Stephan Maurer
@stephanmaurer.bsky.social
Economist by day, historian by night. UPF-BSM and CEP. Author of "Die Schlacht von Gettysburg": amzn.eu/d/epEJdVz Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/stephanernstmaurer/
Honestly, I think the public perception of 'leisured' professors has to do with 1) students don't realize their professors also do research and 2) when they come by office hours we seem 'not busy' and they assume it's like that all of the time, rather than office hours are there for that purpose.
Der Mangelzustand der heutigen Raketenabwehr überrascht westliche Politiker, weil sie offenbar fälschlicherweise geglaubt haben, dass die ballistische Raketenabwehr eine tragfähige langfristige Lösung sei – was sie jedoch nie war, kommentiert @frhoffmann.bsky.social. www.hartpunkt.de/stillstand-t...
Stillstand trotzt Laufschritt: Die westliche Raketenabwehrstrategie versagt weiterhin
Gemessen an der Fülle jüngster Kommentare hat sich der weltweite Mangel an Abfangraketen für die Abwehr ballistische Raketen zu einem regelrechten Aufruhr entwickelt.
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Using new data on 1.2 million students at 60 coeducational US colleges (1915–1943) to study how colleges shape who marries whom and the next generation's education, from Ran Abramitzky, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price www.nber.org/papers/w35602
🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky
This ca. 5,000-year-old Neolithic polished flint axe with its original ash wood handle is remarkable well preserved. During the Neolithic period in Denmark, as agriculture began to expand, farmers had to clear the forests, which involved felling trees and burning away brushwood in...🧵1/2 📷 me
The median college student enrolls at an institution 17 miles from home
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
A fort of a different kind for #HillfortsWednesday 🛖 Castell y Gwynt - or Castle of the Wind - is a great outcrop of vertical rock columns on the Glyderau range of Eryri/Snowdonia appearing like a monumental, ancient building 😮 It may have been held as a special place in prehistory 📷 Yesterday
If any students are following me, some advice. Take the difficult courses, the ones teach you methods, statistics, econometrics, models. If you are motivated you will read and learn the other stuff anyway but most people won't sit down and read about methods.
For @promarket.bsky.social, we summarized our recent working paper on the political power of former slave owners after 1865: www.promarket.org/2026/08/06/a...
American Slaveholders Lost Their Wealth but Kept Their Political Power - ProMarket
In new research, Luna Bellani, Anselm Hager, and Stephan Maurer examine how the abolition of slavery after the American Civil War affected the political influence of former slaveholders. Despite the b...
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Exceptionally low water levels on the Danube have exposed parts of the foundations of the ancient Constantine Bridge, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity to document what they describe as one of the Roman Empire's most impressive engineering achievements. www.reuters.com/business/env...
Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me
Country Roads, take me hooooooome to the place I belooooooooong
53 days for the associations to save the sport. Just because there's always been corruption doesn't mean you agree to a much greater level of corruption that's simply intolerable. Fans need to pressure their national associations to do the right thing @faiofficial.bsky.social @shamrockrovers.ie
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last mo.Fifa gives associations 53 days to sign up to controversial World Cup plans
🚀🚀Job Alert🚀🚀 In meinem Team ist eine Stelle frei. Ich würde mich über eine weitere Volkswirtin bzw. einen Volkswirt freuen, aber auch andere Profile sind angesprochen. Unfortunately, German language seems to be mandatory (not my choice).
In fast jeder Zeitung wird aktuell über Rüstung geredet und dabei beschäftigt man sich nur mit was beschafft werden soll. Selbst bei den relevanten Abgeordneten bleibt es auf dieser Ebene. Wir reden null über die großen gesetzlichen Rahmenbediengungen. 🧵
www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot... I prefer the people idea, but I the bird/building designs tend to look better tbh. Lots of the people ones are too artsy for my taste.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Gabby: What was your highlight of the half time show? Wayne Rooney: When it finished. I thought it was crap. 10/10 punditry. No notes.
Saab has signed a contract worth €787 Mln to provide the 9LV CMS, Sea Giraffe 4A & 1X radars and composite superstructure elements (integrated mast) for the new German F128 frigates, four of which are on order for delivery from 2029 to 2032. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Saab receives order to equip the German Navy's new F128 frigates - Naval News
Saab has signed a contract with the German naval defence company TKMS and received an order to deliver and integrate combat systems, composite structures and sensors onto four of the German Navy’s new...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau" by Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag, and Bryan A. Stuart.
Inequality and Racial Backlash: Evidence from the Reconstruction Era and the Freedmen’s Bureau
(Forthcoming Article) - How do majority groups respond to narrowing inequality in racially polarized environments? We study this by examining the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency created after the US Civil War to aid former slaves and launch institutional reform in the South. Using new historical records and an event-study approach, we estimate the Bureau’s impact on political, social, and economic outcomes. Vote shares for Democrats, the party that previously championed slavery and opposed Black civil rights, initially eroded in Bureau counties, but these impacts faded as federal oversight weakened. Racial backlash emerged rapidly and persisted, suggesting White majorities sought to offset Black progress.
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#Finanzielle #Bildung wird im digitalen Zeitalter wichtiger. Aber schlauer werden die Deutschen nicht. Was ist der Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zum Thema finanzielle Bildung in Deutschland? – Drei Ökonominnen des @zew.de haben ihn aufgeschrieben 👇 www.wirtschaftsdienst.eu/inhalt/jahr/...
Finanzwissen in der Bevölkerung: Herausforderungen für die Altersvorsorgeplanung
Finanzwissen gewinnt angesichts komplexer werdender Finanzprodukte, digitalisierter Finanzmärkte und wachsender Eigenverantwortung bei Altersvorsorge …
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Nathan Bedford Forrest launched a poorly coordinated frontal assault against pursuing Union soldiers outside Tupelo, MS, #otd in 1864. Forrest's force suffered heavy losses in the Union victory, which secured the safety of W.T. Sherman's supply lines during the Atlanta Campaign.
Fascinating: 1,214 years of data. Cherry trees are blossoming earlier due to warmer spring temperatures. Date of peak cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) blossom in Kyoto, Japan, since the year 812.
this story about @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social and @steffenhuck.bsky.social is irresistible so i had to break the no LinkedIn rule. try out the game dedicated to Georg by Steffen: steffenhuck.github.io/kicktext/
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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The other difficulty is that we still don’t know what skills are going to be fundamental when the dust settles and what will be automated away. From My pov in industry, I think understanding code is still important even if the % of code you type by hand is going down.
