Patrick Fitzsimmons

@nunopgpalma @ufhamilton @UF @OfficialUoM @ArthurLewisLab Congrats!

Some personal news...🍊🐊 I'll be joining @ufhamilton, @UF as Professor of Political Economy. Goodbye 🇬🇧; hello 🇺🇸! Having been at @OfficialUoM for 9 years, it's sad to leave behind wonderful colleagues & I am most proud of having founded the @ArthurLewisLab, which will continue.

Highly relevant! "The Price of War" by Jonathan Federle, Andre Meier, Gernot J. Müller, Willi Mutschler, and Moritz Schularick. "We assemble a new data set spanning 150 years and 60 countries to study the economic toll of war. A war of average intensity is associated with an output drop of close to 10 percent in the war-site economy, while consumer prices rise by approximately 20 percent. The capital stock, total factor productivity, and equity returns all decline sharply. The economic ramifications of war are not confined to the war site. The evidence points to adverse economic outcomes in other belligerent and third-party countries if they are exposed to the war site through trade linkages or share a common border." American Economic Review: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Working paper: drive.google.com/file/d/15q03Le…

“Malthusian migrations” (NBER WP 33542) in “Double the dinosaurs”

We are honoured to have @PatRubenFitz — Join his Quantitative History webinar: "Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean" on Apr 2, 09:00 HKT (Apr 1, 21:00 EDT) via Zoom. Patrick will show how iron adoption increased political fragmentation using novel century-level shapefiles and causal tests. Register: hku.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #QuantitativeHistory #AncientEasternMediterranean #Politics #Webinar #Research #Insights #HKU #UPenn #HKUBusinessSchool @HKUniversity @penneconomics @HKUFBE @hkihss @QuantHistoryHKU

In a little over a week I will be giving a webinar with @QuantHistoryHKU. The topic will be centered on ancient history and the political economy of violence for those who are interested.

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Deep Learning for Solving Economic Models" by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Power and Inclusiveness Across Deep Time. Our collaboration between archaeology and political science, out today in Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Takeaway: this is a rare case of a state successfully overcoming the information problem Scott identified. Not by imposing legibility top-down, but by delegating to local experts with the right incentives. Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… (12/12)

This method reduced search and measurement costs for incoming settlers who couldn't identify good land themselves. From 1607–1700, 5k sq miles were surveyed and settled. In the 18th century alone, 45k+ sq miles were added. The surveyor-as-speculator model worked.(11/12)

New paper in European Economic Review: "Seeing Like a Colony: The Virginia Land Surveyor". Why were colonial Virginia surveyors among the wealthiest people in the New World, rivaling plantation owners and legislators? @PeterHazlett and I looked to investigate just that 🧵 (1/12)

@ppcreanza @swarthmore Congratulations!

I'm very excited to share that I will start as Assistant Professor of Economics at @swarthmore next fall! I cannot wait to get started!