Melanie Luhrmann

@luhrmann.bsky.social

Economist, Professor at Royal Holloway, @IFS @CESifo @G53.

The 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets (AWLM 2025) happens from Oct 22-24 at Aarhus University, Denmark. We are excited to receive papers that focus on understanding and analyzing labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes. Both empirical research and structural work is highly welcome!

A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.

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📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Department of Economics of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name.

Ghazala made important contributions in a large number of fields, spanning the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics. The award will promote work in those fields by young scholars.

The first edition of this award will consist of a 5,000 euro prize for the best paper in this set of fields by junior researchers. The selection of the laureate will be carried out by a scientific committee composed of Pierre Cahuc, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo.

Eligibility for the prize requires that all authors have obtained their PhD after 1 September 2018. Papers written jointly with more senior researchers will not be considered.

The prize will be awarded at SciencesPo during the event organised in memory of Ghazala on 10 December 2025. One of the authors of the prize winning paper will present the work at this event.

Applications must be submitted by 31 August 2025.

Nearly a decade ago, IZA World of Labor ("bridges the gap between research and policy") asked me to write a short intro to Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation. Now teamed up with the great Grigory Aleksin (RHUL) for an update. Enjoyed the team work a lot! wol.iza.org/articles/usi...

Using instrumental variables to establish causality

Even with observational data, causality can be recovered with the help of instrumental variables estimation

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🆕 Calling all parents: Boosting early childhood outcomes in Uruguay Today on VoxDev, Juanita Bloomfield (Universidad de Montevideo), Ana Balsa, Alejandro Cid & Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) demonstrate how behavioural insights can enhance parenting practices: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Calling all parents: Boosting early childhood outcomes in Uruguay

A phone-based intervention in Uruguay, which included access to an AI chatbot, demonstrates how behavioural insights can enhance parenting practices and improve early childhood development at scale.

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