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Recently in Broadstreet: Migration and the Making of the English Middle Class by Vicky Fouka and Theo Serlin broadstreet.blog/p/migration-an…

Recently in Broadstreet: Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution by Tommaso Giommoni, Gabriel Loumeau and Marco Tabellini broadstreet.blog/p/extractive-t…

Recently in Broadstreet: When State-Building Disrupts Rather Than Stabilizes: French Rebellion in the Run-Up to the Revolution by @mikealbertus & @victorgayeco. broadstreet.blog/p/when-state-b…

Recently in Broadstreet: History LLMs: Giving the Past a Voice with Large Language Models by Daniel Gottlich, @loib_nerd, and @joachim_voth. broadstreet.blog/p/history-llms…

Recently, in Broadstreet: Legacies of Repression: How Europe’s Violent 20th Century Still Shapes Its Politics by @laiabalcellsv, @apvjustino, and @aruggeri_eu. broadstreet.blog/p/legacies-of-…

Request for proposals: HPE and the United States. Papers for a special issue of @JHPE_journal, with a conference @USCPrice in early May. Deadline: November 24. Details below.

Request for proposals: HPE and the United States. Papers for a special issue of @JHPE_journal, with a conference @USCPrice in early May. Details below.

Was thrilled to write this for @BlogBroadstreet (which I recommend to anyone interested in historical political economy) broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-ir…

New in Broadstreet: Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. broadstreet.blog/p/blood-and-ir…

My piece on warfare and succession institutions is out @apsrjournal! I re-examine theories linking warfare to capacity-building institutions in a consequential but understudied geopolitical context, that of Inner Asian Cavalry Warfare. 🧵(1/n) @osupolisci @mershoncenter

Today in Broadstreet: some PhD students in the market. broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candidat…

Now out: @JHPE_journal 5(2). Five articles by @t_r_gray, @JanneTukiainen & others. nowpublishers.com/HPE

Initial program for the Second Annual HPE Conference at USC's Price School on October 24-25. We are keeping it small, so there are about 20 spots left for attendees. If you are interested in attending (on your dime), please contact me. dropbox.com/scl/fi/j0mvokr…

Today in Broadstreet, Natalya Naumenko (GMU) discusses Stalin’s Famine: broadstreet.blog/p/stalins-fami…

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development has the rare distinction of changing economics for the better, and being totally wrong. A thread on what it did, why it mattered, and why it’s wrong. 1/

Frontline Union Army captains cut desertions and boosted cohesion through leading by example, earning postwar-wage gains and greater recognition, from @Andreas_Ferrara, Christian Dippel, and @StephanHeblich nber.org/papers/w34057

With all the upheaval in differences-in-differences estimation in recent years, you may have asked yourself a simple question... When can I get away with using two-way fixed effects? If so, you should read this new working paper! It proposes simple tests of linear restrictions that can be used to test for differences in dynamic treatment effects over cohorts, which allows you to test for when the two-way fixed effects regression is likely to yield biased estimates of the ATT.

New in @BlogBroadstreet, John Matsusaka (USC Marshall) examines The Democratic Institutions of the Roman Republic broadstreet.blog/p/the-democrat…

How important was the railroad, and why did it raise incomes? Dave Donaldson’s classic paper “Railroads of the Raj” found that access to the railroad raised real income by 16%, and trade accounted for half. Let’s understand how he got this! 1/

Today in Broadstreet, @beckerbastian and colleagues explore The Future of Historical Political Economy in Europe. broadstreet.blog/p/the-future-o…