Francesco Cinnirella

Still 3 days to send your Expression of Interest for the PhD Program in Economics at the University of Bergamo. Deadline is Friday March 20. I am looking forward to reading research proposal phd-eco.unibg.it/en/admission/e…

What are the effects of large human-capital shocks on innovation? In a new paper, we study how WWI military deaths across British communities affected local invention over the next decades. We find that places that lost more young men became persistently less innovative. (🧵1/11)

Thinking about a PhD in Economics? The Department of Economics @UniBergamo offers 4-year scholarship, coursework + state-of-the-art research training in a young, dynamic research environment. Expression of interest now open: phd-eco.unibg.it/en/admission/e… Deadline: March 20, 2026

@cepr_org @UniBergamo In a RDD setting we show that early adoption of compulsory schooling in 1877 Italy had a significant impact on innovation and industrialization through an increase in human capital. Policy implication: earlier adoption and enforcement of CSL can affect economic growth patterns.

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20519 From Chalkboards to Steam Engines: Early Adoption of Compulsory Schooling, Innovation, and Industrialization @fcinnio, Elona Harka @UniBergamo ow.ly/pb4150WCKLk #CEPR_EH #EconTwitter

Are academic conferences a waste of taxpayer money? How #econhist can help us answer this question: ourlongwalk.com/p/how-ideas-fl…

Finally out in print. It was a long journey but also a lot of fun. Thanks @JuliusKoschnick and @HornungErik

Still 12 days to apply to the PhD program in Economics at the University of Bergamo. Join a young and dynamic faculty with different areas of expertise in a beautiful historical city in the Milan area. Deadline June 16. Submit your application here: unibg.it/bandi/bando-co…

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Domani, io e @amingardi duelleremo sul nostro ultimo libro "Libertà contro libertà" (@edizionimulino) all'Università di Bergamo, per il ciclo di seminari "Leggere il contemporaneo". Modera Francesco Cinnirella, @fcinnio

@Noahpinion Institutions are important, no doubt. But there is nothing random between what became West and East Germany: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… @essobecker @Woessmann @LukasMergele

Yep. People are dunking on this but he's absolutely right. The mixed economy is the best system of human economic organization ever invented, and Korea and Germany are about as clean a demonstration of that fact as we're ever going to get.

@fscoamodio I would also be fine with "less accounting, more accountability"

My take on that: as for the Great Recession we learned a lot from the Great Depression, for a deeper understanding of the current fertility decline we should learn more from research on the historical demographic transition.

@LibertadGonLu @fra_principe Thanks for the interesting seminar at @DseUnibg

Thanks for the invitation @fra_principe)! 😍

@AlexMYarkin Congrats!!!

I don't know how it happened, but our paper on "Lobbying for Industrialization" was invited for resubmission at Econometrica! Granted, it's a Reject and Resubmit. And there are loads of work to do. But I'm so happy. Time for a little celebration with my friend and amazing coauthor Dmitriy Veselov! This paper had a first WP back in 2016!! Only theory back then. We even abandoned the project at some point. But I always thought there was more to it. Guess we aren't the only ones thinking so now 🙏

@per_ase @unito Very happy to be there. It's impressive the quality that this meeting has reached in a just few years.

...and it's finally time for our 9th Annual Meeting! Some 60 economic historians meet today and tomorrow at @unito for two intense days of discussion. At this link the programme: associazionestoriaeconomica.com/events/ninth-a… And here (with some lag) will give you a taste of the discussion!

History of economic history

📢📢To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Rivista di Storia Economica - Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) provides monthly the pdf of published articles. 8. August 2024: Paolo Di Martino (2004) "Bankruptcy law and banking crises in Italy (c. 1890-1938)" - pdf below

Check out my new joint work with Philipp Ager on the long-term effects of charity day nurseries in early 20th-century NYC ehes.org/wp/EHES_263.pdf