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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · 6d

What a way to end what feels more like a life chapter than a #research project! 🎊

It was a pleasure to share what we have learnt about #colonialism, #slavery and #inequality.

And now, onto new horizons 🚀

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Jul 29

Better late than never 😅
Arrived in Lund to join the #WEHC2025 where i’ll
share new research on #WomenEmpowerment , #welfare gains from #trade, and on #social mobility after emancipation from #slavery. Come and say hi if you’re around!

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 16

Now live the #Gothenburg workshop in #EconomicHistory.

Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions.

Well done Juan Pablo Julià,
Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 14

🚨🫵🏻 2 weeks to the deadline! Come and join us in beautiful Göteborg!

‼️ What do we offer? Full funding (social security and a very competitive salary), an excellent research environment, plenty of support, and a crowd of colleagues to die for 🤓

#PhDposition
#econtwitter
#academia

Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨We are recruiting!

If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you!

🎯 Fully funded incl. social security
🎯 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History
🎯 Friendly and supportive environment

Check out our research if you’d like to know more about us.

2-3 PhD students in Economic History

2-3 PhD students in Economic History The Department of Economy and Society at the School of

web103.reachmee.com

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 13

🚨New paper alert!

🎯In it, we study how enslaved persons resisted this awful institutions.

🔑 We find that, contrary to previous literature, resistance and acts of rebellion where common among all groups of enslaved, irrespective of gender or rank.

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation!

Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

Re-Analysis of Ciacci, R. (2024). Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden.

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW.

www.econstor.eu

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 8

🙏🏻 Not only will i continue working on my favourite topic, #inequality, but i’ll do that in great company: Juan Pablo Juliá Ciarelli, Svante Prado and Dana Dannells.

🔥🔥 Along the way, we’ll refine #OCR models for handwritten tabular data, study #provincialdynamics and #intersectionality.

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 8

🥳 🙈 Stoked and excited that I’ll head a new #research #project focusing on mapping social stratification in historical #Argentina using micro-level sources.

💰 Thanks Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs Stiftelse!

Today, you’ll find me soaking in the sun!

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 2

📌 After emancipation, opportunities remained firmly in the hands of the elite and did so for a long time.

🔑 We stress how redistribution can reduce inequality: principles of economic justice and fairness must couple with the redistribution of key resources to affect wealth/income distribution.

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · May 2

🧵How does perfect inequality look like?

🔎 Zoom on the sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean, and you will find inequality levels so close to perfect inequality and so persistent as it have never been estimated before.

doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Almost perfect inequality: long-run evidence on wealth distribution from the Danish West Indies 1760–1914 - Cliometrica

It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little previous evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture, with levels of wealth inequality...

doi.org

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Apr 29

‼️‼️ Make sure to register to register to this wonderful chance to listen to Nobel prize winner Claudia Golding.

The event will be broadcasted on livestream, make sure you don’t miss it! 🖥️

www.gu.se/en/event/cla...

Claudia Goldin: Why Women Won

Join the 2025 edition of the Tore Browaldh Lecture, where Nobel Laureate and Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin talks about women's societal and economical changes and impact.

www.gu.se

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Apr 27

Tariffs are also a *regressive* tax on Americans, which means that the burden falls more heavily on lower-income Americans.

Income taxes are the opposite.

So shifting taxation from income taxes to tariffs is a transfer of money from low-income Americans to high-income Americans.

Where We Stand: The Fiscal, Economic, and Distributional Effects of All U.S. Tariffs Enacted in 2025 Through April 2

budgetlab.yale.edu

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Apr 24

👀 Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our wonderful unit in beautiful
Göteborg, Sweden!

2-3 fully funded doctoral position in Economic/Business history

✌️Join a young and supportive bunch of researchers with the unique opportunity to develop your own research agenda!

Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨We are recruiting!

If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you!

🎯 Fully funded incl. social security
🎯 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History
🎯 Friendly and supportive environment

Check out our research if you’d like to know more about us.

