Orgin beats Performance. In Germany, 10th graders who apply for an apprenticeship have a 15pp lower chance to receive an answer. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @mpsa.bsky.social @davidajaeger.bsky.social @cesifo.org @danbischof.bsky.social @p-hunermund.com papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

First-time voters hold polarized views on migrant issues. How do politicians react to this phenomenon? To find out, we contacted 1,554 candidates before the 2021 German federal election as (non-)migrant first-time voters and vary their stance on dual citizenship. Openaccess!(1/5)

“One of the easiest pastimes in the world is debunking democracy…a schoolboy can attack democracy much better than he can defend it. And one cannot answer him unless one knows the anti-democratic ‘case’ and is willing to admit the large measure of truth it contains.” George Orwell, 1941

Seeing too many diff-in-diff reviews and and summary articles but not sure where to start? We propose a new way to synthesize this growing literature using a Review in Reviews approach.

The state of research on AI and education from controlled studies: Growing evidence that, when used as a tutor with instructor guidance, AI seems to have quite significant positive effects. When used alone to get help with homework, it can act as shortcut that hurts learning. Still early days.

Thread by one of the authors: x.com/desimonemart...

Long-Term Effects of the US Medical Research Effort During World War II www.nber.org/digest/20250...

Very insightful tips from @catherinedevries.bsky.social how to find resilience in your skil power.

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And that’s why we need structural reforms, cutting back national holidays as a starter and labor market reforms and deregulation of gov admin ALONGSIDE debt financed stimuli to prevent inflationary pressures during the next four years.

I'm getting the feeling that my current research on difference-in-differences with non-binary treatments has no shot at NSF funding.

Greg Mankiw, who has been teaching econ 101 for decades, scolds Hassett for causally interpreting an accounting identity and pretending it’s econ 101 gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevi...

Heute ist Rudi on Fire. @bachmannrudi.bsky.social

...although the author's circumstances were somewhat unique.https://www.jstor.org/stable/2331554

A reform of the fiscal framework in the European Union is currently under discussion. Our new publication in the Int. Rev. Econ. Finance can inform this debate: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Spoiler: We find that most measures designed to strengthen the existing Maastricht 1.0 framework...