An excellent articulation. This will become required reading for all my PhD students (even though I am in the “no-table-of-contents-paragraph” camp 😁).

Tatyana Deryugina@tderyugina.bsky.social · last wk.

Writing a paper introduction is more art than science, but a good formula gets you most of the way there. Today's blog post: a paragraph-by-paragraph template that is used pretty commonly, plus the mistakes I see most often. 🧵 #EconSky deryugina.com/a-two-for-on...

New article in early view at RHE-JILAEH! Together with David González-Agudo and Valentina Ramírez, we reconstruct the cost of housing in Toledo between 1489 and 1810. This is one of the longest such series in existence anywhere in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The cost of housing in the very long run: Toledo, 1489–1810 | Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History | Cambridge Core

The cost of housing in the very long run: Toledo, 1489–1810

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Why is Claude so keen on pointing out "honest" interpretations and results? Does it cheat on everything else?

- Dear Journal, here's my manuscript for review. - Thanks, we'll let you know within the decade. [three years later] - Dear author, congratulations on your paper being accepted. Please correct and return these proof within the next seven and a half minutes or else.

📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

Learn more about @ubcvse.bsky.social 's Prof. Michael Barber, who is transforming first year ECON teaching at UBC. economics.ubc.ca/news/econ-10...

How Dr. Michael Barber makes Econ 101 & 102 at UBC a valuable elective for any student - Vancouver School of Economics

Dr. Michael Barber, Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Vancouver School of Economics, is helping shape the future of first-year economics education at UBC.

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Ran Abramitzky created this amazing family tree of our advisor, Joel Mokyr. Explore a variety of astounding metrics of Joel's scholarly reach, including his 78 direct students, an additional 304 scholars in successive generations, and over 200K google cites! polite-baklava-a95d7b.netlify.app

All you ever wanted to know about bread production, prices, markets, and political economy in early modern Spain, now on Early View! "The Bread of Toledo", Joint with David González Agudo at @uv.es. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ehr....

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...

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The 2026 EHS Conference celebrated the Society’s 100th anniversary. New Researcher Paper Prizes were awarded to Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia), Alessandro Brioschi (Queen’s University Belfast) and Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast). #EHS100 ehs.org.uk/society/gran...

New Researcher Paper - Prize Winners - Economic History Society

The procedure for awarding New Researcher Prizes can be found here. 2026: CKK Building, London School of Economics, 10-12 April Three prizes were awarded to: NR2C: Migration and Expansion in the US Th...

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Congratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change! economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...

Sara Benetti - Vancouver School of Economics

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What’s the deal with randomly bolded words in emails, letters, grant proposals, etc? I find them utterly distracting. I understand ChatGPT does it by default. Are people trying to accomplish anything else other than broadcasting “I ran this through ChatGPT”?

Will you join us in Vancouver? 🇨🇦 This summer, we’re partnering with UBC's @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social to host the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality. Applications are now open – we’re excited to meet you. Learn more: bit.ly/4lWx0ro Apply here: bit.ly/4t8Lff6

Many believed that reductions in life expectancy brought about by COVID would be temporary. This struck me as naive. COVID was a new, poorly understood disease with unknown long-term consequences. Six years later, all the data suggest that such optimism was unjustified.

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

I suspect that a good half of the support for permanent DST comes from people that do not understand how the distribution of daylight will actually change. That 90% approval (from a question in which permanent standard time was not an option) will tank hard in the winter of 2027.

Kevin Milligan@kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Slam dunk" until people realize their kids will go to school in the dark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permane...

In A Capital’s Capital, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal map the fluctuations in wealth and its distribution in Paris between 1807 and 1977. Now available (31 March UK pub). Check out a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Economics #History

Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii

I am delighted that this great conversation with Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan has posted. Their extraordinary work on intergenerational mobility and immigrants speaks to essential dimensions of the extent of equality of opportunity and of the process of assimilation.

UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility@ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan are using economic history to understand immigration. On The Inequality Podcast, they examine patterns of upward mobility and preview new research on the tone of modern political speeches. Listen to their conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social → bit.ly/4txjJsL

Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter. They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures. www.nber.org/papers/w3481...

Congrats! www.bankofcanada.ca/2026/02/univ...

University of British Columbia crowned National Champion of The Governor’s Challenge

The Bank of Canada is pleased to announce that the University of British Columbia has won the eleventh annual Governor’s Challenge, a national student competition in which teams simulate the role of a...

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Were you planning to get any actual work done today? I'm here to save you from such a dreary fate.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This week on the blog! By request of the ACOUP Senate (that is, patrons on Patreon at the patres et matres conscripti level), a very brief introduction to the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a collapse even more severe than the fall of the Roman Empire in the west! acoup.blog/2026/01/30/c...

Gary Becker feels you, guys

We’re proud to congratulate Dr. Raffaele Saggio, and coauthors, on his recent receipt of the 2025 Aigner Award from the Journal of Econometrics. Read about the award: economics.ubc.ca/news/ubc-pro...

The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Click on the title to browse this issue

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A @voxdev.bsky.social column on the impact of public education through the lens of economic history, by my (former) student Ben Milner @benjaminlm.bsky.social. voxdev.org/topic/educat...

How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act

The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.

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When I first installed Mac OS 26.1 Tahoe, I hated it. After using it for a few days, I now hate it a lot more. What a piece of junk. Every dynamic element (like autocomplete of URLs / search / addresses) is sluggish, and I am on an MacBook Pro M3 Max with 128 GB of RAM.

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

The Middlebury Department of Economics is seeking a two-year VAP for 2026-28, any field. The would be a great gig: brilliant colleagues (present company excepted), curious students, friendly vibes, gorgeous location. Please apply / spread the word. apply.interfolio.com/177226

The Iona building, home to @ubcvse.bsky.social, earlier today.

And now for English speakers, our column with Ran Abramitzky in VoxEU reviewing the contributions of Joel Mokyr, sprinkled with a personal touch or two. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Para los hispanohablantes, comparto nuestra columna con Tommy Murphy en el diario La Nación de Buenos Aires, repasando las contribuciones de Joel Mokyr, Premio Nobel de Economía 2025. www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/un-...

Un Nobel para la economía del cambio: Joel Mokyr y el misterio del crecimiento sostenido

El recientemente galardonado por la academia sueca dedicó las últimas cinco décadas a investigar las razones profundas del proceso de expansión económica; su aporte para comprender fenómenos actuales ...

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