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We have a new string matching package – supporting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. HomoglyphsCJK available here: pypi.org/project/Homogl…. Paper here: dell-research-harvard.github.io/wp/389homoglyp…. With Xinmei Yang, Abhishek Arora, and Shao-Yu Jheng (1/8)

CFP: 10th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop at the University of Adelaide Nov 6 2023. Proposals (extended abstracts/papers) to Florian Ploeckl [email protected] by July 16. ECRs & grad students encouraged to apply. Contact [email protected] for detail

Day 1 of #FRESH 2023. @essobecker is giving the keynote speech “Shallow Christianity, Charisma and the Rise of Hitler”. Meet a lot of old friends Max Posch bsky.social Piotr Paweł Larysz again. And many thanks to Erik Hornung

#FRESH Cologne 2023 just ended and was a great success. Thanks everyone involved! Sandra de Pleijt @essobecker Melissa Rubio-Ramos Carola Stapper Ann-Kristin Becker ECONtribute Here is the program in case you wondered what we did all day.

My pre-doc work “Wrongful Convictions with Chinese Characteristics” has been accepted by Economics of Transition. We found: more wrongful convictions would be made in China if secretaries of PLACs (政法委) held office as chiefs of police. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Excited to see this paper in press.

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🚨 Call for Papers: Historical Political Economy 🚨 As you may have seen yesterday, Dmitrii Kofanov, @tinepaulsen, & I have taken over the Virtual Workshop in Historical Political Economy (VWHPE) that was created by Florian Hollenbach 🤷🏻‍♂️ & median voter. This is our call for papers! 🧵 (1/5)

📢Just Published! Read Asia-Pacific Economic History Review's latest Special Issue: Quantitative Studies on Chinese Economic History Wiley Economics Kris Inwood (@kris-inwood.bsky.social). Be sure to read the introduction by our guest editors #ZhiwuChen & Chicheng Ma. #FreeToRead at ow.ly/q1in50PlUr7

4 days left to submit your work to the Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-As-Data Workshop taking place on 18-19 September 2023! tinyurl.com/4fsrbtnc Any social science work using unstructured data is welcome!

I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/dell-…

Join us in exploring #IntergenerationalMobility: Marriage's Impact on Women's Status in Imperial #China by Wolfgang Keller CU Boulder 🦬. Don't miss the insightful discussion on #HistoricalDynamics & #GenderMobility! #QH HKU Business School 🔗hku.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thrilled to share the launch of the "China County Chronicles Full-Text Database", a collaboration between myself, Leo Y. Yang from #UCSD, and Prof. Ting Chen ct from #HKBU. Step into a rich world of over 3000 County Chronicles since the inception of the PRC! (1/8)

The next AusClio workshop will be Nov 6 in Adelaide. Programme & detail at universityofadelaide.app.box.com/v/AusClio2023A… Papers by Peiyuan Li, Chicheng Ma, Dean Hoi, Laura Panza (University of Melbourne), CheongYeon Won (Monash University), Changkeun Lee (KDI School). Comments from Martine Mariotti, @essobecker & others

Call for Abstracts 🚨 In the Absence of Archives, a special issue of Business History, explores creative scholarly solutions to the methodological and conceptual challenges of doing research in less developed countries. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues… businesshistory

Great pleasure to meet a lot of people again. And thanks to Chicheng Ma for being the discussant of my paper “The Economics of Mobilizing Free-riders: Evidence form the Chinese Civil War 1945-1949.” ADELAIDE IS A WONDERFUL PLACE IN THE 🌎.

Release date for my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" is late-February 2024. Looking forward to sharing more about the book in the near future. More info from OUP: tinyurl.com/4kh56m97 Pre-orders on Amazon: tinyurl.com/y8kt8tep

📢 #CallforPapers The 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024) is coming to #HKU on December 9-10, 2024. Sascha O. Becker Monash University University of Warwick and Joel Mokyr Northwestern will give keynote speeches at the #conference. Join leading scholars and engage in

Dec 9-10, 2024, Hong Kong University

I am glad to share the Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France joint with paula gobbi and Marc Goñi out in Explorations Voltaire claimed there were 144 customs with the force of law. He was close! We find 141 Paper👉doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.… Data👉doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HY… (1/3)