Professor at UBC VSE. Economic History, photography, food.
📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22
Learn more about @ubcvse.bsky.social 's Prof. Michael Barber, who is transforming first year ECON teaching at UBC. economics.ubc.ca/news/econ-10...
How Dr. Michael Barber makes Econ 101 & 102 at UBC a valuable elective for any student - Vancouver School of EconomicsDr. Michael Barber, Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Vancouver School of Economics, is helping shape the future of first-year economics education at UBC.economics.ubc.ca
The 2026 EHS Conference celebrated the Society’s 100th anniversary. New Researcher Paper Prizes were awarded to Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia), Alessandro Brioschi (Queen’s University Belfast) and Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast). #EHS100 ehs.org.uk/society/gran...
New Researcher Paper - Prize Winners - Economic History SocietyThe procedure for awarding New Researcher Prizes can be found here. 2026: CKK Building, London School of Economics, 10-12 April Three prizes were awarded to: NR2C: Migration and Expansion in the US Th...ehs.org.uk
Will you join us in Vancouver? 🇨🇦 This summer, we’re partnering with UBC's @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social to host the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality. Applications are now open – we’re excited to meet you. Learn more: bit.ly/4lWx0ro Apply here: bit.ly/4t8Lff6
In A Capital’s Capital, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal map the fluctuations in wealth and its distribution in Paris between 1807 and 1977. Now available (31 March UK pub). Check out a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Economics #History
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
I am delighted that this great conversation with Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan has posted. Their extraordinary work on intergenerational mobility and immigrants speaks to essential dimensions of the extent of equality of opportunity and of the process of assimilation.
UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & MobilityRan Abramitzky and Leah Boustan are using economic history to understand immigration. On The Inequality Podcast, they examine patterns of upward mobility and preview new research on the tone of modern political speeches. Listen to their conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social → bit.ly/4txjJsL
Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter. They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures. www.nber.org/papers/w3481...
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University of British Columbia crowned National Champion of The Governor’s ChallengeThe Bank of Canada is pleased to announce that the University of British Columbia has won the eleventh annual Governor’s Challenge, a national student competition in which teams simulate the role of a...www.bankofcanada.ca
We’re proud to congratulate Dr. Raffaele Saggio, and coauthors, on his recent receipt of the 2025 Aigner Award from the Journal of Econometrics. Read about the award: economics.ubc.ca/news/ubc-pro...