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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Feels good to have presented my paper on revolutionary threat theories and Swedish democratisation for the first time! Great CEPR workshop on Economic History and the Welfare State in Copenhagen. Now: 😴

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 03/12/2025

📢 #CallForPapers - The Economics of Longevity and Ageing 9-11 July 2026 | University of Cambridge Deadline: 27 February 2026 Organisers: Martin Ellison @oxfordecondept.bsky.social, Tiernan Evans @eitoxford.bsky.social, Eric French cepr.org/events/econo... #EconSky

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools

R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 30/12/2025

COUNTDOWN The Number One demographic fact of 2025: The US birth rate for women ages 40-44 (12.7 per 1000) is now higher than for those ages 15-19 (12.6) bsky.app/profile/phil... Happy New Year!

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Victor Gay @victorgayeco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There is growing interest in HPE about social conflict in the run-up to the French Revolution. In a new article at Data & Corpus, I describe the Jean Nicolas Database, a database of 8,516 rebellions in France (1661-1789) 👉Article: doi.org/10.46298/dc.... 👉Database: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 🧵1/6

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality" by Tine M. Eriksen, Amanda P. Gaulke, Jannet Svensson, Niels Skipper, and Peter R. Thingholm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Childhood Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents a socioeconomic gradient in adult labor market penalties stemming from a single chronic and treatable childhood health shock in a country with universal ac...

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🆕 How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil Today on VoxDev, Vinicius Cicero (Denison University) & Laura Heras-Recuero (American University) discuss how commodity booms deepened inequality in Brazil: ow.ly/1Gln50XLkzV

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How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil

Commodity booms are often seen as development opportunities, but new evidence from Brazil shows they can deepen inequality and reshape consumption in unexpected ways.

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

IT LIVES! First draft: 2011 This draft: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xh3sg... In between: 12 years of being under review (of which half are on us). +1 coauthor. For me personally: a few moves, a few jobs, a few kids.

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Martin Berg Karlsson @drdemant.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Come work with us!

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 10/11/2025

8-hour workday led to + employment in Denmark, especially among unskilled & female workers. Earnings fell in provincial towns but less in Copenhagen, where union membership was higher & wages rose to offset shorter hours. M Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, C Worm Hansen cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Average hours worked in Denmark from 1872 to 1925. The dashed line represents the collective bargaining reform. We observe country-level average working hours between 1872 and 1911, but with gaps. We calculate the 1914–1925 values from occupation-level data. Hours are interpolated where data is missing: several intervals between 1872 and 1911, and between 1914 and 1919.

In recent years, calls for shorter working weeks have re-emerged in Europe and elsewhere. This column examines how Denmark’s 1919 shift to the eight-hour workday affected labour market outcomes such as hourly wages, weekly earnings, and employment. Weekly earnings fell in provincial towns but less so in Copenhagen, where union membership was higher and hourly wages rose partly to offset shorter hours. Employment increased everywhere, especially among unskilled and female workers. Decentralised wage bargaining appears to have allowed for partial wage compensation and employment expansion.

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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 05/11/2025

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊 Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data. 🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s... Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

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Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

super happy that @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and I have been awarded a grant from the Swedish Research Council! It's a three year project called "Top incomes, inequality and economic change: Sweden, 1911–1950" -- the abstract is in the image. I think that this can lead to some interesting research! 🤓

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Great talk by Marius Fredagsvik Gunnesmo at Lund EKH’s “Makromackan” seminar today! About the labour market effects of the 8 hour working day reform in Denmark in 1919. Read the WP here: cepr.org/publications...

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Daniel Kuehnle @danielkuehnle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I usually don’t share personal things, but this one is different, so I’ll make an exception: Today I got tenure. I’m very happy and relieved at the same time, and grateful to those who supported me along the way.

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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

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Julius Koschnick @juliuskoschnick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print @theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨 In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->

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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · 13/05/2025

📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜 What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox? My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%. 🧵👇 1/6

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Anthony Wray @anthonywray.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🚨 We're hiring (again)! @sdueconhist.bsky.social is looking for both a Predoc and a Postdoc (3-yr fixed-term AP) to join our growing team. Predoc: 👉 Apply by May 16 here: bit.ly/hedg-predoc Postdoc / Assistant Professor 👉 Apply for by May 22 here: bit.ly/hedg-ap #EconSky #EconRA

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Anthony Wray @anthonywray.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Both positions are part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded project. The Predoc will also collaborate with Volha Lazuka and support the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) @sdueconhist.bsky.social . Come join our dynamic and talented group at SDU! 🧠📈

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CINCH @cinchessen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Call for Applications: DAAD Guest Professorship in Health Economics Spend winter term 2025/26 at CINCH in Essen – collaborate, teach, and enjoy a vibrant research environment. Deadline: May 1, 2025 Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social #healtheconomics #econsky #teachecon

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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"Want to understand how local and national politics intertwine to shape old-age pension systems? Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies? Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?

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Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨 1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas 2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth www.nber.org/papers/w33542 @nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social

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Chris Karbownik @chriskarbownik.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

after years in the making (/w @anthonywray.bsky.social) it's finally out in JHR: jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/1.... We show long-run (education, disability, and occupation) and intergenerational (father-son) effects of lower health capital in childhood using sibling-FE design and some cool data.

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Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health

Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this question using inpatient hospital records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed effects estimates indic...

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

What is an important fact about the world that you wish more people would know? Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life. And here is my article about it. ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...

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Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data

There are many ways to improve the world, but their cost-effectiveness varies immensely. You can achieve a lot more if you rely on the best data on where to donate.

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