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Hi friends! Remember to fill out the Census online. And tell family members to do so as well!

Grimes deserves better. RIP.

The great Stanley Engerman just passed away. RIP. Talk about someone who revolutionized economic history and recently Latin American economic history. He was also very supportive of junior faculty no matter what project one would embark on. I am forever grateful to his advice

Stanley Engerman has left us. He was giant in the field of economic history, an area that has sadly been neglected in many economics departments over the past few decades. rochester.edu/newscenter/sta…

Need to stress that @profCGoldin Claudia Goldin has made pathbreaking contributions to the economics of enslavement and the Civil War, the evolution of secondary education in the US, and the relationship between the labor market and human capital investment/returns, to name a few.

Congrats to Claudia Goldin!! Her paper on the pill is one of my favorites, as well as a subsequent paper by Martha Bailey exploiting the Comstock Laws. Both are very relevant given the politicization of reproductive health. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10… aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19084 How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain Grant Goehring Boston University, W. Walker Hanlon Northwestern Economics Northwestern ow.ly/ismm50RPfZW #CEPR_EH #publichealth #regulations

The rise of private health insurance in the US in the post-WWII era was influenced by an American Medical Association-funded campaign against National Health Insurance, from @onmastodonsocial, Yousra Neberai, and Xingyou Ye nber.org/papers/w32484

Using prostitution regulations in Victorian-era Britain to study the trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights that is often involved in public health interventions, from Grant Goehring and W. Walker Hanlon nber.org/papers/w32505

Excited to attend NBER SI tomorrow! Walker will be presenting our paper on regulating sex work in 19th century Britain. The entire conference will be live-streamed on YouTube for those interested: youtube.com/nbervideos

In a new #econhist NBER, Grant Goehring and Walker Hanlon investigate the consequences of the Contagious Diseases Act in Britain. Around the 1860s, the British government intervened to limit sexually transmitted diseases among military men.

Studying the impact of career concerns on technological change by analyzing the adoption of digital cinematography in the US motion picture industry, from Grant Goehring, Filippo Mezzanotti, and S. Abraham (Avri) Ravid nber.org/papers/w32844

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

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Fallen women: Recessions and the supply of sex work" By Grant Goehring sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics #publicfinance