📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

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.

🏆 @felixrusche.bsky.social has received the 2025 Schmölders Foundation Prize! Together with @yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social & @econmill.bsky.social, they were awarded for their paper "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation." 🎉 Congrats, Felix!

Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs

Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing. There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation. Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...

🎉 Cue the confetti, ... CDSE doctoral graduate @felixrusche.bsky.social has been awarded the FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how access to media can serve as a trans­formative tool in advancing gender equality. Congratulations, Felix! 👏 (1/2)

Thank you so much @mircotonin.bsky.social! I am very honoured to receive the award.

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, Daniel Deisenroth, Haritz Garro, Daley Kutzman, Asad Liaqat, and Nils Wernerfelt. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is because of 2 main factors: journalists tend to focus on major events, and the daily performance of indices is negatively skewed. Antonio Ciccone, @felixrusche.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Do the media focus on the negative? If so, why? We study this in the context of stock market reporting and identify and quantify an overlooked bias. A thread:

Once again, I must stress that there is a pretty obvious answer to this madness, which is to have a big, fat tariff on US oligarchs and their multinationals! gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/americas-o...

"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

Barring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵

It has been weirdly quiet on social media ever since the Institute4Replication dropped its first two of 15 reports about the questionable research practices of Asad Islam-GDRI and scores of his collaborators. Here is my take on what we know and need to know. a-ortmann.medium.com/the-asad-isl...

If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.

New data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33480

🚨CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25 Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social) Deadline: 17 Mar '25

If you're looking to break from doomscrolling at end of week - check out this fascinating new special issue in @FeministEcon edited by @BilgeErten @DuvvuryN @bilgeerten.bsky.social + Ramnarain on perspectives on conflict, disaster + violence against women #econtwitter #econsky

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

My book "Paleoeconomics" is now available in online book stores. It offers a chronologically structured overview of the economics of prehistory from the first hominins to the rise of states in 3500 BCE. It builds on rapidly growing research in several fields. 1/6 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Wow.. this is concerning.

Mergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...

JMP about community radio in India by @felixrusche.bsky.social highlights the “potential of community media as a scalable and cost-effective policy instrument to promote women empowerment” www.econthatmatters.com/2024/12/tuni...

Fantastic job market paper on the impact of radio on women's empowerment in India

This looks like a great paper. Wow.

Super cool JMP and given its results one can only imagine what Internet access does to women's empowerment.

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

Just published in the Journal of Public Economics: "Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones" By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #economics

This is a remarkable paper. Substantively, it convincingly argues that what looks like weak state capacity is often *captured* capacity. Methodologically, it’s a triumph of mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy" By @elliottash.bsky.social, Sergio Galletta, Matteo Pinna, & Christopher S. Warshaw. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Finally online: Our paper on barriers to child care enrollment is now available @jeeanews.bsky.social 🤩🤩🤩 I'm over the moon 😁 Thanks to the most amazing team, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social – what a ride! 🫶 doi.org/10.1093/jeea... #EconSky

“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”

There has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges in the United States over the last century. However, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. www.nber.org/papers/w33164

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

Fox News has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward. This shift has helped Republican candidates in elections across levels of U.S. government www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇

This paper, joint with @felixrusche.bsky.social and @econmill.bsky.social, began as a project in one of the PhD courses, and has been recently accepted to the Quarterly Journal of Economics!

Very happy to see the paper out in the QJE. It was really a risky project but was totally worth it.

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...

Short 🧵on a fascinating new paper by Ieda Matavelli (on the JMP!), Baranov, Grosjean + de Haas. . . tl;dr adherence to dominance masculinity norms varies across + within countries, predicting economic, political, health outcomes

App usage is - contagious (sd increase of roommates’ in-college app usage raises own by 4.4%) - detrimental to academic performance and labor market outcomes (sd increase reduces GPAs by 36% and wages by 2.3%) App restriction policy would boost wages! nber.org/papers/w33054

#QJE Nov 2024, #3, “The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships,” by Adams, Huttunen, Nix (@emilynix100.bsky.social), and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...