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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)
Living La Vida Loca? Investing in Latin America 1870-1929 Áine Gallagher is a Lecturer (Education) in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. https://ceph.ie/people-re/aine-gallagher/
Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and socio-economic effects of Reconstruction in the American South Richard Grossman is Andrews Professor of Economics
Reactionary Utopia: Radicalization and Violence in the Russian Empire Abstract: We examine the influence of left-wing terrorism in imperial Russia between the 1880s and
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
Monetary policy at the periphery during the classical gold standard: Italy (1894-1913) Abstract: Focusing on the dominant bank of issue of the time (the
Tommaso Frattini is a Professor of Economics at the University of Milan. https://sites.unimi.it/tommasofrattini/
The Task and Skill Content of Past Technological Change: Job Creation and Job Quality in the US Transportation Revolution Ben Schneider is a Postdoctoral
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
Grandfathered Out: Sheltering from Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain Hillary is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economic History at the London
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/
Brokers in Turbulent Economies: Trust in Flux Emily Buchnea is an Associate Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/b/emily-buchnea/
Why did shareholder liability disappear? David Bogle is a Lecturer (Education) in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/david-bogle-2
The Context Effect: Why Policymakers and Corporate Executives Need You to Make Better Decisions Laurence Mussio is a co-founder and director of the Long Run Institute.
Abstract: Housing bubbles and crashes are catastrophic events for economies and imply enormous destruction of housing wealth, financial default risks, construction unemployment and business
The Impact of the Thirty Years’ War on Urban Germany Victoria Gierok is a tutor in economic history at the Faculty of History, University
Marta Reynal-Querol is a Research Professor at Barcelona GSE. http://www.econ.upf.edu/~reynal/
The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races Katherine Casey is an Associate Professor of Political Economy, Stanford GSB.
Organizing a Kingdom Abstract: We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by centralized rulers when governing their territories, highlighting the tradeoff
Women and Asylums Abstract: The 19th c. England saw a massive growth in mental asylums. Both the number of asylums and the number of
How Local Knowledge Fueled Colonial Settlement and Long-Run Economic Activity: Evidence from Australia
Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US Abstract: Online social networks have changed how people interact across large distances.
Brexit and the Blitz: Conflict, Collective Memory and Euroscepticism Abstract: On 23 June 2016, the electorate of the United Kingdom voted to leave
Mind your language: the decline of Irish in the nineteenth century