New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @virginiaminni.bsky.social, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons & @csrebot.bsky.social show how managers transmit gender norms at work. Who sets the norms inside firms? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Fenella Carpena & Simon Galle study how technical change affects workers across occupations. The mechanisms behind adjustment matter. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Jim Albrecht, Per-Anders Edin, Raquel Fernandez, Jiwon Lee, Peter Skogman Thoursie & Susan Vroman analyze how parental leave shapes norms. Can policy change culture as well as behavior? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Apply now to join the masterclass by Mikko Silliman, based on a chapter co-authored with David Deming. 👉 Apply here: form.typeform.com/to/hQpXQYkc 🔗 Event details: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl... Deepen your understanding of higher-order capacities such as social and decision-making skills.

In 2025, the RFBerlin Network grew to 30+ countries across four continents, producing insights that incorporated data from 80+ nations into research that shapes policy worldwide. #GlobalFamily 🌍 Read more about the RFBerlin network here: rfberlin.com/fellows/

Our 2025 event highlights: ✨ Annual Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin 📊 Annual Labour Economics Symposium with CEPR 🌍 Migration Forum 2025 📈 Workshop in Italy with CReAM 💼 Conference on Worker Co-Determination Thanks to everyone involved! See our 2026 events: www.rfberlin.com/events/

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social, @YiJuHung1, Marco Tabellini & Monia Tomasella study the 1920s US Quota Acts restricting immigration. Learn more about implications for natives’ social mobility! 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Ahmet Gulekk shows that child penalties vary sharply across occupations in the US. Why does parenthood affect some careers more than others? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Ozkan Eren, @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social & @orgulozturk.bsky.social examine how judge–defendant gender match affects juvenile sanctions and long-run outcomes. Find out more: 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Xin Liu, Xin Meng, Guangqian Pan & Guochang Zhao study China’s Double Reduction policy aimed at reducing students’ workload. What are the long-run and intergenerational costs of education reform? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

2025 in numbers: RFBerlin edition Our year as a dataset: 📚 167 Discussion Papers 🎓 11 Masterclasses 💬 14 Applied Econ Seminars 🌍 2 Nobel laureates visiting 📄 49 Visiting Researchers Top research themes: Equity & Inclusion, Technology & Trade, Migration. Thanks for a great 2025!💪 rfberlin.com

What topics inspired our research in 2025? 💼 Remote work reshaping cities 🌍 Migration policies that work 👶 Childcare & life trajectories 💰 Persistent wage gaps 🎓 Education & opportunity 167 Discussion Papers. One commitment: evidence-based research. www.rfberlin.com/discussion-p...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @BelotMichele & Rustam Hakimov show workplace bonding boosts productivity in a field experiment. Which connections at work matter most? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @hasagerlinea.bsky.social & Mia Jørgensen find poor neighborhoods can have lasting effects on health. Place-based inequality leaves a lifelong mark. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini & Charles A. Taylor show climate mismatch shapes migrant outcomes. How does climate affect integration and success? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

📰 RFBerlin research featured in @financialtimes.com's Free Lunch on technology & regional inequality! Read it here: www.ft.com/content/91de...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Our PLeader @hannawang.bsky.social studies how German family leave policies affect fertility choices over time. Can smarter policy shape demographic futures? A thread! 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @profhjalmarsson.bsky.social & @matthewjlindq.bsky.social examine the effects of diagnosing ADHD in prison. The consequences extend far beyond the prison walls. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Negar Khaliliaraghi, Petter Lundborg & Johan Vikström find gender gaps persist even under comparable productivity within the same tasks. The roots of inequality may be deeper than we think. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

New RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Shadi Farahzadi shows how marriage shapes migration decisions and cross-border mobility. How much does family drive who moves where? 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @michelebelot.bsky.social, Xiaoying Liu & Vaios Triantafyllou analyze worker survey responses and reveal what aspects of work matter most for satisfaction and motivation across sectors. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Giorgio Brunello & Caroline Neuber-Pohl show that workers’ emotional stability correlates with higher firm productivity, shedding light on the economic importance of personality traits in employer-employee outcomes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos, Pablo Muñoz, Alonso Bucarey & Dante Contreras find that college major choices drive earnings differences and contribute to persistent gender pay gaps in the labor market. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Thomas Dohmen, Bart Golsteyn, @hansgronqvist.bsky.social, Edvin Hertegård & Gerard Pfann show that parenting styles significantly affect children’s education, skills, and earnings across the life cycle. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Rasmus Lentz, Jonas Maibom & Espen R. Moen present a tractable framework nesting direct and random search. They show important evidence in favour of Danish workers directing their job search towards specific jobs. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Danial Lashkari & @ericverhoogen.bsky.social analyze how microeconomic frictions and wedges distort resource allocation, with implications for productivity and economic efficiency. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Jeremias Klaeui, Daniel Kopp, @rlalive.bsky.social & Michael Siegenthaler show that firms play a central role in workers’ occupational transitions during scarce labor markets, mediating employment and skill adjustments. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @mettefoged.bsky.social, Karen-Inge Karstoft & Edith Zink study displaced Ukrainians and find that PTSD significantly reduces employment and earnings, showing how mental health shocks shape labor market integration. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Maria A. Cattaneo, Stefan Wolter & Thea Zöllner show that Swiss parents are willing to pay for both higher school quality and favorable peer composition, highlighting the role of social preferences in school choice. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Seema Jayachandran, Lea Nassal, Matthew J., @profnoto.bsky.social‬, Marie Paul, Heather Sarsons & @elinsundberg.bsky.social study couples' relocations and document how they typically involve a relative increase in male earnings.🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Dominique Goux & Eric Maurin find that children of parents who work in occupations that adopted remote work suffered worsened educational outcomes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Sonia Bhalotra, N. Meltem Daysal, Louis Fréget, Jonas Hirani, Priyama Majumdar, Mircea Trandafir, @miriamwuest.bsky.social & Tom Zohar show that postpartum depression has long-run implications for the motherhood wage penalty. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Sonia Bhalotra, N. Meltem Daysal, Louis Fréget, Jonas Hirani, Priyama Majumdar, Mircea Trandafir, Miriam Wüst & Tom Zohar show that postpartum depression contributes to the motherhood wage penalty and affects long-term career outcomes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! E. Batbayar, C. Breunig, P. Haan & B. Ilieva develop a new approach to estimate selection-corrected gender wage gaps. They find that women with are po select in employment, reducing the potential gender pay gap. Read more in the paper! 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Our project leaders @essobecker.bsky.social, Christian Dustmann & Hyejin Ku show that skills and technology reinforce each other: early tech adoption increases demand for skilled labor, which in turn boosts further innovation. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke & Atheendar Venkataramani document large long-run economic gains from medical innovation and show that opportunities shape these effects over time. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Torben Andersen, Anne Katrine Borgbjerg & Jonas Maibom show that pension wealth and eligibility incentives strongly affect retirement timing. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri & Oleksandr Zholud analyze Ukraine and show how war reshapes employment, wages and mobility as firms and workers adjust under conflict. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn & Anh Tran find that remote schooling generates strong self-selection and match effects, with students benefiting unevenly. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos uses experimental evidence from Los Angeles to show how peer information and social networks shape school preferences and enrollment. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

⏰ Call for Papers closing soon www.rfberlin.com/call-for-pap... Only two days left to submit your work for the RFBerlin Conference "Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers" 📍 Berlin | 16–17 April 2026 #CallForPapers #Academia #Health #Economics #Econ

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social find that seasonal allergies increase traffic accidents and workplace injuries, illustrating how health shocks generate broader externalities. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Horng Chern Wong, @dennisnovy.bsky.social, Carlo Perroni & Natalie Chen show how rapid urban structural change affected the urban\city divide by boosting city amenities and containing wages for superstar urban service firms. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

(1/5) 🧠 RFBerlin Research Insights: New research by Becker, Dustmann & Ku — "The Virtuous Cycle Between Skills and Technology" — reveals how the steam engine, the AI of the 19th century, created regional economic gaps that persist 150 years later. www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...

Applied PhD students in labor & data-heavy economics: this is for you. A two-day intensive masterclass on Tasks, Technology, and Labor Demand with Fredric Kong (MIT) co coauthor with Acemoglu & Restrepo. 👉 Apply now: form.typeform.com/to/Wv6YAAXU 🔗 Event details: www.rfberlin.com/event/master...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos, Jesse Bruhn, Eric Chyn & @antoniavazquez.bsky.social show that school choice system design shapes both who opts in and who benefits, with important implications for equity and access. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Life-cycle Effects of Public Childcare 🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mikko Silliman & Juuso Mäkinen study Finland’s childcare expansion and find long-run gains for children and improved labor outcomes for parents, highlighting sizable intergenerational returns. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Oded Galor & Daniel C. Wainstock provide a comprehensive anatomy of US inequality, tracing its structural roots and long-run economic consequences. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

If you work at the intersection of health and economics, this is for you! Call for Papers is open for the conference “Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers” 👉 Submit here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80349... #CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #ResearchConference

⏰ Deadline approaching! Submit your work to the RFBerlin Conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.