Leander Heldring
@LeanderHeldring
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Economics Prof. @KelloggSchool. Economic Growth, History, Politics with a stipple of machine learning 📈
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2021
James Robinson (@HarrisPolicy) and I are hiring one or more predocs starting Summer '25. Come work with us on political economy, economic history, and AI. Two year predoc preferred, one year possible. Link: @predoc_org
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Scien…
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@pseudoerasmus @DrugGovoruna @whyvert No they pretty much got rid of it - like English - but it’s reconstructed like in English! Just - like you said - the ‘must’ part doesn’t exist in English anymore
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RT @jjopperman: How A River Changing Course Led People To Form The First Governments. Research in @AEAjournals from Robert Allen, Mattia C.…
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RT @MelissaLDell: We've released a new dataset, Newswire 2.7M unique newswires reproduced 32M+ times over a century…
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🚨Job alert🚨@edoardoteso and I are looking for a predoc, for 1 or 2 years, to start immediately. Work with us on political economy, economic history, and machine learning. Apply here: @predoc_org
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@crd37 @_alice_evans The mode of succession appears to have changed with the Muslim conquest, but may have changed too over time in a way that led to our effects. But note that Baghdad itself flourishes. It's the countryside that needs forward looking investment, and which collapses
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RT @_alice_evans: What led to Iraq’s 9thC collapse? Superb paper by Bob Allen & @LeanderHeldring Rulers struggled for succession, & neede…
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@crd37 @_alice_evans In part it's the mode of succession - a tournament (to the death) among the son's of the ruler. Win or be killed does not work well for forward looking infrastructure maintenance/investment.
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@isadesisto Some self-promotion: we made a prototyping tool for OCR work like this: perhaps it’s useful to your case; it allows page splitting and some quality preprocessing
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@VenturiniMiri You can use our utility/raw google vision to get bounding box images, and then use
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