What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

How does war affect cognitive performance? Patrick Nüß, @iwh-halle.bsky.social, seeks answers by combining data from chess games with information on alarms and explosions in the war against Ukraine. More in our next economics talk. 🗓️ 28.4. | 13:00 CET | Hybrid ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/events/de...

We’re hiring a CORE and Stone Centre Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics Education and Inequality. More details and how to apply: tinyco.re/3618199

We're hiring! @ineq-wu.bsky.social (@wuvienna.bsky.social) is looking for a Pre-Doc Researcher to study wage inequality using Austrian administrative microdata alongside @lukaslehner.bsky.social and me. Details and application: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Project-staf...

Job opportunity Project staff member (pre-doc) at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal

others in Wien

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🧵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 👇

📢New WP: Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries Using California state and local minimum wage increases 2000-2019, we find minimum wage hikes increase workplace injury rates for low-wage workers. A plausible mechanism is work intensification 🧵 w/ @rjisungpark.bsky.social & Michael Davies

🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy

Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

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Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."

Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap ...

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New WP! We study whether telling first-year students about the earnings they forgo by delaying graduation changes their choices. Framing salaries as opportunity costs does not speed up progress but increases early dropout among students who are likely to exit eventually. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Working on the gender wage gap? We have a new call for papers for a Special Issue of IR Berkeley. Check it out here: irle.berkeley.edu/publications... @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

As we think about the safety net we might need to deal with job displacement risk, UI reform will be super important. @alixgouldwerth.bsky.social and I have a new piece about our research on one perverse aspect of the UI system: its reliance on employer taxes that rise with benefit claims. 1/

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New from @awhf.bsky.social & @alixgouldwerth.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? Did you know that your former employers can contest your unemployment benefits? They have a strong incentive to do so, and private companies like Equifax are helping them. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-your-b...

So happy that this joint research “What makes hiring difficult: evidence for linked survey-administrative data” with Antoine Bertheau @antoineberthou.bsky.social and Zeyu Zhao is accepted for publication in European Economic Review. drive.google.com/file/d/1QWqb...

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data. Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...

Econ PhD Chess is happening this Thursday Jan 22 at 10pm ET! 1 hour of 3+2 blitz against fellow econ enthusiasts, all skill levels welcome! If you're not in the lichess group, fill our Google Form to get invited: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... More details in 🧵

Heading to Philadelphia for the #ASSA2026. Presenting research you think our readers would be interested in? Working on something you think I should know about? Reach out here or by any of the ways linked in my bio: www.nytimes.com/by/ben-casse... #EconSky

Ben Casselman

Ben Casselman is the chief economics correspondent for The Times. He has reported on the economy for nearly 20 years.

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All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.

Introducing The Union Bug, a new podcast

The Union Bug is a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering January 2.

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The Econ Job Market is an emotional rollercoaster. But nothing lifts your mood like realizing your master’s thesis is cited in the Handbook of Labor Economics. 😭 Castro, R., Lange, F., & Poschke, M. (2025). Labor force transitions. Handbook of Labor Economics, 6, 819-881.

The Econ Job Market is an emotional rollercoaster. But nothing lifts your mood like realizing your master’s thesis is cited in the Handbook of Labor Economics. 😭 Castro, R., Lange, F., & Poschke, M. (2025). Labor force transitions. Handbook of Labor Economics, 6, 819-881.

I'm happy to share that I’ve been appointed Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation at CBS. Tenure has been a long road, and I'm grateful to everyone who supported me along the way — mentors, colleagues, friends, and especially my wife. Excited for what comes next.

Lukas Lehner Wins International Awards For Dissertation ➽ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/lukas-lehner-wins-international-awards-for-dissertation @lukaslehner.bsky.social has received two international awards for his dissertation completed @ox.ac.uk @dspi-oxford.bsky.social

In her JMP titled, "How Men and Women Respond to Failure: Evidence from Chess Tournaments," she finds that men react to failure with riskier, less accurate play and are more likely to quit in the short run, while women stay resilient, but no significant differences in the long run.

Meet today’s featured JMC in our 2025 Econ Job Market Vlog series: Julia Engel (@juliaengel.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de), whose research focuses on labour and behavioural economics. 🎥 Check out her JMP video to learn more about her work: youtu.be/czLwBt75UOI?... #econsky #econjobmarket

Julia Engel | Econ Job Market Vlog | AYEW

YouTube video by Monash Business School

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📢 #CallForApplications: Join the IWH #DoctoralProgramme in #Economics – Fall 2026 Intake! ✔️ Enjoy an excellent #research environment ✔️ Work closely with leading economists ✔️ Enter the international job market 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026 👉 Apply here: jobs.iwh-halle.de/jobposting/b... #PhD

✨ New IWH #DiscussionPaper ✨ 📰 #Management Opposition, #Strikes and #Union Threat 🎓 By Patrick Nüß (@patricknuess.bsky.social) 👉 Read the full paper here #freeAccess: www.iwh-halle.de/en/publicati... #research #economics #labour #labourdisputes #fieldexperiment #tradeunions #unionthreat

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

Since the UK Replication Games are online, anyone can join 🌍 Our @iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-kiel.de team with @juliaengel.bsky.social, @johannaraith.bsky.social and other PhD students, will join the event. I can only recommend joining as well!

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are hosting virtual Replication Games on Friday November 13th, 2025 with @ukrepro.bsky.social ro.bsky.social. This is our 2nd year collaborating with UKRN. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced! Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...

Application review: Response within 24h: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Greeted with “Moin”: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ No H1B sponsorship: ⭐️ Would apply again. On the bright side, when others proceed similar, at least the response rate to my applications is going up compared to two years ago. 🙃

Was gibt es schöneres als von PolitikerInnen kontaktiert zu und um Einblicke in die eigene Forschung gebeten zu werden. 🤩 @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de im Bundestag

IWH_Halle@iwh-halle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌠 Damit aus Wissen #Wohlstand wird, engagieren sich IWH-Ökonomen in dieser Woche bei „Leibniz im #Bundestag“. Präsident Reint Gropp, @holtemoeller.bsky.social & @patricknuess.bsky.social informieren in Einzelgesprächen über #Forschung und beantworten Fragen von Abgeordneten. @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

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