Unser #Jahresbericht ist da! 2024 war geprägt von Stagnation, Krisen und Konflikten. Wir am #ZEW haben diese Entwicklungen mit Analysen begleitet und Orientierung geboten. Daher widmen wir unseren Jahresbericht dem Thema KRAFT. Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre! www.zew.de/WS372/?twt=1

„Eine stärkere #Mindestlohnerhöhung wäre in der Boomphase wahrscheinlich kein Problem. Allerdings ist das in der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage eventuell gefährlich“, kommentiert #ZEW-Ökonom @eduardbruell.bsky.social die laufende Debatte (ab Min. 6:00). www.ardmediathek.de/video/plusmi...

Git was 20 years old this week. Written by the creator of Linux as a tool to streamline his workflow - it shows the importance of making tools. If you have a better way of doing something, write and share it. It's possible that few others understand the problem, let alone have the solution you do!

Paste your abstract. Get semantically similar economic papers—instantly. No keyword tweaking, no guessing jargon. This is my new RePEc semantic search engine in action. Try it now → econpapers.eduard-bruell.de #EconSky #RePEc

New paper out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We study (using DiD) effects of 1968 Poor People's Campaign on election outcomes. Overall these peaceful protests had no effects on elections (contrasting prior civil rights era findings) but they hurt Ds in the South and helped them in the West.

🚭 Publication alert! Are smoking bans effective in shaping smoking behavior? New paper w/ @paulapereda.bsky.social in the Journal of Development Economics explores Brazil’s experience with smoke-free policies, uncovering key mechanisms. doi.org/10.1016/j.jd... #Econsky #PublicHealth #Brazil 🧵 1/8

relatedly, there's a nice paper showing that when a company changes from a CEO without a business degree to a new CEO with a business degree, sales stay the same but wages fall economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

Good lesson:

Holy crap this sucks “According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”

Oh come on it can’t be that big of a drop in WHOA.

The Kiel Institute is on fire – they modelled the impact of Trump’s trade war. Check out the chart. The numbers come with the usual uncertainty, but they give a good sense of the eye-popping inflation the US is now facing. Via @davideoneglia.bsky.social Paper here: www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/kiel-...

💻 Die Mehrheit der Beschäftigten nutzt #KI – allerdings überwiegend informell. Für was sie genutzt wird und welche Auswirkungen das hat, zeigt die Studie von u.a. den #ZEW-Ökonomen @schlenkeroli.bsky.social und @eduardbruell.bsky.social. www.zew.de/PM9398/?twt=1

This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden

EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome! #EconSky 📉📈

Since the release of Claude Code a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimenting with using the tool to develop R packages. Some notes on what that's been like on my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-03...

You can write a whole econometrics textbook with this meme

🚀 Call for Papers – Deadline Near! 🚀 TASKS VII Conference on AI & Work on Sept 11-12, 2025 @liser.lu in Luxembourg! 📌 Deadline: March 1, 2025 🎤 Keynotes: David Autor (MIT), Lindsey Raymond (Harvard), Thijs Bol (Amsterdam) 📩 Submit: [email protected] 🔗 More info: www.liser.lu/Call-for-Pap...

Wie gut war unsere zweistimme.org Vorhersage der Bundestagswahl 2025? Zweitstimme: 0.78 Prozentpunkte im Mittel daneben. Erststimme: 270/299 Wahlkreise korrekt vorhergesagt. Unseren Blog-Post dazu: zweitstimme.org/posts/blog/e...

For the full study www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Feb 11, 1823 William Playfair died in London, England 🇬🇧 He created The Big Bang in data graphics -- 1786: Invented the bar chart, line graphs of economic data 1801: Invented the pie chart, and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations

Sigh. #censusdata

Taking being an #RStats nerd to the next level... (AKA when generative art 🎨 makes it out of the laptop and into the kitchen! ☕) #Rtistry #ggplot2

A pile of research shows that huge SUVs/pickups are a menace to public health. Oversized cars pulverize smaller ones in a crash, while their height enlarges blind spots and leads to pedestrians being struck in their head or torso rather than their legs. (US ped deaths recently hit a 40-year high.)

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. Made with Plot, based on a great tutorial by Fil: observablehq.com/@jo... Data from TerraClimate (1958-present). #cartography #maps #mapping #climate #dataviz #SciArt

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

What happens when you combine the best open-source HTR model (Qwen 2 VL) with the best open-source zero-shot classification NER model (Knowledgator's fine-tune for Gliner)? Caracal. Try it now on Hugging Face : lnkd.in/e5bUZm-w #CulturalHeritage #DigitalHumanities #MachineLearning #HTR #NER

I love the wild randomness of public domain day. This is still not a pipe but you can reproduce it like crazy now.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 24, 1802 André Michel Guerry born in Tours, France 🇫🇷 1833: The first comprehensive analysis of data on "moral statistics'' (crimes, suicide, literacy, etc.) shown on comparative thematic unclassed choropleth maps

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 1️⃣8️⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: The mere threat of competition can improve the service quality of general practitioners. ⚕️ Read this summary of a new study by @eduardbruell.bsky.social, @almostsurely.bsky.social, and @schlenkeroli.bsky.social: newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

tidyllm 0.3.0 is now on CRAN. This release introduces an updated more intuititve interface, introduces video and audio support as well as search grounding through new providers like Gemini and Perplexity and adds many small usability improvements. #rstats

Reshape in Stata without looking at the help file

Boomers: password Gen X: pAs$w0rd Millennials: 🎶 happy birthday to me 🎶 www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Romania's top court annulled the result of the first round of the country's presidential election, adding that the entire election process would have to be rerun. The second round had been due to be held on Sunday reut.rs/4g78O1V

🎓 Huge congratulations to my PhD student @katiagallegost.bsky.social on her outstanding PhD defense at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social! A big thank you to Jan Stuhler for serving as her second supervisor. No PhD in Innsbruck is complete without proving your skiing skills—Katia aced that test too! 🎿🏔️

Another look at the "law of dispersion": In the German city of Bremen, the turnout rates of different neighbourhoods in Bundestag elections have diverged quite dramatically over the past four decades.

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)

South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.

Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky

Great new evidence on heat pumps !

Railroad network expansion in Germany increased creation of new ideas and formed specialized knowledge clusters. New ideas were formed by combining ideas from cities connected by railroad. But denser network meant that new ideas diffused less on average. www.caterinachiopris.com/_files/ugd/b...

Ha ha ha! I finally got to see it! (Photos at the end)