Felix Rusche
@felixrusche.bsky.social
Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics | Labor, Development, Political Economy | felixrusche.github.io
📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
🏆 @felixrusche.bsky.social has received the 2025 Schmölders Foundation Prize! Together with @yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social & @econmill.bsky.social, they were awarded for their paper "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation." 🎉 Congrats, Felix!
Felix Rusche has been awarded the 2025 Schmölders Foundation Prize
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Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs
AI and the Future of Work
In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium
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Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing. There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation. Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...
🎉 Cue the confetti, ... CDSE doctoral graduate @felixrusche.bsky.social has been awarded the FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how access to media can serve as a transformative tool in advancing gender equality. Congratulations, Felix! 👏 (1/2)
Felix Rusche Wins FBK-IRVAPP 2025 Best Paper Award |
Felix Rusche has been awarded the prestigious FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how community radio in India can empower women and reduce gender inequality.
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Thank you so much @mircotonin.bsky.social! I am very honoured to receive the award.
Mirco Tonin@mircotonin.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to @felixrusche.bsky.social for winning the FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social 2025 award for the best paper on the #evaluation of public policies with the paper "Broadcasting Change: India’s Community Radio Policy and Women’s Empowerment" magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/the-...
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, Daniel Deisenroth, Haritz Garro, Daley Kutzman, Asad Liaqat, and Nils Wernerfelt. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
(Forthcoming Article) - Research on the effects of online advertising on consumer welfare is limited due to challenges in running large-scale field experiments. We analyze a long-running field experim...
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The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is because of 2 main factors: journalists tend to focus on major events, and the daily performance of indices is negatively skewed. Antonio Ciccone, @felixrusche.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Do the media focus on the negative? If so, why? We study this in the context of stock market reporting and identify and quantify an overlooked bias. A thread:
Once again, I must stress that there is a pretty obvious answer to this madness, which is to have a big, fat tariff on US oligarchs and their multinationals! gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/americas-o...
America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
The best thing that countries targeted by Trump's punitive tariffs can do is condition market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires on fair taxation.
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The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*
Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
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Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547
Competition and Consumer Discrimination
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
Barring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵
It has been weirdly quiet on social media ever since the Institute4Replication dropped its first two of 15 reports about the questionable research practices of Asad Islam-GDRI and scores of his collaborators. Here is my take on what we know and need to know. a-ortmann.medium.com/the-asad-isl...
The Asad Islam — GDRI saga
Understanding what we know and need to know
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If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.
Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · last yr.Looool
New data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33480
🚨CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25 Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social) Deadline: 17 Mar '25
If you're looking to break from doomscrolling at end of week - check out this fascinating new special issue in @FeministEcon edited by @BilgeErten @DuvvuryN @bilgeerten.bsky.social + Ramnarain on perspectives on conflict, disaster + violence against women #econtwitter #econsky
🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2y agoRecently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
My book "Paleoeconomics" is now available in online book stores. It offers a chronologically structured overview of the economics of prehistory from the first hominins to the rise of states in 3500 BCE. It builds on rapidly growing research in several fields. 1/6 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Paleoeconomics
This accessible and insightful textbook Paleoeconomics provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory.
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#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*
Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
doi.org
Mergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255
We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...
