@pluggedchris.bsky.social zur 5%-Hürde: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

6,8 Millionen wertlose Stimmen: Die Fünfprozenthürde entmündigt Wähler

Ist die Fünfprozenthürde noch zeitgemäß? Wenn immer mehr Stimmen von Bürgern verloren gehen, verlieren der Bundestag und die Landesparlamente an Legitimation. Reformen sind dringend geboten. Ein Vorsc...

faz.net

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

"The US must respond to this attack" ... #foreverwar

This is also why universal demand subsidies in rich countries are immoral.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Still of the view that the biggest risk in this whole mess is widespread hunger in poorer countries leading to political instability.

Eine Senkung des ⛽️ Preises für alle durch eine zeitlich befristete Aussetzung der Energiesteuer ist die schlechteste aller bisher diskutierten Optionen. Das ist eine Hilfe mit der Gießkanne, auch für Menschen, die den höheren Preis verkraften können. Es reduziert den Anreiz…

Live footage of German politicians

I stedet for at sænke afgift på benzin (5 mia. kr.) kunne staten: - Halvere prisen på offentlig transport (5 mia. kr.) eller - Give 33.000 lavindkomst-familier med langt til arbejde en gratis elbil (5 mia. kr.) Forskellen er, at billigere benzin ikke løser energikrisen. #dkpol

Nun will Trump also die Europäer in seinen Krieg hineinziehen, den er ja nach eigener Aussage bereits gewonnen hat, und doht dafür erneut mit dem Ende der NATO. Die Konsequenz muss sein: Beschleunigter Ausbau regenerativer Energien und rascher Aufbau europäischer Verteidigungsstrukturen.

Iran-Krieg - Trump fordert Beteiligung der NATO in der Straße von Hormus und droht andernfalls mit "sehr schlechter Zukunft" für das Bündnis

US-Präsident Trump hat die NATO aufgefordert, die USA dabei zu unterstützen, die Straße von Hormus wieder für die Schifffahrt zu öffnen. Andernfalls drohe der NATO eine - wie er der "Financial Times" ...

deutschlandfunk.de

It's fascinating to me that Sweden, once global pariah for flouting lockdown consensus, seems to have come out better than even its Scandinavian neighbours

Jenn Dowd@drjenndowd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

3/ We show that this assumption is premature. Extending life expectancy estimates through 2024 for 34 high-income countries, we find that five years after the pandemic’s onset, 31 countries remain below their expected trajectories as projected by Lee-Carter forecasts.

Die einen erben, andere nicht. Das ist ungerecht und daran ist nur schwer etwas zu ändern. Aber wie wäre es, Erbschaften als Einkommen zu besteuern?

Gerechte Erbschaftssteuer: Fairness gibt es nicht

Die einen erben, andere nicht. Das ist ungerecht und daran ist nur schwer etwas zu ändern. Aber wie wäre es, Erbschaften als Einkommen zu besteuern?

taz.de

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition. In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added.

Jerry Montonen@montonenjerry.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

just a perfect paper, yet again with the power of scandinavian register data www.nber.org/papers/w34346

The Impacts of Romantic Relationships with the Boss

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...

nber.org

Can't believe someone a) had the data to write this paper b) wrote this paper www.nber.org/papers/w3434...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, wird er offenbar sagen: Ich bin der Faschismus. Aber Konservative werden sagen: Jetzt übertreibt aber nicht.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Enforcing a single language without supporting bilingualism risks fragmenting the very markets such policies aim to unify. Economic gains arise not from linguistic uniformity, but from enabling shared fluency. T Gurevitch, P Herman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social‬, F Toubal cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

See, the reason this wouldn't work is that people go to Wikipedia to know more about things instead of less.

Some fun with fuel economy. The fuel cost of driving a given distance has rarely been cheaper relative to wages, thanks in part to higher fuel economy standards.