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Joachim Voth

2 years

Did slavery facilitate Europe's early rise to riches? Steve Redding @ReddingEcon , Stephan Heblich, and I focus on the single biggest slave-trading nation, Britain, and revisit the famous "Williams hypothesis". We combine theory and geographically disaggregated data to show

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Joachim Voth

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Banerjee and Duflo presenting their latest book at a @ubscenter lecture today. Asking “Why don’t people listen to economists?” #EconTwitter

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Jean Tirole on green central banking - bad idea, don’t do it. No alternative to carbon tax. #UBSCenterForum

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"God is dead", Friedrich Nietzsche famously proclaimed in 1882. What happens to politics when societies become increasingly secularized? In a new working paper, @essobecker and I examine the case of Germany.

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@1goodtern yup. same here. school: "masks? think about the mental health of your kids." same school, every 2nd day "we are sorry, teacher X is ill, again. no test or teaching - go and watch a video". other parents: "it's been going around, nothing one can do. why do you guys still mask?"

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@MAStrackZi Stellen Sie einfach einen Antrag - dafür sitzen Sie im Bundestag. Alle Leo1 aus Industriebeständen gen Ukraine. Geht durch mit Grünen + CDU. Fertig.

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that areas with more slavery wealth were less agricultural, had more cotton mills, adopted more steam engines, had higher per capita wealth, and employed more people in manufacturing. We use weather shocks to slave traders wealth to document an exogenous link running from slave

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I am honoured and humbled to have been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society. Incredibly grateful for this chance to contribute to the society and its mission in ways big and small in the years to come! #EconTwitter @econometricsoc

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You can make it way cheaper than that. Offer 100k to the first 10,000 men who desert, 50k to the next 30,000, and 10k to the rest. Give them instagram and tiktok accounts and mobiles to show of their happy consumption binge in Munich, Milan, Madrid, Manchester, Megeve...

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Low morale among invading army. Many surrendering. With devaluation, soldiers make 700-2,500€/month. Offer any Russian soldier on Ukrainian soil, who lays down arms, 100k€ and resettlement in the West. If 30k accept (3b€), invasion over, no?

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What can 14 million images tell us about cultural change? @YanagizawaD and I have a new working paper that argues - a lot! To fix ideas, check out this handsome young man who graduated from Cupertino high school in 1972. Steve Jobs was wearing a tux, bow tie and long hair

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@mlarreboure When passing US immigrationat JFK, when asked „whaddayateach?“ and i answered „economic history“ the guard said „cool. Black death and all that“. Five years later i wrote a paper on the Black Deaths effect on European growth… should i have thanked the guard?

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trading to slave holding in 1833, when slavery was officially abolished. Using data from the compensation committee, we document that areas with plausibly exogenous more slave wealth developed faster; we make sense of this pattern in a geographically disaggregated dynamic factor

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I have a confession - I love @stata . Been using since teaching e-metrics at MIT, love the user-written functions, community, plus the journal. But I am worried; the combination of pricing and the deliberate crippling of the product cannot bode well for its future. Over the last

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most seeing increases in welfare by 40% or more. Prior to Britain's involvement in the slave trade, places with lots of slave wealth in 1833 were no richer, reducing concerns about reverse causation.

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model. Calibrations suggest that worker welfare would have been at least 3% less in the absence of overseas slavery; capitalists gained the most, while landlords missed out. Our model shows that gains and losses were also unevenly distributed in space, with locations gaining the

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A propos the current heat wave (34 degrees in Zurich today, heat advisory in place) -- it is utterly amazing to me that collectively, people in Northern Europe seem to have decided that they should just suffer in moral superiority, rather than use AC. Sure, 20-30 years ago, when

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One of my all-time favorite papers has found a home, and is out on early view of the APSR! It's with the incredible Vicky Fouka (). Let me tell you about the basic idea!

Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis |...

Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis - Volume 117 Issue 3

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1/ Congratulations to UCL's Anna Becker, and her advisors @steffenhuck and Attila Linda. Anna just accepted a tenure-track AP position at the econ dept of Stockholm U. #EconTwitter @jhaushofer

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The paper is here: @dkedrosky #econtwitter @DrNathanNunn @ReddingEcon @delong @guoxu_econ @kevinhorourke @leah_boustan @nunopgpalma

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April 30, 1945. Adolf Hitler leaves a mixed legacy. While murdering millions and launching WW2, he also ordered the Autobahn built.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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President Ebrahim Raisi's mixed legacy in Iran

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Where do highly capable states come from? @brunocaprettini and I explore the idea that if the state provides social support to cushion the blow of bad times, citizens "reciprocate" -- they undertake costly actions that benefit the country as a whole. We look at the biggest

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@QJEHarvard

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Recently accepted by #QJE , “New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During WWII,” by Caprettini ( @brunocaprettini ) and Voth ( @joachim_voth ):

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Pre-doc positions in Zurich available! For research projects at the intersection of political economy, cultural economics, and economic history, I am recruiting pre-docs (full-time, 12m). Please see the attached call and tell your friends! #EconTwitter

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1/ Did failing banks pave Hitler's path to power? Now forthcoming in the Journal of Finance @JofFinance -- "Financial crises and political radicalization" [with S. Doerr, S. Gissler, and J. Luis Peydro @persistdebt ]. #EconTwitter #econhist

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80 years of "atoning" for WW2, "never again"... and now leading Europe in selfish irresponsibility and craven indirect support for a genocidal war of aggression... well-played, Germany @Bundeskanzler #Merkel #Ukraine @lugaricano @schnellenbachj

Liane Bednarz

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So manifestiert sich inzwischen die große Enttäuschung in Osteuropa über das zögerliche Deutschland, dessen größte Regierungspartei über Jahre mit Putin-Versteherei von sich reden gemacht hat. Protestaktion heute vor der deutschen Botschaft in Vilnius/Litauen.

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Ok, wearing my hat as placement director for UZH (and without claiming any personal credit), I think our PhD students are having a pretty cool set of interviews this year -- Harvard, NYU Econ, Stanford GSB, Penn, Toronto, Berkeley-Haas, LSE, UPF... go get them! #Econjobmarket

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Strikingly, Shallow Christianity is highly correlated with Nazi voting in the 1930s. Where Christian religiosity was only skin-deep, people voted for the Nazis or joined them in droves. These two maps give a first impression:

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At NBER SI - DAE. brilliant paper by Jacob Moscona: the Dust Bowl of the 1930s increased innovation in crop breeding and soil science, raising resilience against future climate shocks. Implication: climate shocks softened by adaptation #EconTwitter @nberpubs #climate

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Very hard to think this is not point, set and match for the persistence literature- despite the carping of those opposed for ideological reasons…. #EconTwitter

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Did living standards stagnate in Europe pre-1800? Did international trade only matter from 1850 onwards? A decade ago, Jonathan Hersh @DogmaticPrior and I set out to find out. As Europeans crossed the Atlantic and rounded the Cape of Good Hope #EconTwitter

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Congrats to our PhD student Veda Narasimhan, who just accepted a tenure track offer from the econ dept at NYU-AD, and to her committee members @lorenzocasaburi and @YanagizawaD . We will miss you, Veda! #econtwitter @nyuabudhabi @econ_uzh

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Big congrats to our PhD student Regina Seibel @ReginaSeibel4 , who will join the Rotman School at U Toronto ( @rotmanschool ) next year! @econ_uzh

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unbelievable -- German newspaper SZ publishing this caricature of President Zhelensky at the World Economic Forum; facial features completely distorted, reminiscent of the worst anti-Semitic cartoons in "Der Stürmer". All at the same time while Germany is stalling on weapons...

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We use 16 style features overall. Each combination we call a "style". Consider this chart. Until the late 60s, the vast majority of men just wore 1 or 2 styles. This equilibrium collapsed , and the most common style today is "other" (black area - styles that never reach 5%).

