Matthew Curtis
@mjdcurtis.bsky.social
Economic historian, AP at University of Southern Denmark.
I work with big data from parish records and genealogies. Interested in historical demography, social mobility, and human capital.
I work with big data from parish records and genealogies. Interested in historical demography, social mobility, and human capital.
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From a new paper by @mjdcurtis.bsky.social, David de la Croix, et al. The Little Divergence in 'academic human capital' (kind of publications index) btw northern & southern Europe started ca 1500. Northern Germany diverged from central & southern German areas after the Thirty Years' War.
September 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From a new paper by @mjdcurtis.bsky.social, David de la Croix, et al. The Little Divergence in 'academic human capital' (kind of publications index) btw northern & southern Europe started ca 1500. Northern Germany diverged from central & southern German areas after the Thirty Years' War.
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Academic Human Capital in European Countries and Regions, 1200-1793 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Academic Human Capital in European Countries and Regions, 1200-1793 - Marginal REVOLUTION
We present new annual time-series data on academic human capital across Europe from 1200 to 1793, constructed by aggregating individual-level measures at three geographic scales: cities, present-day countries (as of 2025), and historically informed macro-regions. Individual human capital is derived from a composite index of publication outcomes, based on data from the Repertorium Eruditorum Totius […]
marginalrevolution.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Academic Human Capital in European Countries and Regions, 1200-1793 - Marginal REVOLUTION
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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*
*They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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*
*They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*
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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
August 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-6
July 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sad-6
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Feel like I need to update this comic to add that both professor and student are using chatgpt www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teaching
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teaching
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teaching
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July 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Feel like I need to update this comic to add that both professor and student are using chatgpt www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teaching
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Now on Early View:
'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'.
By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger.
@camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @yaleemd.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'.
By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger.
@camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @yaleemd.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus o...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Now on Early View:
'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'.
By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger.
@camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @yaleemd.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'.
By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger.
@camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @yaleemd.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.
📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.
📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
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The purpose of this book is to introduce applied researchers to
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modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) estimators, tailored to potentially
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June 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🧵1/4
🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.
📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.
📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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🚨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature
June 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🚨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature
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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
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...
www.nber.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
www.nber.org/papers/w33923
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Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
June 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
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The deadline for the Predoc and AP positions @sdueconhist.bsky.social has been extended! Apply by June 1.
🚨 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
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
May 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The deadline for the Predoc and AP positions @sdueconhist.bsky.social has been extended! Apply by June 1.
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🧵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...
🔎 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
May 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵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...
🔎 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...
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Professor life
a cartoon character without a face is floating in the water .
ALT: a cartoon character without a face is floating in the water .
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April 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Professor life
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Looking for a PhD candidate to study how first names provided information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). More info on the position here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Candidate in History (279729) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: PhD Candidate in History (279729), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
April 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Looking for a PhD candidate to study how first names provided information about parental values and beliefs in historical Europe (circa 1750-1950). More info on the position here:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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👀 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!
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!
🚨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.
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
April 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
👀 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!
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!
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🚨📢 Gregory Clark in the media! 🚨📢
The “golddigger” myth gets a reality check! 💰📉 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history.
👉 Read the article here: www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/idee...
#EconHist #SocialMobility
The “golddigger” myth gets a reality check! 💰📉 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history.
👉 Read the article here: www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/idee...
#EconHist #SocialMobility
Golddiggermyten
Ægteskab. Det er en indgroet forestilling i samfundet, at kvinder i højere grad end mænd gifter sig til status og velstand. Men det er en myte, viser nyt studie.
www.weekendavisen.dk
April 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🚨📢 Gregory Clark in the media! 🚨📢
The “golddigger” myth gets a reality check! 💰📉 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history.
👉 Read the article here: www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/idee...
#EconHist #SocialMobility
The “golddigger” myth gets a reality check! 💰📉 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history.
👉 Read the article here: www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/idee...
#EconHist #SocialMobility
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If you have questions about these vacancies, I'm happy to chat 😊
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I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Inequalities in health and survival
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
lu.varbi.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you have questions about these vacancies, I'm happy to chat 😊
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
bsky.app/profile/ingr...
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Hi folks!
Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?
Call for ASREC conference is out!
Preceded by grad student workshop.
Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.
Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org
Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?
Call for ASREC conference is out!
Preceded by grad student workshop.
Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.
Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Hi folks!
Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?
Call for ASREC conference is out!
Preceded by grad student workshop.
Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.
Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org
Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?
Call for ASREC conference is out!
Preceded by grad student workshop.
Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.
Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org
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🚨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.
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
March 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🚨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.
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.
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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
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 ->->->
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Thursday and Friday was the 14th annual workshop on Growth, History and Development. But this year was different. This year marks the 150 year anniversary of women's access to university in Denmark. And what an obvious theme for a workshop on economic history. (1/x)
@sdueconhist.bsky.social
@sdueconhist.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Thursday and Friday was the 14th annual workshop on Growth, History and Development. But this year was different. This year marks the 150 year anniversary of women's access to university in Denmark. And what an obvious theme for a workshop on economic history. (1/x)
@sdueconhist.bsky.social
@sdueconhist.bsky.social
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📢 We're Hiring! 📢 I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @sdueconhist.bsky.social to work on research in health care, education, and medical innovation in the US.
👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
👉Deadline: 7 April
Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq
👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
👉Deadline: 7 April
Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq
March 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📢 We're Hiring! 📢 I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @sdueconhist.bsky.social to work on research in health care, education, and medical innovation in the US.
👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
👉Deadline: 7 April
Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq
👉Fully funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk
👉Deadline: 7 April
Come be part of an exciting research environment—apply now! ✨ bit.ly/4i3KsHq
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📌 PhD Position with @AnthonySWray
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2025
🔗 Learn more and apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2025
🔗 Learn more and apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
PhD scholarship in Economic History at the Department of Economics
Application deadline: April 7, 2025.
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
📌 PhD Position with @AnthonySWray
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2025
🔗 Learn more and apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📅 Deadline: 7 April 2025
🔗 Learn more and apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...