Dietmar Fehr

@dietmarfehr.bsky.social

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Professor of Economics @unistuttgart.bsky.social
Inequality // Political Economy // Economics & Psychology // Development Economics

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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Todd Pugatch, David C. Kimball , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Todd Pugatch, David C. Kimball, Rense Corten, Dietmar Fehr

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 6d

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Reposted by Evelyne de Leeuw, Lesley A. Hall, Adrian Vickers , and 3 more Evelyne de Leeuw, Lesley A. Hall, Adrian Vickers, Will Lowe, Klaus Oschema, Dietmar Fehr

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d

just....enjoy this

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 7d

Förderinitiative zur Sicherung gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur #Datenresilienz: Die DFG stellt bis 2027 Mittel für Maßnahmen bereit, durch die Datensätze und Forschungsergebnisse aus Repositorien im Ausland für die deutsche/europäische Forschung gesichert werden können. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...

Förderinitiative zum Sichern gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur Datenresilienz 2025 bis 2027

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

blog.arxiv.org

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Paul Hufe @paulhufe.net · 10d

📢 CfP Alert!

We’re excited to announce the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM).
🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol

Three focused workshops in applied economics: Development, Migration & Fairness.

🔗 www.baem.info

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 13d

‪haha, at our workshop you were more economical with it. 🤪
Congrats!

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Charlotte Bartels @charlottebartels.bsky.social · 13d

Out in the European Economic Review after many years of datawork with @sbachtax.bsky.social and Theresa Neef: The distribution of national income in Germany, 1992-2019. We document 1) high income concentration at the top in Germany - similar to the US

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Diego Marino Fages @diegomarinofages.bsky.social · 14d

Submissions open for Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries 2026 in Durham (June 11th and 12th)❗

Anandi Mani and Pedro Carneiro will be our keynote speakers!

⏳ Registration deadline: Feb 28th

www.durham.ac.uk/business/new...

@durhameconomics.bsky.social
#EconSky

SEEDEC 2026 - Durham University Business School

www.durham.ac.uk

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 17d

Oldie but goldie :)

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Philipp Heil @philippheil.bsky.social · 18d

🔔 New working paper: “The Demand for Economic Narratives” with Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & @henninghermes.com

We study whether households actually demand and value economic narratives — and how these narratives shape beliefs and understanding.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 18d

Es machts nicht besser, aber korrekt ist, dass es entweder 2 (neg.) oder 4 (pos.) Semester sind. Und der GFR wird das hoffentlich spätestens im Dez. beschließen.

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 18d

The Big Data fallacy 😱

Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 19d

Agree, but I guess that it is not the biggest problem with these articles. They don't replicate.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 130, No 11

We investigate the link between poverty and decision-making in a sample of farmers in Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items for alternative items of simi...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 20d

Plott & Zeiler discuss subject misconceptions and solutions in their AER papers. I could not resist ;)

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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 20d

The inaugural conference will take place in Austin Texas, May 21, 2026. And the keynote address will be held by the great and one and only @s-stantcheva.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to it.

CFP is here, please submit and repost:

sites.lsa.umich.edu/rudib/wp-con...

sites.lsa.umich.edu

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Justin Wolfers, Brendan Nyhan , and 9 more Richard S.J. Tol, Justin Wolfers, Brendan Nyhan, Philippe Quirion, Chris Hanretty, Miles Corak, Trevon D. Logan, Samuel Bentolila, Max Nathan, Raquel Fonseca, Dietmar Fehr, Béatrice Cointe

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 20d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars

(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

www.aeaweb.org

Reposted by Jörg Oechssler, Joshua Goodman, Dietmar Fehr , and 1 more Jörg Oechssler, Joshua Goodman, Dietmar Fehr, Peter Bergman

Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 20d

New paper by Rivera Mora & @philippstrack.bsky.social Strack challenges everything we thought we knew about mechanism design beyond expected utility. The results are wild. 🤯
Paper: "Mechanism Design Beyond Expected Utility Preferences" (Sept 2025) static1.squarespace.com/static/62d2f...

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 21d

Wenn man wirklich am Diskurs interessiert wäre, hätte man zumindest das ganze Zitat gepostet. Immerhin steht die Quelle da, aber wer macht sich schon die Mühe draufzuklicken, einfach nur draufhauen und weiter.

