Dietmar Fehr
@dietmarfehr.bsky.social
Professor of Economics @unistuttgart.bsky.social Inequality // Political Economy // Economics & Psychology // Development Economics sites.google.com/view/dietmarfehr
Die bayerische Landesregierung hat einen Gesetzesentwurf beschlossen, der Hochschulen und Lehrkräften künftig untersagen soll Studierenden die Nutzung von KI zu verbieten. STELLA ELMENTALER und LINUS HOF halten dieses KI-Verbot-Verbot für verfassungswidrig. verfassungsblog.de/ai-way-or-th...
Writing a paper introduction is more art than science, but a good formula gets you most of the way there. Today's blog post: a paragraph-by-paragraph template that is used pretty commonly, plus the mistakes I see most often. 🧵 #EconSky deryugina.com/a-two-for-on...
A two-for-one blog post on writing introductions – Tatyana Deryugina
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Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.
An experiment with 4,000 Americans shows that size alone doesn’t trigger public support for antitrust. Evidence of consumer harm does, from Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Jeffrey Yusof www.nber.org/papers/w35503
Just Accepted new paper, “Fairness in Winner-Take-All Competitions” by Björn Bartling, Alexander W. Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Erik Ø. Sørensen, and Bertil Tungodden zurl.co/nKmis
Fairness in Winner-Take-All Competitions
Abstract. This paper investigates fairness perceptions of extreme income inequality generated in winner-take-all competitions. Two large-scale experiments
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People overestimate how much income boosts life satisfaction. Correcting this belief leads them to place less weight on income in life decisions, from Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Rafael Macedo Rubião www.nber.org/papers/w35423
In einem gemeinsamen Beitrag mit @maandor.bsky.social sprechen wir uns für einen Feldversuch (aka Experiment) zur Evaluierung eines #Tempolimit s auf Autobahnen aus (€) www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/tempo...
Tempolimit 130 für die Autobahn: Vielleicht erstmal erproben, bevor man es ablehnt?
Freie Fahrt auf der Autobahn: Das ist vielen Deutschen heilig. Dabei hätte ein Tempolimit von 130 einige Vorzüge – nur nicht die, die in der Debatte oft eingebracht werden.
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I asked a (brilliant female) colleague about the apparent gender gap in AI uptake in our field and she suggested that it was driven by women being more likely to be judged as incompetent if they use AI. This resume study suggests, sadly, that she may be correct codeforgoodnow.com/wp-content/u...
Heat waves are bad for the brain if you can’t keep a cool head—research during a heat wave found people without AC performed measurably worse on cognitive tests of memory, attention, and executive functions like problem-solving and decision-making: buff.ly/7HwHYsJ
🚨🚨 NEW ECONOMICS JOURNAL 🚨🚨 We are excited to announce the launch of The Review of Economic Studies: Insights, a new open-access journal in the REStud family. Mission: publish concise, high-quality research on important questions across economics and economic policy.🧵1/13
Heute bin ich in @jmwiarda.bsky.social's Blog zu Gast, mit einem Beitrag zur Hitze im Hörsaal und wie sie sich ganz einfach vermeiden liesse: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/06...
Hitzekollaps im Hörsaal
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Tenure is the process by which universities reward people for proving they can work weekends
Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍
Experimental economists use best practices to reduce demand effects. Reviewing these methods shows that demand effects have very limited impact, from Jonathan de Quidt, Lise Vesterlund, and Alistair Wilson www.nber.org/papers/w35350
What happens when we take an elegant theory model too literally, are cows really the answer to poverty, the dangers of heterogeneity w.r.t. a baseline X, and more - I discuss the new @deankarlan.bsky.social & co-authors revisiting of a seminal poverty trap paper blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The dangers of taking theory too literally, of log(x/a+1) transforms, and place versus cows in determining poverty dynamics
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Echt jetzt? Da müssen jetzt aber Megareformen um die Ecke kommen.
Wissenschaftsrat@wissenschaftsrat.de · 2mo agoDer Gesetzesentwurf zur Novellierung des #WissZeitVG ist da –ein wichtiger Teil des großen Reformprojekts rund um attraktive und zukunftsfähige #Personalstrukturen in der Wissenschaft. Der WR-Vorsitzende, @wickwolfgang.bsky.social, im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/05...
Following Rio de Janeiro's 2023 phone ban, test scores increased in schools that previously had lax policies relative to those with strict policies, from Guilherme Lichand, Luca Moreno-Louzada, Thiago da Costa, and Matthew Gentzkow www.nber.org/papers/w35233
Glad to see this WP from our lab out today, a labor of love over last year. Kudos to @davidbroska.bsky.social and @jonnekamphorst.bsky.social for their hard work on it! Please share any comments, suggestions, or criticisms of the research. All are welcome!
davidbroska.bsky.social@davidbroska.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmericans say they want less inequality. Why don’t they support policies to reduce it? New paper: across 31 nationally representative survey waves (N=384,248) and a preregistered experiment (N=1,009), Americans favor PREdistributive over REdistributive policies 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...
Forthcoming article "Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895–2021" by @thiloalbers.bsky.social @charlottebartels.bsky.social and @schularick.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat... doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895–2021
Abstract. German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinfl
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New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.
Die Neutralitätsforderung ist vor allem eine zum freiwilligen Rückzug aus dem Diskurs - was immer die Stimmen stärkt, die dann noch übrig bleiben. Um die Instrumentalisierung von Neutralität in der Wissenschaft geht es heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss. #LauteWissenschaft @amreibahr.bsky.social
Fehlgeleitete Neutralität: Warum Wissenschaft sich nicht beugen…
von Amrei Bahr und Kristin Eichhorn
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One of our job market candidates at Tilburg University had an offer withdrawn very late by the institution's rector because Tilburg is not ranked in the top 200 in the QS ranking. All of this after they assured our candidate that the rector's approval would be a formality... This is frustrating...
💥 We’re absolutely thrilled that the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM) kick off tomorrow at the University of Bristol! 💥 We have an amazing program bringing together leading research on development, migration, and fairness in the economy.
Is unselfish behavior primarily driven by desire or by duty? Erik Mohlin and I don’t settle this question. However, by developing and testing a model of social duties, we allow the question to be addressed: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... (ungated version at my home page) 1/10
