A primary school teacher and her nine-year-old son were among 11 people killed after a Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Kharkiv overnight on March 7. Russia keeps striking civilians. Ukraine keeps burying its people.

6 March 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Willem Philip van Naarden, was born in Amsterdam. In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- 🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

"I bibliotecari discriminano?" - articolo sulla rivista #Biblioteche Oggi Link: www.bibliotecheoggi.it/it/articolo/...

20 February 1936 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marika Kundler, was born in Kaposvar. In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

"Il valore degli orti urbani" - editoriale di oggi sul Corriere dell'Alto Adige

15 February 1924 | An Italian Jewish woman, Enrica Mieli, was born in Rome. In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz: 📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/ 🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8

You could live here too! A new Senior Lecturer/Reader position to teach in our new Master of Public Policy Programme. Come build something great with me in a beautiful place! Please repost. www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Please, SHARE: Open position for a #Researcher in the field of #Education Policy #Evaluation at FBK-IRVAPP - The Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies | Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social. #EconSky @academic LINK: irvapp.fbk.eu/news/detail/...

📣 We are hiring! We are looking for an early-career researcher in the field of education policy evaluation. 📅 Application deadline: 03/03/26 Further details: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

Best Paper #Prize in Public Policy Evaluation by FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social - papers by doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, or assistant professors are expected to apply counterfactual techniques to public policy evaluation. LINK: irvapp.fbk.eu/it/call-for-...

Best Paper #Prize in Public Policy Evaluation by FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social - papers by doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, or assistant professors are expected to apply counterfactual techniques to public policy evaluation. LINK: irvapp.fbk.eu/it/call-for-...

6 February 1944 | A transport of 700 Italian Jews that had been arrested in Milan & Verona arrived at Auschwitz. During the selection 97 men & 31 women were registered in the camp. 572 people were murdered in a gas chamber. One of them was Clotilde Nissim. She was 79 years old.

Please, SHARE: The call is out for the course for #PhD students on "Panel Data for Causal Research Designs" (Bertinoro, 29 June – 3 July 2026), organized by @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social and the SIdE - Italian #Econometric Association - link: www.side-iea.it/events/cours... #EconSky 📉📈

"2026 Best Paper #Awards on #Gender #Economics" by UniCredit Foundation www.unicreditfoundation.org/en/open-call...

The Bolzano Applied Microeconomics #Workshop will be held at the #Bolzano Campus of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano @unibz.bsky.social, Italy on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2026. Deadline for submissions: February 15th inomics.com/conference/b...

Editoriale sul Corriere dell' #AltoAdige e Corriere del #Trentino di oggi su relazioni industriali e illusione monetaria

🚨 Now out in the Economic Journal: “Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests” w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social ‪& Sancassani 💡 Patience accounts for ¾ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, ⅓ US 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

“Tanta distanza tra realtà e retorica” - commento su Salto sulla riforma dell'accesso a medicina. salto.bz/it/article/2...

Sono aperte le iscrizioni alla quarta edizione del "Corso sulla #valutazione di impatto delle #politiche pubbliche" organizzato da FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social e rivolto a dirigenti e funzionari dell’amministrazione pubblica e di organizzazioni private. irvapp.fbk.eu/trainings/de...

14 January 1919 | Italian Jew Franco Sacerdoti was born in Naples. On 22 February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. No. 174545 He did not survive. One of about 7,500 Italian Jews deported to #Auschwitz.

The program for the Health Economics and Risky Behaviors (HERB 2026) workshop is out! See you in Bologna! eventi.unibo.it/workshop-her...

New column today: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

This online, PhD-level course in the economics of innovation is a huge opportunity. Taught by some of the world's top scholars on this: @heidiwilliams.bsky.social, Chad Jones, Azoulay, van Reenen, many others! (Also: me.) Cost=zero. Applications due January 9th! #EconSky @ifp.bsky.social

3 January 1900 | Italian Jew Emanuele Di Porto was born in Rome. A merchant. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- 🎧 Listen about the development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

I’m hiring a predoc at Bocconi starting summer 2026. Projects in development and personnel economics, to study how to improve worker productivity in private and public organizations both low and higher-income countries. Apply! Details below #EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs

29 December 1923 | An Italian Jew, Shlomo Venezia, was born in Thessaloniki. In #Auschwitz from 11 April 1944. No. 182727 Forced to work in the Sonderkommando He survived the war & passed away in 2012.

