Check out our article in Broadstreet about our ambitious project! www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...

The Making of America: migration in colonial times

By Leticia Arroyo-Abad (CUNY) and Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez (Yale)

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Economic #Inequality in #LatinAmerica: Read about how @joseaespin.bsky.social & Mayara Felix, #FirstGen students now @yaleeconomics.bsky.social economists, are using research methods from applied micro & economic history to understand inequality: egc.yale.edu/news/250211/... #EconHist #EconSky

In Conversation: José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez and Mayara Felix on inequality in Latin America

The two EGC affiliates discuss the persistence of inequality in Latin America and how their respective subfields – applied microeconomics and economic history – are both critical for understanding the...

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Yale EGC is now in Blusky #Econsky

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👋 Hello BlueSky! 👋 Yale Economic Growth Center & @yaleeconomics.bsky.social launch our accounts today. We join #EconSky #GlobalDev community @cgdev.org @theigc.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @princetondevo.bsky.social @voxdev.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social & others to come. egc.yale.edu

Post-doctoral Positions in the Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics (EP&E), Yale Economic Historians and interdisciplinary scholars are encouraged to apply. Please submit application materials electronically to Interfolio at apply.interfolio.com/160735.

Cool new work using the nineteenth-century IPUMS full count census and linked MLP data providing new estimates of Civil War mortality. Built off of David Hacker’s previous estimates using IPUMS samples.

Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show

An analysis of newly released 19th-century census records offers more insight into the conflict’s costs.

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