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📣 New Title! In 2023, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review will become 'Asia-Pacific Economic History Review,' continuing to publish content on AUS & NZ alongside the #AsiaPacific region economies and research of a broadly international character. Find out more: ow.ly/JnJB50LsjAe Kris Inwood (@kris-inwood.bsky.social)

Jeanet Sinding Bentzen and Pauline Grosjean discuss the possibility of using first names as a measure of religiosity and the effect of religiosity on growth. #Ausclio22

Muhan Hu and Martine Mariotti discuss the diffusion of cyanide amalgamation technology in South Africa’s early gold mining industry. #Ausclio22

Pierre van der Eng and Ryan on fuzzy land titling and land transactions in Indonesia in the 1920s and 30s #Ausclio22

Very sad news about the passing of Charles Simkins. He was a brilliant economist who produced damning evidence on the consequences of apartheid for black unemployment and development while working in SALDRU between 1976 and 1986. Our deepest condolences to his family.

Here is a new paper from the Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers by Edward Kerby, @MoradiAlexander, and Hanjo Odendaal on “African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?” ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f… OpenAccessOxford #twitterstorians #econhist

Proud of this one. A year ago we held a conference on methodological advances in economic history. The associated special issue of EEH dropped today. Thanks to all who contributed - this is a really remarkable collection of work. sciencedirect.com/journal/explor…

We are very excited to announce the program for the 2023 Asia Pacific Economic and Business History Conference. There is an excellent array of papers, drawn from a range of methodological, disciplinary, and geographical areas. Registration is open: apebh2023.com/registration/

The Cdn Network Econ History invites papers for its next meeting Oct 13-15 at UToronto. 1-2 page proposals to Shari Eli & Laura Salisbury. Keynote address Karen Clay. Suresh Naidu will give the Mary MacKinnon Memorial Lecture. More detail: economichistory.ca

CFP: Asia-Pacific Econ & Bus History Conference Univ of Hawai‘I, Feb 17-18 2024 All topics welcome w particular interest in institutions & organizations Prof Zhiwu Chen will give the 2024 Butlin Lecture Grad student support available Proposals by Sept 30: economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/call-for-paper…

The next AusClio workshop will be Nov 6 in Adelaide. Programme & detail at universityofadelaide.app.box.com/v/AusClio2023A… Papers by Peiyuan Li, Chicheng Ma, Dean Hoi, Laura Panza (University of Melbourne), CheongYeon Won (Monash University), Changkeun Lee (KDI School). Comments from Martine Mariotti, @essobecker & others

Circular migration within Africa contributes to long-run structural change in origin country labor markets. Just Accepted paper by Taryn Dinkelman (Taryn Dinkelman), Grace Kumchulesi (grace kumchulesi), and Martine Mariotti (Martine Mariotti). zurl.co/olXo

🆕 International migration kickstarted structural transformation in Malawi 🇲🇼 Today on VoxDev, Taryn Dinkelman Notre Dame Economics, grace kumchulesi & Martine Mariotti ANU Economics outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

Evidence from #Malawi shows that temporary capital inflows from migrants can permanently reshape rural labour markets by jumpstarting a structural transformation out of agriculture. Read today's article ⤵️

After a deadly plane crash in 1974, there was a sharp & permanent ⬇️ in migrant workers from Malawi in South African gold mines. By Dec 1975, ~120,000 men had returned to Malawi with their remittances. Today's article explores the impacts of this large inflow of migrant capital

CFP: The next APEBH Conference 6-7 February 2025 at Monash University (Caulfield Campus), Melbourne, Australia. Submit 250 word abstract or full paper by 7 July, 2024 to [email protected] economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/conferences/#A… Asia-Pacific Economic History Review

Call for nominations Asia-Pacific Economic History Prize is awarded biennially to the best PhD thesis in Asia-Pacific Economic History (excluding Australia or New Zealand topics). Nominations close 20 June 2024. economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/prizes/ Asia-Pacific Economic History Review

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New lecturer/senior lecturer position (~US AP) at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy , ANU Indonesia Project and ACDE—the best place in the world to do research on Indonesia and help shape policy. It is however fixed term so best thought of as a postdoc in the first instance*

As everyone ponders odd puzzles in modern trade data, Songlin Wang shows that late 19th century improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data reflects key institutional reform & the importance of Hong Kong. New in the Asia-Pacific Econ History Review! doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…