New paper alert 🚨 🚨 Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England Together with co-authors @sdepleijt.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social, we set out to solve one of the most intriguing puzzles of the Industrial Revolution

On the 18th and 19th of June 2026, the Public University of Navarre (Spain) will host a #FRESH meeting on "Energy, Sustainability, and Economic History" Keynote lecture by Henry Willebald Local organizer: Cristián Ducoing More details below:

On May 5-6, 2026, Humboldt University will host a #FRESH meeting on The causes and consequences of social conflict Keynote lecture by Mohamed Saleh (LSE) Local organizer: Felix Kersting More details in the below 👇

🆕 Higher education and the roots of Southeast Asia’s economic miracle Today on VoxDev, Alexandra de Pleijt (@w-u-r.bsky.social) & Ewout Frankema discuss the role of higher education in Southeast Asia's long-run development: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Higher education and the roots of Southeast Asia’s economic miracle

Higher education played a key role in Southeast Asia’s long-run development—much earlier than most policy accounts and research suggest.

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Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print @theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨 In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->

I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this. For lots of history, new micro-data &natural experiments, read on ->->->

On February 28, 2025, Utrecht University will host a #FRESH meeting on Empire and Economic Development Keynote lecture by Tirthanker Roy (LSE) Local organizers: Maanik Nath and John Tang More details in the below 👇

📢  On June 24-25, 2024, UCLouvain will host a #FRESH workshop on:  “Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: lessons from pre-modern Europe” Keynote lectures by Joel Mokyr and Nico Voigtländer Local organizers: David de la Croix and Paula Gobbi Details below 👇

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 

I’m on the economic job market this year. My JMP investigates how teachers affected the direction of research of their students during the Scientific Revolution at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Please find my JMP and CV on my website juliuskoschnick.com Key summary: