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🚨 New #EconHistory research alert!
Our paper “Strikes & Machines: Investment decisions in inter‑war Norway” conditionally accepted in Journal of Economic History ask
"What did strike threats really do to technology?"
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April 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
cephie.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who attended our annual workshop! Special thanks to @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for hosting, and to all our speakers for 2 excellent days of research and conversations. Economic history is thriving!

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June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
malikaltaf.bsky.social
📊 New JMP: Religious resistance to smallpox vaccination in colonial India (1868-78): Districts with ⬆️ Hindu population had 0.89-1.98pp ⬇️ vaccination rates, with lasting demographic effects. Using temple desecration sites as IV.

Paper: malikahussain.github.io/job_market_p...

#EconHistory #EconSky
December 10, 2024 at 4:45 PM
zuchowskidavid.bsky.social
🚀 Excellent opportunity! Pre-doc position in Valencia (with PhD opportunity) for motivated students interested in economic history #AcademicJobs #EconHistory
July 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
kaseybuckles.bsky.social
If you're using the Census Tree 📈🌳in your research, or know of someone who is, we'd like to know about it! If you aren't in our bibliography below, please reply here or email me with a link to your paper. #econhistory #econsky
Research Using the Census Tree — Census Tree
www.censustree.org
November 27, 2024 at 1:03 AM
jcpunongbayan.bsky.social
This semester, I teach at UPSE an elective on Philippine economic history, specifically the economy under the Marcos Sr dictatorship (1972-1986). On Thursday I'll have a guest speaker give updates about the quest to recover the Marcoses' ill-gotten wealth (est. at $5-10 billion). #EconHistory
November 19, 2024 at 3:27 PM
eoinaldo.substack.com
New paper out with Matthias Blum & @cliochris.bsky.social:
We look at how the Great Irish Famine impacted survivors’ health, using historical prison records to track long-term physical development.
📉 The findings are surprising.
#EconHistory #IrishFamine
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
How do famines shape the health of survivors? We examine the long-term impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845–52) on human stature, distinguishing between adverse scarring effects and the apparent re....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
cephie.bsky.social
We look forward to welcoming Andrei Markevich of @helsinki.fi to @tcddublin.bsky.social for next week's @tcdeconomics.bsky.social seminar: ceph.ie/events/25-11...

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November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
larroyoabad.bsky.social
Check out Mark Koyama's post for Broadstreet! #Econhistory www.broadstreet.blog/p/feudalism-...
Feudalism as a Contested Concept in Historical Political Economy
“The tyrant feudalism must be declared once and for all deposed and its influence over students of the Middle Ages finally ended” (Elizabeth Brown, 1974)
www.broadstreet.blog
February 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
cephie.bsky.social
Day 2 of our annual workshop at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social! Sarah Quincy (@vanderbilt.edu) kicks us off with an examination of bank deregulation in the United States

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June 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
larroyoabad.bsky.social
New post on @broadstreetblog.bsky.social by yours truly and co-author José Antonio Espín-Sánchez. Check it out! #econhistory #colonialism #migration

www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...
The Making of America: migration in colonial times
By Leticia Arroyo-Abad (CUNY) and Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale)
www.broadstreet.blog
April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
cephie.bsky.social
Welcome to our new Research Assistant, Rebecca Spritzer, starting this month at @tcddublin.bsky.social . Her research interests include labor, gender, behavioral, and development economics.
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June 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM
lseechist.bsky.social
We have made it to the other place! Follow us for research & talks by world-class scholars in the field of economic history. 🌍📜📈

Exploring the past to shape the future...
#RerumCognoscereCausas #LSE #EconHistory
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
cephie.bsky.social
A brilliant opening panel exploring women's suffrage in the nineteenth and twentieth century for our annual workshop, featuring Walker Hanlon (Northwestern University) and @valerueda.bsky.social (University of Nottingham)

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June 11, 2026 at 8:48 AM
larroyoabad.bsky.social
Happy to announce that my paper with Noel Maurer on labor coercion in colonial Peru has finally been upgraded to "published" by the Journal of Economic Growth. Share it please with your family, friends, colleagues, and enemies! #econhistory link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The long shadow of history? the impact of colonial labor institutions on economic development in Peru - Journal of Economic Growth
We examine a canonical case of forced labor: the mita and the encomienda in colonial Peru. The mita was a labor draft designed to provide workers for mines, churches, and public works in colonial Peru...
link.springer.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
leocharles.bsky.social
Très heureux d'avoir pu présenter mon papier "How to survive in a protectionist world. Swiss innovative form of protectionism during the 1st globalization".

=》Society for Social and Economic History à Berlin.

De très bons retours et d'excellentes remarques !
#protectionnisme #EconHistory
March 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
hillaryvipond.bsky.social
Thousands of books have just arrived at CSH and I can't help myself, I've nabbed a few just for the cover art and title. Any Booth map will do for me I guess #econhistory
May 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
theehes.bsky.social
What drove educational policy in colonial Africa? A new article and blog post by @paferce.bsky.social on why Mozambique's colonial state withdrew from running African primary schools and handed Catholic missions a quasi-monopoly that lasted until 1961. #EconHistory #Education
September 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
larroyoabad.bsky.social
New post on Broadstreet by yours truly! Check it out. #econhistory #peru #laborcoercion
open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, when I, Leticia, was still a graduate student.
open.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
cephie.bsky.social
Welcome to Jack Egan starting this month at our Dublin node as a Research Assistant. His research interests include economic history, labour economics and economic development.
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Jack Egan – CEPH – Centre for Economics, Policy and History
Trinity College DublinResearch Associate, Staff
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September 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
cephie.bsky.social
A fantastic resource for history and economics teachers, in collaboration with @cagewarwick.bsky.social and @discoverecon.bsky.social

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📢 Teachers! Want to get your students to think differently? We've got free, fully resourced lessons on topics from topics from Trump, propaganda, revolution, to democracy.

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Open minds today! 👉 www.tes.com/teaching-res...
February 16, 2026 at 2:59 PM
cephie.bsky.social
Episode 3 of Everything Economic History is now live!

Join @judyzara.bsky.social for a great chat about wages and working conditions in eighteenth century Britain and the lessons they have for today

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December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
cephie.bsky.social
Kicking off day 2 of our annual economic history workshop with 2 papers about patents and patent examination. Featuring presentations from @pmoser.bsky.social (NYU Stern) and @cliochris.bsky.social (QUB and CEPH).

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June 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM
gpihdatabase.bsky.social
New on the GPIH website: Elena Korchmina's dataset of wages, prices, and living standards for Moscow, 1553-1851! #econsky #econhistory
February 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
cephie.bsky.social
Welcome to our new Research Assistant, Iiris Jurmu, starting this month at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include political economy, gender equality and illicit markets.
@tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
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June 30, 2026 at 8:27 AM