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Gregory Clark Joining HEDG

Thanks to generous support from DNRF, the renowned economic historian Gregory Clark will be joining HEDG

Joint applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellowship positions

The Department of Economics at SDU is looking for excellent and highly motivated researchers to submit joint projects under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships action. If successful, the project will lead to a position at our university for two years as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow.

Paper noted on Marginal Revolution

Gregory Clark and his co-author Neil Cummins' paper on Hypergamy has been noted on Marginal Revolution and received some comments.

PNAS publication: The inheritance of social status: England, 1600 to 2022, by Gregory Clark

There is widespread belief across the social sciences in the ability of social interventions and social institutions to significantly influence rates of social mobility. In England, 1600 to 2022, we see considerable change in social institutions across time. Half the population was illiterate in 1,800, and not until 1,880 was compulsory primary education introduced. Progressively after this, educational provision and other social supports for poorer families expanded greatly. The paper shows, however, that these interventions did not change in any measurable way the strong familial persistence of social status across generations.