Submit your best (cool) text-as-data work by 13 March for the MPWZ-CEPR online workshop (13-14 April):
tinyurl.com/2s3j8kxf
We welcome submissions from all fields of economics & other social sciences that use unstructured data.
Jointly organized with @phinifa.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social ๐
Presenting "Religion and the Wealth of Nations after 250 Years" at King's College, Cambridge, closely watched by John Maynard Keynes โ๏ธ
The year 2026 Nick Crafts Lecture at @warwickecon.bsky.social @cagewarwick.bsky.social given by the amazing @marthajbailey.bsky.social
Luigi Guido speaking on The Economic Costs of Ambiguous Laws
Lunch (yesterday) outside in the sunshine in beautiful Coventry.
Today: Seminar by Luigi Guiso, and the annual Nick Crafts Lecture delivered by @marthajbailey.bsky.social at @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social
@fcinnio.bsky.social
Morning run along Coventry Canal from Hawkesbury Junction to Nuneaton ๐
The Tragedy of Institutions:
When they work, they're largely invisible. When largely invisible, they're taken for granted. When taken for granted, they seem unnecessary. When they seem unnecessary, someone eliminates them. Then they need rebuilding. Rebuilt, they're often worse.
๐จ๐จBiggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. ๐งต
www.politico.eu/article/icel...
Morning run along the Grand Union Canal from Hatton Locks to Knowle Locks in glorious sunshine ๐ผ
Time to leave X?
Spring ๐ผ in Coventry
Come join @nathannunn.bsky.social James Fenske, Stephan Heblich and myself in the far north of ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฆ
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, boasts up to 240 nights of active aurora borealis per year โค๏ธ
Delighted to be part of this volume edited by Alex Trew ๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ with Chapter 10:
"Religion and the Wealth of Nations after 250 Years" ๐
Here is the working paper version ๐
lnkd.in/eVUcH-UT
Glorious sunshine in Coventry and Warwickshire. Morning run along the Grand Union Canal from Hatton Locks to Leamington Spa โ๏ธ
@amritakulka.bsky.social and my housing work was featured on ITV Tonight yesterday. You can play with a fun map and read more about it here: wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk
โWe analysed over 3 million new builds in the UK and found that about 70% .. had worse access to jobs and employment than the average pre-existing house.โ
๐บ๏ธ Watch @nikdatta.bsky.social discuss the #wheretobuild research for ITV Tonight on the governmentโs overhaul of planning rules.
9th Feb 2026: The Economic Journal has already received 256 submissions this calendar year ... ๐ฎ
1/Universities need to systematically address the findings in the Epstein files. In my opinion, every university in which current or past faculty, administrators, trustees appear in the files, should establish formal bodies to review and assess.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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How does social housing design affect neighborhoods decades later? We study London gangs to show that postwar urban planningโspecifically high-rise public housing constructionโhad lasting effects on gang formation
@cep-lse.bsky.social
Such a great book by
@paulinegrosjean.bsky.social
I โค๏ธ the ๐ซ๐ท version.
Call for nominations for dissertation and book awards from @sioecon.bsky.social. Please get the word out!
Congratulations to our @EJ_RES 2025 Referee Prize winners! ๐
These prizes recognise the outstanding contribution of referees and the vital role they play in supporting authors and the Journal.
Read more: bit.ly/3NQoMnY
@phinifa.bsky.social
๐ข #CallForPapers for the 11th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop!
Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome.
Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer
Deadline: 13 March
cepr.org/events/11th-...
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๐ฃHot off the press! ๐ @EJ_RES virtual issue โ Lab Experiments โ out now. Featuring a foreword by Steffen Huck. Learn more and read the issue๐ bit.ly/4rb6uMy
@resmedia.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
@steffenhuck.bsky.social
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๐จ Now out in the Economic Journal:
โPatience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital:
Regional Analysis with Facebook Interestsโ
w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social โช& Sancassani
๐ก Patience accounts for ยพ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, โ
US
๐ doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
Russia wants to push Ukraine into the Stone Age โ to freeze us, exhaust us, and leave us without a future. That will not happen.
This why Kyiv School of Economics is hosting a 3-day Science Mini School for high school students and early-year undergraduates, right now in Kyiv. 1/
Our survey on Gender and Religion is now published ๐
doi.org/10.1017/dem....
See ๐งต below.
Thanks to the wonderful @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social and @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social ๐
