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Excited to post my JMP Breaking the Ice: The Persistent Effects of Pioneers on Trade Relationships The world gets connected by pioneers: first movers who explore new destinations I show how pioneers are key for trade but there is room for improvement #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

Happy new year! Excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Next week! THE INEQUALITY REVOLUTION IN MACROECONOMICS Peter Sinclair Town Hall Lecture by WENDY CARLIN Register to attend (either in person or on Zoom) here: tiny.cc/UoBEconomics

NEXT WEEK! Wed 20 March, 16:00 UK! External Seminar by Lore Vandewalle (Geneva Graduate Institute): Customer Knowledge and the Price-Quality Gradient

🚨 New language model for historical occupations 🚨 OccCANINE is a new tool, which turns occupational descriptions (in all their pesky variety) into standard HISCO codes. Accurate, multilingual and fast. Developed by Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen, and myself 🧵👇 (1/12)

Very happy that our paper with Q. Ashraf, Oded Galor, B. Gershman and Erik Hornung is forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies. We propose the complementarity between physical capital and effective labor as a mechanism to explain the decline of coercive labor institutions.

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🚨 Conference on Legal and institutional origins of economic development + 2nd Lewis Lab Graduate Student Workshop🚨 Graduate student workshop - June 17 Conference - June 18-19 The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, Manchester 👇

Looking forward to two days of economic history at Bham Economics: Second City History and Economics Meeting (SCHEMe)

Day 1 of the Legal and institutional origins of economic development conference at the The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, starting with Gary Cox’s keynote on “The Inquisition and the Decline of Science in Spain” (with Valentin Figueroa)

🧵 on insights into the upcoming UK #GeneralElections2024 #GE2024 1/ Voters have more candidates to choose from. 50% of the constituencies have at least 7 candidates, 2 more than the previous two general elections.

🧵 to unpack the UK #GeneralElections2024 Results #UKElection2024 #GE2024 1/ Keir Starmer is neck to neck with Tony Blair 1997 victory making it a historic win for #LabourParty. However, in terms of vote shares #GE2024 ranks below average as compared to past 100 years.

NEW on the Economics Observatory - What happened in the 2024 UK general election? by Apurav Bhatiya #EconTwitter #GE2024Economists buff.ly/3WiYmNw

Does the fundamental natural geography (first nature geography) matter for the location of prosperity? Yes! In a new working paper, I demonstrate this using two separate large shocks to the first nature geography of Northwestern Denmark in the 1100s and in 1825. #econtwitter🧵

Britain achieved faster growth during the Industrial Revolution in part because British inventors were working at the “right place” in the innovation network, from Lukas Rosenberger, W. Walker Hanlon, and Carl Hallmann nber.org/papers/w32875

European societies with late fertility transitions had surplus people, who then migrated to the New World, France had far lower fertility so there were far lower outward flows. 🇫🇷 actually became a land of immigration from 1850!! Tremendous talk on fertility by Romain Wacziarg

Peter Sinclair Town Hall Lecture by JOHN MUELLBAUER (University of Oxford): THE GREAT BRITISH HOUSING DISASTER: SOME SOLUTIONS When: Wed 16 October, 16:00-17:00 Where: Alan Walters Main Lecture Theatre (University of Birmingham) and on Zoom Registration: tiny.cc/UoBEconomics

📣#RES2025 Annual Conference Call for Submissions opens today – those wishing to present at #conference can submit a paper or a poster for review. ⏰Deadline 13 January 2025 👉bit.ly/4hku5q7 #EconTwitter #EconEvents #RESEvents #RESConference