Jonathan Chapman
@chapman_econ
Economic History, Political Economy, Behavioral Economics. Associate Professor at the University of Bologna.
30 Apr @17:00 CET The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS 🗣️Jonathan Chapman (@Unibo) presents 'Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution' Chair: Steven Pincus (@UChicago) ✍️ ow.ly/TFwi50VGcqV
🚨Open applications for 5 PhDs positions with scholarship in Economics and Economic History at the Tuscan Universities 📆Submission deadline: July 30, 2025 For more info: associazionestoriaeconomica.com/post/scholarsh…
The mere suspicion of cheating changes fairness views considerably and leads to a strong polarization. In the May issue, by Stefania Bortolotti (@Borty_ste), Ivan Soraperra, Matthias Sutter (@MattSutter_MPI), and Claudia Zoller (@claudia_zoller). zurl.co/jgEjU
🚨🚨Few more days to apply to the 10th ASE Annual Meeting, taking place in Venice (October 3-4). Information ⬇️
🚨The CfP for the 10th ASE Annual Meeting is out! 🌍The meeting will take place in Venice, on the island of San Servolo, on October 3-4 📆Deadline to apply: June 16 📩Proposals should be sent to:[email protected] All the details can be found here: associazionestoriaeconomica.com/post/cfp-10th-…
I'm so fortunate that this paper got published in such a good journal. I hope that it can be a helpful guide for future researchers who want to work at the intersection of economics and genetics and estimate Gene-Environment interplay #GxE
"We provide a guide for researchers on how to estimate gene-environment (GxE) interplay, using school-starting age as a case study. We argue that gene-environment (G x E) studies can help (i) assess treatment effect heterogeneity, (ii) test theoretical predictions, and 👇 1/
"Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution" New @cepr_org discussion paper by Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, @chapman_econ, and @nunopgpalma cepr.org/publications/d… #EconomicHistory
Three centuries ago China tweaked a single rule in its imperial exams—and gave us a natural experiment on affirmative action that still echoes today. 🧵👇
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20214 Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution Tim Besley @LSEEcon, Dan Bogart @UCIrvine, Jonathan Chapman @Unibo, @nunopgpalma ow.ly/zEKs50VNwRT #CEPR_DE #CEPR_EH #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter
Interesting working paper by one of our profs @chapman_econ
🧩 The takeaway? Institutions also operate locally. Local legal actors — even unpaid ones — can shape economic trajectories in powerful ways. The state was heavily involved with the First Industrial Revolution. Link to the paper: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?D… 7/7
We congratulate the winner of this year's T. S. Ashton Prize, presented at the annual conference to Emiliano Travieso (UC3M) & Tom Westland (Wageningen) for 'What happened to the workshop of West Africa?' Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria'
🔔Next Thrusday at 5pm CET it's time for another #econhist discussion with @cyril_thomson (U of Bologna):Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools 📝We are happy to welcome Gregory Clark (@UCDavisEcon) to chair the event 🚀See you online soon!
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20187 The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial #China @Melanie_Xue @LSEnews, Boxiao Zhang (Renmin University of China) ow.ly/uWoC50VLVrn #CEPR_EH #CEPR_LE #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter
How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper (with Tim Besley, @DanBogartEcon, and @chapman_econ), we show that Justices of the Peace (JPs) — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth.🧵👇1/7
Join the @ArthurLewisLab as a predoc for 2 years! The ad is now available! 👇🏼 @econ_ra @predoc_org
Join us May 14th for the launch of @phwallis new book on #apprenticeship ⚒️ and economic growth 📈, showing the contributions of the scheme in early modern #England @LSEpublicevents lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05… #econhist #economics #lse #education #LSEEvents
We're proud to share that Filippo Pavanello, former PhD student at our department, has won the 2025 EAERE Award for Best Doctoral Dissertations in Environmental and Resource Economics! His thesis: Essays on Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Congrats, @filpavanello 🎉🎉
📢Call for papers! We’re excited to announce the 2nd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC), taking place at King's College London on November 6–7, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Elias Papaioannou (LBS) Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025 Submit via: forms.gle/5RwcxMZxZLVznX…
Interested in moving to Italy? The call for Marie Curie fellowships is now open! I'd be happy to supervise @DSE_Unibo in economic history / historical political economy. Contact me with your CV and project idea if you are interested in applying!
Congratulations to our DPhil student Louis Henderson, now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @LSEEcHist who’s awarded this year’s Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize in the EHS annual conference 2025 in Glasgow @EcHistSoc #econhist #twitterstorians
📢Research Seminar–Tuesday 🗓️Apr 8⏰12:00–13:15📍Seminar Room 🎤 Speaker: Matthias Doepke @mdoepke (LSE) 📄 Title: The Political Economy of Laws to "Protect" Women Examines how labor market competition shaped the rise and fall of protective labor laws for women in 20th-cent US