🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Marco Schmandt, Constantin Tielkes & Felix Weinhardt show that even with random placement in groups such as schools or neighbourhoods, systematic bias can emerge, highlighting mechanisms behind unequal treatment. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Alexander Ahammer, Martin Halla, Pia Heckl & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer a large-scale job guarantee program as a tool to reintegrate older long-term unemployed workers. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Hessel Oosterbeek, Tina Rozsos & Bas van der Klaauw analyze school choice and switching, developing insights into optimal student–school assignment. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @mettefoged.bsky.social, Teresa Freitas-Monteiro & @hasagerlinea.bsky.social study how harsh political labeling (Denmark’s “ghetto list”) affects cultural identity and triggers backlash responses. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @santiagohermo.bsky.social analyzes collective bargaining networks and how economic shocks propagate across connected firms and workers through wage-setting institutions. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Jonas Cederlöf revisits the cost of job loss, comparing individual redundancies and mass layoffs to better understand earnings, employment, and recovery dynamics. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Anthony Edo, Thomas Renault & Jérôme Valette study how the far right electoral success shapes mainstream politics, linking the emergence of France’s Front National to trace policy and rhetoric spillovers from mainstream parties. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mette Foged, Jens Hainmueller, @mstahlschmidt.bsky.social & Edith Zink show how initial accommodation conditions shape refugee integration, using quasi-experimental evidence from Ukrainians in Denmark. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Peter Arcidiacono, Attila Gyetvai, Arnaud Maurel & Ekaterina Jardim develop new methods to identify and estimate continuous-time job search models with preference shocks. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Michael Clemens‬ outlines how migration policy can move from root causes to shared gains, arguing for reforms that benefit low-income countries in a labor-scarce world. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Silke Anger, Bernhard Christoph, Agata Galkiewicz, Shushanik Margaryan, Malte Sandner & Thomas Siedler evaluate online tutoring in a randomized trial, tracking effects from school performance to school-to-work transitions. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

On #InternationalMigrantsDay, we highlight the importance of evidence-based research on migration. At CREAM @rfberlin.bsky.social we study migration, integration, and mobility to inform public debate and policy with data and analysis. 👉 rfberlin.com/cream-rfberl...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @jopieboy.bsky.social examines how expected asylum seeker arrivals affect far-right voting, using evidence from a dispersal policy that reallocates refugees across locations. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Julien Grenet, @hansgronqvist.bsky.social, Edvin Hertegård, @mnybom.bsky.social & Jan Stuhler study how early career choices respond to economic crises, with lasting effects on workers’ trajectories. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @amageh.bsky.social, Sebastian Becker, @jgeyer.bsky.social & Peter Haan analyze the incentive effects of disability benefits, examining how program design shapes labor supply and benefit take-up. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Francesco Fasani, Simone Ferro, Elisabetta Pasini & @alessioromarri.bsky.social al study whether the arrival of asylum seekers shifted voting behavior in the UK, shedding new light on immigration and political preferences. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

1/5 🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Jakob Beuschlein analyzes how the design of personal debt-restructuring programs affects labor market outcomes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social show evidence from 22M students in Japan that heat harms learning far more for low-performing (and lower-SES) students, widening inequality. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Sofoklis Goulas, @rmegal.bsky.social & Tommaso Sartori explore the unequal distribution of teachers’ attention and its consequences for student achievement. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! David Gstrein, Florian Neumeier, @apeichl.bsky.social & Pascal Zamorski provide a comprehensive analysis of corporate tax incidence across capitalists, workers, and landlords. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Jan Bietenbeck, Matthew Collins, Petter Lundborg & Kaveh Majlesi find that exposure to inequality among schoolmates does not worsen education and labor market outcomes. Results suggest school-mixing policies carry no hidden costs. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Gabriella Conti, Rita Ginja, Petra Persson & Barton Willage quantify the "menopause penalty" and its effects on earnings, job stability, and labor-market participation. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Gloria Moroni, Cheti Nicoletti, Kjell G. Salvanes & Emma Tominey investigate how marriage contributes to gender equality, shaping labor-market and household outcomes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Alexander Bertermann, Wolfgang Dauth, @suedekum.bsky.social & @woessmann.bsky.social: do firms retrain workers or offer early retirement when adjusting to trade and technology shocks? Find out here! 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Meng Yu Ngov, @plvezina.bsky.social, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar analyze how foreign firms, inputs, and subsidies have shaped the development of Viet Nam’s solar panel industry. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Frauke Baumeister, Eric A. Hanushek & @woessmann.bsky.social study how subtitling vs. dubbing affects foreign-language skill acquisition through out-of-school exposure. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

Tonight we’re hosting the RFBerlin Holiday Party! 🎄✨ Looking forward to celebrating the end of a very successful year with our colleagues and friends.

