After a misconduct investigation, MUNI dismissed the head of the RE:CENT Institute, who was subsequently hired by UHK (University of Hradec Králové) to establish the CENT:RE Institute.

Orbán says that the fire at a Czech weapons manufacturing plant was an act of terrorism. The fact is that it is too early to determine this or to identify the perpetrators.

The Czech government is following Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Georgia in preparing an act targeting “foreign-backed” NGOs. I am proud that my university stands against it. www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/185...

Od novinářů jsem opakovaně slyšel sebereflexi, jak stvořili Okamuru. Při pohledu na českou ekonomku Janu Matesovou (scholar.google.com/citations?hl...) komentující geopolitiku, si nejsem jist, jestli ta sebereflexe byla dost velká. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/...

S napětím čekám na to, jak se dotkne analytického útvaru. www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @stepanmikula.bsky.social and Mariola Pytliková study how improvements in air quality affect migration behavior. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Minimálně Piráti a STAN by měli ve vlastním zájmu zavést kvóty na ženy na kandidátkách v krajských a parlamentních volbách.

Česká Kanada, Česko-saské Švýcarsko, Český Einstein, České Budějovice a Moravská Třebová nám zjevně nestačí. Je potřeba zařadit na další level bizáru: Přerovské Maledivy share.google/WCTTb9UWMOCi...

🧵 In a recent IZA Discussion Paper, @stepanmikula.bsky.social, @tommasoreggiani.bsky.social, and I study how civic culture can persist—or even emerge—under authoritarian rule. In the IZA World of Labor commentary linked below, you can also find a short non-technical summary. #EconSky 1/3

🧵In a recent IZA Discussion Paper, @stepanmikula.bsky.social, @tommasoreggiani.bsky.social, and I exploit a unique historical experiment that unfolded in post–World War II Czechoslovakia to study the long-term drivers of the accumulation of social capital. 🔗 Download: docs.iza.org/dp17981.pdf 1/12

Without executioners, there would be no executions. Autocratic regimes rely on the legitimacy of their predecessors and the compliance of public employees at all levels. Democracy may not die in applause, but it certainly perishes through (seemingly) minor compromises with evil.

Lena Adamus z @econmuni.bsky.social denikn.cz/1707148/veri...

Careful research by @johnlist.bsky.social and colleagues: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Potřebujeme i lepší grantový systém, ale hlavně potřebujeme do vědy posílat více peněz přes institucionální financování kvalitních institucí.

Real photo of an econ seminar during the introduction slide:

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

❔Jaká rizika přináší stárnutí populace? O tom diskutovali 🔹Ondřej Májek z ÚZIS 🔹ředitelka @recetox.bsky.social Jana Klánová 🔹vedoucí HEPII @jakubhlavka.bsky.social 🔹výzkumník trhu práce @stepanmikula.bsky.social 🔹vedoucí výzkumu CzechHTA ČVUT Aleš Tichopád 🔹MUDr. Hana Vaňková z @unikarlova.cuni.cz

Takhle po dlouhé době otevřu článek na idnesu: "Důležité je, jak podpořit zájem pedagogů studovat PhD., což je pět let života." Fakulta zdravotnických studií Západočeské univerzity v Plzni. Jedna se o hodnotný příspěvek do diskuse o zřizování a nafukování regionálních vysokých škol.

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R: r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

Dovolil bych si jedno upřesnění. Navzdory zprávám o aktuálním dění v Brně stále platí to, že MUNI je univerzita, která jako přidruženou aktivitu provozovala kino. Opravdu to není naopak. Alespoň doufám.

What would the night sky look like at the edge of space?

