Welcome to the new BeNA board! 👋 After two years of dedicated service, the previous board— Aiko Schmeißer ( aikoschmeisser.com), Annica Gehlen (amageh.bsky.social), Felix Degenhardt, and Max Deter—hands over their responsibilities.

The new BeNA board consists of: • Maxi Schaller (maxischaller.bsky.social) • Thomas Rieger (thorieger.bsky.social) • Mareen Bastiaans (mareenbastiaans.bsky.social) • Lukas Fink (lukasfink.bsky.social)

⏰ Deadline this Friday! BeNA Labor Economics Workshop, May 29 in Berlin. PhD students: submit an abstract or draft by March 27 → [email protected] Guest speakers: Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) & Iris Kesternich (Hamburg) Early-stage work welcome! #LaborEcon #EconTwitter #PhD #Workshop

From June 23 to June 29, 2025, Freie Universität Berlin will be cutting out the letter e from its communication. Why? Because the university itself is facing cuts: around 37 million euros this year alone. Additional cuts are also planned for 2026 and 2027. (1/3)

Extremely interesting special issue on reproducibility and replicability in @ei-sky.bsky.social, featuring my article with @lukasfink.bsky.social on replication code availability over time and across disciplines.

🚨 New Special Issue Alert! 🚨 This special issue of Economic Inquiry on reproducibility & replicability in economics is co-edited by Farasat Bokhari, Michalis Drouvelis and our chair, Abel Brodeur. This is Part I, focusing on methodological advances and key challenges. 🧵👇

🎓 Do tuition fees help or harm? 👥 New study co-authored by @janmarcus.de and @marcbachmeier.bsky.social on a crucial question: How do tuition fees impact not just who enrolls, but who actually graduates? 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new... @iza.org @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Excited that my Job Market Paper "Unequal Access: How Public Library Closures Affect Educational Performance" joint with Greg Gilpin is now available as a working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1140 💫

📢 I am looking for a new PhD student (Research Associate)📢 🔹 4 year position at FU Berlin (66% TV-L E13) 🔹 Research on causal effects in education, health, labour & family economics 🔹 2 hours teaching/week & statistical consulting #EconSky www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

New working paper! @i4replication.bsky.social does a good job detailing the experiment’s results, so for anyone who considers LLMs/AI as a (soon-to-be) solution to reproducibility in social science, let me walk you through the 🔥hell🔥 of trying to reproduce a paper on an "AI-led" team. 1/7

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

🧵 Excited to share: "Replication Code Availability over Time and Across Fields", was just accepted by #EconomicInquiry! 🚀 Here's what @lukasfink.bsky.social and I uncovered about replication code availability for publications based on the German Socio-Economic Panel #SOEP 📈📉 doi.org/10.1111/ecin...