👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

Chat, should I start a Tiktok channel dedicated to utilitymaxxing? I'd calling myself Concavular. "Take the hammer and smash your preferences bro."

😔😔😔Christoph M. Schmidt "Nicht nur, dass unsere Forscherinnen und Forscher ins Ausland gehen, oder die Daten aus dem Ausland nutzen, wir sind auch häufig drauf angewiesen, dass wir das, was wir dort lernen können, per Analogieschluss auf die deutsche Situation übertragen können."

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Regine Riphahn "Unsere Forscher bekommen eine Lupe, wo man international mit Mikroskopen arbeitet. Unsere Forscher bekommen ein Fernglas, wo international Observatorien eingesetzt werden." 🫳🎤

#econsky only about 2 weeks left to apply!

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

#econsky only about 2 weeks left to apply!

#econsky if you have used the did_multiplegt_dyn package by @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social et al. to produce an event-study that is publicly available, please report it to them here: credible-answers.github.io/eventstudy_p... Also I had not spotted their website: credible-answers.github.io it looks 🔥

A happy update: My job market paper is now accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics. Since I never did a proper thread on it, here goes. (Disclaimer: The views expressed in this paper are solely my own and do not reflect those of my employer, NYC IBO.)

📣 The 2026 #EinsteinFoundationAward is open for submissions until April 30: Researchers around the globe who advance quality, transparency, and reproducibility in research and #openscience are warmly invited to apply or to be nominated for the €150K Individual category. award.einsteinfoundation.de

First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers: paulgp.com/replication-... Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

Eine Senkung des ⛽️ Preises für alle durch eine zeitlich befristete Aussetzung der Energiesteuer ist die schlechteste aller bisher diskutierten Optionen. Das ist eine Hilfe mit der Gießkanne, auch für Menschen, die den höheren Preis verkraften können. Es reduziert den Anreiz…

I'm putting together the summer schedule for the ViCE seminar (link below). Have a working paper related to crime or criminal justice policy that you'd like to present? Send it to me! (Papers measuring causal effects are the best fit.)

Als eine Person, die möglicherweise von den fiskalischen Abwegen der Regierung sogar profitieren würde, möchte ich keine Anhebung der Pendlerpauschale, sondern Ausbau der Erneuerbaren und des ÖPV, 9-Euro-Ticket, Invest in Solar, Dämmung und Wärmepumpe, Verbrennerverbot und endlich ein Tempolimit.

Before generative AI, I spent a lot of time learning the nuances of LaTeX and Beamer: how to get slides to look right, how to fix obscure compilation issues. It was frustrating at times, but also genuinely educational. I do think something might be lost for the next generation.

#SmartphoneBans in schools are a game changer! Sara Abrahamsson’s new research finds that these bans cut girls’ #MentalHealth visits by 60%, drastically reduce #bullying for all, and boost girls’ GPA and math scores. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Anyone feel the same way? George Orwell, 1949 notebook entry

Der #Vermieter muß die Ablehnung eines #Balkonkraftwerk nachvollziehbar begründen. Reine Standardschreiben genügen nicht und viele Auflagen sind haltlos. Einfach bei uns nachlesen: balkon.solar/rechtaufsolar/ wie man damit umgeht.

Öhm,wtf?

No fee, high quality summar school in London in May on the Economics of Health & Human Capital: echo-rhul.github.io/summerschool... #econsky

How to Win a Trade War, in sea shanty form... I'm posting this today because @barnesandnoble.com has a special 25% off deal on pre-orders with the code PREORDER25. Deal runs until tomorrow, so pre-order How to Win a Trade War now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-win... #BNPreorder

1) THREAD: Federal cybersecurity reviewers said this @microsoft.com cloud package was “a pile of shit.” They gave it their seal of approval anyway. Here’s how it happened 👇

You can't tell me everything is doomed, we might as well give up, we're cooked, etc etc when just yesterday we learned of dogs that worked together to escape a slaughterhouse to make their way home & now we learn a civilian talked down a suicide bomber by being kind. Doomerists are wrong.

