A new practitioner's guide to using LLMs in economic history covers the workflow, pitfalls, and validation, with four worked examples from paintings to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wartime speeches, from @andyferrara.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35374

After the Civil War, wives and daughters of disabled Union veterans entered wage work at higher rates, helping enable women-led Temperance Crusade activism, from Madison K. Arnsbarger, @andyferrara.bsky.social, and Paige Montrose www.nber.org/papers/w35287

The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage. New paper by Bazzi, Ferrara, Fiszbein, Pearson, and Testa: www.restud.com/the-confeder... #REStud #EconSky

My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

Interested in forced migration and its long-term impacts? This workshop from May 6-7 May at the University of Gothenburg might be for you! Submission deadline is Feb 28, 2026. More information here: www.gu.se/en/event/wor...

In today's JMP blog, @jiaweilyu.bsky.social studies impact of affirmative action for men in China's civil service. Women outperform men in the entry exam, so quotas were introduced to balance gender. Fewer women were hired, quality declined, & tax collected fell. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

When gender quotas protect the powerful: Lessons from China’s civil service. Guest post by Jiawei Lyu

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VoxEU column now up for my paper on "Wars, Taxation and Representation" with @essobecker.bsky.social, @andyferrara.bsky.social and @luigipascali.bsky.social. Full paper available here: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

VoxEU @ CEPR@voxeu.org · last yr.

@essobecker.bsky.social, Andreas Ferrara, @ericmelander.bsky.social‬, & @luigipascali.bsky.social explore how wars played a crucial role in the emergence of the blueprints for modern states in #Europe as conflict forced rulers to strike bargains with their subjects. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

My research team (w/ @andyferrara.bsky.social, Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, and Thomas Pearson) is hiring a full-time economics postdoc for the 2025-26 academic year! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below.

Frontline Union Army captains cut desertions and boosted cohesion through leading by example, earning postwar-wage gains and greater recognition, from @andyferrara.bsky.social, Christian Dippel, and Stephan Heblich https://www.nber.org/papers/w34057

“The No Club” is now available in Chinese! I got to celebrate the publication while presenting at the ESAWorld meetings in Beijing. It was a pleasure to meet our publisher at China Machine Press and to reconnect with our extremely talented and generous Pitt alumni. What an amazing trip.

Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.

Linked individual data using WWII Army and administrative tax records show mixed impacts of service on long-run economic outcomes for different racial and ethnic groups, from Sergio E. Barrera, Andreas Ferrara, Price V. Fishback, and Misty L. Heggeness https://www.nber.org/papers/w33382

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

The last four decks (at least for now) are here: 11 Problems of TWFE: psantanna.com/DiD/11_Stagg... 12 Staggered DiD (mostly CS): psantanna.com/DiD/12_CS.pdf 13 Challenges when Treatment turns on and off: psantanna.com/DiD/13_On_of... 14 Random Treatment Timing: psantanna.com/DiD/14_Rando...

We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...

Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Technician Opportunities - Vancouver School of Economics

Join the Vancouver School of Economics: Pre-Doctoral Fellow/Research Technician Opportunities The Vancouver School of Economics (VSE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is excited to announce...

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The Economics Department at the University of Pittsburgh is hiring! We have an Open Rank position. You can find details and application instructions here: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....