Kris Inwood

@kris-inwood.bsky.social

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Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Editing Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev & directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com. .. more

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Mike Bechthold 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @mike-bechthold.bsky.social · 19h

This Saturday, the Guelph Museums is hosting a Liberation and Remembrance Symposium to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the War and the liberation of Europe.

I'm speaking on the RCAF and other speakers include Roger Sarty, Geoff Hayes, and Alex Souchen.

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Liberation and Remembrance Symposium - Guelph Museums

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Europe. Eight decades later we reflect on Canada’s contributions to the war effort,…

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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 19h

With a new measure to understand causes of maternal mortality, historical demographer George Alter finds infectious disease & nutrition improvements likely impacted falling maternal mortality more than shifting obstetrical practices. Just out in Population Studies: psc.isr.umich.edu/news/new-ins...

New Insights on Historic Causes of Maternal Deaths

In historical populations, female death rates usually exceeded male death rates during the reproductive ages. The most obvious cause of this difference is deaths resulting from childbirth. Parish regi...

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Micah True @micahtrue.bsky.social · 20h

I'm going to be very busy this week talking about my new book, The Jesuit Relations: A Biography (published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social). Here are two opportunities to listen in online (two distinct talks! Come to one or both!):

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 1d

Fahey, O'Hanlon & Robertson use a wide variety of sources to narrate the industrialization of two Melbourne suburbs Cremorne & South Richmond, a transformation of the local urban environment & changes in the economic & social structures experienced by the working class. New in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!

Becoming industrial: Building, rebuilding and reinventing Cremorne and South Richmond, c1885–1930

This article examines the economic, social, and morphological changes associated with the arrival, consolidation, and expansion of two major manufacturing complexes in inner Melbourne from the 1880s ...

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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 2d

For this week's @theobserveruk.bsky.social I've written about one of my favourite topics: the productivity of the public sector, how it's measured, why it tends to grow less quickly than productivity in the private sector, and what it means for policy.

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 2d

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study.
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The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study

A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 3d

On Sunday, Nov. 16, @marthaolney.bsky.social celebrates the release of “Inflation," a timely guide to one of today’s most pressing economic challenges. Join her at Book Passage to explore what we can do about its effects.

Martha Olney - Inflation (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) (Corte Madera Store)

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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 4d

Canada announces new incentives for international recruitment of master’s and PhD students

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Canada announces new incentives for international recruitment of master’s and PhD students

On the heels of this week's announcement of a significant reduction in Canada's foreign enrolment cap, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has issued additional guidance for students

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 5d

Hot off the press! Manufacturing & the Australian City, five articles examining the transformative role of manufacturing in the evolution of Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide with a rich introduction by the editors Frost, O'Hanlon & Shanahan. A special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!

Special Issue: Manufacturing and the Australian City: Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review: Vol 65, No 3

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 5d

A big book!
Drawing a line from 19th century educational movements to R.G. Collingwood’s re-enactment doctrine & on, Tyson Retz argues that empathy played a fundamental role in the foundation of the history discipline as well as influencing the evolution of hermeneutics & the philosophy of history.

Tyson Retz @tysonretz.bsky.social · 6d

Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:

1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense

2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2

Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.bsky.social · 5d

Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊

Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.

🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...

Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.

Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE. The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 6d

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

London Lives

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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 6d

If you work with or rely on academic journals - don't miss this strange, funny, horrifying story about what happened when @carloschaccour.bsky.social published a paper on a malaria breakthrough in a prestigious journal – and AI came for the letters page. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

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Tyson Retz @tysonretz.bsky.social · 6d

Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

www.berghahnbooks.com

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Tim Newburn @timnewburn.bsky.social · 8d

The Mannheim Centre at the LSE is holding a PhD symposium in May '26. The details are here lse.ac.uk/social-polic... and I would encourage all interested PhD students to apply. Should be a great, great event

Mannheim Centre for Criminology | PhD Symposium 2026

The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium taking place 18-19 May 2026

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 8d

Shari Eli, Nicholas Li & Janki Shah use new complete count data to assess what can & cannot be learned about socio-economic status from the Canadian census 1871-1901. They analyze the non-reporting of earnings despite having an occupation & the characteristics of people at different earning levels.

