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

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City St George’s Economics @cityeconomics.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 Job alert

We’re hiring 5 permanent faculty positions at Assistant Professor level:

• 3 x Open field
• Health Economics
• IO

Come work in a large, research-intensive department!

⏰ Applications reviewed on a rolling basis (deadline 18 Jan 2026)

#econjobs

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 5d
Wäre mir neu dass JPs 6 Jahre die gl. Bezüge bekommen u. die gleiche Arbeit wie W3s machen, aber vll sind da die GeiWi‘s ausbeuterischer als Ökonomen.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 6d
Wieso Unfug? Sicher nicht immer sinnvoll, aber in manchen Konstellationen schon, zB bei W1-Profs mit tenure track oder in der Theorie mit W1-Profs o. tt / Akad. Räten, mit anschließender Entfristung.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 6d
Beamte zahlen nicht in die ALV ein, daher keinen Anspruch auf ALG. Beamte, die entlassen werden bzw. Beamte auf Zeit, haben in der Regel Anspruch auf Übergangsgeld.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13d
I was also bored and pulled up the replication package.

The results are quite sensitive in aggregate to needing the controls. Here's the replication of Figure 3, including the case w/o controls:

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 15d
Super Henning! Freut mich total für dich. 🎉🎉🎉 well deserved.

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 15d
In today's JMP blog, Chiman Cheung looks at how local leader incentives & public vs leader only info affect collective action against environmental threats with an experiment around information on the risks of mercury from artisanal mining of gold in Ghana blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Consensus or polarization in environmental action? How local leader incentives shape the power of information. Guest post by Chiman Cheung
blogs.worldbank.org

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 19d
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could reliably distinguish AI generated from human generated text?

Well it seems we can, research using a wide selection of shirt and longer txts suggests, with false positive/negative rates respectively zero % and around 2-4%:

buff.ly/R4zb2jC

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 22d
Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 27d
Warum sollte man nicht wieder einreichen können? Ein paar Sachen umschreiben und weg damit. Die meisten Anträge sind erst bei Wiedervorlage erfolgreich. Im Zweifel bei der zuständigen fachlichen DFG Person nachfragen.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 29d
Forthcoming in the AER: "Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences" by Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences
(Forthcoming Article) - We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking -- the belief that gains for one individual or group come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of 20,400 U...
www.aeaweb.org

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 18
From a co-author of Larry Summers

open.substack.com/pub/larrykot...
Harvard, It's Time to Say Goodbye to Larry Summers
Larry Summers is not fit to continue serving as a professor at Harvard.
open.substack.com

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Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · Nov 17
„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Nov 15
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Nov 14
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds significantly reduced armed conflict, suggesting it was successful in limiting rebel groups' ability to finance violent activities.
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Natural resources, including alluvial minerals such as diamonds, have been at the centre of brutal wars in Africa. This column evaluates one of the first schemes aimed at preventing the illicit exploitation of natural resources to promote peace: the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The introduction of the diamond certification scheme significantly reduced armed conflict. Rebel groups were less likely to engage in armed conflict, and their operations became geographically more concentrated. This suggests that the certification scheme was successful in limiting rebel groups’ ability to finance violent activities.

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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · Nov 12
GPT 5.1 is based.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Nov 4
Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 3
just....enjoy this

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Nov 3
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 · Nov 1
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 · Oct 31
📢 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

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 28
‪haha, at our workshop you were more economical with it. 🤪
Congrats!

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Charlotte Bartels @charlottebartels.bsky.social · Oct 28
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 · Oct 27
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
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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 24
Oldie but goldie :)

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Philipp Heil @philippheil.bsky.social · Oct 24
🔔 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.

Thread following below👇 1/10

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 23
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 · Oct 23
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 · Oct 22
Agree, but I guess that it is not the biggest problem with these articles. They don't replicate.

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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

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 21
Plott & Zeiler discuss subject misconceptions and solutions in their AER papers. I could not resist ;)