Two IZA Discussion Papers trace the complex chain reaction connecting a child's 1st day of class to their adult livelihood. 📄The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence & Methods by M. Cavallo, @bdhuey.bsky.social, @lfumarco.bsky.social, L. Halewyck & @meulensimon.bsky.social 1/2

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#econsky handbooks on Circular Economy, for economic students?

#EconJMP #EconSky The market is tight, and it might lead you to new places that will surprise you, such as Brno, Czech Rep, for a postdoc in econ! www.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

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hi #econsky people! if you are still on the job market -- very rough times indeed -- consider applying here: www.linkedin.com/posts/statec... #econjmp I had very nice time there, I found friends and stellar quality of life!

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📢 We are #Hiring. Still accepting applications: two weeks left to apply! We are looking for a 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 to work with our Productivity team. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗔...

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here is a super interesting, meta-science paper!

Miloš Fišar@milosfisar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Even though my contribution was small, I’m happy to see this study published—and to have 493 new co-authors. As a part of the SCORE project, we reanalyzed 100 claims from 100 papers: 74% reached the same conclusion, 24% were null/inconclusive, and 2% went the other way.

Extremely happy to see our meta paper on the reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science now published in @nature.com! 🥳

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

Ever wonder why meetings and conferences derail so easily? Turns out there could be literal saboteurs — at least according to the CIA in 1944. See p. 28 of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual: www.cia.gov/static/5c875... (Apologies to whoever posted this first; I’d credit you if my memory cooperated)

Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods" by Mariagrazia Cavallo, Elizabeth Dhuey, Luca Fumarco, Levi Halewyck, and Simon ter Meulen.

The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods

(Forthcoming Article) - This article reviews the growing literature on age at school entry and its effects over the life course. Age at school entry affects a broad range of outcomes, including education, labor-market performance, health, social relationships, and family formation. We synthesize the evidence using a conceptual framework that distinguishes four empirically intertwined components of age at school entry: starting age, age at outcome, relative age, and time in school. Within this framework, we highlight six key channels through which age at school entry operates. While the effects of age at school entry are often substantial and persistent, many studies estimate bundled impacts without isolating specific components or directly measuring underlying mechanisms. We explain how different research designs capture distinct combinations of these components. We also highlight how institutional heterogeneity and behavioral responses can complicate the interpretation of results. We conclude by outlining directions for future research and policy design.

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🚨Forthcoming paper, @aeajournals.bsky.social 🚨#econsky A thread 🧵 on "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods". Humbled to work w/ @mariagraziacavallo.bsky.social, @bdhuey.bsky.social, Levi Halewyck & Simon ter Meulen 1/9

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Forthcoming in the JEL: "The Economics of Age at School Entry: Insights from Evidence and Methods" by Mariagrazia Cavallo, Elizabeth Dhuey, Luca Fumarco, Levi Halewyck, and Simon ter Meulen.

Aaah! Waking up in the morning to an acceptance decision from the Journal of Economic Literature...it feels great!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... yet again, a good reason for using this platform?

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Interesting paper on the gendered heckling the German Bundestag www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

hey #econsky, here is another cool AI: paperreview.ai from Stanford ML group. This is an AI reviewer, it (apparently) works well with econ papers! It is free, you just enter an API key, and then paperreview will email you a report within minutes.

hey #econsky, check this out: seminar-dry-run.vercel.app from @plausiblyexog.bsky.social. Very cool way to train for seminars: AI listens to your presentation, asks you questions, and then provides you with feedback!

🚨new pub!🚨 link.springer.com/article/10.1... W/ S. Baert, L. Halewyck, E. Moens, A. Vandromme We show that small differences in age at school entry can meaningfully shape early career outcomes. A short overview 👇

Does Month of Birth Affect Speed and Quality of Transition from School to Work? - De Economist

This study estimates the impact of relative age (i.e., the difference in classmates’ ages) on both the speed and quality of individuals’ transition from education to the labour market, and investigate...

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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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These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified. So they ran an experiment.

Hi lovely #econsky people! 📢 Call for Papers: YEM2026 – Young Economists’ Meeting, Brno (yem.econ.muni.cz). Submit full papers or extended abstracts by Feb 28 for the conference on May 27–29, Brno, Czech Republic. We can’t wait to see you there! #YEM2026

🧪 Some really important data points in here to share with others. Over the past year, Bluesky has 5 million research posts (0.25% of the total traffic). Compared to the 11.2 million research posts on Twitter (0.000006% of the total traffic). Bluesky is punching above its weight! #AcademicSky

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 8mo ago

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

I have just uploaded my #econ5k at @econ5k.bsky.social. It was on a Jan 1st. Looking back at the time, I can only guess that vitel tonnè, insalata russa, türtlin, bagna cauda, panetün of those days did not help much 🏃

Once, a colleague told me: "Using a particular dataset is not, by itself, a contribution." I mostly agree. But I also feel that in many papers the main contribution is access to a particular dataset — and it’s often framed that way. 1/7

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

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probably the best comment I have ever received in a referee report, it opens as this: "I decided that I hate referees who seem to ask for changes just so that they look like they did something, and thus I would just send you this big thumbs up, with two very small comments..."

it is a great relief to see that the main @iza.org activities will proceed under @liser.lu (e.g. world of labour, wp series, summer schools, visiting programs). this is a couple of weeks old news, but many of us were still on vacation. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/n...

IZA Network finds new home at Luxembourg’s LISER

Transition ensures continuity of cutting-edge research and global reach

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not at all surprising: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

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Hi marvellous #econsky! I am new to PSID data. What variables shall I use to merge cross-year individual data to transition into adulthood data?

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