Meredith M. Paker
@mmpakerAssistant Professor of Economics @GrinnellCollege • PhD @UniofOxford • economic history, labor • views my own
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🌟 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: hku.zoom.us/webinar/regist… See you there! #Webinar…
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) doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.…
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.
ehs.org.uk/event/echr-wor… Next week ! For scholars interested in wages and real wages @EcHistSoc @LSEEcHist @OxfordESH @CamUniCampop @EconHistAssoc
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: ehs.org.uk/conference/
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) ehs.org.uk/event/echr-wor…
The Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project has launched with new sales and market rental housing price indices for U.S. cities spanning 1890-2006. This collaboration with @ronanlyons and @RowenaGray6 uses newspaper real estate sections. A thread on these data: 1/n
I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to present and for all of the interest and feedback!
Session 3 closes with @mmpaker exploring the impacts of devaluation during the Great Depression @cepr_org @TCD_SSP @hea_irl #economics #econtwitter #NSRPproject #CEPR2024
✈️ 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! history.ac.uk/events/predict…
Check out this blog post we wrote on our new working paper!
The end of the #goldstandard and the beginning of the recovery from the Great Depression Jason Lennard @jason_lennard @LSEnews @LSEEcHist, Meredith Paker @mmpaker @GrinnellCollege ow.ly/CXSY50RanVU
It’s up!!
@mmpaker @phwallis we are online ! @EcHistSocReview doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13… thanks to those who gave us the feedback to help propose nominal wage patterns and rigidities might be an indicator of imperfect competition (very 18C) as much as wage dispersion, inc @HubermanMichael
That other Brexit, from the gold standard in 1931, decisively benefited Britain’s economy & started its recovery from the Great Depression 🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… @voxeu @cepr_org @LSEnews @GrinnellCollege @B_Eichengreen @delong @SoumayaKeynes @alanbeattie
L’abandon de l’étalon-or a-t-il permis aux pays de sortir de la Grande Dépression ? (D'un champ l'autre) blog-illusio.com/2024/02/l-aban…
Economists be like "So excited that I don't have to work next week, so I get to work on my paper."
The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=46290…
So happy to see this finally out in the JEH! 🎉 Lots of work and love went into this awesome collaboration, and we benefited so much from great referees and editors!
Ever wondered who built St Paul's? Very pleased that our look at how the unskilled labourers were recruited - and kept - is now published in the JEH. You can read it here doi.org/10.1017/S00220… Joint work with @judyzara @mmpaker
By trawling through the archives and compiling and correcting historical data, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has been able to present new and often surprising facts. She has also given us a deeper understanding of the factors that affect women’s…
Grinnell is hiring two tenure-track faculty this year (at any level) in macroeconomics, broadly construed. Reach out if you want to learn more about our generous research support, amazing undergrads, and lovely colleagues! #econhist #econjobmarket aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…
Thrilled to see my first sole-authored paper published in Explorations in Economic History, “The jobless recovery after the 1980-1981 recession”! I’m very grateful for the excellent editors and referees as well as many mentors @OxfordESH @GrinnellEconom1 authors.elsevier.com/a/1hgod3I%7EdP…
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