Climate Politics in the United States Abstract: We study the effects of climate change and mitigation on U.S. politics. We combine 2000-2020 precinct-level voting

  Religious Competition and Provision of Public Services Abstract: We argue that competition created through foreign influence in education, between missionaries and ethno-religious minorities can

    The Bankruptcy Express: Market Integration, Organizational Changes, and Financial Distress in 19th Century Britain   Jean Lacroix is an Associate Professor at the

Commodity Price Busts and Financial Stability: Evidence from the 1920s   Kilian Rieder is a FWF Schrödinger Prize Fellow at Northwestern University‘s Department of Economics and Paris School of Economics

  Abstract: This paper documents that large cities played a unique role in women’s economic and social advances in the early 20th century. We first

  Abstract: Education is a main facilitator of social mobility, and higher education (HE) plays a major role in this. But while returns to HE

The Wealth Divide: Has Inequality Doomed The 2024 Elections? Are societies on the brink of fracture due to economic inequality? As 2024 shapes up to

  Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence Abstract: We examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts.

  Nikolaus Wolf is a Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Department of Economics and the Institute for Economic History at Humboldt-Universität zu

Professor Ann Carlos gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 11th April 2024 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre of the Long

  Abstract: This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began

Words Matter: The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements Abstract: This paper proposes novel natural language methods to measure worker rights from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs)

  Macartan Humphreys is the director of the Institutions and Political Inequality group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and honorary professor of social

  Abstract: Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and

Tommaso Frattini is a Professor of Economics at the University of Milan. https://sites.unimi.it/tommasofrattini/

  Abstract: We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood

  CEPH Associate Prof. Frank Barry of Trinity Business School will give a public lecture based on his new monograph ‘Industry and Policy in Independent

  Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.   Stefano Gagliarducci is a Professor of Economics at Tor Vergata University of Rome. https://sites.google.com/site/stefanogagliarducci/

  Abstract: Housing bubbles and crashes are catastrophic events for economies and imply enormous destruction of housing wealth, financial default risks, construction unemployment and business