What a year to be on the market 🙃

📝 #EconSky I'm excited to announce that I am on the market this year! In my JMP, I (and Jose Montalban) study affirmative action in the context of school choice at age 3 —when skills are most malleable and returns are the highest! 👶🏫

Day 2 of our 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, the 16th edition, has started. Great presentations, lively discussaions and many familiar faces. Looking forward to @raffasadun.bsky.social keynote speech this afternoon! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... @ifoeducation.bsky.social

This week, @shushmargaryan.bsky.social, @emarkowsky.bsky.social and myself had the incredible privilege of hosting the 3rd edition of the Workshop on Societal and Policy Problems in Potsdam! It was an absolute blast! (1/3)

Attending the @armecona.bsky.social with @annarenner.bsky.social @ahammeralex.bsky.social and Armando Meier in beautiful Yerevan

We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...

Today is one of those days that I am disappointed in our profession. Reading a referee letter suggesting a rejection based on two points completely covered in the paper is disheartening. 5 years invested in an RCT to be rejected because of someone's inattention.

We had an amazing time this week hosting @arielkalil.bsky.social from UChicago in Potsdam & Berlin! Lots of fascinating conversations about parenting, behavioral tools, supporting disadvantaged kids, arts—and only a tiny detour into tariffs ;)

At the other BSE today presenting my joint work with @adriansantonja.bsky.social and Thomas Siedler

📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier (University of Berkely, California) & Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline 15 May 🚨 #EconSky

Interessant, dass Bildung es nicht einmal auf diese Liste geschafft hat, oder? Es ist ja nicht so, als hätten wir da ein Problem oder so.

This.

Merz said yesterday he will not allow the country to be led by a red-green minority. The red-greens have around 35%, while the CDU has~ 30%. If the CDU sees itself as the majority, that only makes sense if they’re counting the AfD. Merz now sees his party and those to its right as the true majority.

Merz and CDU seem to not have understood how multiple-party representative democracy works. If you can pass a certain proposal only with the votes of a non-democratic extremist party, this should signal to you that the whatever-proposal is not democratic. And the FDP goes along. This is a dark day.

I’m honestly puzzled as to why conservative parties ignore the ample research showing that when they adopt extremist positions, they fail to lure voters from those parties and instead normalize them. By proposing a hardline stance on migration, Merz is merely benefiting the AfD.

Heute geht es um die Abstimmung zur Verschärfung der Gesetze zur Migration. Im Diskurs der letzten Tage werden die Themen Migration und innere Sicherheit eng verknüpft. Der Zusammenhang zw. Migration und Kriminalität ist Gegenstand aktueller Forschung, die aber zu anderen Schlüssen kommt. (1/2)

Übrigens nicht nur in den USA: Die #noAfD stellt schon seit Jahren Anfragen zu Universitäten, z.B. wer denn so alles zum Thema "Gender" lehrt/forscht oder wie viel ausländische Studierende kosten. Auch in meinem persönlichen Umfeld habe ich davon gehört. dokumente.landtag.rlp.de/landtag/druc...

📣 Call for papers for junior (non-tenured) researchers: Workshop on “The Impact of Immigration and Refugee Inflows on Host Country Economies”, March 6‐7 in Berlin Keynote: Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University) Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024 #EconConf #Econsky

I move to suggest that all conferences in December should be held in Palme de Majorca ☀️ #SAE2024

I already booked my hotel in Napoli, just in case :)

Seeing all the reports about educational polarization in voting in the US, I have been thinking a lot about a paper we published couple of years ago.

Humboldt Fellowship: Berlin offers fellowships for early career researchers up to 4 years past PhD or for experienced scholars up to 12 years past PhD. More info here: www.humboldt-foundation.de/fileadmin/Be... Please get in touch if you are interested!

We are excited to have @woessmann.bsky.social in Potsdam in 2 weeks! If you are in Potsdam and Berlin area on Nov 27, register for the lecture "Bildung und Wohlstand" (in German) @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social @kinnelavinia.bsky.social @katrinhuber.bsky.social

I feel seen in this AEJ issue! The paper "How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-to-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes" shows that name difficulty is negatively related to the probability of landing an academic or tenure-track position.

"A Library in the Palm of Your Hand?" Can e-book readers improve reading engagement and academic outcomes of to low-income children?

When an Austrian, a Spaniard, a German, and an Armenian walk into an Italian restaurant… @adriansantonja.bsky.social @emarkowsky.bsky.social @annarenner.bsky.social

Paper submission deadline on Economics and Digital Health coming up in less than 3 weeks! ➡️ 15 March 2024 #EconSky📉📈

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.

🚨Job Alert🚨 Hertie School and the new Berlin-branch of IfW Kiel are jointly recruiting a tenure-track *Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics*. V attractive conditions (eg. reduced teaching load), so pls help spread and share widely! apply.interfolio.com/133002 #EconSky📉📈