Our department co-hosted the Dutch Development Economics (DuDE) PhD Workshop at the Tinbergen Institute on Friday, 31st October 2025.

📣 Thinking about studying Economics and Business Economics in Amsterdam? Join us at the VU Bachelor’s Day on Friday November 7 and Saturday November 8 and get to know the Bachelor Economics and Business Economics (EBE) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:

Can public attention shape justice? In a forthcoming paper in the American Economic Review: Insights, our colleague @nadineketel.bsky.social (together with Olivier Marie and Kyra Hanemaaijer) explores how sudden surges in media attention, “salience shocks”, influence judicial decision-making.

"De Brexit is enorm meegevallen in economische zin!”

🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨 Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀! Dedicated time for your own research. Reach out to hear more! ** PLEASE REPOST **🙏 Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11 👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf #EconSky

One of my favorite traditions is now underway: for the 15th straight year, the Development Impact blog launches a call for PhD students in development economics to blog their job market paper - submissions due 8pm EST on Wednesday November 5: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Why don't firms publish pay in their job adverts? We present the first experimental evidence on how (not) posting wages changes the applicant pool, and whether that gives firms a reason to hide wage info. Great short thread by my co-author Lukas + link to the full paper👇

🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0... @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

on.ft.com/4nWM7Sy „Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning“

For vaccination to be effective, over 90% of kids need to be vaccinated (so diseases can’t spread). The Netherlands doesn’t hit this level for *any* childhood vaccine - and uptake is falling year on year. In my experience the program is laughably bad. Next government should fix it! nos.nl/l/2571726

Peak Dutch politics: After three parties (BBB, NSC, VVD) couldn’t agree on who should be immigration minister, they’ve reached a compromise: there will be three immigration ministers; one from each party

👥 Conference Organization Our development group organized the 14th Dutch Development Economics (#DuDE2025) Network Conference this year.

The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now. Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days. My Charlemagne this week www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

👥 Conference Participation We are proud to announce that Nursena Aksunger, PhD candidate at VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics, has been selected as one of only three young scientists from the Netherlands to participate in the 8th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences!

My department made it to Bluesky!

WH has now confirmed: this is insane nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...

📽WATCH #OxCSAE2025 LIVE Follow the Labour Market Dynamics session live now at the CSAE Conference 2025. With Deresse Fekadu Nigussie, Fadzayi Chingwere, @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social, Tevin Tafese View here 👇 ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

It also had zero political consequences in Germany.

If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1. If two people give 2 each, it is €4. If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million. Let’s coordinate, here 👇 and please re-post to spread the word. yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/

It's a very sad day. Just notified that @iza.org is closing its doors as of 31 December 2025. At a time when labor is under attack and technological change moves at an ever-faster pace, I can't help but think that this is a short-sighted decision. My heart goes out to those folks who work there.

🚨 Reminder: New Funding Opportunity - Upcoming Deadline!🚨 The G²LM|LIC & STEG Programme Joint Call for Expressions of Interest for research proposals on the changing nature of work and women's roles in Sub-Saharan Africa. 📅 Deadline: February 11, 2025 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/4b6UDZf

The Netherlands is no longer Germany's 17th federal state in economic terms. New Commission research shows that once strong NL-DE correlations in macro variables (GDP, investment) have become insignificant. A couple of observations on the stunning divergence between the frugal bulwarks. 1/

Für im Ausland lebende Deutsche: www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/info/presse/...

🌟Call for Papers!🌟 2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham Who❓ You and amazing keynote speakers Josh Angrist (MIT) & Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD) When❓ 17-18 June 2025 How❓Apply by 1 March 🏹 Info & submission: t.ly/e4dtL #EconSky #EconConf

🌟 We're hiring! 🌟 Join us as a postdoc at the BSoE @bseberlin.bsky.social ! We have several open positions including some in Organizational Economics or Behavioral Economics at Humboldt University. 🔗 Details: berlinschoolofeconomics.de/programs/res... #EconSky #EconJMP #Economics #Berlin

The "Field Days - Experiments Outside the Lab" workshop is in Amsterdam this year! Check out the call for papers and submit your paper by May 31. 🗓️ Oct 17-18, 2024 📍 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 📄 CfP: tinbergen.nl/event/2024/1...

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) 🧵👇

If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.

Interested in #MetaScience, #replications & #devecon? Apply as a replicator & work with @jrgptrs.bsky.social, Julian Rose & myself. Replicators also contribute to a meta-paper summarizing the results from all individual replications. Oh, and you get 2500€! bit.ly/46W0uxl