That 250 days a year for the average worker is ahistorical is not news https://t.co/xUFpOtV5n4 but it’s great to see some proper empirics being done for France 😊 by Ridolfi
Israel's airstrikes have killed one of Gaza's most senior specialists, Dr Ayman Abu al-Ouf, along with 12 family members. On the same day, Dr Mouin al-Aloul, Gaza's top neurologist, and Rajaa Abu al-Ouf, a psychologist, were also killed. https://t.co/M55BUBwIoL
The economic historian Pedro Lains passed away today. He was still middle-aged. I often had lunch with him in Lisbon and it's weird to think that he won't be around anymore. He was preparing a three-volume edited book about Iberian Economic History. R.I.P. https://t.co/9crwRYv3BA
Check this new Figuerola working paper!!!
Landlords and sharecroppers in wine producing regions: Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800-1940 by Juan Carmona and James Simpson
https://t.co/AjDKKAhAX7
.@chronopoulosDK, @JohnOSWilson2, @SKampanelis & @OtoPeralias show that areas once colonised by the Phoenicians, Greeks, & Etruscans have higher population densities & enhanced economic activity to this day- effects due more to colonisation than geography: https://t.co/cgyXUp5old
#Covid threatens to leave #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean with higher poverty levels, greater inequality, & debts across virtually all countries. @eduardocavallo & @AndyPowell_IDB @the_IDB @IDB_Research recognise the challenges but provide reason to hope: https://t.co/YriNHu6ePf
We measure inequality using income as a proxy for #welfare. But are we mixing up "doing well" with "being well"? @LdelaEscosura talks to @timsvengali about research contradicting much of what we think we know about the long-run trends in #inequality@uc3m
https://t.co/q1F5JUmbke
new article published on #earlyview: "Plagues, wars, political change, and fiscal capacity: late medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1337–1556" by @FochesatoMattia @DondenaCentre@Unibocconi https://t.co/VTI1dGWjuB
New Intituto Figuerola wp!
Socio-Economic Determinants of Survival in a Nazi Concentration Camp: The Experience of Spanish Prisoners at Mauthausen.
Jordi Domènech and Juan J. Fernández
https://t.co/LsB4k4XWfI
The exile from the Spanish Civil War was highly qualified, not only because it affected top social classes, but also because it included the elites within each social class. When accounted for, women represented a large share of the loss of human capital of the Republican exile.
"Treasure, competitiveness, and institutions: What caused the reversal of fortune of early modern Spain?" thanks to @EcHistSoc for awarding a £3,500 Carnevali Research Grant to us (@RobertoBonfatti, @AdamBrz, @EvaFern80498349 and myself): https://t.co/DJESklT2eC
Today in Broadstreet, @sararlowes examines the growing interest in understanding how variation in social structures such as kinship systems shape a wide variety of outcomes. https://t.co/IcwpTJt5JE