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Catia Batista
6 months ago
New paper out in
@science.org
! “Brain drain” or “brain gain”? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries
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is openai running the model's in javascript in my browser? otherwise I cannot understand how the interface can be this laggy
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
8 months ago
i am genuinely curious to see if the asteroid that is about to hit the american economy can actually separate trump from his base
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Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
8 months ago
Researcher
@meyting.bsky.social
has been published in Nature!🎉 His study with
@minxiesci.bsky.social
, Felix Michalik,
@hesss.org
, Seunghun Chung &
@pascalge.bsky.social
finds a 20% lower dementia risk after shingles vaccination using economic methods. 👉
safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/...
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Markus Eyting
8 months ago
Our paper on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia is now out in Nature! 🎉 Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung,
@pascalge.bsky.social
and especially Min Xie (
@minxiesci.bsky.social
) & Simon Heß (
@hesss.org
) making the analysis so much fun!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x
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Krsto Lazarević
8 months ago
Die deutsche Innenministerin wollte nach Damaskus reisen, um Abschiebungen nach Syrien zu verhandeln – weil das Land ja angeblich sicher genug sei. Die Reise fiel aus. Grund: *checks notes* Sicherheitsbedenken.
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Syrien: Faeser sagt Reise wegen Terrorwarnung ab
Bundesinnenministerin Faeser hat ihre geplante Reise nach Syrien abgesagt. Es gebe Hinweise "auf eine terroristische Bedrohung".
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/faeser-syrien-reise-absage-terroristische-bedrohung-100.html
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Klaas Müller
8 months ago
Schon Arendt wusste: ohne Staatsangehörigkeit verliert der Mensch seinen "Platz in der Welt." Gerdes zu den gefährlichen deutschen Tendenzen in Richtung Loyalitätsstaatsbürgerschaft.
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Verfassungsblog
8 months ago
Könnten „Terrorunterstützer, Antisemiten und Extremisten" bald die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit verlieren? Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
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Lavinia Kinne
9 months ago
Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉
@science.org
We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡 Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and
@woessmann.bsky.social
! Details ⤵️
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
9 months ago
[PA system stutters alive] attention moderates. this is your final warning. anti-trans backlash is in fact backlash against gender nonconformity in general, including homosexuality, and it seeks to roll back all related forms of progress. this is your final warning, places please
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Sorry to ask, but was IZA affiliation only merit-based or mostly network-based?
9 months ago
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Tal Gross
9 months ago
It's midterm season. If you're giving a paper exam, consider using this LaTeX shell to write the exam. It adds up all of the points for you and it compiles a solution booklet for you, too.
github.com/talgross-bu/...
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GitHub - talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams: A template to create paper exams with LaTeX
A template to create paper exams with LaTeX. Contribute to talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams
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Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen
9 months ago
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇
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Zoe Gardner
9 months ago
Good morning to this man, and this man only
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Bodies of migrants recovered in Libya, authorities say
It comes just days after another mass grave with 19 bodies was found on a farm nearby.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzyg27kg1o
9 months ago
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PhD positions in Vienna for research-minded students. 5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
10 months ago
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Wenn Merz Politik macht, die nur mit der AfD Mehrheiten hat, ist dann auch völlig egal ob die AfD dadurch schrumpft oder nicht.
10 months ago
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Al Roth
10 months ago
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. "Then they came for the trade unionists … "Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." —Martin Niemöller
#econsky
#academicsky
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Presidential memo shuts down all government grants (now including NSF)
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/presidential-memo-shuts-down-all.html?m=1
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Nico Ajzenman
10 months ago
Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on
#EconTwitter
" with Pedro Sant'Anna and
@brunoferman.bsky.social
is now forthcoming in the 😀😀 American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals ) 😀😀
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
This paper experimentally documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. We created fictitious human-like bot acc
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4323614
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DeepSeek is a much better writing assistant than GPT currently is.
10 months ago
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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE
10 months ago
An agile EU would offer grants to US-based academics.
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I'm in the UK since 3 weeks and haven't seen a single pound of cash. Grüße gehen raus nach Österreich und Deutschland.
10 months ago
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Elif Oezmen
11 months ago
Point of no return. Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird.
search.app/kscX74bMF3Qj...
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Merz gibt deutliche Botschaft: „Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft“
Merz zeigt sich unzufrieden mit den Einbürgerungsrichtlinien der Ampel. Bei einem Sieg bei der Bundestagswahl hat der CDU-Chef vor, einiges grundlegend zu verändern.
https://search.app/kscX74bMF3QjVLWY8
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can someone with a better understanding of Austrian politics tell me if it's already time to look for jobs abroad?
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10 months ago
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I'm visiting Oxford for the next 2 months. If you're around, let's meet!
