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

Do governments benefit from copying the agenda of their radical competitors? In new research, @felixkersting.bsky.social investigates this question by looking at the introduction of the welfare state in 🇩🇪. [1/4] Read the new CRC Discussion Paper at: bit.ly/47YxsNV #EconSky

Two Collaborative Research Centers in one event. 📢 #Econsky #Lingsky

How to detect self-preferencing on #platforms? What is the #welfare effect of self-preferencing? 📢 #EconSky 📉📈, don’t miss the new CRC discussion paper by Xuan Teng, “Self-preferencing, Quality Provision, and Welfare in Mobile Application Markets”: shorturl.at/dmGZ2. More in a 🧵 [1/4]

📉📈 How does revolutionary technological change impact wealth inequality? @thiloalbers.bsky.social, Felix Kersting, & Timo Stieglitz delve into the mother of all technological shocks—the industrial revolution—to investigate this question by combining empirics & theory. bit.ly/3T1Lhqq [1/3]

🚨 New CRC Discussion paper 🚨 @woessmann.bsky.social, @essobecker.bsky.social, & @jaredcrubin.com, use elements of macroeconomic production function with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. #EconSky 📉📈 Read at: shorturl.at/dekrC [1/2]

#EconSky 📈📉 We are now accepting applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Econometrics. Join our young and vibrant faculty at the University of Innsbruck. Apply by 14 Dec 2023! lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri... Please repost. Contact me with any questions.

📢 We are happy to announce a new blog:  Substack "Researching #Misunderstandings"! It will feature the work by numerous members of the CRC over the next few weeks. researchingmisunderstandings.substack.com #EconSky [1/3]

Deutschland muss in seine Zukunft investieren: Deutliche Wachstumshemmnisse für die kommenden Jahre sind die demografische Alterung, das geringe Produktivitätswachstum, der veraltete Kapitalstock sowie die geringe Anzahl innovativer Unternehmen. www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/jahresgutach...

What makes a conversation successful? 📣 The new book by our spokesperson @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social, "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication," examines the #BehavioralEconomics of human conversations. OpenAccess: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #EconSky [1/3]

Am 8. November 2023 werden wir unser neues Jahresgutachten der Bundesregierung überreichen und um 14.30Uhr auf der Webseite des SVR_Wirtschaft veröffentlichen. Über unsere Arbeit berichtete jüngst die Rheinische Post: „Navigation in der Krise“ www.sachverstaendigenrat-wirtschaft.de/start/aktuel...

What are the long-run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? 📢 Felix Weinhardt w/ @jeffdenning.bsky.social, Richard Murphy study this using administrative data on all public school students in Texas. #EconSky Article in RevEconStat at: doi.org/10.1162/rest...

🚨New CRC Discussion Paper 🚨 Why does it take a crisis to implement change? @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social and Jonas von Wangenheim explain this and many other phenomena related to organizational change using a model with reference-dependent preferences. [1/2] #EconSky 📉📈

🚨New CRC Discussion Paper Alert 🚨 Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? Regional analysis with Facebook interests indicates YES. by @woessmann.bsky.social w/ ‌Eric Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, & Pietro Sancassani More details in a 🧵… #EconSky 📉📈 [1/8]

We are happy to co-host this lecture by Markus Brunnermeier jointly with Ludwig Erhard Forum! 🗓️November 17, Friday at 4pm 📍School of Business and Economics at Humboldt University Berlin, Spandauer Str. 1, Lecture Room 202 📢 #EconSky 📉📈

Occasionally, we come across useful lists of topics/applications of sub-fields in our profession #EconSky📉📈. A 🧵… [1/3] For example, “Which labour market interventions work?” jobeffekter.dk/en/

Highly recommended 👇

📉📈Increasing working life leads to an increase in human capital investment through on-the-job training. Felix Weinhardt & Peter Haan jointly w/ Elisabeth Fürstenau, Niklas Gohl provide new causal evidence from a 🇩🇪 pension reform. 📢 A new article in Labour Economics: doi.org/10.1016/j.la... [1/2]

Food for thought about editorial processes in our profession.

Does such a list exist in behavioral economics?

My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

📉📈Higher education finance depends on public’s preferences for charging tuition. 📢@woessmann.bsky.social & Philipp Lergetporer study how factual information about the university earnings premium affects public preferences for tuition. Published in the Journal of Public Economics More in a 🧵 [1/6]