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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20017 Seeing Stereotypes Elisa Baldazzi Università di Bologna, Pietro Biroli Pietro Biroli Università di Bologna, Marina Della Giusta Università di Torino Collegio Carlo Alberto, Florent Dubois Università di Torino @EconomixU ow.ly/KwrF50VcAVj #CEPR_LE #EconTwitter

Great time presenting at UB Barcelona “Spare the rod? Christian missions and the roots of harsh parenting” with Alberto Ciancio Giulia La Mattina Luca Maria Pesando . Thanks Laia Maynou Pujolràs for inviting me, @ElisabettAurino & others for feedback, Judit Vall-Lidia Farre-Libertad González for🍹

📢Research Seminar–Tuesday 🗓️Apr 8⏰12:00–13:15📍Seminar Room 🎤 Speaker: Matthias Doepke Matthias Doepke (LSE) 📄 Title: The Political Economy of Laws to "Protect" Women Examines how labor market competition shaped the rise and fall of protective labor laws for women in 20th-cent US

Congratulations to our DPhil student Louis Henderson, now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow LSE Department of Economic History who’s awarded this year’s Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize in the EHS annual conference 2025 in Glasgow Economic History Society #econhist #twitterstorians

Interested in moving to Italy? The call for Marie Curie fellowships is now open! I'd be happy to supervise DSE UniBo Economics in economic history / historical political economy. Contact me with your CV and project idea if you are interested in applying!

30 Apr Sonja Cruz:00 CET The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS 🗣️Jonathan Chapman (Università di Bologna) presents 'Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution' Chair: Steven Pincus (The University of Chicago) ✍️ ow.ly/TFwi50VGcqV

📢Call for papers! We’re excited to announce the 2nd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC), taking place at King's College London on November 6–7, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Elias Papaioannou (LBS) Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 Submit via: forms.gle/5RwcxMZxZLVznX…

We're proud to share that Filippo Pavanello, former PhD student at our department, has won the 2025 EAERE Award for Best Doctoral Dissertations in Environmental and Resource Economics! His thesis: Essays on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Congrats, Filippo Pavanello 🎉🎉

Join us May 14th for the launch of Patrick Wallis new book on #apprenticeship ⚒️ and economic growth 📈, showing the contributions of the scheme in early modern #England LSE Events lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05… #econhist #economics #lse #education #LSEEvents

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How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper (with Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, and Jonathan Chapman), we show that Justices of the Peace (JPs) — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth.🧵👇1/7

Interesting working paper by one of our profs Jonathan Chapman

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20187 The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial #China Melanie Meng Xue LSE, Boxiao Zhang (Renmin University of China) ow.ly/uWoC50VLVrn #CEPR_EH #CEPR_LE #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter

🔔Next Thrusday at 5pm CET it's time for another #econhist discussion with Cyril Thomson (U of Bologna):Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools 📝We are happy to welcome Gregory Clark (UC Davis Economics) to chair the event 🚀See you online soon!

We congratulate the winner of this year's T. S. Ashton Prize, presented at the annual conference to Emiliano Travieso (UC3M) & Tom Westland (Wageningen) for 'What happened to the workshop of West Africa?' Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria'

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20214 Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution Tim Besley LSE Department of Economics, Dan Bogart UC Irvine, Jonathan Chapman Università di Bologna, 𝗡𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮 ow.ly/zEKs50VNwRT #CEPR_DE #CEPR_EH #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter

Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today. 🧵👇

"Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution" New CEPR discussion paper by Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, Jonathan Chapman, and 𝗡𝘂𝗻𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮 cepr.org/publications/d… #EconomicHistory

I'm so fortunate that this paper got published in such a good journal. I hope that it can be a helpful guide for future researchers who want to work at the intersection of economics and genetics and estimate Gene-Environment interplay #GxE

🚨🚨Few more days to apply to the 10th ASE Annual Meeting, taking place in Venice (October 3-4). Information ⬇️