Sebastian Will

@swillecon.bsky.social

Economist, interested in housing affordability and well-being | Postdoc at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and FReDA (Family Research and Demographic Analysis) www.willsebastian.de

i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update. www.nber.org/papers/w35336

Automation and Repression

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I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

In a recently published research article, we show that individuals who speak a language in which the same word is used for both (financial) debt and (moral) guilt have a statistically significant and economically meaningful lower likelihood of borrowing money. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAXWZ...

Guiltily indebted? How a word is linked to individual borrowing

Using data from the World Values Survey, we show that individuals who speak a language in which the same word is used for both (financial) debt and (moral) guilt have a statistically significant an...

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