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Leander Heldring

@LeanderHeldring

Economics Prof. @KelloggSchool. Economic Growth, History, Politics with a stipple of machine learning 📈

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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”…

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Leander Heldring Reposted

How A River Changing Course Led People To Form The First Governments. Research in @AEAjournals from Robert Allen, Mattia C. Bertazzini & @LeanderHeldring via @forbes @NYUAbuDhabi @UniofNottingham @KelloggSchool forbes.com/sites/jeffoppe…


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We've released a new dataset, Newswire arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490 2.7M unique newswires reproduced 32M+ times over a century (1878-1977). Articles have location and topic tags and person ids (from Wikipedia). Fun fact: see the prohibition related crime spike in the 1920s

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🚨Job alert🚨@edoardoteso and I are looking for a predoc, for 1 or 2 years, to start immediately. Work with us on political economy, economic history, and machine learning. Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MTkzNA== @predoc_org


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What led to Iraq’s 9thC collapse? Superb paper by Bob Allen & @LeanderHeldring Rulers struggled for succession, & needed to pay troops, then exploited peasants, who refused to pay taxes. Canals were not maintained Salivation rose, wheat yields fell link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Very nice animation of our recent paper, thank you @econimate! Paper: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Economist article: economist.com/finance-and-ec… Interview: aeaweb.org/research/econo…

What is the origin of states and governments? Bob Allen (@NYUAbuDhabi), Mattia Bertazzini (@UniofNottingham) & @LeanderHeldring (@KelloggSchool) on cooperative vs. extractive theories of government: youtu.be/kLHKQpoQeYc

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Empirical political economy’s impact on political philosophy. Nice full page article by @TheEconomist on our recent paper on the origins of government. Article: economist.com/finance-and-ec… Paper: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Interview: aeaweb.org/research/econo…


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I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (newsdejavu.github.io), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles. (1/4)

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[1/4] Merci @gcalignon @natsilbert @LesEchos pour cette interview sur mon livre à paraître ce vendredi, qui analyze combien le retard éducatif français et les problèmes d'orientation scolaire et professionelle nous coûtent en termes d'innovation, de croissance et d'inégalités👇

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« Si la France est moins productive que l'Allemagne, c'est à cause de ses piètres performances éducatives », selon @XJaravel lesechos.fr/economie-franc…



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