🧨 New draft dropped:🧨 "Cash Transfers, Mental Health and Agency: Evidence from an RCT in Germany" maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p... Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply. Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social). #basicincome #UBI

Do we hold others responsible for their choices even when these choices have been shaped by unfair unequal circumstances? Yes, we do, suggests "Shallow Meritocracy" from Peter Andre @peterandre.bsky.social, recently accepted at REStud. www.restud.com/shallow-meri...

Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ | @drsimevans.bsky.social w/comment from @peterandre.bsky.social Teodora Boneva @felixchopra.bsky.social Armin Falk Read here: bit.ly/3SNthhV

Hello world! We can share some good news today. 🌍 Support for climate action is widespread across the globe and much larger than it is perceived. 🌍 Our new article is out in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Teodora Boneva, @felixchopra.bsky.social, Armin Falk

Come to Zurich and work with me. I am hiring a predoc. More info is here: ulfzoelitz.com/wp-content/u...

Thank you, ERC for the chance to study sexual harassment prevention with a consolidator grant! Yay!! Looking forward to working with wonderful colleagues on this important topic.

JMP alert 🎉 What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities? Gender role attitudes! We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ Tim Mensinger) 🧵👇

So great to see this published online at the #JDE 🥳 👉 RCT to curb water demand in Namibia during severe #waterscarcity. 👉 Providing a short list of actionable and specific saving tips reduces consumption by 5%. #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #boost Get the paper here (OA) 👉tinyurl.com/23fxufzs

Really incredible JMP by Nina Buchmann, Carl Meyer + Colin Sullivan. Nina + co run ingenious field study documenting “paternalistic discrimination”, where employers discriminate w/ intention to help employees because of disparities outside of the job, here the potential for gender-based violence

🚨New paper in #PsychologicalScience🚨 Can vaccine nationalism be explained by a belief among policymakers that citizens will mistrust leaders who prioritize global needs over domestic protection. Short answer: Yes. Find out more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interview with @aleximas.bsky.social on the desire for exclusivity www.chicagobooth.edu/review/dange...

Hier - mit (fast) allen aus dem Stab & der Geschäftsstelle des @SVR_Wirtschaft - bei der Übergabe unseres Jahresgutachtens am 9.11. im Kanzleramt. Ein großes DANKESCHÖN an alle, die mit unglaublichem Engagement & immenser Expertise dieses tolle Gutachten möglich gemacht haben!

I cannot believe what I'm reading here... The current CEO of IZA, Simon Jäger, has decided to depart from his leadership role at IZA by the end of 2023 [...] Effective January 1, 2024, Armin Falk, the current CEO of briq Institute, will take over the leadership of IZA www.iza.org/wc/files/pre...

Oh. My. God. www.iza.org/wc/files/pre...

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]

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RECRUITING: Post-Doc position (2 years) in Public/Urban/Labor Economics at @WiSoUniCologne / @ECON_tribute, no teaching. @ERC_Research project: Housing, Inequality and Public Policy (HIPPO) CGN Team: @Sigginho, @RaoulMaarseveen, Löffler, Gharbi, Reiners + many int'l colleagues

Großartige neue Podcast Folge mit ECONtribute Mitglied @trfetzer.com zum #Brexit Wie kam es eigentlich zum Ausstieg aus der EU? Was haben Sparpolitik & Populismus damit zu tun? Jetzt verfügbar bei Spotify, Apple etc. econtribute.de/de/populismu...

🚨Are you doing a PhD in Economics? Do you want to get feedback on your latest research? Connect with other PhD students and learn more about their work? Attend a keynote by the great Uwe Sunde (LMU & @rationalitycrc.bsky.social)? Then this👇is the right conference for you! Further info: t.ly/e7z6d

Goldins Forschung nutzt wirtschaftshistorische und empirische Methoden, um Arbeitsmärkte - insbesondere Geschlechterunterschiede - besser zu verstehen.

📚First day of school! I am excited to begin my new role as professor of economics and director of the #ELFE lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Thanks to all coauthors & friends for your support! Looking forward to teaching the next generation and being a part of the vibrant Ruhr econ community

We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023. Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED! We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n