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Jared Rubin
@jaredcrubin.com

Economics Professor at Chapman University. President of ASREC. Author of Rulers, Religion and Riches http://amzn.to/3luy5qe and How the World Became Rich http://amzn.to/2ZZJetD

https://www.jaredcrubin.com/
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Political science 32%
Economics 20%

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Introducing my new paper with Clemence Tricaud. US election outcomes (margins of victory in the House, Senate and Electoral College), have become closer in recent decades, without a tightening of winning margins at the constituency level. We explain why. www.nber.org/papers/w34566
Electoral Margins and Political Competition
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Course materials for my European Economic History course, which I will be teaching in January 2026

Syllabus: www.jaredcrubin.com/teaching/eur...

Term paper assignment (which I have tried to AI-proof, but 🤷): www.jaredcrubin.com/teaching/eur...

Slides: www.jaredcrubin.com/teaching/eur...
Jared Rubin's Website - European Economic History Syllabus
European Economic History Syllabus
www.jaredcrubin.com
The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
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Beginning in Summer 2026, I will be one of the co-editors of Journal of Economic History. I will be taking over from Bishnu Gupta, who has done a fantastic job the last four years.

Looking for papers asking big questions. Answers must be convincing, but methodology is secondary IMO
SIOE 2026 at INSEAD Fontainebleau! 13-15 July. Call: www.sioe.org/conference/2...
SIOE 2026 : Call for papers | SIOE
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New survey on religion and gender with the amazing @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social & @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social 🎉
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!

Our research leader @essobecker.bsky.social, with
Jeanet Bentzen, & @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social
survey the links between gender and religion.

🧵->

thanks man!!
Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics

Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...

(See thread below for an overview)

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We wrote a survey on gender 🚻 and religion 🛐
Such a pleasure to work with @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social and @chuncheekokecon.bsky.social ❤️
1/ 🚨 New working paper alert. We (@essobecker.bsky.social @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social and myself) thought there is still much to learn about the link between religion and gender, so we write a survey 🥁
“Gender and Religion: A Survey" 👉 warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

DEADLINE FOR ASREC SUMBISSIONS IS FRIDAY!

Join us in Orange in March - it should be an amazing event
2026 ASREC Conference
Orange, CA
March 20-21, 2026

Keynote: James Robinson
Submission Deadline: November 7

Join us at Chapman for what should be an amazing event! Seeking papers at the intersection of religion/culture & the social sciences

Submit proposals here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ASREC Graduate Student Workshop
19-21 March 2026
Orange CA

Join me, @avitallivny.bsky.social, Dan Hungerman, and Jonathan Schulz for one day of lectures overviewing the field followed by attending the ASREC conference

Deadline: 14 November

Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Now, this may not pass current standards of causal inference, but it seems like the fastest path to the Nobel is to write a blurb for How the World Become Rich

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2026 ASREC Conference
Orange, CA
March 20-21, 2026

Keynote: James Robinson
Submission Deadline: November 7

Join us at Chapman for what should be an amazing event! Seeking papers at the intersection of religion/culture & the social sciences

Submit proposals here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Soon I hope! Just as deserving, as I suspect you agree…

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Three years in a row the Nobel has been awarded for historical work!

Hint - summing the number may help

Very close…

Trivia question: what do the following numbers mean in the context of US political history? (Note - order matters)

51.93
9.27
14.77
16.43
19.99
21.88
21.70
18.62
61.78 (and counting)

Massively updated version of:

Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

Now available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...

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Our Luther vs Erasmus paper is now published in ‪Social Forces 🎉

"Competing social influence in contested diffusion: contention and the spread of the early Reformation" academic.oup.com/sf/article/d...

with @jaredcrubin.com Yuan Hsiao, Steve Pfaff
Competing social influence in contested diffusion: contention and the spread of the early reformation1
Abstract. The spread of radical institutional change does not often result from one-sided pro-innovation influence; countervailing influence networks in su
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The Turkish translation of How the World Became Rich is now available!

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The 1st paper in a sociology journal I read ca. 20 years ago was Delacroix & Nielsen (2001) in Social Forces 👉 doi.org/10.1353/sof....

Today, our paper (with @jaredcrubin.com, Yuan Hsiao and Steve Pfaff) on Erasmus vs Luther was accepted in Social Forces 🎉 🥂 😇
Just a reminder, the awards deadline is APRIL 15th.

Please send in those nominations!

Especially if you have a student whose dissertation is on ANY aspect of institutions or orgs (econ, polisci, law, management etc)

One more excuse to go to Sydney!

www.sioe.org/news/2025-si...

I rarely have work that has direct and clear implications for the present, but this new working paper may be just that

I conceptualize how *ideology* affects political legitimacy. I focus on historical examples, but the application to the present is clear

digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...

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What caused the Global Islamic Revival?

My new paper evaluates each of the contending theories, explores interconnections, and presents a new theory - “The Prestige-Piety Feedback Loop”.

Critique is always welcome.

drive.google.com/file/d/1lnlK...

Deadline is TODAY for our graduate student workshop!

Graduate students working at the intersection of religion and the social sciences: come join us in Southern California in May!

For more details, visit asrec.org