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Come and work as a pre-doc in Zurich! Topics include political economy, cultural economics, and economic history; joint work with: @essobecker @YanagizawaD , Stelios Michalopoulos, David Lagakos, @ellliottt . CS experience welcome

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Congrats to Chiara Aina, who is graduating from UZH this year and who will join UPF as a tenure-track AP in 2024, after spending a post-doc year at Harvard. #EconTwitter

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The important punchline here, imho, is "a commonly held micro ''engineering view'' of substitution is too narrow and misses important mechanisms through which the macroeconomy would adapt to an import stop". Allow me to add some historical perspective... @ben_moll @BachmannRudi

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In our import stop paper we emphasize that it makes a big difference how much people and firms can substitute for Russian energy inputs. How might such substitution work in concrete terms? A new supplement to our paper has some more thoughts Thread:

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Good to see this clever paper by Casey and Klemp on the biases in "persistence studies" in print !

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German social scientists drinking the "genocide" cool-aid, too; as a historian who has worked on genocide, I can guarantee you that this is an irresponsible and plain silly distortion of reality. Israel is defending itself in a highly restrained manner.

Macartan Humphreys

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There are now close to 200 social scientists signing this statement criticizing 🇩🇪's stance on the Israel / Gaza conflict. We plan to share with 🇩🇪 gov later today. If you are a social scientist in or from DE and want to add your name, please reach out

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Come and work with us in beautiful Zurich! Starting this summer/fall, we have a few pre-doc positions to fill. Curiosity is essential, a background in data science/econ/economic history and an independent mind are important. For more details, see the attached call. #Economics

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As UZH placement director, I will tweet about our amazing jm candidates. First up is @urs_schaede , who asks a AAA-question -- do quotas reduce quality? At first pass, one would say -- of course. Finnland used to reserve teacher slots for men #EconTwitter 1/2

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Au service de la france - Kennedy

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Come and work in beautiful Zurich with me + my amazing co-authors @YanagizawaD , @guoxu_econ , and @essobecker -- we accept for a full-time pre-doc position starting this fall. Projects use AI, image analysis and text2data. Details here: #EconTwitter

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Is it just me? I saw Netflix's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and thought it was awful. I am trying to decide if its just the professional hazard of familiarity with the details, but the film seemed off in many dimensions: 1. the portrayal of Erzberger and other democratic

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Yes, we can ban gas imports. Listen to a leading economist, who happens to be an MEP.

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President von der Leyen, a gas ban is possible. We aren't even trying. If Europe does not stop funding Putin, history will not see us as bystanders. History will know we were complicit. My speech in the European Parliament 👇

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Bringing up the rear is Sam Skoda. Ever wondered about applying for a job? Noticed something was missing? Right - more often than not, they didn't tell you about the WAGE. Sam is interested in why that might be - after all, nobody advertises a TV without telling you the price.

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@DinaPomeranz How about the following deal: Once the lady on the left can walk like that through downtown Riad or Teheran, we let ladies like the one on the right walk through Zurich or Paris?

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Vaccines. Lots of them. New ones; like smallpox, measles, chickenpox, mumps and flu. Many of these thanks in large part to Maurice Hilleman, who invented 40 (!) of them - and is largely unknown outside medical circles:

Maurice Hilleman - Wikipedia

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What is your favourite way in which humanity made progress against a big problem? Which invention? Which policy? Which product? Which discovery? Which idea?

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The English writer and theologian C.S. Lewis (1943) famously argued that “Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.” In our paper, we show that such behavioral factors can be first-order for creating support for a totalitarian

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Can mass protests undermine and ultimately destroy democracy? The storming of the Capitol in Washington occurred a year ago. It's remarkable that one of the oldest forms of mass protest -- demonstrations and rallies -- continues to be one of the most common.

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Liebe deutsche Mietdeckler. Lest mal das hier. Mietbremse sorgt für Wohnraumverschwendung geringe Mobilität und höhere Mieten im freien Restmarkt…

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New in #JUE : "Rent Control, Market Segmentation, and Misallocation: Causal Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Intervention" #UrbanEcon #EconTwitter

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@janfleischhauer keinem, wirklich keinem Politiker der Hilfsgelder zusagt geht es um die Menschen in Gaza, sondern um öffentlichkeitswirksame Selbstvermarktung als zupackender Gutmensch. Den Menschen ging es unter israelischer Besatzung besser.

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The idea that totalitarian movements like the Nazis were popular in part because they acted as substitute religions is not new; scholars as early as Voegelin (1938) said so. Gramsci famously remarked

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Just in case someone says “why didn’t economists tell us about the dangers and nonsense in crypto”, here is a small article from yours sincerely. Its in German, 5 years old, and translates as “the big crypto BS” #FTXbankruptcy

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intellectual death of a journal...

