Stata users: if you aren't already, definitely start using bookmarks to create headings and sub-headings in your .do files. Such a big help! **# in a .do file creates a heading; **## = subheading; **### = sub-subheading. Then double-click on them to jump right to that section 👍

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

In tomorrow's seminar at the @stone-lis.bsky.social I will be presenting my paper "The Good Council: Deliberating inequality in a field experiment" (w @frawin.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and Martin Haselmayer). Join: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/programs/mul...

📣 Apply for Spring School 2026! Spend a week in San Diego, learning from leading researchers in behavioral economics and connecting with peers from across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of past Spring Schools — from beach walks to research talks 🌊☀️ www.nhh.no/en/calendar/...

The first session on Behavioral Econ was chaired by @robertoiacono.org and included presentations from @paulhufe.net (Just Cheap Talk), @franziskadbacher.bsky.social (The Good Council), and @krishnasrini.bsky.social (Who deserves a tax break and why).

Some perks of this conference.

🚨Publication alert🚨 What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals? Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr). Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep A thread🧵

Congratulations @s-stantcheva.bsky.social I think your work has inspired many behavioral economists (including myself) to study important questions in public economics.

The #ifoFürth Annual Conference 2025 is officially underway! We dive deep into #SocialMarketEconomy and evidence-based policy-making. Today = Day 1, we we’re lucky enough to listen to TWO keynotes, one by Massimo Morelli and one by @johannarickne.bsky.social 🤩🤩💪🏻🚀 @cesifo.org

Next up Francesco Capozza presents "Who Should Get Money? Estimating Welfare Weights in the U.S.". This paper performs experiments to elicit welfare weights. To me this is again very relevant to "Informational Boundaries of the State" where we explore this question in context of energy subsidies.

A huge thanks to all presenters, especially Area Director Claus T. Kreiner + keynote speaker @fixbierbrauer.bsky.social for a great 2025 edition of our Area Conference on Public Economics! 👏 Congratulations to Antoine Ferey (@sciencespo.bsky.social) for winning the 2025 CESifo Affiliate Award!

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 Super-duper happy that I've been promoted to the status of an IZA Research Fellow. Thanks to @ingoisphording.bsky.social and the entire @iza.org for this opportunity and your support. Looking forward to contributing further and engaging with the IZA network 🙂🫶🚀

Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with @acohn.bsky.social, @rfisman.bsky.social, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨PRE-DOC OPPORTUNITY🚨 If you are 🔸considering a future in #econ research, via a PhD or other paths (thinktanks, civil service); 🔸interested in studying Qs abt tax, growth & ineq; then come work w/me, @andy-summers.bsky.social + @centaxuk.bsky.social team econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #econ_ra

Give people housing and they'll have kids! Obtaining housing increases the average probability of having a child by 3.8% and the number of children by 3.2%. For 20 to 25-year-olds, the corresponding effects are 32% and 33%.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment" by Mark Shepard and Myles Wagner. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available. I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments Let’s see if I find the energy to do this!

📣 Final reminder: Don't forget to submit to our @cesifo.org conference at #ifo Fürth, March 27+28, 2025! We have 3 amazing keynote speakers, @michelebelot.bsky.social, Massimo Morelli & @johannarickne.bsky.social 🚀🚀🚀 ⏰ Deadline is TOMORROW, December 31! Organized by S. Necker, S. Blesse & myself😊

I think that both sides of the debate are quick to conclude. I think whether gift giving (as opposed to cash) increases welfare is an empirical question. Deadweight loss is just one side of the equation. There's also search costs involved in finding a gift.

A study of the claiming of children on tax returns finds that 95 percent of insured children and 88–97 percent of all US children are claimed, from Geoffrey Gee, Jacob Goldin, Joseph Gray-Hancuch, Ithai Lurie, and Vedant Vohra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33277

Hello mother? Hello father? In the first hour after an earthquake, who you call reveals something important about your social network ties. An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org

The call for papers is open and four fantastic keynote speakers are confirmed: Rema Hanna, Niels Johannesen, Ravi Kanbur, and Oyebola Okunogbe. Send us your best papers and join us in Nairobi in August!

Very much looking forward to this!

Why don't we just pool resources buy STATA Corp and then make it free for everyone??

A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#eeac Day 6+7: @walraslaw.bsky.social and @krishnasrini.bsky.social "Who Should Get Money? Estimating Welfare Weights in the U.S." Elicited weights are more progressive than current tax/transfer policy but less progressive than those used in optimal policy lit www.cesifo.org/en/publicati... #econsky

We use a shift share design to show that overleaf downtime reduced gpd by 1%.

#eeac Day 3: @priyomam.bsky.social JMP looks at the information aggregation within the household and the mediating effect of common knowledge of expertise. She finds poor information aggregation when expertise is uncertain in gender-neutral domain consistent with previous papers. #econsky #econjmp

This seems like an incredible public good. Metrics office hours.

How much priority should society give to those with greater needs? What are implications for inequality measurement and redistribution? Check out the new working paper by Morten Håvarstein, @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social and me “Equity and Efficiency When Needs Differ” www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research

Lots of new econ lovers here & lots of new resources. A🧵. The #EconSky feed built by @paulgp.com is the central place for econ discussion here. Displays posts with that tag. Click here, Pin it. Shows up as a tab on far right of ur Home screen ribbon 8 more resources... bsky.app/profile/paul...

This wins the internet today

Here's a real complete referee report on a paper of a friend in Physics. "Apologies but there is nothing in this letter that is not already been researched, published, or found wanting. The fact that this was sent to a referee and not desk rejected is troublesome but understandable."

1/n It might be time to think about the various use cases for Bluesky in economics—a thread. #EconSky

The requirement to get into this starter pack is two top 5s

Very cool JMP on the (mis)percieved returns to taking a break.

This is a fantastic tool if you’re looking for people with overlapping interests (as judged by networks) to follow: bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

This is the graph I show to people who think the world is worse now than in the past.

🚨 Job Market Paper 🚨 If 6 million individuals *voluntarily* put themself in a life-and-death situation, what drove them to make that choice? My job market paper examines how perceived fairness affected the decision to voluntarily enlist in the US during WW2 #EconJMP #EconJMC #EconTwitter [1/8]

Are we sticking with retweet or switching to repost or resky?

I have made a starter pack for experimental economics. Please let me know if you would like to be added or deleted from the list. Thank you. go.bsky.app/2U7CMUC #Econsky

Bluesky now feels like entering a party and deciding if it's cool or if you should just go home.

Behavioral economics starter pack is here! Thanks to @lionelpage.bsky.social for creating and h/t @jamesbland.bsky.social for making me aware of it. go.bsky.app/Ku4zvbT

I created a Public Econ (broadly defined) starter pack (I didn't see one - let me know if I'm wrong), starting from those I am following, or who are following me. I missed a lot. Please reply below this tweet and tag yourselves #econsky #publiceconomics #econ go.bsky.app/EcFdNWG

Is there a starter pack on here for behavioral and public folks?