Glad to be here!

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting the European Economic Science Association Meeting in Brno🇨🇿. It was intense, inspiring, and unforgettable. Thank you all for joining us - here are a few highlights 👇

New Dataset Maps Losses from Natural Disasters to the County Level 1996-2023 via New York Fed libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/07/new-...

Trust is a precious currency in today’s world. So it matters that trust in the EU among EU citizens has grown for 4 consecutive years. Now reaching its highest level in 18 years, according to an EU-wide survey. Read more: europa.eu/!Tp94N4

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions tinyurl.com/2wez4wp7 Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻 When? November 20-21 November 🍂 For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨 Please circulate!

Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)

Empirical papers have steadily replaced theoretical papers (& simulation) in economics: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Who could’ve anticipated

🧵La settimana scorsa, la New York University (NYU) ha sospeso il diploma di uno studente di Economia che, nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di laurea, ha menzionato “le atrocità” e condannato “il genocidio” in corso in Palestina. 1/13

This is a great article in the latest issue of the JEP for anyone teaching panel methods (any level). Love this history of economic terms and ideas feature. #Econsky pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

📣 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...

L'account ufficiale della Casa Bianca e l'account ufficiale di POTUS hanno davvero postato questa cosa qui. Mai l'istituzione era caduta così in basso. Una perdita di credibilità che danneggia gli americani e il mondo, e che gli Stati Uniti impiegheranno molto tempo a ricostruire.

Just finished teaching a class on taxation in the Economics and Public Policy master's at @sciencespo.bsky.social. My slides, heavily inspired by courses by Charles Brendon, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and Emmanuel Saez, are here: 👉 wouterleenders.eu/KAFP3355/06_... Feedback very welcome!

Sul Foglio oggi in edicola (e online) trovate un mio editoriale sulle ragioni del dietrofront di Trump e le prospettive per l'Europa. Ho consegnato il pezzo in redazione alle 13 di ieri. La sera i dazi erano già cambiati (ma le considerazioni rimangono valide) 👇 www.ilfoglio.it/esteri/2025/...

📢 Hey #EconSky, 5 more days to submit your full paper to our Workshop on Social Economy for Young Economists! 🗣️ Keynotes: Lea Cassar (@uniregensburg.bsky.social ) @stefanofiorin.bsky.social (Bocconi U.) Theoretical, empirical, and experimental contributions are welcome.

📣🆕 Der Mikrozensus 2022 ist als Scientific Use File verfügbar – inkl. Daten zu Wohnen, Kindern, Kompetenzen, EU-SILC & Info- & Kommunikationstechnologien. Jetzt auch als R-Datensatz + R-Syntaxen via GESIS MISSY: www.gesis.org/missy/metada... #Mikrozensus #Forschung #OpenData #RStats

"National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! From @vinpons.bsky.social, Marx and Rollet. The companion paper: www.restud.com/electoral-tu... #EconSky #Elections

🧵Anziché opporsi alla guerra alla scienza e al sistema della ricerca lanciata dalla nuova amministrazione, le università americane si stanno inginocchiando a Trump una dopo l'altra. 👇 1/12

Here’s a Democratic senator who gets what’s going on…

No matter how #Trump frames it, the US has much to lose from a trade war. @fabiosabatini.bsky.social discusses the economic costs of #tariffs for the US and the rest of the world on @lsebr.bsky.social

Financial market exposure increases generalized trust www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Review of International Organizations invites papers using geocoded data on foreign aid for a special issue “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” See godad.me, godad.uni-goettingen.de/uploads/RIO_...

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Crypto is for crime. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🧵 L'Occidente, così come lo abbiamo sempre conosciuto, non esiste più. Con gli Stati Uniti che abbandonano l’ordine liberale che loro stessi hanno contribuito a costruire, la minaccia dell'imperialismo russo alle porte e il populismo in ascesa ovunque, l'Europa è a un bivio. 👇 1/22

While the (quasi-) experimental methods increase credibility of causal results, there are two related concerns that make studies hard to replicate: 1. decline in reporting of null results 2. increase in use of private sector data a mini thread 🧵based on work with @trfetzer.com

Forthcoming in the AER: "When Do “Nudges” Increase Welfare?" by Hunt Allcott, Daniel Cohen, William Morrison, and Dmitry Taubinsky. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🧵 Vance oggi a Monaco: la più grande minaccia all’Europa non è la Russia, ma la regolamentazione (dei social media) che soffoca il free speech. Vance a settembre 2024: se l’Europa proverà a regolamentare i social media, prenderemo in considerazione lo scioglimento della Nato. 1/8

Can #AI fix #PeerReview? In a new IZA DP @patpat.bsky.social et al. tested an LLM on 9,030 submissions. It ranks quality well but favors elite institutions, famous economists & men—while struggling to distinguish AI-generated papers from real research. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

🧵 A list of keywords that allegedly trigger immediate rejection of any funding request at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has been circulating among American academics. Here's why this is a chilling sign for U.S. research—while also signaling a potential opportunity for Europe 👇 🇪🇺 1/7

This study investigates the impact of the #Italian Legality Rating (LR) on small & medium enterprises (#SMEs) in public procurement. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/CEIS.html #Econsky @andreaf.bsky.social

This is not "bad weather" (maltempo). In Messina, Sicily, the same amount of rain that would fall in a month has fallen in 4 hours. When people say that transition to renewables is too costly,they don't include the costs of the damages caused by global warming. #ClimateEmergency

Attitudes, Experiences, and Usage Intentions of Artificial Intelligence: A Population Study in Germany: http://osf.io/6u49f/

The GC Wealth Project has launched an updated version of its data warehouse! Key improvements: new data concepts, new sources, and expanded coverage of regions, countries, and time periods. Discover all the updates: wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article...

🚨🔢 New data alert! If you are curious about people's attitudes towards climate change and related policies, check out this large-scale survey data from 20 countries from our paper. Publicly available with codes here socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub... 🚨🔢

🚨New dataset alert 🚨Explore a large-scale survey of US respondents on how inflation has impacted them as consumers, workers, and asset holders. 📊 Includes rich open-ended responses and questions about emotions 👉 socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub...

Delighted to receive the Journal of Finance DFA First Prize for "Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors" We show that behavioral econ findings not limited to the lab, they show up amongst the most sophisticated market participants.

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

But, as we see, lessons have been learned in DE in particular. A direct financial relationship between citizens and the state is now possible. Again, other countries are at least 7 years ahead. https://x.com/joergkukies/status/1869410275566477643 https://x.com/fetzert/status/1737075317708091432

Very interesting! This theory paper has some serious implications for those of us who use the World Bank's International Poverty Line in applied work... #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236

Here @ilpost.it, an Italian national newspaper, confirms the pattern of Bluesky bringing more traffic than Threads. It's not an Anglosphere phenomenon! "[...] in just two weeks the percentage of traffic coming from the platform to the newspaper’s site has surpassed that coming from Threads [...]"

New job post (please repost) 👇📢POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER in PUBLIC ECONOMICS (“Drivers and consequences of rising economic inequality”) Come and work with us in the InequalityInRome Research team sites.google.com/view/inequal... 3 Jan 2025! More info here: sites.google.com/site/salvato...