About Me

I am an Assistant Professor and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), part of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG).

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

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Interests
  • Long-run Economic Growth
  • Human Capital Formation
  • Knowledge Transmission
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Historical Data Analysis
Education

  • PhD in Economic History

    London School of Economics

  • MSc Economic History (Research)

    London School of Economics

  • BA Philosophy & Economics

    University Bayreuth

Latest Working Papers
Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England
Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England

This paper studies how the expansion of schooling contributed to England’s Industrial Revolution by increasing upper-tail human capital and entry into skill-intensive apprenticeships.

02 Apr 2026

Did a feedback mechanism between propositional and prescriptive knowledge create modern growth?
Did a feedback mechanism between propositional and prescriptive knowledge create modern growth?

This paper quantitatively tests Joel Mokyr’s feedback loop hypothesis using historical text data.

19 Dec 2025

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

This paper studies teacher-directed scientific change during the Scientific Revolution. It shows that teachers at seventeenth century Oxford and Cambridge shaped students’ direction of research.

03 Mar 2025

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Technology and the age of sail
Age of Sail

Technology and the age of sail

Picture — The view from the rigging from the replica of the Götheborg For some reflections on technology, skills, and the age of sail after my voyage on the Götheborg as part of the crew, take a look at this Twitter thread: “Lately I was part of the crew of the Götheborg sailing from London to Bremerhaven. The Götheborg is a replica of a 1735 Swedish East Indiaman. It was a wonderful experience with the best of people. Based on my experience here are some thought pieces on economic history 🧵 [1/18] pic.twitter.com/AB53cpr6Eh — Julius Koschnick (@JuliusKoschnick) August 24, 2022 ” I am further glad that there is an active interest in maritime history within our field of economic history. Please find a small collection of publications on maritime economic history: North, D. (1958). Ocean freight rates and economic development 1730-1913. The Journal of Economic History, 18(4), 537-555. Harley, C. K. (1971). The shift from sailing ships to steamships, 1850–1890: a study in technological change and its diffusion. In Essays on a mature economy: Britain after 1840 (pp. 215-237). Routledge. Pascali, L. (2017). The wind of change: Maritime technology, trade, and economic development. American Economic Review, 107(9), 2821-2854. Kelly, M., & Ó Gráda, C. (2019). Speed under sail during the early industrial revolution (c. 1750–1830). The Economic History Review, 72(2), 459-480. Arteaga, F., Desierto, D., & Koyama, M. (2024). Shipwrecked by rents. Journal of Development Economics, 168, 103240. Miotto, M., & Pascali, L. (2025). Solving the longitude puzzle: A story of clocks, ships and cities. Journal of International Economics, 155, 104067. Beyond that, in my humble opinion, these two classics cannot miss in such a list: Rodger, N. A. M. (1999). The safeguard of the sea: A naval history of Britain, 660–1649 (Vol. 1). W. W. Norton. Rodger, N. A. M. (2005). The command of the ocean: A naval history of Britain, 1649–1815 (Vol. 2). W. W. Norton. The list is unauthorative and just intended as a simple help for anyone interested in maritime history. Should I have missed a (your) publication, please send me an email and I will be most happy to add it to the list.

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Experience

  1. Assistant Professor

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

  2. Visiting Scholar

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

Education

  1. PhD in Economic History

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

  2. MSc Economic History (Research)

    London School of Economics

  3. BA Philosophy & Economics

    University Bayreuth

Skills

NLP

Working with transformer models, model training, fine-tuning of large models, building economic indicators based on text data

Python

Data analysis, natural language processing

R

Data analysis, simulations, regression analysis

Stata

Regression analysis

ArcGIS

Spatial analysis

Contact

Email: juko@sam.sdu.dk

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