How labor market resilience can fall short despite new skill demands: Our analysis shows that robot automation systematically increases training for new skills in service sectors but also speeds up the retirement of manufacturing workers.

How costly data production can thwart price discrimination profits: We show that socially optimal market segmentation forces the seller into "indecisive segments", ensuring zero profit gain and showing that the private incentive to produce information is inefficient.

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How information campaigns can fall short even if they successfully correct beliefs: Our experiments show that correcting consumers' large underestimations of which products cause high emissions does not have an effect on their actual consumption decisions.

How can AI overcome the scarcity of employee data that impedes its use in hiring? Our new field experiment shows that adding non-incentivized behavioral measures improves AI's productivity predictions and makes algorithmic hiring more efficient than even human managers.

How do elite families maintain their status over multiple generations? Using data from prewar Japan, we show that adoption expands the choice to a broader talent pool, increasing the probability of maintaining elite status in the son’s generation by 27%.

Does job flexibility foster gender equality? On the contrary. Our new paper reveals that the shift to working from home significantly intensifies gender gaps in both paid hours and care-giving among couples.

Does the scientific community sanction sexual misconduct unrelated to research integrity? Our new study finds a citation penalty: a significant decline in citations to the prior work of accused scientists. 190researchblog.subs...

We have concluded our week of power posting every day with two posts over the weekend-- on a market-design experiment 190researchblog.substack.com/p/beyond-str... and a study on measuring urban quality of life 190researchblog.substack.com/p/why-urban-...

How can traditional models fall short in measuring urban appeal? Our analysis reveals that neglecting mobility frictions causes an underestimation of the urban quality-of-life premium (QoL): increasing a region's population is associated with a significant increase in QoL. 190researchblog.subs...

How market design can fall short despite strategy-proofness: Our new experiment shows that underconfidence systematically induces significantly more instability (justified envy) than overconfidence in school choice. 190researchblog.subs...

How can information backfire in fighting hidden actions? Our new theory reveals the mechanism of surplus squeezing: costly perfect verification enables the seller to extract all buyer surplus, collapsing trade, while noisy verification sustains market exchange.

Pre-registration has become mainstream, yet trade-offs persist: Our new survey finds that researchers assign a credibility premium to significant results from pre-registered tests, but a significant proportion expects a negative impact on research creativity and volume.

Is China a "Paper Tiger" when it comes to scientific quality? Our investigation into citation home bias reveals China exhibits the largest bias globally, demonstrating that its apparent rise in citation rankings is overstated. 190researchblog.subs...

How much does out-of-school learning influence foreign-language acquisition? Our new analysis shows that historical national decisions to subtitle imported TV content systematically result in a large positive effect on English-language skills. open.substack.com/pu...

How to incentivise cooperation when monetary incentives are costly or ineffective? Our experiment shows a public recognition award increases employee willingness to help by 21%, leveraging social image towards peers and management-related reputation.

We are super excited about the launch of our new research blog! Did you ever complain about an unproductive food coma after lunch? No more! The CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break has your back with gold nuggets of research each Monday. And this week, we will post every day!

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Dear fans of the CRC TRR 190, Next week, we will launch our research blog CRC TRR 190 Coffee Break! There will be a blog post about our most recent exciting research every day, from Monday to Sunday. Afterwards, we will post every Monday, 1pm CET.

3 days with an amazing line-up of instructors and poster sessions by junior researchers at the end of each day are over! It's been great hosting 3rd Summer School in International Economics by @jintlecon.bsky.social. Thanks to @rationalitycrc.bsky.social for supporting this event!

📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social): 👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... A 🧵 1/9

📣 Call for Papers: 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, organized jointly with @rationalitycrc.bsky.social 📅 24 - 25 October 2025, Munich Keynotes: Ben Enke (@harvard.edu), Gilat Levy (LS) Organizers: Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt ℹ️ Info & Submissions Link: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵A thread 1/7

Are women more compliant than men? In a new CRC Discussion Paper, @mgesuer.bsky.social, Nicola Cerutti, @friedrj.bsky.social, and @gyulaseres.bsky.social put this long-held belief to the test using a novel experimental design across two complementary experiments. #EconSky

🧑‍🎄time! Our @cepr_org @LSEGeography @CEP_LSE DP #PrimeLocations is forthcoming at AER: Insights.🍾 Our🎁4u: PL shapefiles and employment by sector at micro-geographic grid-level for 381 MSAs and 125 global cities. All free to download from primelocations.ahlfeldt.com Use it wisely!😀

Our research on gender and compliance behavior as a @rationalitycrc.bsky.social discussion paper: Women are often perceived as more compliant than men; however, the literature provides inconclusive evidence. In two experiments, we test this claim. rationality-and-competition.de/wp-content/u...

