This JPE paper shows how temperature fluctuations during the Little Ice Age (1600-1850) affected the size of European cities by their effects on agricultural productivity and mortality. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 TOMORROW! 11am EST APOSS! Lucie Lu will present “Be My Friendly Reviewers: How China Shapes the Human Rights Regime” and Songying Fang (Rice) and Jamie Gruffydd-Jones (Kent) will discuss. Join this super-interesting session 👇 dartmouth.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

GPT User's Guide for Economists: There has been a lot of interest in Kevin Bryan's talk on using #GPT4 and LLMs for economic research, so we compiled a User's Guide with all of his best practices and guidance. #econtwitter You can find it here bcf.princeton.edu/wp-content/upl…

This reading list of recent advances in econometrics looks like a treasure trove! christinecai.github.io/PublicGoods/ap…

All 45 chapters are now available online for The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/… The handbook (hardcopy) will be out in Fall 2023. Jared Rubin and I thank our great contributors! And see Jared's summary thread on the chapters below.

It's been four years since I first published COLDAT, a simple dataset on the reach and duration of European colonial empires. After almost 2,500 downloads 🙏 I'm now happy to share the first update with some important corrections. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T9…

My colleague Aurelius Noble, PhD candidate LSE Department of Economic History has become an expert in OCR for historical documents. Today is the first of four sessions: the intro lecture, followed by workshops. It will be recorded and I will share the link below. Economic History Society EHA #econhist 1/?

🚨 Excited to publish another #naturalresource paper w/ amazing Wenhui Yang in World Development! We identify resource endowment in #China at county level for #coal, #oil, & #gas - finest to our knowledge. Analyzed impact on #corruption. Who’s guilty? All? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to see our paper forthcoming in the Economic Journal The Economic Journal. Check it out here: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-art…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age" by Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

For my Path to the Modern Economy course, I read four "big think" books with students on why certain parts of the world became rich and others did not They then do a group project where they have to read one of the books from the list below. Am I missing anything??

Introduced and compiled by Cédric Chambru & @pmaneuvre, the Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) records over 20,000 episodes of social conflict at the global scale between the European High Middle Ages (c. 1000–c. 1870). #APSRNewIssue ow.ly/lha150RIAEA

Introducing an empirical framework for analyzing network competition among airlines, from Zhe Yuan and Panle Jia Barwick nber.org/papers/w32893

Final week to apply for #Northeastern Global Asian Studies Program's TWO two-year postdoctoral fellowships. See below for more info and application link. Please have all reference letters sent directly to my email. Thank you! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

We streamlined six new DID-like estimators and created this tutorial for implementation in R. yiqingxu.org/packages/fect/… Hope you no longer need to spend months figuring out what these estimators are and how to use them. w/ Ziyi Liu

OMG, IZA is closing down??!! 😱😢

Our book on China’s Imperial Examination System (Keju, 科举) is out! Open Access! Gonna write a short post about it later.

This (recently updated) free textbook on difference-in-differences looks amazing! It comes with practitioner checklists and practice data + code. A teaching/research goldmine! by Clément de Chaisemartin and Xavier D'Haultfoeuille.