We are pleased to welcome Guido Alfani (Bocconi University) for tomorrow's seminar at ENS de Lyon. He will present his book "As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West" (Princeton University Press). 🕐 When? 19/03/2026 from 11:45 to 13:00 📍 Where? Room D2-128 ENS de Lyon site Descartes

New paper alert 🚨 🚨 Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England Together with co-authors @sdepleijt.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social, we set out to solve one of the most intriguing puzzles of the Industrial Revolution

🚨 Only one week left to apply for the ENS Lyon Summer School in Empirical Research Methods - don't miss this opportunity! @vincentbagilet.bsky.social @cedricchambru.bsky.social @kenza-elass.bsky.social @sophiehatte.bsky.social @elisamougin.bsky.social

Apply for the ESSHC 2027 and come to visit us in Lyon!

It was a pleasure to visit ‪@dialdevelopment.bsky.social‬ and present this ongoing project. Many thanks to the team for the warm welcome and the engaging discussions!

In my updated paper, I introduce an R package, ididvar, that provides tools to easily identify the identifying variation in a regression: vincentbagilet.github.io/ididvar/

 More information can be found on the package and project websites: vincentbagilet.github.io/causal_exaggeration/ididvar.html

📢 Applications are now open for our Summer School in Empirical Research Methods! Join us from 30 June to 2 July at @cergic.bsky.social (ENS de Lyon, France). 📅 Application deadline: 1 March 2026 📩 Applications & inquiries: [email protected]

On May 5-6, 2026, Humboldt University will host a #FRESH meeting on The causes and consequences of social conflict Keynote lecture by Mohamed Saleh (LSE) Local organizer: Felix Kersting More details in the below 👇

We are delighted to announce the second edition of our 3-day Summer School in Empirical Research Methods at @cergic.bsky.social The event will take place in Lyon from June 30 to July 2, 2026. Program and additional information at: www.cergic-lyon.fr/summer-school

Joseph Enguehard (@enguehard.bsky.social), PhD candidate at @cergic.bsky.social is on the econ job market 2025-26! Check his JMP at the intersection of political economy, public finance and economic history.👇 www.enguehard.tf/uploads/rese... More infos below and at www.cergic-lyon.fr/job-market

We are pleased to welcome Joanne Haddad (Université Libre de Bruxelles) for tomorrow's seminar at ENS de Lyon. The paper discussed will be : "Settlers and Norms." 🕐 When? 04/12/2025 from 11:45 to 13:00 📍 Where? Room D2-104 ENS de Lyon site Descartes

📢 Virtual Workshop on French Economic History At 5:00 pm CET, @zhexunmo.bsky.social (Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY) will present: “Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial Military Service and Forced Labor in Mali” Interested in joining? Email me for the Zoom link.

Amazing public good release by @rickhornbeck.bsky.social and his collaborators! No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.

📕 New CERGIC Book 📕 "L'Economie de la violence" by Mathieu Couttenier. 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝐿𝑒́𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 Available now ! For more info : www.editions-leonides.fr/livres/lecon...

The department of Economic History at LSE is hiring! Assistant Prof. (all fields and period). Deadline for application 4 November 2025! @lseechist.bsky.social For more info ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Plus que quelques jours (10/09) pour envoyer vos propositions de communications pour le prochain congrès de l'AFHé ! Pour rappel, les thématiques retenues : 1. Campagnes et environnements 2. Guerres, reconstructions et industries 3. Mers et commerce 4. Economie(s) et monde(s) du livre

Hey #EAAE2025: Thursday is replication day. First, Anna Dreber's keynote on "Predicting Replication Outcomes" (11am) & our session👇(4pm) feat. ‪@robertfinger.bsky.social‬ @cedricchambru.bsky.social‬ @jensrommel.bsky.social‬ ‪@beta1hat.bsky.social‬ @mabuchner.bsky.social‬ ‪@i4replication.bsky.social‬

📢 New initiative: we are launching a monthly virtual seminar in French Economic History to share and discuss the latest research in the field! 🌍 Open to all interested in #econhist. 👉 Info & updates: sites.google.com/view/vwfhe/h...

L'AFHé attend vos propositions de communications pour son prochain congrès qui aura lieu à Caen ! Au programme : 5 sessions thématiques ouvertes à toutes les périodes historiques et à toutes les disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales. N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour toutes questions.

Congratulations to Michael Baltensperger who has successfully defended his PhD Thesis: "Essays in Public Economics and Economic History".

Second day of the 1st Lyon Summer School in Empirical Research Methods at @ensdelyon.bsky.social. Davide Cantoni's keynote on the use of historical natural experiments and related econometric challenges. @elisamougin.bsky.social @cedricchambru.bsky.social @sophiehatte.bsky.social

Opening of the 1st Lyon Summer School in Empirical Research Methods by a keynote of @pphcombes.bsky.social on historical maps, machine learning and patterns of urbanisation over time.

🧵1/4 🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook! You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients. 📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

On tomorrow, we're happy to welcome @essobecker.bsky.social (University of Warwick) for a seminar at @ensdelyon.bsky.social! More info 👉 economie.ens-lyon.fr/en/events/se...