In our new research paper (joint work with Leander Andres, Gordon B. Dahl, Helmut Rainer, and Simone Schueller), we show that birthright citizenship substantially declines youth crime of children born to migrant families. Here are more details of the study design, data, results, and mechanisms:

You want to know about this app that turns normal words into LinkedIn speak. “I ate an apple.” translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l...

Can we have an ORCID CV or sth, pretty please? I've various versions of my CV for various funders and it just doesn't seem like a good use of anyone's time.

7/ In summary: automated AI procedures for empirical work are leaning even MORE on diff-in-diff -- a concerning development. If anything, my view is we are doing too much DiD nowadays for empirical applied causal work.

TIL Germany is likely getting sunnier and sunnier, which is good news for solar energy, beyond the obvious downsides ofc. www.cleanenergywire.org/news/number-...

Do you have any thoughts on systemic bottlenecks in science and how to fix them? Astera is running an essay competition! astera.org/essay-compet...

Please please accept or decline requests to review papers immediately upon seeing the request. It's simple. Most people don't have a good reason for being slow (though I realize a few might). It's crazy how many people are slow. They slow down the whole process for no good reason.

Welcome to our new co-editor, Andrew Goodman-Bacon! Andrew is an economist at the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and specializes in health economics, public economics, and applied econometrics.

Agreed! Also, a propos of nothing, @sameyler.bsky.social and I do give best paper awards at @standarderror.bsky.social Here are the first two, with more to come (DM me if you host an event and would like to discuss an award!): stderr-editors.com/blog/best-pa... stderr-editors.com/blog/best-pa...

Now that is something I did not know. Thanks!

#psychsky / #medsky wieso ist es so schwierig alte Leitlinien zu finden oder wieso sind Leitlinien öfter hinter PW-Schranken?

Come visit us at @cinchessen.bsky.social in Essen. Questions? --> @kaimiele.bsky.social #econsky

Come visit us at @cinchessen.bsky.social in Essen. Questions? --> @kaimiele.bsky.social #econsky

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Did you know submitting authors are welcome to suggest a particular Coeditor best suited to handle their manuscript? Add it to your cover letter. Submit at: jhr.msubmit.net JHR Editorial Board: jhr.uwpress.org/content/edit...

The inability of Germany to create a decent private pension product for the masses is mind-blowing. In the 2000s, *maybe* we didn't know how, not enough precedents. But now? Literally next door. 🇳🇱🇸🇪

Anyone switched from Outlook to Thunderbird (or sth else) in an Outlook dominated organization? Strongly considering it.

This could be a fun paper to replicate for a master student. German data is openly available: unfallatlas.statistikportal.de

Are you a PhD Student curious about working in topics of health and aging? Do you feel like you may need extra support? I have a program for you! A one-day mentoring workshop hosted by yours truly and Jetson Leder-Luis (BU) through @nber.org www.nber.org/calls-papers...

Except literally every data analysis or model I've ever asked AI to build has contained at least one error: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Common response: "But someone just needs to give AI detailed instructions..." But who is the "someone" in that sentence? And how did they get their expertise?

Aus dem Alltag als Prüferin in Zeiten von ChatGPT: - Studi zitiert A um B zu belegen - B steht nicht in A - Wir bitten um Nachweis, dass B in A steht - Studi schickt Screenshots - Wir stellen fest, Screenshots stammen aus C -Studi fällt durch (Täuschungsversuch, es handelt sich um mehrere Fälle)

Super excited about this... I'm hiring a video editor to help bring economics to a mass audience (yes, really). If you're thoughtful, creative, and want to make complex ideas accessible, I'd love to see your work. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or share with your most amazing mates!

Saperstein and Penner (2012) vs Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model (2026)