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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m thrilled about all of the new opportunities this role will bring and deeply grateful to my amazing colleagues and students at Grinnell for all of their support the past three years!

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Sep 2

I’m excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January I’ll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where I’ll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls College.

Meredith Paker appointed as Associate Professor in Economic and Social History

www.history.ox.ac.uk

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Jun 16

Our working paper is out!

Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · Jun 16

Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data… so … ta dah… @mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !

www.lse.ac.uk

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Erik Bengtsson @bengtssonz.bsky.social · Mar 18

just attended a presentation of this paper in Lund -- excellent stuff! very exciting about new methods to grapple with problems with scarce data in economic history -- here, applied to wages in England since the 1200s.

thank you @mmpaker.bsky.social !

Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Mar 10

Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history

Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · Mar 5

Next week 12th March @mmpaker.bsky.social will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev… about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thank you so much Erik! You have such a fantastic group at Lund @judyzara.bsky.social

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Mar 11

Good question! I have no idea!

Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Mar 10

Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history

Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · Mar 5

Next week 12th March @mmpaker.bsky.social will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev… about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there

https://nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Mar 10

Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!

Grinnell Economics @grinnell-economics.bsky.social · Mar 10

Grinnell was delighted to host a liberal arts economic history conference this weekend organized by @mmpaker.bsky.social
and colleagues. Scholars from liberal arts colleagues across the US came to present their research and connect on new methods and teaching in liberal arts environments!

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Nov 29

The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=462...

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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · Nov 15

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

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Sep 25

Grinnell is hiring two tenure-track faculty this year (at any level) in macroeconomics, broadly construed. Reach out if you want to learn more about our generous research support, amazing undergrads, and lovely colleagues! #EconSky 📉📈 www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

www.aeaweb.org

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Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker.bsky.social · Sep 23

This website looks exactly like Twitter, hi!

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