Meredith M. Paker
@mmpaker.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Grinnell College • PhD at Oxford• 🇬🇧 economic history, labor econ • views my own. www.meredithpaker.com
I’m excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January I’ll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where I’ll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls College.
Meredith Paker appointed as Associate Professor in Economic and Social History
www.history.ox.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I’m excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January I’ll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where I’ll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls College.
Our working paper is out!
Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data… so … ta dah… @mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !
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June 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Our working paper is out!
Reposted by Meredith M. Paker
just attended a presentation of this paper in Lund -- excellent stuff! very exciting about new methods to grapple with problems with scarce data in economic history -- here, applied to wages in England since the 1200s.
thank you @mmpaker.bsky.social !
thank you @mmpaker.bsky.social !
Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history
Next week 12th March @mmpaker.bsky.social will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev… about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there
March 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
just attended a presentation of this paper in Lund -- excellent stuff! very exciting about new methods to grapple with problems with scarce data in economic history -- here, applied to wages in England since the 1200s.
thank you @mmpaker.bsky.social !
thank you @mmpaker.bsky.social !
Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history
Next week 12th March @mmpaker.bsky.social will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev… about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there
https://nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
March 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history
Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!
Grinnell was delighted to host a liberal arts economic history conference this weekend organized by @mmpaker.bsky.social
and colleagues. Scholars from liberal arts colleagues across the US came to present their research and connect on new methods and teaching in liberal arts environments!
and colleagues. Scholars from liberal arts colleagues across the US came to present their research and connect on new methods and teaching in liberal arts environments!
March 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!
The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=462...
November 29, 2023 at 6:57 PM
The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=462...
Reposted by Meredith M. Paker
Unsure how this stuff flies in the bluesky, but obsessed as I am with monopsony in early modern labour markets, delighted to say that the important collaboration w @phwallis and @mmpaker has yielded doi.org/10.1017/S002... a paper that shows “jobs have rents” before industrialisation 
November 15, 2023 at 6:23 PM
Unsure how this stuff flies in the bluesky, but obsessed as I am with monopsony in early modern labour markets, delighted to say that the important collaboration w @phwallis and @mmpaker has yielded doi.org/10.1017/S002... a paper that shows “jobs have rents” before industrialisation 
Grinnell is hiring two tenure-track faculty this year (at any level) in macroeconomics, broadly construed. Reach out if you want to learn more about our generous research support, amazing undergrads, and lovely colleagues! #EconSky 📉📈 www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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September 25, 2023 at 9:37 PM
Grinnell is hiring two tenure-track faculty this year (at any level) in macroeconomics, broadly construed. Reach out if you want to learn more about our generous research support, amazing undergrads, and lovely colleagues! #EconSky 📉📈 www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
This website looks exactly like Twitter, hi!
September 23, 2023 at 5:49 PM
This website looks exactly like Twitter, hi!