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! David Dorn, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher, Lisa Simon, & @woessmann.bsky.social use LinkedIn data to measure multidimensional skills and uncover a dynamic gender skill gap explaining a large share of the earnings gap. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Anson Zhou documents countries struggling to have high fertility, low single parenthood, and gender income equality all at once. A unified model shows this tension is structural, and only lowering women’s child-rearing costs eases it 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Antoine Bertheau & Christian Hoeck study firms’ beliefs about wage setting, uncovering how employers perceive labor supply, competition, and worker outside options, and how these beliefs shape wage offers. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Dan Anderberg, Line Hjorth Andersen, N. Meltem Daysal, & Mette Ejrnæs show that parental leave reforms can reduce intimate partner violence, highlighting powerful links between family policy and household well-being. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Our Project Leader, Sascha O. Becker, Hartmut Egger, Michael Koch & Marc-Andreas Muendler unpack how countries specialize dynamically in tasks along global value chains. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Jack Britton, Nick Ridpath, @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social, & Ben Waltmann evaluate programs that pay UK disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school, providing evidence of low cost-effectiveness. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, & Arnaud Maurel develop new tools for linear regressions with combined data, providing identification results and practical guidance for researchers merging distinct datasets. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Ran Abramitzky, Netanel Ben-Porath, Victor Lavy, & Michal Palgi study how an economic crisis triggered widespread disillusionment with socialism, using a quasi-natural experiment to trace shifts in political attitudes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

We are very happy to have @minkikim.bsky.social at our Applied Economics Seminar today, presenting “The Impacts of Negative Income Tax on Labor Market and Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment”.

1/ 🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Giovanna D’Adda, Simone Ferro, @tomfratti.bsky.social (our CReAM Res. Director), & Alessio Romarri study how air pollution affects workers in dense urban environments. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @aleximas.bsky.social, Kristof Madarasz, & Heather Sarsons examine exclusionary preferences and the roots of economic nationalism, showing how “jealousy of trade” shapes attitudes toward foreign competition. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Ihsaan Bassier & Joshua Budlender investigate when employers share rents, studying how monopsony power and minimum wages shape rent sharing, pay dispersion, and worker outcomes. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Maria Olsson & Oskar Nordström Skans analyze how local wage bargaining shapes the gender pay gap, showing how bargaining rules and workplace structures shape gender differences in pay. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Victor Lavy & Assaf Yancu examine the impact of violent peers at school, documenting substantial effects on classmates’ achievement, behavior, and long-run outcomes and exploring the mechanisms behind them. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Alessandra Casarico, Edoardo Di Porto, Joanna Kopinska, & Salvatore Lattanzio study workplace peer effects in fathers’ take-up of parental leave, showing that coworkers’ choices strongly influence men’s decisions. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli, & Javier Viviens ask whether test scores help teachers give better track advice. Using principal stratification, they show how information improves guidance — but only for specific student groups. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Adriana Di Liberto, @ludogiua.bsky.social, Fabiano Schivardi, Marco Sideri, and Giovanni Sulis examine how changes in school principals, and shifts in managerial practices, affect student performance and school environments. 🔗 rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Yasmine Elkhateeb, @turatiric.bsky.social, & @jeromevalette.bsky.social study how immigration shapes identity choices and cultural diversity, showing how migrants balance heritage, assimilation, and social incentives. 🔗 rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

We are very happy to have @minkikim.bsky.social this week at our Applied Economics Seminar presenting "The Impacts of Negative Income Tax on Labor Market and Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment". 🕑 14:00 – 15:15, Tuesday 2 December 2025 📍 Gormannstrasse 22, 10119 Berlin

⭐ Meet one of our Job Market Candidates: Giuseppe Pulito. 🔎 Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics. 📄 JMP: "Offshoring and Tasks: Skill Substitution or Retraining?" 🌐 sites.google.com/view/giusepp... #econjobmarket #jobmarketcandidate

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social, Aurélien Eyquem, @izmartinez86.bsky.social, & Enrico Rubolino quantify the cost of inheritance, showing how it decreases labor participation, affecting productivity and aggregate economic performance. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Yves Zenou revisits peer vs. network effects, laying out microfoundations, identification challenges, and what current evidence gets right (and wrong) about social interactions in economics. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Lukas Freund & Lukas Mann study how AI transforms jobs, shifting tasks, increasing specialization, and altering skill demand. They document who gains, who loses, and how labor markets adapt as AI reshapes work. 🔗 www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/u...