 paper: doi.org/10.1177/0003... 👉 2025 paper: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... www.mdr.de/wissen/bildu...

"Now, what belongs together is growing together." (Willy Brandt, November 1989) "Jetzt wächst zusammen, was zusammengehört"

Great to see Bob Hart at the University of @stir.ac.uk today. Bob believed in me and hired me when my CV looked very thin. Forever grateful to him 🙏

Back home in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Morning run in the hills above Stirling University campus 🍂🍂🍂

Link to new version: pauldavidboll.com/SPUR_Stata_J... Stata package: github.com/pdavidboll/S... The new title reflects that we have significantly extended the practical application section to make this paper more useful to applied researchers generally, regardless of software persuasion.