Sandra de Pleijt
sdepleijt.bsky.social
Sandra de Pleijt
@sdepleijt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Economic History. Analyzes long run growth, human capital, technological change, gender inequality. Also Fresh-organizer.
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🆕 Higher education and the roots of Southeast Asia’s economic miracle

Today on VoxDev, Alexandra de Pleijt (@w-u-r.bsky.social) & Ewout Frankema discuss the role of higher education in Southeast Asia's long-run development: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Higher education and the roots of Southeast Asia’s economic miracle
Higher education played a key role in Southeast Asia’s long-run development—much earlier than most policy accounts and research suggest.
voxdev.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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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 ->
July 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this. For lots of history, new micro-data &natural experiments, read on ->->->
March 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On February 28, 2025, Utrecht University will host a
#FRESH meeting on Empire and Economic Development

Keynote lecture by Tirthanker Roy (LSE)

Local organizers: Maanik Nath and John Tang

More details in the below 👇
November 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM
📢  On June 24-25, 2024, UCLouvain will host a #FRESH workshop on:  “Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: lessons from pre-modern Europe”

Keynote lectures by Joel Mokyr and Nico Voigtländer

Local organizers: David de la Croix and Paula Gobbi

Details below 👇
November 22, 2023 at 5:38 PM
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Unsure how this stuff flies in the bluesky, but obsessed as I am with monopsony in early modern labour markets, delighted to say that the important collaboration w @phwallis and @mmpaker has yielded doi.org/10.1017/S002... a paper that shows “jobs have rents” before industrialisation 
November 15, 2023 at 6:23 PM
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I’m on the economic job market this year. My JMP investigates how teachers affected the direction of research of their students during the Scientific Revolution at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Please find my JMP and CV on my website juliuskoschnick.com

Key summary:
November 1, 2023 at 7:43 PM