Workshop
We are pleased to announce the 1st CEPR Applied Micro-Economic History Workshop organized with the support of CEPR, the University of Mannheim and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
The workshop will take place on the 7th and 8th of February 2025 in Heidelberg (NH Collection Heidelberg).
Organizers:
- Philipp Ager (University of Mannheim and CEPR)
- Nina Boberg-Fazlic (TU Dortmund and CEPR)
- Bruno Caprettini (University of St Gallen and CEPR)
- Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer (University of Hohenheim and CEPR)
Goal: Recent technological advances have opened new, exciting opportunities for the study of our past. Not only do we now have access to several fully digitized historical censuses: recent developments in AI and machine learning are also allowing economic historians to extract ever larger quantities of information from historical sources, including newspapers, books, and firm reports. All of this is revolutionizing economic history, bringing new data and rigorous empirical methods to the field. The workshop aims at bringing together leading economic historians working with “big data” and modern econometric techniques. Topics of interest include but are not limited to evaluating the effects of education, health, innovation, and labor policies as well as intergenerational mobility, migration, and economic inequality. Other potential areas may relate to individual investment or savings decisions or political effects on business foundations or insolvencies.