Tom Raster

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Tom Raster

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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Melanie Meng Xue@Melanie_Xue·
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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Economic History Society
Economic History Society@EcHistSoc·
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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Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb@dunc_webb·
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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Tom Raster@tomraster·
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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Economics @ Ashoka@EconAtAshoka

@tomraster will present his paper titled "Breaking the ice: The persistent effects of pioneers on trade relationships" today in the Economics Department weekly seminar series. We look forward to hosting Tom and hope y'all can join us for the seminar. :)

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Ronan Lyons
Ronan Lyons@ronanlyons·
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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Jeanet Sinding Bentzen
Jeanet Sinding Bentzen@JeanetBentzen·
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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LSE Department of Economic History
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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Feodora Teti
Feodora Teti@FeodoraTeti·
🚨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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Tom Raster@tomraster·
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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The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
📢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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Eric Schneider
Eric Schneider@ericbschneider·
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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LSE Department of Economic History
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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P David Boll
P David Boll@pdavidboll·
🚨 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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