The #econhist class of 25/26
What suffragists, settlers, scientists, students, socialists, segregationists, statisticians, cesareans, Southerners, Syrians and Starbucks can teach us about the strange sources of economic growth
Every year, I compile a list of the job market candidates with an economic history specialisation. (Here are the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 lists) I apply three criteria for inclusion: First, they must list on their website that they are on the job market. Second, they must have a job market paper available. Third, they must list economic history as an interest. I asked ChatGPT to summarise their papers for a 12-year-old. (This is a living page. If you are a job market candidate and would like to be added, please email me. If you are included and would like to be removed, ask.)
Alice Calder (University of New South Wales): One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage
Ammu Lavanya (George Washington University): International Financial Flows, Credit Allocation and Productivity
Andrea Tugnoli (University of Geneva): Developers or Disruptors? Politicians’ Occupation and Municipal Performance
Andrés Martignano (University of Nottingham): Mass Migrations in Argentina: A Study on the Effects of Migrants on Electoral Outcomes
Anne Schaller (Vanderbilt University): Competitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era
Ann-Kristin Becker (University of Cologne): Understanding Economic Effects of Natural Resource Extraction: The Importance of Linkages
Assaf Abraham (University of Mannheim): One Hundred Years of Manufacturing: Long-run Consequences of the Indiana Gas Boom
Beau Bressler (UC Davis): Building Segregation: The Long-Run Neighbourhood Effects of American Public Housing
Brigitta Jones (George Mason University): The Starbucks Safety Net: Solving the Samaritan’s Dilemma
Carmela Accettura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Bella Ciao! The Political Legacy of Women in the Italian Resistance
Chen Chen (Brandeis University): Public Health Restrictions and Household Instability: Evidence from China
Christopher Sims (Northwestern University): The Origins of the Nitrogen Revolution
Cristian Navarro (CEMFI): Autocrats Remake the State: Evidence from Francoist Spain
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Daliah Al-Shakhshir (Stanford University): Development Effects of Social Eligibility Criteria for Temporary Migration
Danielle Graves Williamson (Boston University): Southern Academies: The Proliferation of All-white Private Schools after Brown and their Legacy for Students
Dante Yasui (University of Oregon): Forced Removal or Moved to Opportunity?
Devin Bissky Dziadyk (University of Toronto): Little School on the Prairie: A Push for Structural Transformation
Donia Kamel (Paris School of Economics): Between Arab and White: Syrians and the US Naturalization Law
Eoin Dignam (London School of Economics): Degrees of Fertility: The Effect of Temperature on Fertility in an Industrialising Economy
Eric Robertson (University of Virginia): Economic Ideas and Policy Implementation: Evidence from Malthusian Training in British Indian Bureaucracy
Florencia Hnilo (Stanford University): RCTs, Awareness, and Assignment Effects
Gabrielle Grafton (Brown University): The Great Migration and Those Left Behind
Grant Goehring (Boston University): Contagious Cargo: Health Externalities from Livestock Trade during Early Globalization
Haley Wilbert (University of Notre Dame): After the Cut: Cesarean Delivery and Subsequent Fertility
Idris Kambala Mohammed (University of South Carolina): The Long-run Effects of Africa’s Wave of Democratization
Iker Arregui Alegria (Lund University): Renaming the Past: Identity, Memory, and Electoral Backlash in Spain
Irem Saglamdemir (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): The Latent Legacy of Prohibition: Resistance Culture and Modern Entrepreneurial Resilience
Jens Oehlen (Stockholm University): Enigma
Joan Martinez (University of California, Berkeley): Market Forces and Employer Racial Preferences: Evidence from Wartime Shortages
João Tampellini (Vanderbilt University): Immigration Raids and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence from the 1920 Palmer Raids
Joseph Enguehard (ENS Lyon): The Political Costs of Taxation
Kyle Richmond (Queens University Belfast): Arranged Marriage: Mergers as Industrial Policy in Britain, 1966-70
Lorenzo Vicari (London School of Economics): Feather-handed Fascists: Surveillance as a Signal of Bureaucratic Loyalty
Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat (London School of Economics): Painted Lemons: Producing (credible) Information in the Art Market
Madeleine Ho (UC Davis): Exploring the Role of Political Connections in Employment: Evidence from US Elections, 1850-1930
Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich): Shaping Religious Identities: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation, 1480-1806
Marco Colleoni (European University Institute): Jobs for votes? Quasi-experimental evidence from short-term public contracts in Italy
Mathilde Col (Universite de Bordeaux): N m’a faamu’, Boosting Learning through Bilingual Education: Evidence from Mali
Matteo Ruzzante (Northwestern University): Price Regulation and the Adoption-Innovation Trade-off
Max Marczinek (Oxford University): Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague
Micah Villarreal (Northwestern University): Black Gold: The Effect of Wealth on Descendents of the Enslaved
Michael Briskin (Boston University): Teacher Supply and Long-Run Student Outcomes: Evidence from World War II
Michael Karas (Colorado University): The Role of Incumbent Firms and Regulation in America’s Natural Gas Energy Transition
Michele Magnani (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore): Roads to Fascism? State Capacity and the Spread of Political Violence
Mukun Niu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign): Silk and Gender Equality: Evidence from China’s Familly Planning
Nina Liu (King’s College London): Printing and Women: The Gendered Impact of Printing Technology in China
Noah MacDonald (Emory University): The Long-Run Effects of Doxxing: Evidence from the Second Ku Klux Klan
Oliver Bogdan Wach (Freie Universitat Berlin): Building Socialism on Abandoned Land: Collectivization and Civil Society in Poland
Orlando Roman (Geneva Graduate Institute): Concessions, Land Segregation, and Spatial Development: Evidence from Mozambique
Paige Montrose (University of Pittsburgh): Without Deliberate Speed: How Southern Out-Migration Affected School Desegregation
Pan Chen (Colorado University): Powering the Future: The Long-Term Human Capital Effects of Rural Electrification
Patrick Molligo (University of California, Los Angeles): The GI Bill and Vocational School
Pier Paolo Creanza (Princeton University): Factories of Ideas? Big Business and the Golden Age of American Innovation
Po-Shyan Wu (Indiana University Bloomington): Assault on the Low-Wage Economy: National Minimum Wage and Regional Development
Qiyi Zhao (Stanford University): Technological Change and the Market for Books, 1450-1550
Rose Stirling (University of York): The Importance of Small Innovators: Firm Innovation Decisions and Economic Growth
Sara Benetti (UBC Vancouver): The Social Consequences of Technological Change: Evidence from US Electrification and Immigrant Labor
Teppo Lindfors (Lund University): Jumping the Bandwagon: Shifting Sentiment and the Dynamics of Revolution in the Finnish Civil War
Tiarnán Heaney (Queens University Belfast): From Pensions To Pupils? Schooling, Resource Constraints And Old Age Pensions In Ireland 1901-11
Timothy Ngalande (Stellenbosch University): Geographical Segregation, Misallocation and Productivity in Apartheid South Africa
Victor Degorce (Princeton University): Covered Interest Parity: The Long-Run Evidence
Vinicius Diniz Schuabb (Bocconi University): Once Welcomed, then Scapegoated: The Enduring Consequences of Assimilation Policies in the wake of Mass Migration
Wouter Leenders (University of California, Berkeley): Taxing High wages: Evidence from the Netherlands
Yuchen Lin (University of Warwick): The US Origins of Chinese Science
Zhao Dong (Oxford University): External Shocks and Elite Selection in Imperial China: Consequences for State Capacity
‘The #econhist class of 25/26’ was first published on Our Long Walk. The images were created with Midjourney v7.
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