Don't forget, on Monday May 26 and Tuesday May 27, the "Workshop in Gender Economics" will be held at @ensdelyon.bsky.social. Please find the updated program below 👇

On thursday, we are happy to welcome @ldousset.bsky.social (Paris School of Economics) at @ensdelyon.bsky.social to present her joint work with @georgiathebault.bsky.social entitled "The End of a Gender Quota in Elite Higher Education". More info 👉 economie.ens-lyon.fr/en/events/se...

New Broadstreet post! By Lukas Haffert, Cathrin Mohr, and Bastian Becker www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-future...

[Recrutement] Je recrute, sur l'ANR Exo-POPP (Extraction Optique des entités nommées manuscrites pour les actes de mariage de la population de Paris (1880-1940) (exopopp.hypotheses.org) un ou une ingénieur·e pour 12 mois (localisation : Paris, @progedo.bsky.social ).

Looking for a PhD candidate to study how first names provided information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). More info on the position here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🌟 Congratulations to Sabine on receiving the Philip Scranton Best Article Prize! This prestigious award honors author(s) of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best among those that appeared in the vol prior to the year of the BHC annual meeting thebhc.org/scranton-prize

🚨 New CERGIC Working Paper 🚨 “Dear Brothers and Sisters: Pope's Speeches and the Dynamics of Conflict in Africa” By Mathieu Couttenier, @sophiehatte.bsky.social, Lucile Laugerette & Tommaso Sonno Explore more: hal.science/CERGIC-WP/ha...

A short reminder that there are only 12 days left to apply for PhD positions at @cergic.bsky.social at ENS de Lyon! Come and work with @sophiehatte.bsky.social, @elisamougin.bsky.social, @jadeponsard.bsky.social and many more! www.cergic-lyon.fr/joinus

Une excellente émission de @quentinlafay.bsky.social sur la jeunesse rurale à écouter et un chiffre frappant que je ne connaissais pas : aujourd'hui 1 jeune sur 3 vit en milieu rural, et pourtant ils sont totalement oubliés dans les politiques publiques. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

We are happy to host Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex) at @ensdelyon.bsky.social for tomorrow's seminar! More info 👉 economie.ens-lyon.fr/en/events/se...

For the first time in its history, the #ESSHC is heading to France. The 2027 session of the European Social Science Conference will be held in Lyon in spring 2027 (thank you Philippe Rygiel!) See you in 2027!!

🚨 NEW WP ALERT "Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future" ✍️ @essobecker.bsky.social @ammapanin.bsky.social Steven Pfaff & @jaredcrubin.com ⏳What role does religion play in economic development? 🔎 www.cesifo.org/en/publicati... 📚 www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

@jadeponsard.bsky.social and myself are organising a workshop in applied #econhist at @cergic.bsky.social at the end of the month! Great line-up on wide range of topics! If you are in or around Lyon, feel free to contact me for attending ;)

[Prix de thèse] Appel à candidatures pour le prix de thèse AFHé-BnP Paribas 2025 qui récompensera deux thèses en sciences humaines et sociales (toutes périodes: antique, médiévale, moderne ou contemporaine) dans le champ de l’histoire économique. Date limite : 9 mai 2025 afhe.hypotheses.org/24027

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 Can social media boost female political representation? With @sophiehatte.bsky.social and @ttaylor-econ.bsky.social, we study the impact of Facebook’s Free Basics on women’s electoral success in almost 9,000 parliamentary races across 17 sub-Saharan African countries. Thread 🧵

❕New WP from Alban de Gmeline❕ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 (𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟎-𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟎) ⬇️

❕New WP from @alexislitvine.bsky.social and Stan Hinton❕ 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬. 𝐀 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

Last day to apply for the "Lyon Summer School in Empirical Research Methods" at @ensdelyon.bsky.social! If interested, please send your CV and research proposal to: [email protected] bsky.app/profile/cerg...

🎺 🎺 We are relaunching our Cambridge Working Paper Series in Economic and Social History! You have a paper and want feedback with a very quick turnaround or want to read the latest in the field? Follow us at @cwpeconhist.bsky.social and find us on www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/working_pape...

Don't forget, there are only a few days left to apply for the "Lyon Summer School in Empirical Research Methods" at @ensdelyon.bsky.social! Deadline: 28 February 2025. bsky.app/profile/cerg...

If you want to do a PhD in Economics at @cergic.bsky.social at ENS de Lyon, apply! Come and work with me, @elisamougin.bsky.social, @jadeponsard.bsky.social and many more. Deadline for application: May 5, 2025 For more information, see ⬇️ or PM me.

Si vous connaissez des articles / chapitres coécrit par des historiens et des économistes publiés au cours de 10 dernières années, je suis preneur !

And for historical demography, it's here : @sdh-demohisto.bsky.social !

To every #econhist, do not forget to follow the @afhe-eco.bsky.social Conferences and workshops, CfP, Scientific news... Everything you need to know about #econhist in France should be there 😉

Please attend!!! Great opportunity to learn more about ongoing work in various databases covering the 18th century 😀 As for HiSCoD, @pmaneuvre.bsky.social and I will be discussing about our current work regarding France, Sweden and Russia!