At Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), we’re excited for the WEast 2024 Dublin Workshop: 'Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a Comparative Lens'! 🌟 ✨ What’s it about? - Eastern Europe’s ties - Flow of people, goods, ideas - New research with archives & AI

Very delighted to see the coverage of our work :) Those interested in going through the paper or just glancing over the revealing graphs, here is the working paper - prod.wid.world/www-site/uploa…

CEPH is delighted to be co-hosting a workshop titled 'Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a comparative lens' alongside the WEast Eastern European Economic History Initiative, including a keynote lecture from Sascha Becker this afternoon TCD Economics #econtwitter

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ Sascha Becker + Joachim Voth Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in🧵(1/n)

How can economic historians transform historical documents into structured data? Aurelius Noble introduces participants to novel methods of automatic transcription, including handwritten text recognition. The first lecture took place today. Two workshops will follow...

Final reminder of the call for papers for this workshop. We are also grateful to have received funding from the Economic History Society to cover accommodation costs for a couple of PhD students without other funding. Please send us your abstracts!

📢Over the coming months, we'll be opening 2 faculty positions for economic historians to join UoM & the The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development: a 2-year fixed-term teaching focused position, & a "tenure-track" research-focused AP (formally, according to UK rules, permanent s.t. probation.) Stay tuned!

Thrilled to present at Yale's Economic History Workshop on Monday! I will be in New Haven until Wednesday, feel free to reach out if you are interested in chatting about research ☕️ economics.yale.edu/events/economi…

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

We had the honor of welcoming Michela Giorcelli (Michela Giorcelli) for our annual Epstein Lecture today. Her lecture explored a period of exceptionally high productivity growth in history—World War II—and the role played by the spread of management practices. #EconomicHistory

Hi folks! Will we see you in Copenhagen this September? Call for ASREC conference is out! Preceded by grad student workshop. Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion. Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org

Our PhD students are ready for the EHS annual conference in Glasgow this weekend! 💪📷 Economic History Society Florentine Friedrich Gregory Salter Tom Learmouth

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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

Come and work with me in lovely Lisbon! I’m hiring a full-time predoc research associate to work on exciting projects on discrimination, AI and health, and social media use in LMICs. Please share and apply! (Link in next tweet) #econra #econtwitter #econsky

We congratulate the winner of this year's EHS Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, presented at the annual conference to Louis Henderson (Oxford) for their thesis, ‘Innocence and experience: Early childhood education and industrialisation in England and Wales, 1767-1876’.

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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. 🧵👇

🚨 Join us on 29/5 for Mohamed Saleh talk, "Elite Conflict, #Colonialism & #Democracy in the #MiddleEast", where he discusses the drivers of authoritarianism and democracy in this region. Hosted by LSE Department of Economic History & LSE Middle East. #EcHist #LSEEvents Info here: lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05…

Thrilled to give a seminar at Oxford later today 😃 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/86acc…