Thread about our new @wid.world working paper with @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and Svante Prado on income inequality and structural transformation in Sweden, 1870–1970! Link to paper: wid.world/document/inc... Thread 1/
Meredith M. Paker
@mmpaker.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford • 🇬🇧 economic history, labor econ • views my own. https://meredithpaker.com
Oxford is looking for a Departmental Lecturer for next year! Come join our economic history community. Applications are due on May 27, feel free to reach out if you have any questions! history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/depart...
Oxford is hiring a new statutory Professor of Economic History! Apply by May 25th, and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or are thinking about whether this might be a good fit for you! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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
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Our working paper is out!
Judy Stephenson@judyzara.bsky.social · last yr.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... !
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 · 2y agoCan’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
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 · 2y agoNext 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
Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!
Grinnell Economics@grinnell-economics.bsky.social · 2y agoGrinnell 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!
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...
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 
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....
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