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@ben_golub @cblatts @ScienceMagazine Ditto @Nature , which published this embarrassing piece of partisan advocacy.

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Let me tell you about Regina Seibel, who is also on the job market this year. Regina works on auctions - public procurement auctions, to be precise. Governments in rich countries spend about 40% of GDP or so. One third of that typically goes on public procurement. That's a lot

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out in PNAS... here is a small write-up for VOXEU:

Expecting the Spanish Inquisition: Economic backwardness and religious persecution

Throughout history, religion has influenced growth and per capita output, and its effects are felt even in modern times. This column investigates the effect of one of history’s longest-running and...

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Speaking of education - why oh why do schools think that handing Ipads to 10-year-olds improves anything? My two daughters are now forced to use MS Teams to "organize their workflow" on ipads; sure enough, most kids in class use the ipads to play games + surf the internet...

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conclude that Walter Lacquer (1962) was right: “Choosing Hitler was not an act of political decision, not the choice of a known programme or ideology; it was simply joining a quasi-religious mass movement as an act of faith.” #EconTwitter @DrNathanNunn @JeanetBentzen @HornungErik

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For all those Germans constantly writing how immigration is necessary to solve worker shortages in health etc. and will revitalise the pension system a great overview by UBC’s David Green - one of the leading immigration economists

Opinion: No, immigration is not some magic pill for saving the economy

‘When all you have is a hammer, all the world’s a nail’ appears to capture Canada’s immigration policy

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These are the guys who uncovered the Francesca Gino fraud, now being sued for „defamation“. They have a gofundme campaign going for legal costs. I just sent them $100 - pls consider helping!

Shengwu Li

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I donated $1,000 to support @DataColada ’s defense against Gino’s ridiculous lawsuit. Believers in open science must stand together. Frankly, @HarvardHBS should step up and cover their costs. Leif, Joe, and Uri have done them an immeasurable service.

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Smoking and schmoozing can pay off. Who knew? This looks like another amazing paper by the one and only Ricardo Perez-Truglia @pereztruglia

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@DavidDecosimo Wait for gpt-6 to provide those lovingly helpful comments on students essays…

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Pls consider signing. The persecution of Andreu Mas Colell is shameful and done by a politicised kangaroo court.

Arash Molavi Vasséi

@ArashMV

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„Due Process for Professor Mas-Colell” - Sign now! via @ChangeGER @LonesSmith

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@TDeryugina "This looks like a history paper to me." (desk rejection, by AER editor). paper came out in ... QJE. 500+ citations. thanks!

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Wir werden über die mangelnde Unterstützung der Ukraine im Rückblick voller Scham und Unverständnis den Kopf schütteln- wie über die mangelnde Unterstützung der republikanischen Seite im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg… worse than a crime - a mistake.

Rudi Bachmann

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Das sollte jeder lesen. Das sind Experten. Es ist klar: wenn die Ukraine verliert, dann verliert sie den Krieg wegen westlicher Entscheidungen. Es gibt die Waffen, Russland zu besiegen. Diese werden nicht geliefert. Muss man wissen.

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Thanks, BIS, for highlighting our paper on how the German banking crisis of 1931 paved the way for Hitler's rise to power #bankrun (with Sebastian Doerr, Stefan Gissler, and Jose Luis Peydro @persistdebt ). Forthcoming now in Journal of Finance @JofFinance ).

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Can financial crises radicalise voters? The failure of Danatbank (one of Germany’s largest banks) in the 30s led to a #BankRun . A Working Paper shows this boosted the #Nazi vote: cities exposed to Danatbank saw a surge in support #Populism #Radicalization

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and that is the day when your PV will produce oodles of electricity. So we could actually have emissions-free AC, decent temperatures inside, avoid heat exhaustion and induced deaths, avoid heat-induced cognitive fatigue and mistakes, and the planet would be none the worse for

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some regulations (like those in the canton of Zurich) were passed banning or limiting AC use, much of the power came from fossil fuels. But today, photovoltaics are cheap + super-efficient; importantly, there is a "natural hedge" here = you only need AC when there is lots of sun

