So happy to see this finally out in the JEH! 🎉 Lots of work and love went into this awesome collaboration, and we benefited so much from great referees and editors!

The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=46290…

Economists be like "So excited that I don't have to work next week, so I get to work on my paper."

L’abandon de l’étalon-or a-t-il permis aux pays de sortir de la Grande Dépression ? (D'un champ l'autre) blog-illusio.com/2024/02/l-aban…

That other Brexit, from the gold standard in 1931, decisively benefited Britain’s economy & started its recovery from the Great Depression 🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… VoxEU CEPR LSE Grinnell College Barry Eichengreen DeLong🖖 Soumaya Keynes @alanbeattie

It’s up!!

Check out this blog post we wrote on our new working paper!

✈️ Heading to London to present this latest joint work with Judy Stephenson Patrick Wallis for the first time — a new ML method for estimating long time series of wages, prices, etc. in history! history.ac.uk/events/predict…

I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to present and for all of the interest and feedback!

Workshop on Living Standards: Measurements and Debates Presenters: Joyce Burnette (Wabash University) Meredith Paker (Grinnell College), Judy Stephenson (UCL), and Patrick Wallis (LSE) Jane Humphries (University of Oxford) ehs.org.uk/event/echr-wor…

Call For Papers Submission Deadline Today! The deadline for submitting 300-500 word Academic and New Researcher paper proposals for the 2025 EHS Conference, to be held at the University of Strathclyde, is today. For more info and to submit: ehs.org.uk/conference/

For economic historians interested in wages and living standards this afternoon might be a bit of a treat. First up Joyce Burnette’s Paper has made some of the biggest inroads into what men’s wages really represent for many years. Answer: not what you thought.

New paper: “(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with Vincent Delabastita and SpikeGibbs is now out in Explorations in Economic History. The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16) doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.…

🌟 Webinar Announcement! 🌟 Topic: Predictive Modelling the Past: A New Machine Learning Method Applied to Seven Centuries of Wages Date: November 7 Time: 10 AM (HKT) Speaker: Meredith M. Paker from Grinnell College 🔗 Register here: hku.zoom.us/webinar/regist… See you there! #Webinar

Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!

Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history