Gabriele Cappelli

Second CFA for PhD scholarships in Economics at the Tuscany Universities! Deadline July 24. Applications in Economic History most welcome. See phdeconomics.unisi.it/admission-pr...

Kicking off the @deps-siena.bsky.social 8th Hahn Lecture!

Prof. Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)

📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities is now open! Please share and RT! Economic History applications sought!
Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST)
Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it
Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...

Our article 'Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white-collar jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890)' has been converted into Open Access! See: doi.org/10.1093/ereh.... See the summary below by the EHES!

Human capital in Europe, 1830s–1930s: A general survey Human capital is now widely acknowledged as one of the key determinants of economic growth. Research on how human skills accumulate and evolve through time has grown rapidly in recent years. This pap...

If you want to have an overview of this literature, and see new regional-comparative data and its potential, look no further! With Ridolfi, Vasta, and Westberg
Yes, in Open Access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/2

Our article "Human capital in Europe, 1830s–1930s: A general survey" is out in an issue at the Journal fo Economic Surveys 39 (2), which is a special issue titled "Metrics and Drivers of Well‐Being in the Long‐Run." 1/2

CfP: RSE/IREH Fast Track Review The Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) aims to promote fresh research on economic history covering a wide range of countries, periods, and methods. To this aim...

www.associazionestoriaeconomica.com/post/cfp-rse...

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South

CFP Deadline 3 February 2025

Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE

Organised by myself and Neil Cummins

Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group

Two very stimulating and intense days at the LSE (after 10 years!) to present a chapter within the framework of the Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism, ed. by E. Frankema and T. Roy. See more info here: www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

Want to have a look at the @rhi-ihr.bsky.social poster presented at the VIII CLADHE in Montevideo by our associate editors Agustina Rayes & @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social? Scan the QR code 👇

Interested in the evolution of African economic history in the last c. two decades? Then this article and this blog entry is for you 👇

29/11/2024 Gabriele Cappelli – QUCEH Seminar Series - CEPH - Centre for Economics, Policy and History Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950)​   Gabriele Cappelli is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Siena, a CEPR Researc...

We look forward to welcoming @gaber86.bsky.social to @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for Friday's @quceh.bsky.social seminar:

Shaping growth: different types of human capital and European regional incomes (1870-1950)​

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#Economics #EconomicHistory #NSRPproject #EconSky

Just got the good news: my pilot project "Taking schools by storm? Extreme weather events and education in Italy, 1961 – 1991" (Storm-ed) has been funded through a small grant within the Uni-Siena NEW FRONTIERS funding scheme - the project will be online soon! @deps-siena.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow we will celebrate the life and work of the late Nick Crafts ❤️

Nick was a fantastic colleague, friend, and founding director of @cagewarwick.bsky.social

Today's Crafts Lecture will be given by the wonderful Leah Boustan.

Full program 👇

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Raised to Obey How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizens

Finally!!! RAISED TO OBEY launches today 🎉🎉🎉

I learned a great deal researching this book

It transformed my views on education, politics, and economic development

I hope others will learn from it, too!

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

@princetonupress.bsky.social #RaisedToObey #Education

Interested in economics and statistics, and economic history within it, at the University of Siena? Have a look at the new profile of our department on Bsky! @deps-siena.bsky.social

The current issue at @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is a special one on "Comparative Development in Colonial Africa", and the introduction is an intriguing article by K. Frederick, D. Juif, F. Meier zu Selhausen w/ a bibliometric analysis of the EH of Africa since the year 2000. Oh - it's open access! Enjoy 👇

We have just published ur first-ever fully open access issue, "Comparative development in colonial Africa":
revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...

The profile of the @rhi-ihr.bsky.social now on Bsky, too! If you were following us on X/Twitter, and are interested in the work we publish in economic and industrial history, please consider following the Bsky profile, too!

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!

We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

Quantifying History (3 ECTS) - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History How can quantitative methods allow historians to make sense of the ever-increasing wealth of digitalised sources, both numeric and textual? How can historians use quantitative and computational method...

Teaching a PhD course on "Quantifying history" for the Norwegian Research School in History, together with Gregory Ferguson-Cradler (Trondheim, February 3-7). www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... Apply for enrollment before Dec 1st.

Just arrived on Bsky and this just out: "Comparative Development in Colonial Africa" guest edited by K. Frederick, F. Meier zu Selhausen, and D. Juif, published at the RHI-IHR. Articles by Chiseni-Bolt, @tomwestland.bsky.social, Alexopoulou-Frankema, and L. Dolan: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...