Casper W. Hansen
@casperworm.bsky.social
Econ prof UCPH, econ hist and growth
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
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Come work with us!
🚀 We’re hiring!
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
Doctoral Researcher (2 positions) in Health Economics
The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is seeking, for the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the Essen campus, a
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Come work with us!
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8-hour workday led to + employment in Denmark, especially among unskilled & female workers. Earnings fell in provincial towns but less in Copenhagen, where union membership was higher & wages rose to offset shorter hours.
M Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, C Worm Hansen
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#EconSky
M Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, C Worm Hansen
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#EconSky
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
8-hour workday led to + employment in Denmark, especially among unskilled & female workers. Earnings fell in provincial towns but less in Copenhagen, where union membership was higher & wages rose to offset shorter hours.
M Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, C Worm Hansen
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
M Fredagsvik Gunnesmo, C Worm Hansen
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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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.
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.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
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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November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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.
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.
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super happy that @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and I have been awarded a grant from the Swedish Research Council! It's a three year project called "Top incomes, inequality and economic change: Sweden, 1911–1950" -- the abstract is in the image. I think that this can lead to some interesting research! 🤓
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
super happy that @jakobmolinder.bsky.social and I have been awarded a grant from the Swedish Research Council! It's a three year project called "Top incomes, inequality and economic change: Sweden, 1911–1950" -- the abstract is in the image. I think that this can lead to some interesting research! 🤓
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Great talk by Marius Fredagsvik Gunnesmo at Lund EKH’s “Makromackan” seminar today! About the labour market effects of the 8 hour working day reform in Denmark in 1919. Read the WP here:
cepr.org/publications...
cepr.org/publications...
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Great talk by Marius Fredagsvik Gunnesmo at Lund EKH’s “Makromackan” seminar today! About the labour market effects of the 8 hour working day reform in Denmark in 1919. Read the WP here:
cepr.org/publications...
cepr.org/publications...
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I usually don’t share personal things, but this one is different, so I’ll make an exception: Today I got tenure. I’m very happy and relieved at the same time, and grateful to those who supported me along the way.
October 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I usually don’t share personal things, but this one is different, so I’ll make an exception: Today I got tenure. I’m very happy and relieved at the same time, and grateful to those who supported me along the way.
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Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇
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Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print
@theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨
In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->
@theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨
In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->
July 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print
@theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨
In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->
@theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨
In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->
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📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
May 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
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🚨 We're hiring (again)! @sdueconhist.bsky.social is looking for both a Predoc and a Postdoc (3-yr fixed-term AP) to join our growing team.
Predoc:
👉 Apply by May 16 here: bit.ly/hedg-predoc
Postdoc / Assistant Professor
👉 Apply for by May 22 here: bit.ly/hedg-ap
#EconSky #EconRA
Predoc:
👉 Apply by May 16 here: bit.ly/hedg-predoc
Postdoc / Assistant Professor
👉 Apply for by May 22 here: bit.ly/hedg-ap
#EconSky #EconRA
May 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
🚨 We're hiring (again)! @sdueconhist.bsky.social is looking for both a Predoc and a Postdoc (3-yr fixed-term AP) to join our growing team.
Predoc:
👉 Apply by May 16 here: bit.ly/hedg-predoc
Postdoc / Assistant Professor
👉 Apply for by May 22 here: bit.ly/hedg-ap
#EconSky #EconRA
Predoc:
👉 Apply by May 16 here: bit.ly/hedg-predoc
Postdoc / Assistant Professor
👉 Apply for by May 22 here: bit.ly/hedg-ap
#EconSky #EconRA
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Both positions are part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded project. The Predoc will also collaborate with Volha Lazuka and support the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) @sdueconhist.bsky.social .
Come join our dynamic and talented group at SDU! 🧠📈
Come join our dynamic and talented group at SDU! 🧠📈
May 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Both positions are part of my @carlsbergfondet.dk funded project. The Predoc will also collaborate with Volha Lazuka and support the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) @sdueconhist.bsky.social .
Come join our dynamic and talented group at SDU! 🧠📈
Come join our dynamic and talented group at SDU! 🧠📈
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Call for Applications: DAAD Guest Professorship in Health Economics Spend winter term 2025/26 at CINCH in Essen – collaborate, teach, and enjoy a vibrant research environment.
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social
#healtheconomics
#econsky
#teachecon
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social
#healtheconomics
#econsky
#teachecon
April 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Call for Applications: DAAD Guest Professorship in Health Economics Spend winter term 2025/26 at CINCH in Essen – collaborate, teach, and enjoy a vibrant research environment.
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social
#healtheconomics
#econsky
#teachecon
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social
#healtheconomics
#econsky
#teachecon
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"Want to understand how local and national politics intertwine to shape old-age pension systems?
Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies?
Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?
Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies?
Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?
November 19, 2024 at 11:50 AM
"Want to understand how local and national politics intertwine to shape old-age pension systems?
Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies?
Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?
Curious about how class and party preferences influence the design of pension policies?
Interested in how institutionalized parties leverage local politics to set the national agenda?
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🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨
1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas
2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth
www.nber.org/papers/w33542
@nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social
1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas
2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth
www.nber.org/papers/w33542
@nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨
1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas
2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth
www.nber.org/papers/w33542
@nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social
1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas
2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth
www.nber.org/papers/w33542
@nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social
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after years in the making (/w @anthonywray.bsky.social) it's finally out in JHR: jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/1.... We show long-run (education, disability, and occupation) and intergenerational (father-son) effects of lower health capital in childhood using sibling-FE design and some cool data.
Lifetime and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health
Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this question using inpatient hospital records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed effects estimates indic...
jhr.uwpress.org
January 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
after years in the making (/w @anthonywray.bsky.social) it's finally out in JHR: jhr.uwpress.org/content/60/1.... We show long-run (education, disability, and occupation) and intergenerational (father-son) effects of lower health capital in childhood using sibling-FE design and some cool data.
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What is an important fact about the world that you wish more people would know?
Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life.
And here is my article about it.
ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...
Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life.
And here is my article about it.
ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...
Many of us can save a child’s life, if we rely on the best data
There are many ways to improve the world, but their cost-effectiveness varies immensely. You can achieve a lot more if you rely on the best data on where to donate.
ourworldindata.org
December 24, 2024 at 5:30 PM
What is an important fact about the world that you wish more people would know?
Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life.
And here is my article about it.
ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...
Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life.
And here is my article about it.
ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...