Great pre-doc opportunities at @econ.uzh.ch in Zurich for aspiring PhD candidates from low- & middle income countries or with a refugee/asylum seeker background. Predoctoral Program Global Talent Common Application: www.facultyhiring.oec.uzh.ch/auth/Apply/0... Please share widely in your networks!

❗ Help needed ❗ Please take our 5-minute survey about interpreting research graphs 📈 And please help us share this post with lots of people 🤗 Take the survey here: supsy.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thank you!!

New WP out: "Patterns in #University Applications: Socioeconomic Status, #Gender, and Subject vs. Institution Preferences" with Friederike Hertweck, Robbie Maris, @mvlass.bsky.social LINK: www.iza.org/publications...

A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America

Should we be concerned about VAT evasion at the retail stage in contexts with high enforcement and low informality? In their paper Annalisa Tassi and Adrien Bussy exploit a VAT reform to answer this question. 📄Read the full paper: irvapp.fbk.eu/publications...

19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marta Weisz, was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti. On 31 May 1944, she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. --- Our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

Per limitare la povertà educativa, è necessario rafforzare e rinnovare le politiche di diritto allo studio. Davide Azzolini, Antonia Mazara e Loris Vergolini ne parlano su La Voce e riportano i risultati di un esperimento in Italia. lavoce.info/archives/109...

Happy Hannukah --- Every year our card contains a picture that aims at inspiring moral reflection about the world we all share. (Photo: Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

Siamo lieti di invitarvi al seminario che si svolgerà in modalità ibrida: "Competenze digitali e di base", con la partecipazione di Roberto Ricci, presidente INVALSI. Iscrizioni e info: irvapp.fbk.eu/it/events/de...

Quali conoscenze economiche servono per decidere in modo consapevole? In occasione del mese dell’educazione finanziaria ne abbiamo parlato con Elsa Fornero, @mircotonin.bsky.social e Matteo Ploner Approfondimento di @gretasofial.bsky.social su FBK Magazine👇 magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/educ...

"Aumentare l'offerta di alloggi", editoriale su Corriere dell' #AltoAdige e Corriere del #Trentino di oggi - LINK: pressreader.com/article/2815...

Ci vediamo questo venerdì 21 novembre! Non dimenticare di iscriverti per assicurarti il posto: irvapp.fbk.eu/.../conoscen...

Intervista sul problema casa in Alto Adige sul TGR www.rainews.it/tgr/bolzano/...

For some reason I bought 10 lbs of good quality pasta yesterday www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Not much time left to apply 👇

Quali sono le conoscenze economiche di base utili a prendere decisioni individuali consapevoli? Ne parlerà Elsa Fornero insieme a Matteo Ploner. Introduce Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social 🗓️21 novembre 2025 | 17:30 📍FBK - via S. Croce 77 Trento Info e iscrizioni: irvapp.fbk.eu/it/events/de...

"Conoscenza economica di base per decisioni individuali consapevoli" - evento organizzato da @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social IRVAPP - The Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies | Bruno Kessler Foundation con Elsa Fornero il 21 novembre 17:30 a Trento. LINK: irvapp.fbk.eu/events/detai...

"Mente, #Soldi e Scelte Quotidiane: Come Riconoscere i #Bias e Gestire Meglio le tue #Finanze" - evento con Volksbank · Banca Popolare dell’Alto Adige il 20 novembre a Bolzano, Sede Centrale Volksbank alle 18:00 - LINK: www.volksbank.it/it/events/20...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

"Casa, sussidi e prezzi alle stelle" - Intervista per Salto.bz salto.bz/de/article/0...