How to deal with machine learning bias in economic history
This paper provides an overview over ML tools in economic history and offers ways of how to address bias from ML predictions
26 Jun 2026
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?
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
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