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Max Posch

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Assistant professor University of Exeter | Harvard affiliate | working on the social and cultural foundations of economic development | FirstGen

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Toman Barsbai @tomanbarsbai.com · 18/12/2025
📢 Call for papers 📢 Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on the Economics of Migration, May 6-7! Invited talks by Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, and Caroline Theoharides. Submit your paper by Jan 31. Some travel funding is available. baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf
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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thanks for the invite and the great discussions. I had a lot of fun !
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Daniel P. Gross @danielpgross.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📢 Conference announcement! Paolo Surico and I are excited to be organizing this @cepr.org conference on Public Policies for Innovation. If you work in the #Economics of #Innovation and #InnovationPolicy, please submit + spread the word. Non-presenting attendees also invited.
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USI Institute of Economics (IdEP) @usiidep.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Happy to share that the new Econ Seminar Series in Lugano is ready to begin! Find hereby our speakers for the #Autumn25 Series! 📆Check out the full schedule below! idep.usi.ch/storage/app/... If interested, please contact us here or via our email: idep@usi.ch
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Federico Trombetta @icotrombetta.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: Alessandra Casella and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Excellent piece of historical economic cultural evolution research! I will have to read it in more detail today.
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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17
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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍 ✅YES‼️ Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎 We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior 🧵 👇 1/17
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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
And we are live! #econsky @jpolecon.bsky.social jpedataeditor.github.io
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Journal of Political Economy Data Editor Website – JPE Data Editor
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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For German and French speakers interested in animal culture, this doco will be well worth 43 mins of your time. For everyone else, great tits solving puzzle boxes speak for themselves 🐦🧩🧠@lucymaplin.bsky.social @mchimento.bsky.social www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...
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Kultur im Tierreich - Voneinander lernen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Bei Menschen wie bei Tieren beruht die Weitergabe von Kultur auf sozialem Lernen. Vier Arten geben Einblicke in die Kulturvermittlung im Tierreich: Kohlmeisen und Grünmeerkatzen lernen die Tricks der ...
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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics. Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
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Etienne Le Rossignol @elerossignol.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Best video to watch during the Easter break 🥚🐣 youtu.be/lmIABocWBHI?...
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Cultures in Crisis? Cultural Evolution and the Potential for Global Mismatch
YouTube video by FBE UniMelb
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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with Fulvia Budillon and Andre Gray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Send materials to fbudillo@ucsd.edu and adgray@ucsd.edu, subject Mozambique Intern. Thanks!
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Field Research Intern - UC San Diego Economics | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 07/04/2025
Registration is open for the 9th Text-As-Data Workshop! When: 28-29 April 2025 Where: Online Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social @phinifa.bsky.social More information: cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky #Workshop #Conference
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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.
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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...
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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA. @beckerfriedman.bsky.social @HarrisPolicy @MiiELab bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...
Call for papers, 2025 AI in social science conference, September 25-26
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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As opportunity costs rise for Seventh Day Adventists in Sub-Saharan Africa, membership and satisfaction decline, and adherence to health rules drops. New research brief from @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris Policy), Dean Yang, and Triana Yentzen. ow.ly/CN5g50VgL9z #EconSky
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The Price of Faith: Economic Costs and Religious Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Becker Friedman Institute
Prior research shows that religious institutions play a major role in shaping economic behaviors, social norms, and development outcomes worldwide. But what happens when religious membership (or belie...
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Elliott Ash @elliottash.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📣Now hiring: Predoc in Economics and Data Science We are hiring a predoc -- work at ETH Zurich on exciting projects in applied econ (political econ, education, etc.), using AI, NLP, and causal inference. Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11505
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 26/02/2025
How did Southern white elites react after Reconstruction? They cut taxes and weakened bureaucratic capacity. Sadly, very relevant research from @pavisuri.bsky.social and @notstevenwhite.bsky.social.
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Updates on US Census Data as of February 5: According to the Census Bureau, all files on the public FTP server have been made publicly unavailable to comply with the President's executive orders. They say they'll work to restore the files after they are reviewed and approved.
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AEA Data Editor @aeadata.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience
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Landscapes of Population Health @landscapeslab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Forthcoming in the AER: "Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict" by Eleonora Guarnieri. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Cultural Distance and Ethnic Civil Conflict
(Forthcoming Article) - Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict in Africa is explained by eth...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
VITAL KNOWLEDGE: “Is DeepSeek the biggest threat to US equity markets? The company seems to have built a groundbreaking AI model at an extremely low price .. calling into question the utility of the hundreds of billions worth of capex being poured into this industry.” www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/h...