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Sam Holley-Kline @sholleykline.bsky.social · 9d

PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico!

Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social!

For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978....

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Flyer for book, IN THE SHADOW OF EL TAJIN: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico.

"Immensely important.... Sam Holley-Kline reframes the archaeological site of El Tajín as a location of recent, rather than just ancient, Indigenous history. In the Shadow of El Tajín makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of the history of archaeology in Mexico and beyond, as well as to our understanding of Mexican political economy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -LISA PINLEY COVERT, author of San Miguel de Allende: Mexicans, Foreigners, and the Making of a World Heritage Site.

Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac residents of the region know well that the site's relative absence from discussions of global archaeology and heritage belies a century of wide-ranging labor, extractive industries, and commodity exchange.
In the Shadow of El Tajin tells the story of how a landscape of ancient mounds and ruins became an archaeological site, brings to light the network of actors who made it happen, and reveals the Indigenous histories silenced in the process. By drawing on the insights of Indigenous Totonac peoples who have lived and worked in El Tajín for more than a century, Sam Holley-Kline explores historical processes that made both the archaeological site and regional historical memory. In the Shadow of El Tajín decenters discussions of the state and tourism industry by focusing on the industries and workers who are integral to the functioning of the site but who have historically been overlooked by studies of the ancient past. Holley-Kline recovers local Indigenous histories in dialogue with broader trends in scholarship to demonstrate the rich recent past of El Tajín, a place better known for its ancient history.

SAVE 40% with code 6AF25 at nebraskapress.unl.edu

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10d

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 11d

Does anyone recognize this language?

Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 12d

It's definitely not Cherokee anyway. So clueless

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 11d

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

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Jørgen Modalsli @modals.li · 11d

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 12d

It's definitely not Cherokee anyway. So clueless

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 12d

what language is this?

Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 12d

Cherokee? Thinking Cherokee.

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Martha Olney @marthaolney.bsky.social · 12d

Are you listening to Jay Powell and wishing you knew what all of his words meant? I’ve got the book for you! Inflation by yours truly (MIT essential knowledge series, $20) walks you through a series of Fed statements (chap 6) after a good discussion of monetary policy (chap 5). Buy yours today!

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Mike Murphy @mjamurphy.bsky.social · 12d

Very nice paper by Chyn & Shenhav looking at the effects of pollution and other factors on birth weight using an event study on mothers who switched location. #EconSky

AEA Web - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy - 17(4):260 - Abstract

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 12d

Cherokee? Thinking Cherokee.

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Rachel Leah Childers @donskerclass.bsky.social · 13d

Updated Fall time for free weekly open office hours for anyone in the world with Econometrics questions.
Wednesdays 3:30-5:30PM Central European Time (US EDT 10:30/EST 9:30AM) or by appointment; sign up and drop by!
Details and signup at: donskerclass.github.io/OfficeHours....

Reposted by Kris Inwood, Maria Abreu

NBER @nber.org · 14d

Analysis of German elections shows female candidates underperform mainly because parties nominate them in less favorable districts, not due to voter bias or candidate traits, from Thomas Fujiwara, Hanno Hilbig, and Pia Raffler www.nber.org/papers/w34396

Reposted by Iikka Korhonen, Georg Weizsäcker

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 15d

The burden of war! Efraim Benmelech & Joao Monteiro survey the macroeconomic consequences of 115 conflicts in 145 countries over the past 75 years to show that war, especially civil war, leads to a collapse of investment, increased inflation and large & sustained declines in economic activity.

The Economic Consequences of War

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Kris Inwood, S. J. Holmes

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 15d

What was life really like before vaccines? The story of what happened to 8-year old George Williams in August 1852 gives us a glimpse.

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Here's what life before vaccines was really like

The morning of August 2nd 1852 promised a lovely summer’s day in London. But not for 8 year old George Williams.

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