Our paper is now published at QJE ... it is open access!!!
academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
Course materials for my European Economic History course, which I will be teaching in January 2026
Syllabus: www.jaredcrubin.com/teaching/eur...
Term paper assignment (which I have tried to AI-proof, but 🤷): www.jaredcrubin.com/teaching/eur...
Slides: www.jaredcrubin.com/teaching/eur...
Stories like this pop up often here. My take: this happens when the author is not making it clear what the advancement is relative to their own past work
It’s not reviewers being stupid. At best it’s bad writing. At worst it’s authors obfuscating to make the contribution seem bigger than it is
Annual update: Economics and Political Science of Religion Articles Published in Top Journals, 2000-present
Introducing my new paper with Clemence Tricaud. US election outcomes (margins of victory in the House, Senate and Electoral College), have become closer in recent decades, without a tightening of winning margins at the constituency level. We explain why. www.nber.org/papers/w34566
The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
New working paper!
“On the Origins of Modern East Asia: Knowledge and the Economic Transformation of Japan and China in the Late 19th Century”
with Debin Ma and Weiwen Yin
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
Thanks!!!
Jared Rubin
Jared Rubin
CHOAM VP of Community Impact
Jared Rubin
Jared Rubin
We trace the evolution of the language of science, religion, and political economy in the centuries leading to the British Industrial Revolution. Using textual analysis of 264,443 works printed in Eng...
**NEW WORKING PAPER**
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
w/ Ali Almelhem, Murat Iyigun & Austin Kennedy
Available at: docs.iza.org/dp16674.pdf
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