6 hours 30 mins they could do from this December, with one change in Badajoz or Elvas - but they're likely not going to do though So 🤷‍♂️ Whenever I hear about these long term plans for ES-PT rail, I wonder why they're not doing the basics with what they have right now? #CrossBorderRail

Überschrift verbesserungsfähig. @phaan.bsky.social im Moma www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...

Join us on 4 November for the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin. 🎟️ Register now: form.typeform.com/to/j3BaW2OV Discover how women’s roles in work and society have evolved and what challenges remain More about the event: www.rfberlin.com/event/why-wo...

Brauchen wir eigentlich Steuererklärungen? Wer profitiert wenn wir die automatisieren? Und warum würde das die Verteilungswirkung der Einkommensteuer erhöhen? Darüber habe ich mit Marilena Piesker @zeit.de gesprochen 🗞️ www.zeit.de/geld/2025-07...

Full slide deck here from our talk yesterday on the gender divide and relationship recession, featuring many more countries and plenty of economic data too: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1lp1d...

South Korea gender divide update 😲 Young men lean right by 50 points (74% conservative vs 24% centre-left) Young women lean left by 22 points (58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

💼Nebenjobs im Bundestag: Wer verdient am meisten - und wie kommt das bei der Wählerschaft an? Im ECONtribute Wirtschaftspodcast spricht Cluster-Mitglied @nicercarina.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social über Kompetenz, Korruption und Kohle 👉: econtribute.de/de/newsroom/... #EconSky @dfg.de

Hey researchers, bloggers, everyone interested in fertility data! We recently added lots of new data at Our World in Data on fertility rates, ages at childbirth, twin birth rates, birth seasonality, and more. Here's a thread of what you can find on the site! 🧵

Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.

The German income tax system is too complicated. What could we do to improve it? Nadine Riedel, Martin Jacob and I wrote down a few ideas for @taxfoundation.bsky.social Europe. taxfoundation.org/blog/germany...

Gestern in der FAZ in einem gemeinsamen Artikel mit Katharina Spieß: "Deutschland uneinig Mutterland" 35 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung bestehen nach wie vor Unterschiede zwischen Ost & West bei der mütterlichen Erwerbstätigkeit, Bezahlung & Kinderbetreuung ⚖️ Vieles ist jedoch in Bewegung!

Always wanted someone to do exactly that chart! Beautiful, isn't it?

The details of tax policy implementation matter, folks.

Hello #EconSky 👋 excited to share my JMP! ❓What are the impacts of offering student finance as a grant or a loan? In the paper, I... 🎓 Study individual university enrolment, subject choice & career motivations ❗️Explore aggregate outcomes e.g. access to university & the occupational structure 🧵👇

Hello #EconSky! 📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢 It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation. Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap. Thread below👇🧵

To all the new #EconSky people whi may be dealing with the Econ Job Market: *There is an #EconJMP feed *I have a PhD Job Market Starter Pack go.bsky.app/4icnwxi. If you are a candidate or an institution posting *many* openings, reach out and I will add you.

I created an IZA @iza.org Network Fellows/Affiliates starterpack, starting from those I am following, and who are following me. I surely missed a lot. Please reply below this tweet and tag yourself and your fellow Fellows! #econsky #laboreconomics #econ go.bsky.app/5NP4VCb

I started a starter pack of economists working on gender. It's sparsely populated, so please point out people I've missed. go.bsky.app/P6kvUEe

Die FAZ berichtet in einem tollen Artikel (danke Michel Krasenbrink und @neuscheler.bsky.social !) über unsere Forschung, die zeigt, dass verheirate Frauen aufgrund des deutschen Steuerklassensystems weniger arbeiten. #Steuerklasse #GenderGap #EconSky @lenardsimon.bsky.social, Tim Bayer

Ever wondered how discrimination affects job networks? In our two-stage experiment on LinkedIn, we provide insights into the question, causally studying the effect of discrimination on Black individuals' job networks in the U.S.

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) 🧵👇

Excited to share my new WP (which also happens to be my job market paper!) How does online recruitment impact the geography of the labour market? Full paper here sites.google.com/view/mariaba... and a thread below: