🆕 RFBerlin Working Paper from @mlubczyk.bsky.social and Maria Waldinger: "The Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Health and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Socialist East Germany". 🧵below:

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy.bsky.social · last yr.

Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊 📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

JKU Department of Economics@jku-economics.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Come and work with us! The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀. Apply by June 18, 2025. Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w... Please share with your network! #Econsky #Academicjobs

Jacob French and I are hiring a pre-doc in Applied Micro apply.interfolio.com/166572

Great to co-host the @bsoeberlin.bsky.social Political Economy workshop at @diw.de today. We have a great program — attached! @mlubczyk.bsky.social @felixkersting.bsky.social Max Deter

"Filibuster the broccoli" -- Andrea Prat

Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉 @science.org We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡 Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social! Details ⤵️

Ludger Woessmann@woessmann.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵A thread 1/7

🆕 in @jpube.bsky.social: @lukasmergele.bsky.social, @aaoritz.bsky.social and @mlubczyk.bsky.social provide the first comprehensive analysis of privatization in East Germany.

Moritz Lubczyk@mlubczyk.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to see this paper out @jpube.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @aaoritz.bsky.social and I compile new data to study the “Treuhandanstalt” and it’s management of the privatisation process after German reunification

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy" By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social

Happy to see this paper out @jpube.bsky.social @lukasmergele.bsky.social @aaoritz.bsky.social and I compile new data to study the “Treuhandanstalt” and it’s management of the privatisation process after German reunification

Journal of Public Economics@jpube.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy" By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social

Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28

Auch Jahrzehnte nach der Wiedervereinigung scheint die Kluft zwischen "Ost" & "West" zu wachsen. Welche Rolle spielt die #Treuhandanstalt in den aktuellen Identitätsdebatten? Darüber diskutieren wir mit @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social & Elske Rosenfeld. Anmeldung unter www.ifz-muenchen.de/veranstaltun...

📢 New #CallforPapers! We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Workshop on the Economics of Aging, which will take place in Berlin on 5-6 June 2025: www.rfberlin.com/event/worksh... Keynotes: V. Joseph Hotz and @mdenardi.bsky.social. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2025. Submit now and share with colleagues!

Check out @cgergs.bsky.social and his work!

Carl Gergs@cgergs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello #EconSky 👋 excited to share my JMP! ❓What are the impacts of offering student finance as a grant or a loan? In the paper, I... 🎓 Study individual university enrolment, subject choice & career motivations ❗️Explore aggregate outcomes e.g. access to university & the occupational structure 🧵👇

Thank you, Florian, for highlighting my job market paper! 🎉 You can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Sqb1... Below, a short thread. 👇 (1/8)

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

....and @maritafreimane.bsky.social is on the market! sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...