Meredith M. Paker

Associate Professor of Economic History @UniofOxford @OxfordESH • views my own

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

Oxford is looking for a Departmental Lecturer for next year! Come join our economic history community. Applications are due on May 27, feel free to reach out if you have any questions! https://t.co/5lbTbVCbkF

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

Oxford is hiring a new statutory Professor of Economic History! Apply by May 25th, and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or are thinking about whether this might be a good fit for you! https://t.co/uWXheDtkZg

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

Looking forward to this!

[Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @LEAP_SU]

📢 Join us for the 10th Annual LEAP Lecture!

🗓 4 Nov 2025 | 🕔 17:00
📍 225 Schumann Building, Stellenbosch
🎙 Meredith Paker — “Understanding the Past with Machine Learning”

RSVP: [email protected]
#LEAPLecture #EconomicHistory #MachineLearning #Stellenbosch

[Jon Steinsson @JonSteinsson]

Three economic history Nobel Prizes in a row! Go economic history! Congratulations Joel!

(Perhaps more departments should reconsider letting economic history die???)

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

I'm thrilled about all of the new opportunities this role will bring and deeply grateful to my amazing colleagues and students at Grinnell for all of their support the past three years!

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

I'm excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January, I'll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where I'll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls.
https://t.co/yNFy3Qy3Rs

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history

[Judy Stephenson @judyzara]

Next week @OxfordESH @mmpaker will give a paper https://t.co/N0pLIzACiG about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!

[GrinnellEconomics @GrinnellEconom1]

Grinnell was delighted to host a liberal arts economic history conference this weekend organized by @mmpaker and colleagues. Scholars from liberal arts colleagues across the US came to present their research and connect on new methods and teaching in liberal arts environments!

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

@nd_econ @Kasey_Buckles @D_Hungerman Congratulations Henry and go dawgs!

[Centre for Quantitative History @QuantHistoryHKU]

🌟 Webinar Announcement! 🌟
Topic: Predictive Modelling the Past: A New Machine Learning Method Applied to Seven Centuries of Wages Date: November 7
Time: 10 AM (HKT)
Speaker: @mmpaker from @GrinnellCollege
🔗 Register here: https://t.co/qtxWD6dubb
See you there!
#Webinar #MachineLearning #DataScience #HistoricalEconomics #PredictiveModeling #GrinnellCollege #EconomicHistory #QuantitativeHistory
@HKUniversity @HKUFBE @hkihss @QuantHistoryHKU

[Jordan Claridge @jordanclaridge]

New paper:

“(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with
@V_Delabastita and @GibbsSpike is now out in @EEH_editors.

The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16)

https://t.co/fjZdCLr68M

[Judy Stephenson @judyzara]

For economic historians interested in wages and living standards this afternoon might be a bit of a treat. First up Joyce Burnette’s Paper has made some of the biggest inroads into what men’s wages really represent for many years. Answer: not what you thought.

[Economic History Society @EcHistSoc]

Call For Papers Submission Deadline Today!
The deadline for submitting 300-500 word Academic and New Researcher paper proposals for the 2025 EHS Conference, to be held at the University of Strathclyde, is today. For more info and to submit:
https://t.co/TwjMla4t3v

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

#jobspastfuture @V_Delabastita @jcwhittle1 @judyzara @CASNorway

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

Fantastic day talking about job quality and good work from economic, historical, sociological, and policy perspectives! Huge thanks to @benmschneider for organizing such a great conference at the beautiful Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

[Ziang Liu @ziangliu_hist]

Workshop on Living Standards: Measurements and Debates
Presenters:
Joyce Burnette (Wabash University)
Meredith Paker (Grinnell College), Judy Stephenson (UCL), and Patrick Wallis (LSE)
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
https://t.co/2A8udfdjuy

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

@MarketPowerYT Congratulations!!

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to present and for all of the interest and feedback!

[Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH) @ceph_ie]

Session 3 closes with @mmpaker exploring the impacts of devaluation during the Great Depression

@cepr_org @TCD_SSP @hea_irl
#economics #econtwitter #NSRPproject #CEPR2024

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

✈️ Heading to London to present this latest joint work with @judyzara @phwallis for the first time — a new ML method for estimating long time series of wages, prices, etc. in history! https://t.co/3IQcXJKbq5

[Meredith M. Paker @mmpaker]

@gillian_brunet Congrats!!