Leander Heldring

I have a predoc opening! This position will involve working with historical U.S. local newspaper data to understand Americans' varied perspectives on key issues across a century. Applicants can upload materials here (the listing describes a different project - sorry, I was…

James Robinson (@HarrisPolicy) and I are hiring one or more predocs starting Summer '25. Come work with us on political economy, economic history, and AI. Link: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… @predoc_org

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.”…

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…

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

🚨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

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…

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…

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…

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)

[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👇