Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.

75% of US scientists who answered @nature.com poll consider leaving. More than 1,600 readers answered their poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Banning #smartphones in over 400 schools led to: -decreased psychological symptoms among girls by 29% -decreased bullying by boys and girls by 43% -increased GPA among girls by .08 SDs Effects were larger for girls from low SES families openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bi...

Social media is a collective trap: Users feel compelled to stay engaged, even if they hate it. The majority would prefer to live in a world without Tik Tok or Instagram (which currently have 3.5 billion users). I wrote about this problem and a solution: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-we-sho...

So 2023 was a miraculous year for the economy: high growth with inflation falling all the way back to the Fed's target, rising real wages. And here, according to YouGov, is how Republicans saw it

There is a Climate Change Econ Summer School with my @vuamsterdam.bsky.social colleagues and 2 profs from UvA coming up! 🌳 You can find out more about the Tinbergen Institute's Summer Schools here: tinbergen.nl/summer-school/

The stages of Republican economic grief:   The economy is lousy   The numbers may look good, but people aren’t feeling it   People are feeling better, but won’t credit Biden   Trump will give everyone a pony

New publication with @kkhadjavi.bsky.social and Rainer Thiele: We show that the introduction of large-scale farms in #Zambia has positive spillovers, including more #gender #equality for current and #future #generations. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

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There is massive grade inflation at top universities—and it’s getting worse. Grade inflation is occurring at most colleges, spiked during the pandemic, and is lower in the sciences. When the average GPA is 3.7 the grades essentially become meaningless. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/n...

This is 100% real. A prof. has every incentive just to hand out A's because doing otherwise makes your life miserable for no reason. The only reason I don't is b/c 1. I'm teaching a required course and want to select for better students and 2. it kills the spark in the 10-15% with actual promise.

SZ reports that Armin Falk will not take over as IZA director.

Armin Falk zieht sich zurück „Wir danken unserem internationalen Forschungsnetzwerk ausdrücklich dafür, dass es uns mit seinem kritischen Engagement die Essenz des IZA noch einmal deutlich vor Augen geführt hat.“ www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/o...

Here is the call for papers for the special issue of the EER in memory of Nora: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

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...

... as if the world doesn't have enough problems already... 😑🤮 I studied in Delaware and like Joe, but that the democrats couldn't establish a younger, charismatic candidate to sweep away that criminal autocrat Trump might cost the United States it's democracy. 😕 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/u...

A lot of criticism has recently been levelled at behavioural scientists, ranging from p-hacking to outright fraud. My impression is that the problem is not in behavioural economics per se, but some other areas clearly seem to have a problem. #Behecon openmkt.org/research/rep...

📢 New working paper alert! With the help of more than 700 volunteer reviewers, we (@milosfisar.bsky.social,  @chrhuber.bsky.social, Elena Katok, @ozkesali.bsky.social and myself) assessed the reproducibility of ~500 articles published in Management Science. Some results. 📊🔍 #Reproducibility

In terms of extreme parties, antisemitism and racism against people of color, Germany is on it's way back to 1933. And the CDU makes the same historical mistake of slowing legitimizing the right-extreme AfD. Will there be political refugees from Germany again? www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

The war on inflation is over. We won, at very little cost

Call: Special Issue of Journal of Economic Psychology - ISSN 0167-4870 (elsevier.com) on Social Institutions and Cooperation Failures. Public good provision, social dilemmas, intergroup conflict. Theory and experiments. Reposting appreciated!

Submission Deadline is December 25, 2023

We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023. Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED! We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n