This week, two of my PhD students (Eric Wilhelm and Patrick Fitzsimmons) are defending their dissertations. Both are taking post-docs next year. Follow them so you can hire them as professors the year after (links below).

Thrilled to co-organise the first ever LSE-PSE joint Economic History Workshop which will take place soon (29-30th of April) at PSE with an amazing lineup of LSE Department of Economic History and Paris School of Economics students and staff: #econhistory #econtwitter

My 2 cents on this: Making society more family friendly will require big changes. Baby bonuses might help raise birth rates, but small ones will not do much, if anything (see evidence from other countries.) We will need to reconsider society's treatment of children, including

🌸 Our Spring 2025 #econhist webinar series continues! 📚 Great papers, sharp comments & lively discussions 🗓️ Every Thursday at 5PM CET Don’t miss it ! 🚀

🔔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!

Are you ready for tomorrow's webinar? 👀

Infant abandonment was a social problem in 19cEurope.What was the impact of policies concerning abandonment on children's survival&families' reproductive behaviors?📢Our new paper w/M.Molteni on Explorations in Economic History address these Qs. Link➡️shorturl.at/LWy9Y 🧵👇

🔔This Thursday at 5pm CET, don’t miss our next #econhist session led by @gjmbrown (Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past): The Persistent Effects of Bible Translations in Africa 📝With Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Utrecht University) as chair — great to have him join us! 🚀See you online!

🚨 PhD course HEDG (Historical Economics and Development Group) this August! "Historical Perspectives on Current Econ Issues: Big Data & Applications" 📅 Aug 11–22 | Odense 👨‍🏫 Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) Apply by July 1 #econtwitter sdu.dk/en/forskning/f…

Still 12 days to apply to the PhD program in Economics at the University of Bergamo. Join a young and dynamic faculty with different areas of expertise in a beautiful historical city in the Milan area. Deadline June 16. Submit your application here: unibg.it/bandi/bando-co…

📢 Coming soon! Paul Sharp, alongside coauthors Gunnar Persson and Markus Lampe, will soon publish their book: "An Economic History of Europe" with Cambridge University Press. Get yourself a copy: 🔗 cambridge.org/highereducatio…

📘 New release coming soon! "Et land, der kom fri – En økonomisk historie om Danmark" by Paul Sharp & Markus Lampe will soon be published by @univpressdk. An accessible and insightful journey through Denmark’s economic history. Get yourself a copy: 🔗 universitypress.dk/shop/et-land-d…

🚨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature

New working paper with Jacob Bond and Nicholas Swanson (GMU grad students). We show that one key thesis in Quebec's economic history (soil erosion-induced industrialization/modernization) holds no explanatory power. In fact, the story is entirely different

Paper I am finishing today on how markets can provide regulations in unexpected ways.

Our paper with Francesco Cinnirella Erik Hornung “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print The Economic Journal🚨 In this paper we investigate the importance of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on for more -->

Malaria had also been endemic in England. The earliest English settlers America hailed from the most malarial regions of 🇬🇧But this variant P. vivax was less deadly than P. falciparum that was taken to the US South by the slave trade. Underrated vector of geography =>institutions

Glad to see Yuzuru's paper forthcoming Argument: Tokugawa Japan had relatively low land inequality, which made people exceptionally poor, whereas W. Europe was much more unequal which gave it higher living standards. (This may seem paradoxical to some people but it's not really)

The next World Economic History Congress will take place in Montevideo! We look forward to welcoming you in 2028! #WEHC2028 Visit our website: wehcmontevideo2028.org

My dear friend, colleague and coauthor Peter Temin has passed away.