Calling all recent economic history PhDs! Submit your thesis now for the 2023 Luzzato Prize -- awarded at the EHES meeting in Sept. in Vienna. Submissions close on 30 June. NeilJCummins Albrecht Ritschl Leah Boustan John Turner Mark Koyama Melanie Meng Xue ehesconference.org/gino-luzzatto-…

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🌍New AEHN Article Summary on how much have states in Africa raised in taxes, now and in the past? "The Fiscal State in Africa: Evidence from one Century of Growth, 1900-2015" by Marvin Suesse Morten Jerven ThiloNH.Albers 👇🏿 aehnetwork.org/blog/the-fisca…

I am hiring a full-time Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at Yale starting in the Fall of 2024. Details: tobin.yale.edu/opportunities/…

📆 29 Nov @ 16:00 BST - Intern. Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS ThiloNH.Albers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will present a paper entitled "Industrialization, returns, inequality". The seminar will be chaired by Kerstin Enflo (Lund University). ✍️ To attend: ow.ly/OLSo50Q9MCv

📆 29 Nov @ 16:00 BST - Intern. Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS ThiloNH.Albers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) will present a paper entitled "Industrialization, returns, inequality". The seminar will be chaired by Kerstin Enflo (Lund University). ✍️ To attend: ow.ly/OLSo50Q9MCv

How does revolutionary #TechnologicalChange impact wealth #inequality?  ThiloNH.Albers, Felix Kersting, & Timo Stieglitz delves into the mother of all technological shocks — the #IndustrialRevolution — to investigate this question by combining empirics & theory. A 🧵 [1/4]

New WP “Industrialization, Returns, Inequality“ joint with ThiloNH.Albers and Timo Stieglitz. 3 options: 1) Short summary below👇 2) WP: bit.ly/3T1Lhqq 3) Online presentation tomorrow by ThiloNH.Albers in CEPR IMHOS: cepr.org/events/interna…

It is out - new work on industrailization and wealth inequality. Concise paper summary below & for some econ trivia knowledge (e.g. do why top-1 wealth graphs peak around 1900), theory, and empirics tune in tomorrow CEPR #IMHOS seminar (cepr.org/multimedia/imh…)

📢📢📢If you want to do a PhD in spatial economics, apply to the Berlin School of Economics programme! 📢📢📢There will be at least two fully funded positions. Apply here: berlinschoolofeconomics.de Pls also tell your friends and retweet! 🙏

Brief blog LSE Department of Economic History - thanks a lot Florentine Friedrich - about our paper on industrialization and wealth inequality: bit.ly/482g62a. Thank you for the great time and hospitality at your department last autumn Eric Schneider Patrick Wallis NeilJCummins.

Coming soon! With Nela Mrchkovska 🎉

📢📢📢Looking for a MSc student research/teaching assistant (studentische Hilfskraft) to join the team at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Interest applied econometrics and spatial economics would be a plus. Pls apply, retweet, tell friends📢📢📢 hu-berlin.stellenticket.de/de/offers/1795…

New in JHPE: Kim Oosterlinck & coauthors argue that PE are key determinants of creditor countries’ commercial policy responses to sovereign debt defaults - with a case focus on 1930s Germany. Ask your uni librarian to subscribe to JHPE! nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

So it finally arrived. This is a book about the history of globalization. It is also an example of globalization. Written by an American, published by a UK-based co., typeset in Philippines, printed in USA and available to all! I hope there are positive welfare effects. 1/N

🚨Job Opening: PhD student economic history/historical political economy Universität Münster 🚨 - you have a background in history, economics, political science? - you love research? Apply! More info on my website (& link to job ad): sites.google.com/site/tnhalbers/ PM me your questions

Incoming colleague ThiloNH.Albers has opened a call for a PhD student broadly interested in working on history/econ/polsci. Maybe this is something for you or a student you know? Get in touch! Would be great to get your application.

Funded and supported by CESifo and CRC Rationality & Competition , with ThiloNH.Albers, Kalle Kappner, and Monique Reiske To apply, please upload your extended abstract or paper at tinyurl.com/microdata2024 until August 15, 2024. So what is this workshop all about? New Data Methods!

Hi those interested in/working on big data applications in econ history! @mathiasbuehler, Kalle Kappner, and Monique Reiske, and I put together a workshop where you can present your research! Feat Joachim Voth & Stephan Heblich as keynotes! CFP here: mathiasiwanowsky.com/MicroDataEH.pdf