Reminder: Apply for our workshop on Political Economy and Economic History by April 30th. It's on 10th and 11th June, there is no workshop fee.

The Department of Economics at the University of York is pleased to invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop in Political Economy and Economic History, which will take place Wednesday 10 to Thursday 11 June 2026 in York. The theme of the workshop is: "In time and space"

Finally in print in the JEH: Nikolaus Wolf and I study the Congress of Vienna as a natural experiment that changed European borders and may have left Prussia with the geography that would unify the German Empire. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Time for Growth" by Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Handelsströme sind ein Werkzeug der Geopolitik. Das spielte schon bei der Entstehung des Deutschen Reichs eine Rolle. Neue Forschung von @thilohuning.bsky.social und Nikolaus Wolf

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Thank you for the amazing podcast episode and for featuring @thilohuning.bsky.social and my research on the role of wine growing for long-run regional development in Baden-Württemberg (academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...) in the episode!

New Publication Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg By F. Wahl (@wahlfabi.bsky.social) and T. H. Huning (@thilohuning.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

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

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...

@isahuning.bsky.social and I have written a short piece on the cost of raising a child: theconversation.com/raising-a-ch...

Virtual issue of JEH in honour of Claudia Goldin: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...