10 months ago
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when DHL sends the "your delivery will arrive between x and y" they are estimating a 5% confidence interval.
11 months ago
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Dany Jaimovich
11 months ago
Next year, the German Development Economics Conference (GDE) will take place in Frankfurt, my former hometown. I hope to see you there with a beer in your hands!
@andregroeger.bsky.social
@hesss.org
@fuchsa.bsky.social
@cannoncloud.bsky.social
@loribeaman.bsky.social
@kczura.bsky.social
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(((Tendar)))
11 months ago
Everywhere people celebrate, even in the Christian neighborhoods. This is Sahnaya, Damascus.
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Anna Gifty
about 1 year ago
Hi everyone! Anna, here. I'm known as @itsafronomics on all platforms and I'm currently trying to survive my
#phd
in policy and economics at Harvard. I also write for the public on topics related to
#race
,
#gender
, and the
#economy
. I hope to connect with y'all soon!
#econsky
#academia
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Lindsey Macmillan
about 1 year ago
Excited to be at WU Vienna today to talk about new
@nuffieldfound.bsky.social
funded work on "Inequalities in applications and offers to graduate recruitment programmes" using exciting new recruitment data from a number of employers
@franziskadbacher.bsky.social
www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outr...
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WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar
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If I had another paper ready in time I would go. You should all submit to this excellent conference!
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Stefano Fiorin
about 1 year ago
Call for papers for the 4th Workshop on Networks and Development, Naples, 22-23 May 2025, keynotes by Emily Breza (Harvard University) and Yves Zenou (Monash University). Apply before January 30th 2025. Details 👇 Please spread the word!
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actual footage of me proctoring an exam
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about 1 year ago
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I'm in a bad place right now... not mentally, I just went on X to check something
about 1 year ago
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this is fun! (bluesky)
about 1 year ago
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BlueArk Global
about 1 year ago
With BlueArk, you can migrate your tweets from X/Twitter to Bluesky quickly, securely and with the original date of each post. We preserve your stories, your media and your most relevant content on a new platform, without losing anything along the way. 🪽
blueark.app/en-us/
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How does one decide whether to cancel a project that has a draft and 5 years of work put in? I mean if one is worried that it will lead nowhere?
about 1 year ago
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David McKenzie
about 1 year ago
Our annual "blog your job market paper" call for PhD students in development economics is now open, with submissions due November 6.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Blog your job market paper 2024: submissions now open
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/blog-your-job-market-paper-2024--submissions-now-open
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Journal Of Interesting Research
about 2 years ago
I think we have a crisis
#EconSky
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I updated my latex preamble. follow me for more productivity hacks.
about 1 year ago
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Doctor Jonathan Pixelfont, MD
about 1 year ago
Guys, get the fuck off Twitter.
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Cannon "like boom" Cloud
about 1 year ago
Part 2
go.bsky.app/CkasaUk
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Cannon "like boom" Cloud
about 1 year ago
A somewhat random list of dev econ people. Please let me know if you would like to be added, or what people I'm missing. I'll make a second list once this is full.
go.bsky.app/7dWAEXe
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Postdoc in Development Economics at Uni of Frankfurt with Matthias Schündeln. I had that job and can wholeheartedly recommend all aspects of it.
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Johannes Kasinger
about 2 years ago
Just out in @J_Ind_Econ (joint with @AljoschaJ): We explore when firms, facing rational inattentive consumers, optimally obfuscate prices, e.g. by hiding fees or choosing complex add-on pricing structures.
doi.org/10.1111/joie...
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Emma Rackstraw
about 2 years ago
(1/many)
#EconSky
My job market paper investigates what police propaganda and its effects can teach us about the institution of policing.
t.co/5bzHCTdmR2
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When Reality TV Creates Reality: How “Copaganda” Affects Police, Communities, and Viewers
Television shows with police officer protagonists are ubiquitous on American television. Both fictional shows and reality shows portray a world where criminals
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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆
about 2 years ago
No one MEANS no one
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Luisa Wallossek
about 2 years ago
Why on earth is ctrl + F in outlook forward and not find???
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VoxDev
about 2 years ago
🆕 Policymaking, trust, and the demand for public services. Today on VoxDev, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta, Dijana Zejcirovic & Fernando Fernández Bazán outline evidence from a nationwide family planning programme in
#Peru
:
voxdev.org/topic/instit...
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Policymaking, trust, and the demand for public services
There is growing concern that citizens around the world have declining trust in institutions such as public health agencies, private corporations, scientists, or vaccine manufacturers. This column
https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/policymaking-trust-and-demand-public-services
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I'll be joining WU next spring, too. Looking forward to having great colleagues there, including these 6 new ones 🥳
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