Julius Koschnick

Assistant Professor

University of Southern Denmark, Department of Economics

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), part of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and of the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) there. I earned my PhD in Economic History at the London School of Economics supervised by Max Schulze and Jeremiah Dittmar.

My research interests include long-run growth, human capital formation, knowledge transmission, and natural language processing.

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Julius Koschnick

September, 2023

Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution

This paper studies teacher-directed scientific change for one of the largest changes in the direction of research, the Scientific Revolution. Specifically, the paper shows that teachers at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge during the seventeenth century succesfully managed to influence their students’ direction of research.

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Francesco Cinnirella, Erik Hornung, Julius Koschnick (2022). Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge.

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Projects

Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution

An empirical investigation of how knowledge transmission between teachers and students shaped the direction of research at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge during the Scientific Revolution

Attracting science

What shaped the mobility of British scientists during the time of the Industrial Revolution?

Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge

(with Erik Hornung and Francesco Cinnirella) Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas.

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Assistant Professor

University of Southern Denmark

August 2024 – Present Odense, Denmark

At the Department of Economics, part of the Danish Institute of Advanced Study (DIAS) and of the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG)

PhD in Economic History

London School of Economics

September 2019 – April 2024 London, UK

Thesis title: On the Shoulders of Science - Early Science as a Driver of Innovation During the Early Industrial Revolution

Supervisors: Prof. Max-Stephan Schulze and Dr. Jeremiah Dittmar

Visiting scholar

Northwestern University

September 2022 – December 2022 Evanston, IL, USA

Visiting scholar at the Department of Economics, hosted by Prof. Joel Mokyr

MSc Economic History (Research)

London School of Economics

September 2018 – September 2019 London, UK

BA Philosophy & Economics

University Bayreuth

October 2013 – September 2017 Bayreuth, Germany

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Skills

Python

Data analysis, natural language processing

Data analysis, simulations, regression analysis

Stata

Regression analysis

ArcGIS

Spatial analysis

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juko@sam.sdu.dk
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