Camarade Headphone Pete 📎 @petespunkt.bsky.social · 21d

Und Cem so:
Der Grünen-Politiker Cem Özdemir pflichtete Merz bei, dass es tatsächlich "unerträgliche Zustände" in den Innenstädten gebe. Damit müsse man sich jetzt beschäftigen. "Wenn wir es nicht machen, dann ist es quasi ein Aufruf, AfD zu wählen".
Quelle: www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Merz sagt AfD den Kampf an - und bleibt bei "Stadtbild"-Satz

CDU-Chef Merz hat die klare Abgrenzung von der AfD bekräftigt. Allerdings steht Merz selber derzeit wegen einer Wortwahl in der Kritik, die an Äußerungen aus der AfD erinnert. Zurücknehmen will er sie...

www.tagesschau.de

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 21d

Natürlich ist es problemlos möglich, Themen wie Kriminalität, Bildungssystem-Defizite oder Integrationsprobleme anzusprechen, ohne dabei ein Rassist zu sein. Die Behauptung, irgendjemand möchte diese Themen ausklammern, ist Unsinn. Wir wollen sie nur nicht in Form von Remigrations-Hetze diskutieren.

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Camarade Headphone Pete 📎 @petespunkt.bsky.social · 21d

Merz sagt AfD den Kampf an - und bleibt bei "Stadtbild"-Satz

www.tagesschau.de

Reposted by Michael Barnett, Caroline Krafft, John Mullahy , and 9 more Michael Barnett, Caroline Krafft, John Mullahy, Valerie Mueller, Miles Corak, Micaël Castanheira, Todd Pugatch, C. Kirabo Jackson, Paul Nightingale, Kai Gehring, Dietmar Fehr, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 24d

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 · 24d

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/...

Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*

Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi

doi.org

Reposted by Christian E. Weller, Iñaki Aldasoro, Dietmar Fehr

David Schindler @david-schindler.de · 24d

Jobs posted on EJM are down 12% over last year, while applicants are 12% up. I also checked JOE today and it's 28% down over last year. This will be a very difficult market!

econjobmarket.org/marketState

EJM - Econ Job Market

econjobmarket.org

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 11

And now compare this 26m gift with the funding of the 1000 Köpfe Programm (or how it‘s called).

Reposted by Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt, Cas Mudde , and 51 more Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell, Jan W. Mueller, Guntram B. Wolff, Christian Odendahl, Richard S.J. Tol, Colin F. Camerer, Robbert Sanderman, David Brady, Gabriel Felbermayr, Steven Van de Walle, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Alistair Munro, Michael A. Clemens, Cyrus Samii, Lucas Leemann, Francesco Saraceno, Laia Balcells, Andrew Curry, Paul Lehmann, Guy Grossman, John Mullahy, Joshua Goodman, David Dorn, Ingo Rohlfing, Daniel W. Drezner, Iikka Korhonen, Robert C. Richards, Aaron Sojourner, Daniel Huppmann, Julia Lynch, Rita Hamad, Stephen D. Murphy, Nazita Lajevardi, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Miguel Á. Malo, Henry Farrell, Dean Eckles, Maria Abreu, Dana R. Fisher, Jason Lyall, Brian Weatherson, Brooke Harrington, Bård Harstad, Christina Pagel, Jürgen Janger, Nicolai von Ondarza, Karsten Mäuse, Dietmar Fehr, Bartosz Bartkowski, Adam Tooze, Anita Gohdes

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · Oct 10

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 7

Never seen that in econ. It would be a very bad signal too.

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · Oct 5

Insights into Elsevier's business model. "Publishers trade off higher returns in the short run with maintaining prestige in the long run." And I even guess this long-term-prestige objective only applies to upper tier Elsevier journals like Energy Economics.

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · Oct 5

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

open.substack.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Andreas Kotsadam, Jens Rommel , and 1 more Richard S.J. Tol, Andreas Kotsadam, Jens Rommel, Dietmar Fehr

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Sep 30

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!

The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.

Info 👇

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 28

I tell people that the problem is not coming up with ideas, I think of a couple dozen of them a day. The real problem is knowing which of the damn things is any good for writing up. Most of them are junk. I have to let them roll around in my brain a while to find out which is which.

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Sep 28

Do you have a clever/pithy/useful answer when people ask where you get your ideas? If so, can I steal it?

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Robert W. Wallace, Hugo Mercier , and 4 more Diane Coyle, Robert W. Wallace, Hugo Mercier, Johannes Haushofer, Juan Ramón, Dietmar Fehr, Elisa Freschi

Zoe Drayson @zoedrayson.bsky.social · Sep 22

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.

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Andreas Steinmayr @andreassteinmayr.net · Sep 22

Next year, we will host the VfS Annual Meeting in Innsbruck. I look forward to seeing many of you on our beautiful campus in the Alps. #VfS_Conf2026

Verein für Socialpolitik e.V. @vfsecon.bsky.social · Sep 22

📢 After the Annual Meeting is before the Annual Meeting! We are very much looking forward to #VfS_Conf2026! Where? @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
🔗https://www.socialpolitik.de/de/termin/annual-conference-2026

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