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How China’s new AI model DeepSeek is threatening U.S. dominance
An AI lab out of China has ignited panic in Silicon Valley after releasing impressive AI models more cheaply and with less-powerful chips than U.S. AI giants.
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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky
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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)
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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
One last conference announcement for today... Submit your papers to the BREAD Development Economics conference at Princeton, May 2-3! Submission deadline Feb 25. ibread.org/conference/b... #EconSky
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BREAD Conference on Development, Princeton, May 2-3, 2025 – BREAD
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Alexander Moradi @amoradi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🥊 Ready for the 3rd Bolzano Workshop on Historical Economics! From the majestic South Tyrolean Alps, where economics meets history in a knockout bout of ideas. Electrifying debates and brilliant scholars await. The final program is now available—explore the highlights! @essobecker.bsky.social
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Heidi L. Williams @heidiwilliams.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Apply by 6-Feb: NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp, July 11-17 With support from Open Philanthropy: - classes: Pierre Azoulay, Kevin Bryan, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me - panel: Matt Clancy, Dylan Matthews, Caleb Watney - keynotes: Glenn Hubbard & Ronnie Chatterji
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
One of my favorite fun geography facts is that the shortest path between Reykjavik and Sydney looks like this.
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Pedro Sant’Anna @pedrosantanna.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!
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Jeffrey Lin @jeffrlin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Tune in tomorrow morning to see Vitaly present our paper at the I3 meetings. www.nber.org/conferences/...
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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Crypto isn't a currency. It's a massive ponzi scheme propped up by tech bros, speculators, and financial and political groups taking advantage of people who don't know better. www.forbes.com/sites/digita...
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Sudden Panic Sparks $200 Billion Bitcoin And Crypto Price Crash
Crypto traders are nervously eyeing how low the bitcoin price could fall...
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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 23/11/2024
Research idea: Media availability and cognitive development of children. I am quite certain you can find a link here. Identification approach: exploit the strength of seasonal diseases e.g. colds, stomach bugs etc. I reckon in the northern hemisphere, absence of mask wearing...
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Petra Moser @pmoser.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My son's math teacher just told me that 10th graders are now doing worse in tests of creativity. I'd 1) collect all questions on a math test (e.g., AMC) 2) ask teachers (& AI) to rank questions for creativity 3) plot changes in % correct answers by creativity scores over time.
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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Curious about how the 40-hour workweek became standard? 🕒 In a Social Science History paper I investigate which political parties pushed for—or resisted—working-time regulations from the late 19th to the 20th century.
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Searchable list of 40,000+ starter packs (and counting) 🔥👇 blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If any examiner thinks they can identify essays written by Generative AI, That now seems rather naive.. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Personally, I have totally revised my assessments so as to test AI-complementary skills t.co/XHJzpYDZEA
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For the people from Twitter following my advert for this place, here are the guideposts / ‘starter packs’: Economic History Starter Packs (2) bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... Growth & Development Starter Pack bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Andi @andisr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The IGC is doing a virtual PhD course on Urban Economics and all the lectures and materials are available free of charge. You should check it out: www.theigc.org/events/bread... #EconSky
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BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD course on urban economics
This virtual PhD-level course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the economic questions relevant to urbanisation and the economics of cities in low and middle-income countries.
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"Strong Democrats" have, in the past 10 years, swung away from the median voter on cultural issues New analysis by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#Econbsky
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Max Posch @maxposch.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Interested in the economics of Culture and Institutions? Thanks for putting this list together @tmcgav.bsky.social
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
To celebrate my moving to BlueSky I am giving away LaTeX goodies. Always wanted to have a clean, nice-looking, readable, complete and supporting visual track changes reply to referees? Look no more: the template you're looking for is here: github.com/paolocrosett... Happy BlueSkying to everyone.
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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
If anyone is looking for a nice presentation theme this semester... Grab it with: `quarto use template grantmcdermott/quarto-revealjs-clean`
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 26/08/2024
Here's a Survey Methodology Starter Pack that I definitely shouldn't be a part of, and I'm sure many are missing. #surveymethods #surveymethodology #socsky #polsky #econsky go.bsky.app/3H1Pf9z
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/08/2024
Demographers! Get yer demographers! Before they run out! 📉📈 go.bsky.app/FqXNjEh
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