Max Steinhardt

🎉Great news for Berlin’s research community. Proud to be part of Berlin’s vibrant research landscape and the next seven years of excellence with @berlinualliance.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social.

Upcoming presentation 🎓

@steinhardt.bsky.social presents Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl (with @freya-rubel.bsky.social & @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social) at the Economic History Seminar of the @uc3m.es.

Hosted locally by @juliazimmermann.bsky.social

📅 Feb 19

🗓️ Thursday, February 12:
We are very happy to welcome Maik T. Schneider at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Can Democracy Cope with Extreme Views“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

PhD-position - Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics - Bonn, Germany | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

📢 Fully funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn)

Opportunity to work on the scientific evaluation of @malengo.org, an exciting RCT on international educational migration from Uganda to Germany, and join our great team.

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We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, January 29:
We are very happy to welcome Thomas Triebs at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Switching to English to Attract Global Talent“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

🗓️ Thursday, January 22:
We are very happy to welcome Jana Mareckova at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „A Causal Machine Learning Analysis of Swiss Active Labor Market Policies“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

📢 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). Come join us!

🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi

👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides

⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås

👉 baem.info

🗓️ Thursday, January 15:
We are very happy to have Teresa Freitas Monteiro at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Harsh Rhetoric and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark‘s Ghetto List“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!

Exciting news from our team! 🎉

Research from our group is currently being shared at the Institute for @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social at the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.

PhD researcher @riawilken.bsky.social is there as a visiting researcher, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship 🌍✨

📑 🗣️ Berlin calling II: Interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics with a North American focus in Berlin? 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

The Graduate School of North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its doctoral program.

⚠️Deadline: January 31, 2026

✨ As the year comes to a close, we send our warmest holiday wishes to our colleagues and students.

🙏 Thank you for your engagement, collaboration, and commitment throughout the year. We look forward to continuing our work together in the year ahead.

#HappyHolidays #BestWishes

📢 Call for papers 📢

Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on the Economics of Migration, May 6-7!

Invited talks by Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, and Caroline Theoharides.

Submit your paper by Jan 31. Some travel funding is available. baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf

💬 Can a welfare reform meant to weaken a political rival actually make it stronger?

A new study by @felixkersting.bsky.social on Bismarck’s famous health insurance reform offers historical answers

🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

@humboldtuni.bsky.social #socialpolicy #politicalecon

2nd PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics June 8/9, 2026 Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) University of Copenhagen Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026 Keynote Speakers Ingar Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics) Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley

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#econsky

Happy that our research is covered in the @theguardian.com . Hopefully next time our names make it in too 😉.

We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter

🪙 First Internal Workshop of the DFG Research Unit “Labor Market Transformation: Scarcity, Mismatch, and Policy”

Topics 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
Research unit 🔗 www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/forschung/la...

@phaan.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#labormarkettransformation

Looking forward to hosting @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social from @hertieschool.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this week. #EconSky

In a new policy with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social, we spotlight an overlooked side of housing inequality: how living space is distributed. Both overcrowded and under-occupied homes have been rising in Germany in recent years.
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.

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Happy to share that I just presented for the first time at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association. I’m grateful for everyone who offered comments and feedback in my session. Had a great time in Tampa☀️

It was great to be in Tampa for the SEA 2025 conference and to present in such an interesting session. Many thanks for all the valuable comments! #SEA2025 #Economics

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With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the

4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration

on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain.

Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

Excited to be attending the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economic Association in Tampa, Florida, alongside @freya-rubel.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, and @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social from the Economics Department at Freie Universität Berlin.
#SEA2025 #Economics

Just arrived in Tampa for the 95th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association! Looking forward to great discussions and new ideas.

If you’ll be here and want to meet up, feel free to send me a DM. Always happy to offer advice to early-career scholars and students.

#SEA2025

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Happy to share that our research brief on housing space inequality in Germany will soon be published by the Progressive Politics Research Network!
This work, a collaboration with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social , digs into who has access to space and how policy can address it.