Don't forget to sign up for this year's HEDG Summer School with Gregory Clark 🤩

'Historical Perspectives on Current Economics Issues: Big Data and Applications'

🚨Deadline for registration is July 1st

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Firstborn occupational and social premiums measured 1850–1940 were stable for individuals born 1835–1910. Birth order further mediated intergenerational occupational mobility, from Cools, Grooms, Krzysztof Karbownik, Siobhan O'Keefe (smokeefe.bsky.social), Joe Price, and Anthony Wray nber.org/papers/w32407

📺Interesting new content
If you missed last week's HEDG Hosts talk by
Simon Hinrichsen on war reparations and sovereign debt, be sure to check out the presentation on our YouTube channel

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youtube.com/watch?v=V8uidy…

📄EHES has an exciting new working paper by Gregory Clark, NeilJCummins & Matt Curtis 🤩👏

'How did the European Marriage Pattern persist? Social versus Familial Inheritance: England and Quebec, 1650-1850'👫🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇦

👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/

📄EHES has an interesting new working paper by Fabio Gatti 👏

The paper is 'Quantifying Trade from Renaissance Merchant Letters'📧🇮🇹

👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/

We are pleased that our next HEDG Host will be Simon Hinrichsen 🤩

He will present his interesting (and unfortunately very topical) book 'When Nations Can't Default - A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt'

📅2 May, 11am Danish Time

💻Registration syddanskuni.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

If you missed last week's HEDG Hosts talk by Vincent Geloso on inequality and income mobility, be sure to check out the presentation on our YouTube channel

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youtube.com/watch?v=LyeFPg…

📄The second new EHES working paper is by Markus Lampe & Paul Sharp 🤩👏

It is entitled 'Of the bovine ilk: Quantifying the welfare of dairy cattle in history, 1750-1900'🐄

👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/

📄Exciting news!
EHES has two new working papers out😮

The first paper by Ignacio Cazcarro et al. is entitled 'Retaining population with water? Irrigation policies and depopulation in Spain over the long term'🇪🇸

👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/

Good news!

We now have a date for our delayed HEDG Hosts featuring Vincent Geloso🤩👏

His exciting talk is entitled 'Good, Bad and Not-Too-Ugly: The Economics of Inequality and Income Mobility'

📅18 April, 11am Danish Time

💻Registration: syddanskuni.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📄More exciting news!
EHES has another working paper, this time by Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen & Christian Vedel 🤩👏

The paper is 'Breaking the HISCO Barrier: Automatic Occupational Standardization with OccCANINE'

👉Read all EHES WPs here: ehes.org/working-papers/

🚨 New language model for historical occupations 🚨
OccCANINE is a new tool, which turns occupational descriptions (in all their pesky variety) into standard HISCO codes. Accurate, multilingual and fast. Developed by Christian M. Dahl, Torben Johansen, and myself 🧵👇 (1/12)

📄Exciting news
EHES has an interesting new working paper by Gregory Clark & NeilJCummins 🤩

The paper is 'Birth Order and Social Outcomes, England, 1680-2024'

👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/

We are very pleased to announce that our next HEDG Host will be Guido Alfani 🤩👏

He will present his interesting and innovative new book 'As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West'🪙💎

📅11th April, 11am Danish Time

💻Registration syddanskuni.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

📄Exciting news!
Congrats to Anthony Wray, Alex Hollingsworth, Krzysztof Karbownik & Melissa Thomasson on their forthcoming AER publication (@AEAjournals) 🤩👏

'The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality'🏥💉💀

Read about it here👇
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Our hidden gem of the week explores the disparity between the recognition of male and female composers.

By Karol Jan Borowiecki in European Historical Economics Society

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📄Exciting news
An interesting piece was just published focusing on a paper by Karol Jan Borowiecki, Marc T Law & Roberto Asmat 🤩

The paper is 'Do experts and laypersons differ? Some evidence from international classical music competitions'🎶

👇Read it here
culturaleconomics.org/assessing-the-…

📄Good news
There is a new piece on Nina Boberg-Fazlić & Paul Sharp's American Economic Journal publication

'Immigrant Communities and Knowledge Spillovers: Danish Americans and the Development of the Dairy Industry in the US'🐄🇩🇰🇺🇸

Read it here👇
aeaweb.org/research/immig…