Sven Hartmann
@svenahartmann.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher | Labor & Media Economics, Political Economy | firstgen https://www.svenhartmann.com
📢 New paper out in the #JournalofHumanCapital with #AgataGalkiewicz and #ThomasSiedler Can starting an exam with a difficult question hurt students’ performance? We find no evidence that it does — even in incentivized assessments under time pressure.
In our new @bjireditor.bsky.social paper we show that the establishment is the dominant explanatory factor for non-pay job quality and as important as occupation in accounting for pay. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social @francisgreen1.bsky.social @bayesbschool.bsky.social
The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality
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Incentives to reproduce and replicate articles are so bad. Even when your comment leads to the retraction of a PLOS One article, the reward is a (10 days late) email with a thank you at the bottom. Retraction notice: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... But we are not complaining about PLOS One 🧵
Hi #EconSky 📢 New paper accepted at #EconomicsofEducationReview by Christopher Avery & @abacherhicks.bsky.social : "Inequality and within-school student-teacher assignment patterns" They use US-data to analyse within school matching of students and teachers. 1/3
🆕 C'est la Vie! How a popular West African edutainment series changed minds, but not behaviours Malick Dione (Wageningen), Jessica Heckert (IFPRI), Melissa Hidrobo, Agnès Le Port (IRD), Amber Peterman (UNICEF) & Moustapha Seye (UCAD): https://ow.ly/URC450YY5cQ
C’est la Vie! How a popular West African edutainment series changed minds, but not behaviours
A West African TV series in Senegal led to short- and medium-term gains in knowledge and attitudes around violence against women and sexual and reproductive health, though impacts on behaviours were limited, and a podcast version extending content during COVID-19 was ineffective.
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🚨 FINAL REMINDER: THREE more days to submit, deadline 15th of May 🚨 We're looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🙏 All infos 👇 #FieldExperiments
Happy to be at Freie Universität Berlin this week and to present our joint work with Andrea Bernini at the Research Seminar in Economics on Thursday. Looking forward to the exchange and to hearing everyone’s thoughts on the project!
Economics Department J.-F.-Kennedy Institute@jfki-econ.bsky.social · 4mo ago🗓️Thursday, May 07 We are very happy to welcome Sven Hartmann (@unitrier.bsky.social) at the Research Seminar in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin. He will present his work on: “Mixed Signals from the West: Cultural Disruption and Human Capital in East Germany” sites.google.com/view/sven-ha...
Want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome? This paper develops tools for testing hypotheses about mechanisms under weak assumptions. Check it out! New paper by Roth and Kwon: www.restud.com/testing-mech... #REStud #EconSky
"Fog or smog?" 🌫️ My new paper in JEEM shows that exposure to Western TV in the former GDR created a lasting pro-environmental shift: ✅ More environmental concerns ✅ Increased activism ✅ Higher Green Party votes. 📄 Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #PoliticalEconomy #Environment #JEEM
Episode 2 of my trilogy on building replication packages for social scientists is now out! i4replication.org/a-researcher... 😉
A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages: Episode 2
Data Strikes Back The Importance of Being Earnest It’s Friday afternoon and your PhD student has just sent you an excited email that they finished the first round of data…
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🚨new pub!🚨 We study a novel education-based determinant of adolescents' dietary behaviors: the within-class age difference, referred to as relative age. w/ @svenahartmann.bsky.social & Francesco Principe. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Influence of within-class age differences on adolescents’ eating behaviors
This study examines within-class age differences as a novel determinant of adolescents’ dietary behaviors, isolating it from confounders such as absol…
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Macro at LSE is hiring predocs for September 2025! Come and work in the best city in the world, on cutting edge macro with Ben Moll, Ricardo Reis, Joe Hazell, Ethan Ilzetzki, and me. Past predocs have gone to places like Harvard, LSE and Northwestern. t.co/2RrUaQl6Pk #econ_ra #EconSky
https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/4174/0/460743/15539/research-assistant-in-macroeconomics-x2
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📢 Call for papers! The EAYE Annual Meeting welcomes submissions of full papers or extended abstracts (4-8K characters) in all fields of economics 👉 18–20 May '26, University of the Basque Country ⏲️ Submission deadline extended to 28 December 2025!
Only a few days to apply! ⏳ #econsky #econjobmarket
ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin@rfberlin.bsky.social · 10mo agoJoin RFBerlin as a Postdoctoral Fellow! ✔️ Leading faculty and global network ✔️ Vibrant group of junior researchers ✔️ Mentoring opportunities ✔️ Research and admin support ✔️ No teaching obligations Apply now: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
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🎉 EALE is now on Bluesky! Follow us here for updates, news, and everything related to the European Association of Labour Economists. We look forward to connecting with you in this new space! #EALE
🚨 Call for Papers! The 2026 EAYE Annual Meeting will take place at the University of the Basque Country 🇪🇸 on 18–20 May 2026 📅 Submit your paper or extended abstract by 1 Dec 2025 via CMT #EAYE2026
Come & join us in summer (February) in beautiful Melbourne: Submit your paper to the Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW), 11–13 Feb 2026 organised at Monash University and Monash Business School. Deadline to submit a paper: 17 Oct 2025 Details & submissions: www.monash.edu/business/eve...
Australian Gender Economics Workshop 2026
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @alexbryson.bsky.social and Mari Tanaka explore the impact of trade unions on firm performance in developing countries and find positive correlations between unionization and firm labor productivity and wages. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
Come join us at QSS @sriucl.bsky.social! We have the best colleagues ♥️
Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last yr.WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Fantastic opportunity!!
Henning Hermes@henninghermes.com · last yr.We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀 Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟 Please share widely 🙏🙏 Link below 👇
📢 We're hiring! Looking for a motivated, organized, and detail-oriented Econ student to join our team at JFKI (@jfki-econ.bsky.social) as a Student Assistant 🎓💼 Gain experience, boost your resume, and support our department! Apply now ➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... #EconSky
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🚨🚨 Vacancy alert 🚨🚨 Are you interested in doing a PhD 🎓🎓 in Economics 📈? Then join us @tilburg-university.bsky.social! We have a vacancy for a PhD student in our department. Check it out here: tiu.nu/22836
Job opening: PhD Position in Economics at Tilburg School of Economics and Management (22836)
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I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Youth Mental Health at Royal Holloway, University of London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Youth Mental Health at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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🚨PhD position at my Chair for Social Policy & Public Economics @ruhr-uni-bochum.de available. APPLY NOW!!! Deadline: 08 June 2025. Start date flexible: August 2025 or later. 75% TV-L E-13. Please share within your networks. jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...
Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d); Doktorand (m/w/d)
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Happy to see our joint work on immigrant housing now published in the Journal of Housing Economics! With @simonvoss.bsky.social (@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social) and Marc-André Luik, we show how language skills shape homeownership outcomes—offering new causal evidence on immigrant integration. #EconSky
Simon Voss@simonvoss.bsky.social · last yr.Excited to share that my joint work with @steinhardt.bsky.social and Marc-André Luik on immigrant housing in the US is out in the Journal of Housing Economics! We provide the first causal evidence linking immigrant language skills to homeownership. #EconSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✊What sparks protest under a secret police regime? In 1989 East Germany, pastor networks helped spread dissent across 645 cities. A new study reveals how trust and local ties quietly fueled the revolution 👥 jcbuggle.bsky.social martinlange.bsky.social 📚 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
