Thrilled to give a seminar at Oxford later today 😃
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Tom Raster
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Tom Raster
@tomraster
Assistant Professor @LSEnews @LSEEcHist. PhD @PSEinfo. Economic history, trade, spatial, forced labor, migration.
London-Marseille-Boston-Paris Katılım Mayıs 2015
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🚨 Join us on 29/5 for @msaleh1982 talk, "Elite Conflict, #Colonialism & #Democracy in the #MiddleEast", where he discusses the drivers of authoritarianism and democracy in this region. Hosted by @LSEEcHist & @LSEMiddleEast.
#EcHist #LSEEvents
Info here: lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05…
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Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today. 🧵👇
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LSE Department of Economic History@LSEEcHist
Our department was delighted to take part in the first LSE PSE Joint Economic History Workshop in Paris! Faculty members Neil Cummins (@NJCummins) and Pamfili Antipa, and PhD students Andrés Irarrázaval, @flo_jfriedrich , and @NoahWSutter presented their research. #EconHistory
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We congratulate the winner of this year's EHS Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, presented at the annual conference to Louis Henderson (Oxford) for their thesis, ‘Innocence and experience: Early childhood education and industrialisation in England and Wales, 1767-1876’.
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Come and work with me in lovely Lisbon! I’m hiring a full-time predoc research associate to work on exciting projects on discrimination, AI and health, and social media use in LMICs. Please share and apply! (Link in next tweet)
#econra #econtwitter #econsky
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Thrilled to co-organise the first ever LSE-PSE joint Economic History Workshop which will take place soon (29-30th of April) at PSE with an amazing lineup of @LSEEcHist and @PSEinfo students and staff: #econhistory #econtwitter
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Our PhD students are ready for the EHS annual conference in Glasgow this weekend! 💪📷
@EcHistSoc
@flo_jfriedrich
@gregoiresalter
@ChevronsApart
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April Fools? Thrilled and humbled to have been promoted to Professor in Economics @tcddublin. Hugely grateful to all the very many who have helped me along the way and to have the opportunity to spend my time doing things I enjoy.
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Hi folks!
Will we see you in Copenhagen this September?
Call for ASREC conference is out!
Preceded by grad student workshop.
Relevant for all scholars interested in culture and religion.
Calls and submission (closes June 1): asrec.org
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We had the honor of welcoming Michela Giorcelli (@M_Giorcelli) for our annual Epstein Lecture today. Her lecture explored a period of exceptionally high productivity growth in history—World War II—and the role played by the spread of management practices.
#EconomicHistory
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🚨New data alert!
A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io
🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.
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Thrilled to present at Yale's Economic History Workshop on Monday! I will be in New Haven until Wednesday, feel free to reach out if you are interested in chatting about research ☕️ economics.yale.edu/events/economi…
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📢Over the coming months, we'll be opening 2 faculty positions for economic historians to join UoM & the @ArthurLewisLab: a 2-year fixed-term teaching focused position, & a "tenure-track" research-focused AP (formally, according to UK rules, permanent s.t. probation.) Stay tuned!
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Final reminder of the call for papers for this workshop. We are also grateful to have received funding from the @EcHistSoc to cover accommodation costs for a couple of PhD students without other funding. Please send us your abstracts!
Eric Schneider@ericbschneider
CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South CFP Deadline 3 February 2025 Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE Organised by myself and @NJCummins Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group @LSEEcHist
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How can economic historians transform historical documents into structured data? @AureliusNoble introduces participants to novel methods of automatic transcription, including handwritten text recognition. The first lecture took place today. Two workshops will follow...
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🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ Sascha Becker + @joachim_voth
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in🧵(1/n)
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Thank you so much! Can’t wait to be back to my Alma mater @BrownUniversity @PPE_Center Robinson Hall, College Hill and Providence! Back in full circle 🤎
Brown Economics@Brown_Economics
We are excited to welcome Professor Felipe Valencia Caicedo (@felipev84) to the Economics Department and PPE Center! He joins us from the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC, where he was an Assistant Professor.
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CEPH is delighted to be co-hosting a workshop titled 'Hidden Connections: Eastern Europe through a comparative lens' alongside the WEast Eastern European Economic History Initiative, including a keynote lecture from Sascha Becker this afternoon
@tcdeconomics
#econtwitter #NSRPProject
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