2-3 PhD students in Economic History

2-3 PhD students in Economic History The Department of Economy and Society at the School of

web103.reachmee.com

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨We are recruiting!

If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you!

🎯 Fully funded incl. social security
🎯 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History
🎯 Friendly and supportive environment

Check out our research if you’d like to know more about us.

2-3 PhD students in Economic History

2-3 PhD students in Economic History The Department of Economy and Society at the School of

web103.reachmee.com

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Mar 26

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Mar 19

Imagine if chefs:

Sourced the ingredients

Cooked the meal

Tested each other's dishes

Handed over their recipes

…then PAID a corporation $$$ so you can eat it

That's the business model we're looking at here

Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · Nov 18

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.

A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)

$2.5B in 2023 alone.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023

This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...

arxiv.org

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Mar 19

Istanbul University students protesting the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu. They are directly challenging the government which has banned all gatherings.

bianet @bianet.org · Mar 19

Öğrenciler, barikatları aştı, İstanbul Üniversitesi Ana Kapısı’na ulaştı.

📹 : @alidnc.bsky.social

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Mar 10

Prospective speakers should submit a max one-page abstract and a short CV. Please find the email address for submission at the link!

Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Mar 10

‼️ Call for papers:

📌 Young economic historians
📌 Any research and 🌎 areas welcome!

Come visit us in beautiful Göteborg!

And 🫵🏻 don’t forget to spread the word!

Economic History Workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden

Call for papers for the Economic History Workshop! The workshop will gather young researchers in a friendly and non-imposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive ...

www.gu.se

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The European Historical Economics Society @theehes.bsky.social · Mar 5

New publication

Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s

By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis

academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s

Abstract. In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to ac

academic.oup.com

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Feb 28

📣 Call for papers 📣

In May, we’ll host a wonderful workshop for young economic historians 🤓

A great opportunity to get feedback in a friendly and supporting environment.

I hope to see many in Gothenburg in May! Help us spread the word 🖖🏻

CfP: Economic History Workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden (deadline 15 marzo 2025)

Department of Economy and Society, Unit for Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-17 May 2025 Local organiser: Svante Prado; Bart van Holstejin; Giulia Martini; Raisa Rubio Keynote…

https://ariseweb.org/2025/02/10/cfp-economic-history-workshop-in-gothenburg-sweden/#:~:text=📌%20Convegno%202024%20%7C-,CfP%3A%20Economic%20History%20Workshop%20in%20Gothenburg,Sweden%20(deadline%2015%20marzo%202025)&text=The%20main%20aim%20of%20the,peers%20and%20leading%20economic%20historians

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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · Feb 26

Demographers ability to model the global population ("10 billion by 2050 followed by plateau") rely on DHS surveys. Without them we're blind to large parts of the globe and quality of forecasts will go down. Which is of course a non-issue if planing-horizons don't extend beyond next Friday.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Feb 25

War on Science update: DHS does surveys around the world. It's a key part of how we understand the world. Web of Science has 3501 items that mention DHS in the metadata; currently averaging about 350 per year. The last contract to run it was about $57 million per year. dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/N...

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Stefania Galli @galli-stef.bsky.social · Feb 20

Late to the game, but had a wonderful time last week presenting my and Chris Absell new project on trade liberalisation @ub.edu! Thanks to @federicotadei.bsky.social and @joseperescajias for the invitation and to Spain for being 20 degrees warmer than Sweden.

#econhist #tariffs #trade

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Irene Elmerot @elmerot.bsky.social · Feb 6

Finally my open access Cambridge Element in Corpus Linguistics is online!
Please share widely to anyone interested, anywhere.

Keywords:
news discourse
sentiment in news
intersectional analysis
Czech language

#CorpusLinguistics
#CADS
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/social-group-representation-in-a-diachronic-news-corpus/A428E87B5E848C3AF4CBFDA2085F4E7E\\

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jan 19

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

www.sciencespo.fr

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