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.** www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

For the following 4 years we will work on projects on health/labour/environmental aspects of population ageing and geographic/social peripheries. For these projects we are looking for multiple postdocs. Follow me and @econmuni.bsky.social here or check our website: www.econ.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

Roots of parametric polynomials weaving a mesmerizing dance. ✨ #MathArt #Mathematics #Sciart Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy #sympy"

We recently launched rknowledge.org - an interactive platform that provides advanced Knowledge Space indicators for over 1,000 regional economies across Europe and North America; intro: youtu.be/C4r2n258O08 and @regionalstudies.bsky.social publication: doi.org/10.1080/0034... (1/5)

OSMnx 2.0.0 has been released! 🎉 This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package's API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully type-annotated for a better user experience. 🧵

Received: 23 Sep 2024 Revised: 30 Oct 2024 Accepted: 1 Nov 2024 Published: 15 Nov 2024 To all PhD students at @econmuni.bsky.social This is NOT how decent (econ) journals work. Maybe there are exceptions but this is not one of them.

It is official. Michal Kvasnička from @econmuni.bsky.social is the best econ teacher in this quadrant. msmt.gov.cz/vzdelavani/v...

Dostupnost primární péče je velké téma ve stárnoucí společnosti, která se navíc potýká s regionálními nerovnostmi. Náš @econmuni.bsky.social nový policy paper ukazuje dostupnost péče praktiků, pediatrů a zubařů v ČR na úrovni 21k geografických jednotek. dx.doi.org/10.60791/PR_...

We’re hiring multiple postdoctoral researchers in empirical #labour and #health #economics at Masaryk University #MUNI in the Czech Republic! Labour Economics: is.muni.cz/go/labour Health Economics I: is.muni.cz/go/health1 Health Economics II: is.muni.cz/go/health2 #EconSky #Postdoc

On Wednesday, I’ll start my half of the data analysis course with an introduction to tidyr. As usual, there will be a weekly home assignment. Just a friendly reminder to participants: any code snippets you copy-paste from the web that use the reshape package might actually be older than you!

Vadim Delaunay, Vladimir Dremlyuga, Victor Fainberg, Larisa Bogoraz, Konstantin Babitsky, Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Ahoo Daryaei.

Hang on a minute…

DPP/DPČ jsou důležité pro rozpočty mladých a chudých domácností. V novém policy paperu ukazujeme, že jejich reformy, mohou vytlačovat ohrožené domácnosti do švarcsystému. @econmuni.bsky.social #RILSA #SYRI www.econ.muni.cz/aktuality/no...

The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This IZA change is really unexpected, right? www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/wc/files/IZA... Huge loss for IZA that Simon is leaving, and Armin brings a lot of baggage, to put it mildly.

Hey #EconSky, I am excited to share my new paper on “Individualism, Creativity, and Innovation”: ideas.repec.org/p/jgu/wpaper/2…. I show tha#individualismsm – th#culturere of personal achievement and personal responsibility – affect#innovativev#productivityty at the individual level#JMPMP 😊🧵

Francesco Scalone, Lucia Pozzi & Liam Kennedy show that infant & child mortality differed by religion in 1911 Belfast even after controlling for literacy, SES, neighbourhood & mother’s characteristics. Infant & child mortality was higher in mixed religion marriages! doi.org/10.1017/ssh....

I've posted a new short paper called "Practical Advice for Producing Better Graphs" that ... provides practical advice for producing better graphs. 😀 Comments and suggestions welcome. jkastellec.scholar.princeton.edu/document/91

This paper very strongly influenced economists of the era Ten years later it was required reading when I took PhD labor at MIT

A new website for my online course "Getting started with #Rstats for busy people" is coming very soon 👀 I'm also working on a significant update, with a ton of improvements In the meantime, you can check out my resources to get the most out of R here: en.osc.ac/codehub/

New paper with @jvoth.bsky.social "From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler" Click (pdf) 👉 lnkd.in/g2wtSvUm

Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.

And on the third day, God gave the economist exogenous variation

So, as someone new to this site, I want to draw people's attention to a report I released last year, which I consider the best work I have ever done in my career: research.upjohn.org/up_technical...

#SocialCapital #Migration #VotingBehavior #EconSky Check out my research agenda featured on the Masaryk University website (Czech only): www.em.muni.cz/veda-a-vyzku...