"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

🧵 1/ 🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory. Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position. 👇

A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students

Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...

📢 Come and work with us! The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀. Apply by June 18, 2025. Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w... Please share with your network! #Econsky #Academicjobs

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees" www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Quite the quote.

Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria" By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

#WIFO Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%. #InternationalWomensDay @rboheim.bsky.social @jku-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at buff.ly/iv9fsCP

Time to buy some Neil Young music.

Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow. He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn. #EconSky #Germany @kfzimmermann.bsky.social

It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦 If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇 foundation.kse.ua/en

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

Decent people thank Ukraine.

NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that #Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with @zingales.bsky.social and @bethanymclean.bsky.social on the #Capitalisnt podcast.

„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews. I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?

📢 Job opening: Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load. Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics. Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky Details: karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...

make sure you update your affiliations/handles from time to time #repec

The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!

podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/i... #EconSky

A model of female labor supply illustrating how various forces discussed in the literature affect the gender earnings gap, from Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, and Barbara Petrongolo https://www.nber.org/papers/w33153

Almost all IDEAS pages now have a Bluesky symbol in the social media ribbon. Clicking on it creates a post including the page URL and, in the case of abstract pages, an image with title, author and abstract. Use this when mentioning an economics paper! ideas.repec.org #EconSky #RePEc

Our Rothschild Lecture was a great success. Thanks to everyone who came, our sponsors, and the speaker, Prof Axel Ockenfels!

I'm designing an MBA elective titled "The Economics of AI." Algorithms, data, compute, labor markets, growth, national security... If a key paper/idea comes to mind, please let me know! I'm really looking forward to this one...

New work with Thomas Leoni (FH Wiener Neustadt), Thomas Horavath and Martin Spielauer (WIFO) now with NBER wp 32590 www.nber.org/papers/w32590

Neue Untersuchung: "Im Jahr 2011 lag der durchschnittliche Lohn von Frauen 19,6% unter dem der Männer. Bis zum Jahr 2022 verringerte er sich auf 13,5%. Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank in diesem Zeitraum von 7,8% auf 6,4%." Böheim, Fink und Zulehner, @wifo.bsky.social

listen & learn: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

the world’s richest and poorest people

A study in Scotland has found that no cases of cervical cancer have been detected in young women who have been fully vaccinated against HPV. “It is possible to make cervical cancer a rare disease.” Amazing news! [bbc.com]

Focus: hiddenbrain.org/podcast/find...

@arnold on @freakonomics freakonomics.com/podcast/arno...

Another great episode freakonomics.com/podcast/is-g...

Breaking News: Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled, disqualifying him from the state’s primary ballot.

#unisalzburg Salzburger #Rektorswahl: Kandidat zieht wegen "Einmischung" Haslauers zurück www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Here is a livestream of some of the Nobel lectures today with Claudia Goldin starting at 14:00: www.kva.se/evenemang/th...

Die Nobelpreise 2023: Wirtschaft, 7.12. | Radio Ö1 oe1.orf.at/player/20231... oe1.orf.at/player/20231...

famous moments in psychology / cog-sci as lego sets, a thread. 1. Pavlov's dogs.

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“I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022. The market has been flat during the same time period.” More here. [threads.net]

financial literacy

try again, fail better

I‘m just sitting here, watching the wheels go round www.derstandard.at/story/300000...