🆕 RFBerlin Working Paper from @mlubczyk.bsky.social and Maria Waldinger: "The Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Socialist East Germany". 🧵below:

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

Jacob French and I are hiring a pre-doc in Applied Micro apply.interfolio.com/166572

Great to co-host the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social Political Economy workshop at @diw.de today. We have a great program — attached! @mlubczyk.bsky.social @felixkersting.bsky.social Max Deter

"Filibuster the broccoli" -- Andrea Prat

Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉 @science.org We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡 Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social! Details ⤵️

🆕 in @jpube.bsky.social: @lukasmergele.bsky.social, @aaoritz.bsky.social and @mlubczyk.bsky.social provide the first comprehensive analysis of privatization in East Germany.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy" By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social

Happy to see this paper out @jpube.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @aaoritz.bsky.social and I compile new data to study the “Treuhandanstalt” and it’s management of the privatisation process after German reunification

Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28

Auch Jahrzehnte nach der Wiedervereinigung scheint die Kluft zwischen "Ost" & "West" zu wachsen. Welche Rolle spielt die #Treuhandanstalt in den aktuellen Identitätsdebatten? Darüber diskutieren wir mit @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social & Elske Rosenfeld. Anmeldung unter www.ifz-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

📢 New #CallforPapers! We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Workshop on the Economics of Aging, which will take place in Berlin on 5-6 June 2025: www.rfberlin.com/event/worksh... Keynotes: V. Joseph Hotz and @mdenardi.bsky.social. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. Submit now and share with colleagues!

Check out @cgergs.bsky.social and his work!

Thank you, Florian, for highlighting my job market paper! 🎉 You can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Sqb1... Below, a short thread. 👇 (1/8)

....and @maritafreimane.bsky.social is on the market! sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...