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This isn't my idea - saw it somewhere on the net, but it struck me as brilliant. Why not offer a green card/residence permit to EVERY Russian soldier who deserts? Let's call it it the I-weapon (as in "immigration"). Russia's army would melt quickly; faced with a choice of combat

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Happy and a bit proud that UZH PhD student Chiara Aina has been selected for the RESTUD tour! Well done! @chiaraina @econ_uzh @ubscenter

REStud North America Tour 2023 - tourists announced - The Review of Economic Studies

The 2023 North America Tour will be hosted by Brown University, Rice University, and (jointly) the St. Louis Fed and Washington University of St. Louis.

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pls someone stop the insanity of online recommend forms for . and Ph.D. programs in econ? radio button orgies, text boxes, no pdf upload... all of this saves valuable time of administrators; it wastes academics' time bigtime. #sciencepo #UCL

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Mind officially blown

Alice Evans

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In ancient Mesopotamian villages, men and women both made pottery at home. With the rise of the state from mid-third millennium BCE, pottery production became large-scale, state-organised & exclusively male! Evidence from finger prints!! 🤯

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@noclador @AKamyshin The Albert Speer of Ukraine? These top-line changes are often misleading, and overstate true improvements (as they did in 1943 and 44)... wish it were true tho

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Eternally shameful for the chess federation

Imtiaz Mahmood

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Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk, on refusing to play in Saudi Arabia. "In a few days, I'll lose two world titles, one after another. Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, wear an abaya, or be accompanied by a man so I can get out of

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The Economist this week covers in some detail two recent papers of mine -- "Fighting for Growth", with Alex Trew and @brunocaprettini

A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

Slave-ownership, entrepreneurs and labour shortages played key roles

www.economist.com

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And now UBC‘s formidable @felipev84 on Bourbon reforms in Spanish America, laying the foundations for tax hikes and indigenous revolt!

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Back at UPF for the fabulous CEPR conflict conference organised by Jose Montalvo, @PascaliLuigi and Marta Reynal. @saumjha presenting his fascinating work on revolutionary contagion. #econtwitter

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@joachim_voth

9 months

Why? What did the Nazis do to get so much support in areas where Christian religiosity had largely died? The Nazi party used a heady mix of religious language, imagery, and rituals to set itself up as a "substitute religion". Here, the party's "blood banner" from the 1923 putsch

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

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As placement director at UZH, I am currently spending a lot of time with practice interviews and job talk training. I am glad DallE sees the bright and cheerful side of my job #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

7 months

hard agree. Von VWL nichts zu wissen und dennoch zu schwafeln ist in vor allem in D in Akademikerzirkeln sozial akzeptabel...

Jan Schnellenbach 🇺🇦🇮🇱

@schnellenbachj

7 months

Wenn Klimaforscher über Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft sprechen klingt das für Ökonomen ungefähr so, wie es für Klimaforscher klingen muss, wenn Horst aus Ennepetal erklärt, wieso das Klima sich schon immer geändert hat.

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

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At the Brown conference on deep-rooted factor in development. Elias Papaiannou @EliasPapaioann2 giving a brilliant overview of the role of concessions in the exploitation of Africa. #EconTwitterIRL

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

2 years

@Sarah_Barr tables are old-school...it is very much like other tables, and its unclear how this table furthers our general understanding of making other things.

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

11 months

This map is very familiar. It is from a working paper by S.O. Becker @essobecker and me, circulate Feb. 23: Cremieux - whoever he may be - is ripping this off and passing it around as his own, without mention us even once.

Crémieux

@cremieuxrecueil

11 months

One symbol of the strength of people's belief in Christianity is whether they give their kids Christian names. Does this map seem familiar?

