Connecting job seekers online with “buddies” who already managed to find a new job significantly increases their employment probability and their earnings, from de Koning, Muller, Belot, Engels, Fouarge, Keer, Kircher, and Phlippen www.nber.org/papers/w34912
🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)
📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn.
Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻
Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨
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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...
Featured in the latest Digest: School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement
www.nber.org/digest/20251...
Legalizing recreational marijuana reduces suicides among older white Americans.
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...
New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”
Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition.
In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
IWAEE News - Keynote line-up for 2026 (16th) Meetings:
Esteban Aucejo (U. Arizona), Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (U Düsseldorf) and @marirege.bsky.social (U. Stavanger)
14th to 16th June 2026, Catanzaro Italy
Call for papers opens soon - deadline end February.
iwaee.org/new/
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Shit; now I have to write a new paper.
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!
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📖 New Working Paper
"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"
😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...
@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy
So happy to finally see my Job Market Paper published at the @j-humanresources.bsky.social ! 🙌
📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩
This will be so exciting!!!🥳
🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025
@raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …
Businesses use checklists to exercise managerial control and ensure quality, but excessive bureaucracy can frustrate skilled workers and reduce morale. This column presents a randomised control trial in a German bakery chain that removed two time-consuming, non-essential checklists in selected stores. After abolishing the checklists, sales rose by 2.7%, customer ratings improved, and qualified workers – especially store managers – were less likely to leave. The regional managers accurately predicted the outcomes, suggesting that empowering middle managers with discretion over control mechanisms could boost both performance and wellbeing.
Excessive bureaucracy can frustrate workers. A German experiment shows that removing non-essential tasks led to increased sales, improved customer ratings, and made workers less likely to leave.
G Friebel, M Heinz, M Hoffman, @tkretschmer.bsky.social, N Zubanov
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026.
More information, including call for papers, to follow
Agreed.
Not quite sure that bad emotional regulation stronger, weak cooperation skills, and behavioural difficulties leads to a high demand for cross-identification relationships (see abstract) Sounds like ovb to me. A bit misleading to call it identified in abstract, where text says it merely correlates.
Graph of the gender equality paradox in higher education. The most economically prosperous and gender-equal societies often display stronger gender segregation in educational choices – a pattern known as the ‘gender equality paradox’. This column explores this paradox using data on half a million children in 37 Western countries and 10,000 British families over two decades. The findings suggest that gender segregation in education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles. Policymakers may need to move beyond promoting formal equality and focus on family, community, and school interventions that encourage mixed-gender interactions.
Manuel Bagues & Natalia Zinovyeva find that #gender segregation in #education stems from gender segregation in childhood activities and friendships, which are shaped by family income and parenting styles.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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My latest "Professor Is In" explainer with @anacabrera.bsky.social was designed almost too perfectly for the present moment: Who uses economic data? Why does the government collect it, why must it be imperfect, and how does political interference undermine it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbn...
We do things which are significant and will change world!
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?
➡️ New Working Paper:
Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek
www.nber.org/papers/w33984
A 🧵 1/12
🎙️NEW FINDINGS🎙️
Updated analysis from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded work on shows that inequalities by socio-economic background have *increased* over time for the latest year of recruitment as competition for graduate jobs have increased
repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo...
A lot of attention is rightfully on gender inequalities in the labour market and, to a lesser degree, on inequalities in unpaid work ⚖️
But men falling behind in education and the lack of debate around this is also a big societal problem. Great paper 👇
📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):
👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries
Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience
academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
A 🧵 1/9
Looks like intensive advising may b e more cost-effective than financial aid. Turns out guiding students through complex college choices might be more effective than giving them money and setting 18 year olds loose on the world to make consequential decisions: www.nber.org/papers/w3392...
🧵Replication: Can refugee flows be lowered by reducing welfare? Agersnap et al. (2020, AER:I) study this in Denmark, reporting lower benefits strongly reduce migration flows. I reanalyze this paper, finding a much more nuanced result.
Over the moon to see our paper on "Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment" out in the June 2025 issue of @jeeanews.bsky.social today! 🤩🥳🥳🥳
What a journey – huge thanks to @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🙂
Are there differences between American academics and European-based academics?
