31 October. Reformation Day.

How did Martin Luther, a little-known professor at a provincial university (founded in 1502), manage to convince large parts of Germany (and Europe) to turn away from the Catholic Church? 🧵(1/N) (2/N) In Becker/Hsiao/Pfaff/Rubin, we look at Luther's
a. correspondence
b. travels
c. his students at Wittenberg
>before< 1522 when the first city became Protestant, to describe his multiplex network(s).

New working paper

Persecution and Escape:
Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

with Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, and Fabian Waldinger

A short summary (1/N)

pdf: …-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/RePEc/ajr/sodw… (2/N) Academics of Jewish origin in Weimar Germany were some of the greatest scientific luminaries of the first half of the 20th century.

For example, Nobel Laureates such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, and Max Born shaped modern physics.

Great initiative. I am First-Gen; attended same high school as @PMoserEcon in the deep countryside; my dad left school at age 14, my mum at age 16; dad worked for German rail; mother housewife; ended up at @UniBonn by accident because grandmother lived there (--> free housing).

https://twitter.com/PMoserEcon/status/1291026036579168257

Started studying maths and physics to become a teacher, following dad's advice: "become a teacher; public sector; safe job".
Met Mathias Hoffmann (@UZH_en) in maths lectures; his passion for Economics made me attend Econ lectures and that's how I ended up studying Economics.

(1/N) Pleasure to edit the brand-new

JDC UNHCR @Refugees @WorldBank Quarterly Digest on

"Long-Term Consequences of Forced Displacement"
doi.org/10.47053/jdc.0…

Part I: Intro

Part II: Summaries of papers by the amazing @zsarzin

highlighting three (selective) salient themes (2/N)
Theme 1: Long-Term Impact of Refugees on Innovation and Technological Progress

Theme 2: Agglomeration Effects and Infrastructure Investments

Theme 3: Impact on Refugee Preferences

German division and reunification and the “effects” of Communism

Some caveats from f/c JEP paper with @LukasMergele & Ludger Woessmann @ifo_Education

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

Issue #1: The GDR can be spotted before it even existed. (1/13) (2/13) Further economic outcomes

Our @voxeu column on forthcoming AER paper

"Forced Migration and Human Capital:
Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers"

with I.Grosfeld, P.Grosjean, N.Voigtländer, @ezhuravskaya

voxeu.org/article/silver…

@MonashBusiness @cage_warwick @voxeu @ezhuravskaya @MonashBusiness @cage_warwick At the end of WWII, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale forced migration. Poles from Kresy had to move westwards, mostly into formerly German Western Territories (WT), but also to Central Poland.

.@cage_warwick Economic History workshop today kicking off with Steve Broadberry: “Accounting for the Wealth of Nations: Recent Developments in Historical National Accounting” 1) Great Divergence had late medieval origins (Maddison right)
2) Regional variation within both continents
3) Little Divergence within Europe: reversal of fortunes between North Sea Area and Mediterranean Europe
4) Little Divergence within Asia: Japan overtaking China and India

Here are some of my favourite paper >titles< (thread).
Might add more in the future.

1/10

The Pope and the Price of Fish

Frederick W. Bell
The American Economic Review
Vol. 58, No. 5 (Dec., 1968), pp. 1346-1350
jstor.org/stable/1814033 2/10

De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum

George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker
The American Economic Review
Vol. 67, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 76-90
jstor.org/stable/1807222

Looking forward to our #WEHC2018 session on

The Impact of Religion(s) on Economic Outcomes

co-organized with @fcinnio

Featuring @JeanetBentzen @Melanie_Xue and other great colleagues

wehc2018.org/the-impact-of-… Wed 1 Aug 2018 @ 9:00A–12:30P

Room 163: MIT Building 4

Map: bit.ly/MITbldg4

Just minutes to go until inaugural @ESRC @cage_warwick economic policy lecture delivered by Prof Simon Johnson @MIT introduced by @mcmahonecon Now in full motion: the outline

Studies of the supply and demand-side factors of the #Reformation500.
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.… Studies on the “Dark” Consequences of the Reformation.

Second panel at IEA @CambridgeINET @Catz_Cambridge chaired by M McBride:

P Dasgupta, R McCleary, L Iannaccone & D Maxwell @CambridgeINET @Catz_Cambridge "How Religion Shaped the World".

Opening statement on Pentecostalism by David Maxwell @Cambridge_Uni