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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 11d

Econ history family: incoming book alert! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium

Price:
$39.95/£35.00
ISBN:
Published (US):
Nov 4, 2025
Published (UK):
Dec 30, 2025
Copyright:
2025
Pages:
544
Size:
6.13 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
16 b/w illus. 11 tables. 1 map.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 27d

Despite progress, Americans continue to live in racially homogeneous neighborhoods. We spoke with Trevon Logan of Ohio State and John Parman of @wm.edu about why residential segregation persists, and why it matters. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/rac...

Reviewing residential segregation

Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

www.aeaweb.org

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

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Shooshan Danagoulian @shooshan.bsky.social · 15d

Newly published in Journal of Health Economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seasonal allergies and mental health: Do small health shocks affect suicidality?

Suicide rates increased 37% in the US from 2000 to 2018; while structural factors are extensively studied, short-term triggers remain less understood.…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 15d

This new CESifo working paper on covariate balancing looks very interesting. @jmwooldridge.bsky.social

Link: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 20d

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 21d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria" by Philipp Ager, Casper W. Hansen, and Peter Z. Lin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the impact of the free supply of diphtheria antitoxin, the first effective medical treatment for an infectious disease, on the historical health transition in Massac...

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 27d

#rstats #econsky

fixest v0.13.0 is finally out!

It's still about making OLS and GLM estimations easy.

Some major changes:
- *default* VCOV becomes iid always!
- singletons are removed by default!

See all the changes here:
github.com/lrberge/fixe...

fixest: Fast Fixed-Effects Estimations

Fast and user-friendly estimation of econometric models with multiple fixed-effects. Includes ordinary least squares (OLS), generalized linear models (GLM) and the negative binomial. The core of the p...

cran.r-project.org

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · 26d

Let's welcome our next departmental seminar speaker, John Parman. He will present his paper, "The Great Migration and Women's Work."

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 27d

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

Reviewing residential segregation

Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

www.aeaweb.org

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NBER @nber.org · Sep 4

The first edition of The Bulletin on the Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias is now available: https://www.nber.org/ba

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Guo Xu @guoxu.bsky.social · Aug 29

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · Aug 28

The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”

Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · Aug 26

For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged.

*They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · Aug 25

Incredibly excited for my brand new class at Rotman this fall: Progress! Econ history + theory + history of thought + philosophy on why rare orgs at rare times in rare places accomplish new things. Trying to put rigor onto an idea that is very much in the air. kevinbryanecon.com/Bryan-Progre... 1/3

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nice post by @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social on the scaling benefits that come from offloading your big regression jobs to a database. jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h...

(Showcasing some new-ish 📦 s that he, @apoorvalal.com & myself have been working on, but haven't really advertised yet.)

2025-08-24_dbreg-Is-Super-Fast

jamesbrandecon.github.io

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Aug 22

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @meltemdaysal.bsky.social, Hui Ding, @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Hannes Schwandt study the spread of respiratory illnesses among children and the magnitudes of externalities on younger infant siblings over the short and long-run. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · Aug 20

There are several recent papers which could fall under the heading ‘Economic History of the Scientific Revolution’ but this network analysis tracing how scientific ideas diffused amongst scholars in the period 1084-1793 is a real milestone, an ‘epidemiological’ model of how ideas spread like disease

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Marciano Siniscalchi @marciano.bsky.social · Jul 30

Belatedly doing my best to amplify this. Refine works, and I can totally see it becoming part of my pre-submission routine.

Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 24

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide

(Forthcoming Article) - Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well-understood. Howeve...

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · Jun 24

The @jpolecon.bsky.social is the latest addition to the list of top Econ journals adhering to datacodestandard.org . Our data policy implements DCAS (www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/jpe...)

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · Jun 20

Just gave a presentation a the REGIS summer school we organised in Bordeaux.

Algorithms for empirical research

Slides and material here: github.com/lrberge/2025...

The conclusion is that, even in the age of AI, using your brain is still relevant!

#RStats #EconSky

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Jun 20

I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?”

My new blog post covers the answer.

#EconSky

Advice to junior faculty – Tatyana Deryugina

Tatyana Deryugina

deryugina.com

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · Jun 16

New @nber.org working paper from our colleague Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social (along with Joe Price and Zach Ward), "Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History." Check it out:

www.nber.org/papers/w33923

Like Great-Grandparent, Like Great-Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 11

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census" by Christopher S. Carpenter, Donn Feir, Krishna Pendakur, and Casey Warman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census

(Forthcoming Article) - We provide the first evidence from a large population Census on earnings disparities experienced by nonbinary people—those who do not exclusively identify as men or women—and t...

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jun 10

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States" by Jean-Félix Brouillette, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States

(Forthcoming Article) - We construct a measure of consumption-equivalent welfare for Black and White Americans that incorporates life expectancy, incarceration, consumption, leisure, and inequality. B...

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