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

9 months

small vox column about our research (joint with the incredible @essobecker ). paper link below

VoxEU

@voxeu

9 months

Sanctifying evil: The Nazi Party as a political religion

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

8 months

Time to tell the world about the UZH jobmarket candidates who are on the econ market this year! We have a great cohort. As placement director, I have had the privilege to learn a lot more about their research - and you cannot go wrong in taking a closer look! #EconTwitter

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

8 months

yeah. because, like, famously, in Germany after 45, there were so many Nazi angry about the bombing that it led straight to WW3, 4, and 5... as a factual statement, 0/100

Dr. Deepti Gurdasani

@dgurdasani1

8 months

Obliteration of Gaza will not end violence, even if every single member of Hamas is killed. History tells us that as long as oppression & systemic violence continues, there will always be violent resistance. Every single time. Wise words from Ijeoma Oluo: 👇

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

3 years

thanks to my coauthors @JVidalRobert and @MDrelichman for doing the heavy lifting on this write-up of our PNAS paper in The Conversation :

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

2 years

technologies." So why don't we do it? Why this morally superior sweat romance? I think its partly Protestant/Puritanical/Calvinist hair-shirt attitudes (suffering is *good*), partly intellectualist "unbearable ugliness of Volvos" kind of self-denial (you should never actually

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

3 years

Proud to be publishing this! One of those great papers making a simple, important point -- coal availability really changed the geography of economic activity in industrializing Britain @EJ_RES @kevinhorourke

eoinaldo.bsky.social

@eoinaldo

4 years

Great paper @DiffusePrioR @kevinhorourke : Coal and the European Industrial Revolution*

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

2 years

Fascinating work by Francisco Pina, @essobecker and Jordi Vidal on Catholic Censorship during the Counterreformation. Great pleasure to organize a workshop w @PascaliLuigi at #bseforum with many amazing papers.

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

1 year

@Econ_4_Everyone Restrictions on number of papers in top 5 is entirely artificial - could be solved in 30 seconds… its jounals and editors coordinating to artificial scarcity. Why? Cui bono?

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

9 months

many of his speeches with "Amen." The Hitler Youth official song made the idea explicit.

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

2 years

wear. Even in the US, AC only accounts for 6% of energy use (despite the polar temperatures of restaurants and hotels in the summer). And even the left-leaning Brookings Institute concluded that "The solution lies not in suffering sweaty summers, but investing in better

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

2 years

Next up is Paolo Mengano (). Labor's share of income has fallen in most developed countries in the last 30 years - in glaring contrast to standard assumptions in our models. Paolo combines IO and macro techniques to measure worker bargaining power

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

7 months

@FRHoffmann1 It's a moral imperative. Ukraine gave up cruise missiles and nukes under the Budapest Memorandum; without massive support, the West is letting Ukraine dangle in the wind.

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

8 months

Lukas is fantastic! He was so awesome as a predoc that Phil Ager Leo Bursztyn and I made him a coauthor on our Restud

Killer Incentives: Rivalry, Performance and Risk-Taking among German Fighter Pilots, 1939–45

Abstract. Using newly collected data on death rates and aerial victories of more than 5,000 German fighter pilots during World War II, we examine the effec

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Barry Eichengreen

@B_Eichengreen

8 months

Lukas Leucht is on the job market from UC Berkeley: "Votes for Jobs: Patronage and Performance in Tamany Hall's NYPD"

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Joachim Voth

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1 year

Die FAZ @faznet war so nett, mich einen Artikel über meine Forschung (mit @ReddingEcon und @StephanHeblich ) zu den wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Sklaverei schreiben zu lassen... hier ein link zu den Denkfrüchten:

Der lange Schatten der Sklaverei

Hat der materielle Reichtum aus der Sklavenhaltung in Amerika die industrielle Revolution in Großbritannien beschleunigt? Neue Daten deuten darauf hin.

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

9 months

Most people stayed nominally Christian for the longest time. We first create measures of "Shallow Christianity" - indicators of a lack of deep-rooted religious belief in interwar Germany. We use three - naming patterns, superstition, and the share of notables who enter religious

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

9 months

Interestingly, the pattern holds even at the personal level. The more headstones in the local graveyard carried a cross or other religious symbol, the lower the share of votes for the Nazis. Similarly, the share of Christian first names is highest among theology students

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Joachim Voth

@joachim_voth

2 years

Do financial incentives crowd out "good" behavior? Our next job market candidate, Florian Schneider, asks this question in the context of COVID vaccinations -- good for the people to get vaxed, but also good for others (fewer ICU visits, slight reduction in transmissibility)

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