🌍 Want to connect with experts in behavioral economics and other fields of economics tackling applied societal questions of high policy relevance? 📚 Follow the “Rationality & Competition” Starter Pack for the latest research and discussions from our CRC members! #EconSky go.bsky.app/Uubbqcx

📢 Thrilled to announce that our CRC Rationality & Competition has been extended for the period 2025-2028! Huge thanks to the German Research Foundation (DFG), our incredible team, and especially our leads Klaus Schmidt & @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social! 🙌🚀 #EconSky

#EconSky 📉📈 🚨 Timely and important new findings by Andrej Woerner, Taisuke Imai, Klaus Schmidt, and @ddpace.bsky.social in a new article in Nature Sustainability @natureportfolio.bsky.social. 👀 Which #CarbonPricing scheme garners more support? LMU Munich, Osaka University

Discover this paper💡it uses machine learning to move beyond the binary view of gender, offering a nuanced view of how continuous gender identity predicts economic behavior📑 rationality-and-competition.de/wp-content/u... @mgesuer.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @rationalitycrc.bsky.social #BSoE

🚨CRC Discussion Paper 🚨 By @vojtabartos.bsky.social, @castrosilvia.bsky.social, @kczura.bsky.social, & Timm Opitz Reveals gender bias in entrepreneurial finance, highlighting greater constraints faced by women in accessing funds crucial for business success. A 🧵 #EconSky 📉📈 1/3

Spring, sun, and beautiful Schwanenwerder. We welcome our members to the 14th CRC Retreat!

The political acceptability of carbon pricing largely depends on how ist revenues are used. In a new paper, Andrej Woerner, Taisuke Imai, Davide Pace, @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social delve into what makes the public more receptive to this environmental policy. 🌍 #EconSky 1/6

📢In a new CRC Discussion paper, @lergetporer.bsky.social, Katharina Wedel, & Katharina Werner study how beliefs about the automatability of workers’ occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. #EconSky 📉📈 1/4

📢 In a new research, Florian Englmaier, Michael Hofmann, & Stefanie Wolter study how firms adjust the bundles of management practices they adopt over time, using repeated survey data collected in Germany from 2012 to 2018. #EconSky 📉📈 1/7

📊 Exciting News from the Digital HRM Front! 🚀 The latest survey by Marina Chugunova & Anastasia Danilov with 57 German firms reveals a significant leap in HR digitalization! ✅ Most companies have digitized core HR processes, enhancing efficiency and talent acquisition. 🌟 #EconSky 📉📈 1/3

Counterintuitively, it has been shown that employment protection legislation harms early-career employees without benefitting them in later career stages. 1/6

🚨New CRC Discussion Paper🚨 Using a cheating game a novel study by Tobias Cagala @uglogowsky.bsky.social Johannes Rincke & Simeon Schudy found that no-cheating declarations (ethical or sanction-based) don't impact truth-telling, in both online & offline experiments. #EconSky 📉📈 1/2

📢New CRC Discussion Paper by Nikolaus Wolf with Miriam Fritzsche uses a new long-run panel data to analyze the effect of coal and oil on #economicgrowth between 1900-2015. @humboldtuni.bsky.social #EconSky 📉📈 1/3

#Econsky 📈📉 Have you heard of Lab Squared — a hub for replications and meta-science based at WZB Berlin? 👉Well, now you have! 📢It aims to advance the frontiers of replication and meta-science! 1/4

📢New research by @woessmann.bsky.social, with Sarah Gust & Eric Hanushek, finds that at least 2/3 of the world’s youth do not reach even basic skill levels. Article published in the Journal of Development Economics: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd... #Econsky 📈📉 1/2

📢In a new article, Dirk Engelmann, Jeff Frank, Alexander Koch, & Marieta Valente study second-price auction where a buyer max exogenously be forced to default and the runner-up can get the object at his own bid. A🧵 @humboldtuni.bsky.social @aarhusuni.bsky.social #Econsky 1/4

📢 Call for papers 📢   CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek)   13-14 Sept 2024, Munich   Keynote: @mdoepke.bsky.social   👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...   Submission deadline: 2 June 2024   Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

📢 New CRC Discussion Paper #EconSky Dirk Engelmann, Jana Friedrichsen, @roelonthehill.bsky.social, Pauline Vorjohann, Joachim Winter decompose trust into key components and find beliefs to be a main driver, and risk preference to be more relevant than social preferences. A 🧵 1/4

Wondering if 💰 incentives are effective in non-routine analytical teams? #EconSky Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, @david-schindler.de, & Simeon Schudy show that 👉YES, they are! Recent article in the Journal of Political Economy: www.journals.uchicag... 1/4

📉📈A textbook argument is that mobile individuals react to tax changes through migration, while immobile ones vote for lower taxes.   New research by Dirk Engelmann, Eckard Janeba, Lydia Mechtenberg & @nilswehrhoefer.bsky.social investigates the completeness of this argument. [1/6]

Should you opt for incentive alignment & adaptive designs in your choice-based conjoint study?   Verena Sablotny-Wackershauser @marcellichters.bsky.social @dhguhl.bsky.social Paul Bengart & Bodo Vogt find in their recent JAMS publication that you should! 👉 shorturl.at/gAJQ0 #MarketingSky 📉📈 [1/5]

Is there a scalable solution to finding the most similar #patents for a given #paper? Or vice versa?   Sebastian Erhardt, Mainak Ghosh, Erik Buunk, @merose.bsky.social and Dietmar Harhoff say yes: www.logic-mill.net is an open machinery free for the research community to use. [1/4]   #EconSky