Gaskell accurately describing what it's like to work with Codex.
Thor Berger
@thorberger.bsky.social
Economic Historian. Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at SCAS, Associate Professor at Lund University, and affiliate at the CEPR and IFN. Web: www.thorberger.se
Excited to share an updated paper from a longstanding agenda with Andy Hall, @dthompson.bsky.social, and Jesse Yoder: "Fortunate Sons: Elite Political Selection in American History" We link Members of Congress (+ their families) to the complete count census, covering congresses from 1850-the 2000s
A lot of the debate on AI and science focuses on whether LLMs can generate *new* ideas. Yet 20–80% of existing papers are never cited and presumably not read. By digesting vast uncited literatures, LLMs may meaningfully advance knowledge simply by absorbing *old* ideas.
min institution söker en doktorand i ekonomisk historia, inom det spännande projektet "Från privat till offentlig försäkring: Värdet av kvinnors obetalda omsorgsarbete och dess ekonomiska och hälsomässiga utfall, 1900–1986": lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Doktorand i ekonomisk historia
Lunds universitet välkomnar sökande med olika bakgrunder och erfarenheter. Vi ser jämställdhet och mångfald som en styrka och en tillgång. Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet är en av åtta
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Data from hundreds of thousands of ancient coins is used to reconstruct granular time series of trade and real consumption around the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 10th century, from @johannesmboehm.bsky.social and Thomas Chaney www.nber.org/papers/w35156
What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Happy to have received a grant from Handelsbanken for my project “Automation, Technological Change, and the Demand for Labor during the Industrial Revolution” that will use data on half a million industrial firms in Europe and the U.S. to study whether new technologies reduced the demand for skill.
The dept of Economic History in Lund is hiring a new Senior Lecturer! Ad is here, deadline 17 May: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Senior Lecturer in Economic History
The department of Economic History employs around 70 researchers, teachers, doctoral candidates, and administrative personnel. Research at the department includes topics such as Economic demography, E
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One reason I love economists is that they really do explain their work to me like I'm five.
After a month with Codex, Leontief’s point feels more prescient than ever: as automation shifts to cognitive tasks, it may become clear that we are not that different from horses after all.
A tight link between productivity and population density is one of the most robust associations in urban economics. In that light, Scandinavia’s economic transformation before World War I is remarkable, since it occurred in some of Europe’s least densely populated regions.
It’s a weird feeling to have refactored all the code in my ongoing projects and to realize that I’m probably never going to write another line of code in my life.
A decade later and I’m still a sucker for a railroad map: this shows the chance that working-class sons attained a white-collar occupation in adulthood in the early 20th century.
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Everyone talks about the "credibility revolution", but I think one of the most valuable shifts in econ over the last decade has been the rise of rigorous descriptive historical work like this in top journals:
The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10mo agoRecently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
I really want to stay optimistic about how LLMs can revolutionize social science research. But the fact that I can't get GPT-5.2 to perform a simple word count really makes me wonder about the flurry of papers coming that heavily relies on LLMs for analyzing unstructured data.
Free tip for authors who want to speed up publication: make it make sense. An untold source of delay is reviewers struggling to understand what you even mean.
It’s kind of ironic that the Toner-Rodgers paper on AI and chemical science was entirely correct, even though it was completely made up.
Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? In a new @apsrjournal.bsky.social article, @victorgayeco.bsky.social and I show that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution 👉 Article: doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🧵1/X
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in The Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis,” by Almelhem, Iyigun, Kennedy, and Rubin (@jaredcrubin): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in The Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis*
Abstract. We trace the evolution of the language of science, religion, and political economy in the centuries leading to the British Industrial Revolution.
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Today @erikprawitz.bsky.social gave a seminar on "Cities and the Rise of Working Women" at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) 👏
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Erik Prawitz, Associate Professor at Linnaeus University and Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), for an engaging… | Economic...
Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Erik Prawitz, Associate Professor at Linnaeus University and Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), for an engaging presentatio...
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New edition of our workshop, with @essobecker.bsky.social as keynote. Join us in Uppsala on May 28/29 and please repost if you can!
@erikprawitz.bsky.social · 8mo agoHappy to announce a 4th edition of the Workshop in Economic History in Uppsala, with the great @essobecker.bsky.social as keynote! Workshop takes places on May 28-29, 2026, in Uppsala. Apply by January 31, 2026. Here is the Cfp: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6xdmp...
See you in Uppsala 🇸🇪 🎉
@erikprawitz.bsky.social · 8mo agoHappy to announce a 4th edition of the Workshop in Economic History in Uppsala, with the great @essobecker.bsky.social as keynote! Workshop takes places on May 28-29, 2026, in Uppsala. Apply by January 31, 2026. Here is the Cfp: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6xdmp...
The deadline for our workshop in economic history with Elias Papaioannou as keynote speaker is approaching fast, make sure to apply!
@mkaradja.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are organizing the 3rd edition of our Workshop in Economic History organized in beautiful Uppsala on May 22-23, 2025 with a keynote by Elias Papaioannou! Call for papers with submission link: tinyurl.com/49tah8zd
That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...
All prizes in economic sciences
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Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 10mo agoBREAKING: The 2025 Nobel Prize for Economics* goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt! #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2025 #EconSky
Examining the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era finds that people with the same skin tone were racialized based on their wealth, setting a path for racial stratification, from @aadukia.bsky.social, Hornbeck, Keniston, and Lualdi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33502
I published my first paper, read it, cite it, love it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Union wage effects in Sweden: Evidence from the interwar period
In this paper, I use a new plant-level dataset to investigate the relationship between wages and the regional strength of unions. Using a shift-share …
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New working paper alert: "Financing Innovation: The Role of Patent Examination". @steve-bill-econ.bsky.social, Christopher Coyle and I have been working on this for quite a while now. We are excited to have a full draft for your enjoyment! www.quceh.org.uk/uploads/1/0/...
