NOTE TO SELF: Interesting Economic-History Job-Market Papers

A very nice-looking cohort; I only wish more economics & data-science programs would understand that economic-history Ph.D. candidates are simply than run-of-the-mill econ candidates...

Interesting Economic History Job-Market Papers:

1. Miriam Venturini: A sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Zurich, her research examines the role of grassroots organizations in political participation, focusing on U.S. labor unions. Her job market paper, “The Imperfect Union: Labor Racketeering, Corruption Exposure, and Its Consequences,” investigates the effects of corruption exposure on unions in the U.S by the McClellan Commission over 1957-1960… <https://miriamventurini.github.io/>

2. Caterina Chiopris: A sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University, her job market paper is titled “Spatial Connections and the Diffusion of Ideas.” Her fields include political economy and economic history… <https://www.caterinachiopris.com/research-publications>

3. Carlo Medici: A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, his job market paper, “Closing Ranks: Organized Labor and Immigration,” explores the impact of immigration on the development of organized labor in the early 20th-century United States... <https://sites.northwestern.edu/medici/>

4. William M. Cockriel: A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, his job market paper, "Machines Eating Men: Shoemakers and Their Children After the McKay Stitcher," examines the long-run impacts of the McKay stitcher, a deskilling technology in shoe production, on workers and their children... <https://williamcockriel.com/>

5. Megumi Murakami: A sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University, Murakami’s research interests include Economic History and Game theory. Her job market paper, “Supply and Demand of Medical Knowledge,” examines two millennia of medical history, using a signaling game to understand the stagnant development of medical knowledge compared to other natural science...  <https://sites.northwestern.edu/mmk2213/>

6. Hugo Reichardt: A sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Economics, his research focuses on macroeconomics and inequality, particularly the drivers of inequality. His job market paper, titled “Scale-Biased Technical Change and Inequality,” examines the impact of technical change on the productivity of large versus small firms and its implications for inequality... <https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/phd-job-market/job-market-candidates-2023-24/hugo-reichardt/hugo-reichardt>

7. Davide M. Coluccia: A Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University, Coluccia specializes in the Economics of Innovation, Economic History, and Labor Economics. His job market paper, “Return Innovation: The Knowledge Spillovers of the British Migration to the United States, 1870–1940,” jdoint work with Gaia Dossi of LSE, explores the impact of British migration on knowledge spillovers in the United States during that period... <https://sites.northwestern.edu/davidecoluccia/>

8. Tom Raster: A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Paris School of Economics, Raster’s research intersects trade, economic history, and labor economics, with a focus on trade, forced labor, and migration involving Eastern Europe. His job market paper, “Breaking the ice: The persistent effects of pioneers on trade relationships,” provides causal evidence of the effect of individual pioneers on aggregate trade, based on detailed data on voyages between Baltic Sea ports and the rest of the world from 1500 until 1850... <https://www.tomraster.com/>

9. Javier Mejia: A Postdoctoral Scholar in Political Science with a Ph.D. in Economics from Los Andes University, Mejia’s job-market paper is “Social Interactions and Contract Enforcement in the Postcolonial Arab World. Evidence from the Industrial Elite of Morocco, 1956-1982”. Mejia’s work focuses on the intersection between social networks and economic history, particularly in Latin America and the Middle East. His research explores how social interactions have historically shaped the economy…  <https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/javier-mejia>