📢 Very happy to see our paper "Child penalties in labour market skills" (w/ @jonasjessen.bsky.social & @michelebattisti.bsky.social) out in the special issue on "Education, Health, and Gender: A Family Perspective" of the European Economic Review. Link (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... More ⤵️

📣SAVE-THE-DATE 📣 Our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business celebrates its 5th anniversary with FANTASTIC keynote speakers: @peterbergman.bsky.social (UT Austin) and Esther Duflo (MIT) 🎉🙌 📍 Sept 7–8, 2026 at TUM Campus Heilbronn (pre-workshop get-together Sept 6).

⏰ Reminder! Submissions for the EAYE 2026 Annual Meeting, hosted by @ehu.eus, are open for just a few more days! Deadline: 28 December 2025 See the CfP for details 🔗 www.eaye.info/eayeam/2026-...

Are you interested in studying Public Policy at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social ? There are two scholarships available for Palestinian students: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

🎅🎁Our last newsletter of 2025 is out! ✨What Facebook data reveal about patience & educational achievement ✨Religious education has long-term effects ✨Good schools help disadvantaged children ...& more! 👉 sendlx.com/display.php?M=111332033&C=ff6ce63f422bb23d840c4ce5648c1c70&S=201333&L=1198&N=111605

I'm very happy that this paper has found a home and has been published just in time for the holidays. Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mI6Bc24bB...

We are hiring in Applied Micro: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ715/s...

Our dept is hiring an associate professor in microeconomics / competition theory. It is a wonderful department - do get in touch. The job ad is in German but we teach more and more in English, so we‘re flexible. www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit...

🚨 Unsere neue Studie zeigt: 👉 Das Erreichen der Ziele „Bessere Bildung 2035“ würde rund 21 Billionen Euro an zusätzlicher Wirtschaftsleistung bringen "Volkswirtschaftliche Erträge besserer Bildung" mit Katia Werkmeister für die @bertelsmannst.bsky.social www.ifo.de/publikatione... 1/3

‼️We are hiring!‼️ 👉Postdoctoral Researcher in Behavioral / Experimental Economics (Log In required) 👉Postdoctoral Empirical Microeconomics (IO and trade) (Log In required) www.dice.hhu.de/das-dice/ueb...

📣 Call for Papers Join us for the 2nd Berlin PhD Conference in Economics on July 6-8, 2026. 🗓 July 6-8, 2026 ⏰ Application deadline: 25 January 2026 🔗 Learn more & apply: berlinschoolofeconomics.de/event-detail... @wzb.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social #phdconference

🎉 I feel very honored to have received the Best Paper Award at the European Winter Meeting of @econometric.bsky.social in Nicosia, Cyprus, for my paper with @vsondergeld.bsky.social titled "Meet my family: women in leadership and gender stereotypes in the media". More info on the paper below ⤵️

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1

Very excited to organize one of the 2026 CESifo Venice summer institutes on “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲” jointly with 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿 (MIT) and 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗹𝘂𝗺 (U Chicago) will join us as keynote speakers. Submit your papers by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟴: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Jinju Rhee, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: How information shapes price competition 🔍Research topics: Applied microeconomic theory, Industrial organization, Organizational economics, Regulation 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/jinjurh...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Marcel Quint, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: The Interaction of Memory Imperfections 🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory 🌐 Website: www.marcelquint.com

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Carla Mirabella, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: What Women Want: Marriage Market Misperceptions 🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Political Economy, Gender Economics 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/carlami...

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Kevin Kloiber, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: The Cost of Complexity: How Communication Frictions Affect Patient Mortality 🔍Research topics: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics 🌐 Website: www.kevin-kloiber.com

Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy. These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure). And now onto the scholars... 👇

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Elena Herold, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Joint Taxation and Household Inequality: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples 🔍Research topics: Public Economics, Labour Economics, Gender Economics, Household Decision-Making 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/elenahe...

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Friederike Fourné, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Identifying macroeconomic shocks using firm-level data: Material shortages in the German manufacturing sector 🔍Research topics: Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Forecasting, Financial Stability

🆕Working Paper🚨 Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks📒 w/ A.Bertermann, @dauthecon.bsky.social & @suedekum.bsky.social 🤖 Robots ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬆️early retirement 🌏 Imports ➡️ ⬇️training & ⬆️early r. 🌎 Exports ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬇️e.r. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo... 🧵1/9

If you are hiring this year, check out Charlotte's profile! She is a great young researcher and a big plus to every team!

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Charlotte Cordes, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Motivated memory and favoritism 🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics 🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/charlot...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Call for Papers – 38th EALE Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 31 August - 2 September 2026. We invite all labour economists to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Link to CfP and submission portal: ub.edu/eale2026/ Deadline: 1-02-2026

#EconJobMarket💼 Meet Jonas Casper, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social 🎓JMP: Unproductive Exporters 🔍Research topics: International Trade, Spatial Economics 🌐 Website: jonascasper.github.io

📢 Meet Our 2025 Job Market Candidates! 🚀 Jonas Casper, Charlotte Cordes, Friederike Fourné, Elena Herold, Kevin Kloiber, Carla Mirabella, Marcel Quint, Jinju Rhee Learn more: www.econ.lmu.de/en/faculty/m... #EconJobMarket

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Time to submit a paper to the Fifth Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Micro! Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. 5-7 May, submit papers here: www.tinyurl.com/FifthSaNESub...

📢 CfP Alert! We’re excited to announce the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). 🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol Three focused workshops in applied economics: Development, Migration & Fairness. 🔗 www.baem.info

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Can schools change faith? Benjamin Arold, @woessmann.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow find that ending mandatory #ReligiousEducation reduces adult #religiosity by 7%. Students earn more, work longer hours, but pray less and skip church. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social Target date for applications: November 24! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... #EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME

Join us! @iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics! Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms. No German required. Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself! 🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty

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

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources: ⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow 👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... A 🧵 1/6

📣 Call for Papers out now: 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. 📆30 - 31 March 2026 ⏳Submit by 11 January 2026 Organizers: @woessmann.bsky.social, @mtotarelli.bsky.social, @caterinapavese.bsky.social Keynote: Michela Carlana @harvardkennedy.bsky.social tinyurl.com/h4vckkb2

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

📢 Call for papers: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

Save the date! The fifth annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Microeconomics will be held from 5-7 May 2026 at the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire. Professor Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. For more info: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

First time presenting a research paper in a church! ⛪️📄 Presented our paper on aging & cognitive skills at the workshop on „Skills and Demographic Transitions: Labour Markets, Productivity and Welfare" in Urbino last week. Thanks to the great hosts! Link to paper and tv coverage in the comments.

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

This year’s VfS Annual Meeting hosts a fantastic gender and diversity related program. Read the following thread to see what we have in store for you. A big thank you to the @DHRS for supporting our efforts 🙌! Dive into our exciting lineup.

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus dpu.au.dk/om-dpu/ledig...

🚨 85% (!) der Erwachsenen sind für ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social Media. Selbst unter den Jugendlichen ist eine relative Mehrheit dafür. 👉 Dies und mehr im neuen ifo Bildungsbarometer 2025: www.ifo.de/fakten/2025-... 1/7

My paper on designing and analyzing powerful experiments is now up online at Fiscal Studies. Here is my shareable link for free access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

If you know of a student who is looking for a education post doc (now, odd timing I know), I may have an opportunity for them. They would be working Texas admin data so experience with that would be a big plus.