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Us at HEDG are also thrilled that the keynote speaker at our 13th Annual Workshop on Growth, History and Development is @UCLouvain_be 🇧🇪Professor David de la Croix 😮🤩 Check out some of interesting research projects he is doing👉 @UTHCerc

Hello Peoples! ***Call for Papers for a Workshop on the “use of Genealogical Sources in Economic History” 3rd and 4th of June 2024 at LSE***

📄EHES is offering an exciting new working paper by Volha Lazuka & Peter Sandholt Jensen🤩 The paper is "Multigenerational Effects of Smallpox Vaccination"💉 👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/

📰Good news Marginal Revolution just did a piece on the important implications of Gregory Clark & NeilJCummins' latest working paper "Matriline versus Patriline: Social Mobility in England, 1754-2023"🤩 Read it here: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

📄More exciting news! EHES has another working paper, this time by Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen & Christian Vedel 🤩👏 The paper is "Breaking the HISCO Barrier: Automatic Occupational Standardization with OccCANINE" 👉Read all EHES WPs here: ehes.org/working-papers/

A discouraging finding for the hope that lowest-low fertility will automatically select for higher fertility in subsequent generations: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Net fertility correlations between grandmothers-mothers-daughters and grandfathers-fathers-sons in Québec 1600-1788 were extremely low. They ranged between r = 0.034 and 0.068. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of direct inheritance of variation in fertility.

Just accepted: "How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus familial inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650–1850", by Clark (Gregory Clark), Cummins (NeilJCummins), and Curtis. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.…

Graduation day - a long PhD journey has reached its happy conclusion

150 day Medieval work year Interesting exploration of this issue at snopes.com/fact-check/med….

"Ethnic wealth inequality in England and Wales, 1858–2018" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great paper on Irish migrants to England: "From at least the mid-nineteenth century to 2018, we find that the Irish in England have persisted as an underclass, being on average 50 percent poorer than the English." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Does Marital Hypergamy Exist? a short 🧵 With declining birth rates linked to declining coupling some charge that changing matching dynamics are to blame. The idea of hypergamy proposes that the average man is not good enough for the average woman. Women marry up, Men marry down

My excellent and much-awaited Conversation with Gregory Clark: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/grego…

Two new things featuring Gregory Clark, probably the most significant and interesting economic historian today. A lecture on YouTube and a conversation with Tyler Cowen.

I still support President Zelenskyy and the brave people of Ukraine! 💙💛 Raise your hand 🖐️and Repost if you do too!

Today's Sunday Times Gregory Clark

🚨📢 Gregory Clark in the media! 🚨📢 New research challenges the "marrying up" myth! 💍👰 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in The Times. 👉 Read the article here: thetimes.com/uk/arts/articl… #EconHist

I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this! For lots of history, new micro-data&natural experiments, read on

If we do 25% tomorrow USA will be either the country with the second highest tariff rate in the world after North Korea - or else the highest (N. Korea isn't reported in the World Bank, so who knows?) Going into autarky mode now.