🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Less than 200 years ago, one in three Dutch children died before the age of five

Just posted on SSRN, an experimental follow-up to my comment with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social, and Robert Walatka. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

Will people get vaccinated in exchange for money? A study via Booth’s Devin Pope, Lund University's @erikwengstrom.bsky.social @campos-mercade.bsky.social, @snsf-ch.bsky.social's Armando Meier, Columbia's @meierstephan.bsky.social, Copenhagen's Florian Schneider. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/does-...

Hi! I am a professor in Economics at @lunduniversity.bsky.social My main research interests are mechanism and market design, and I have designed and redesigned many markets (mainly in the Scandinavian countries). I Please follow me 🙂

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 experiments, we found that unfollowing extreme influencers: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24% -Increased satisfaction with X -Led people to share higher-quality news Effects lasted for 6+ months. osf.io/preprints/ps...

These allegations of massive fraud & theft by PayPal seem not to have really hit the mainstream news yet. It’s a surprise given how blatant PayPal / Honey’s scam seems to be & given the PayPal mafia are not exactly the world’s favourite people. youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?...

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

New paper: We combine evidence from a survey (correlational), bank spending data, and online experiments to show that job loss increases risk taking. Joint work with @abbysussman.bsky.social, Carlos Vazquez-Hernandez, Daniel O'Leary, and Jennifer Trueblood

Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit. It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources. We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.

Earnings of 12,000 (new) PhD #economists who completed their degrees between 2001 and 2017 & were employed in the US following graduation.

What is an important fact about the world that you wish more people would know? Here is my answer: If we rely on the best data, many of us can save a child's life. And here is my article about it. ourworldindata.org/cost-effecti...

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

Super excited to publicly launch "All Day TA" (http://www.alldayta.com), a product @joshgans.bsky.social and I have been working on with our team over the last year. Short version: if you teach in spring, you will want to use this! It's the future of higher education. A short thread: 1/x

A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

📣📣📣 #EconSky Inspired by @tapiorasanen.bsky.social, here is a starter pack for economists conducting field experiments 🤓🫶 Please let me know who is missing – and share widely! 🚀 go.bsky.app/9hev4gN

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. A little thread to highlight our work on its roots with @sahilchinoy.bsky.social, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Sandra Sequeira.🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

#eeac Day 1: @benleoecon.bsky.social JMP "No Intention to Profit, yet Still Repugnant: Experimental Evidence for Outcome-Based Repugnance" How do people feel about prediction mkts for disasters or second-hand life ins where transactions profit from misfortunes without causing them? #econsky #econjmp

This paper is fascinating. A three-year field experiement in which a 1000 low income Americans get $1000 a month. The tl;dr conclusion is that it basically has zero effect on their political views or participation. www.nber.org/papers/w33214

Measles vaccination has saved an estimated 94 million lives globally since 1974. Of those, 92 million were children.

To celebrate my moving to BlueSky I am giving away LaTeX goodies. Always wanted to have a clean, nice-looking, readable, complete and supporting visual track changes reply to referees? Look no more: the template you're looking for is here: github.com/paolocrosett... Happy BlueSkying to everyone.

Totally agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social. The broader point is that I think we need to directly address the elephant in the room: the *huge* impact of context--i.e., seemingly irrelevant factors--on choice and beliefs. 🧵 on the behavioral economics of context, with some new data at the end.

Great JMP by Paula Roth on ‘Keeping Up with the Svenssons’ - now out in REStat! doi.org/10.1162/rest...

Hi Bluesky! I'm a refugee escaping from all the hatred in X. I hope I'll find some peace here 😁 I'm interested in politics, but not in "social-media politics". I hope I can use this platform for productive academic discussions. Looking forward to it!