Ludger Wößmann
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July 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
🚨Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF) 16.-18. März 2026 in München‼️

Bin für Bildungsökonomik im Programmkommitee & freue mich über zahlreiche hervorragende bildungsökonomische Einreichungen!😊
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@henninghermes.com @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @lergetporer.bsky.social
Und schon geht's los: Ab heute können Beiträge für die #GEBF26 eingereicht werden! Den Call mit allen Informationen gibt es auf unserer Website www.gebf2026.de, eingereicht wird hier: www.conftool.com/gebf2026/. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Beiträge! #EmpirischeBildungsforschung #TUM
July 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
📢 Job alert: Postdoc position 🧑‍🎓 (up to 6 years, non-tenure track)

In our Center, @henninghermes.com is looking to fill a research position in the economics of education, particularly to join in major field experimental work on mentoring

Come join our team!
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We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀

Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟

Please share widely 🙏🙏

Link below 👇
July 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Don't miss the last colloquium talk of the summer semester! @woessmann.bsky.social from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social will speak about “Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap.” Tuesday, 15 July | 11:45 | Y213 @uni-konstanz.de or online: t1p.de/z6cff
July 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🔍 We are looking for a student assistant! 🔎

If you...
▶️ are interested in empirical research
▶️ are enrolled in a Bachelor’s/ Master's program in economics, data or social sciences (or similar)
▶️ have knowledge in econometrics, scraping & Stata/R

...please apply!

👉 www.ifo.de/en/stellenan...
July 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
💌The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out!

Topics:
🔹 Working-memory training and children's skills
🔹Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
🔹 Negative mental health effects of working from home
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👉 bit.ly/44rvTI2
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
❗️Save the Date: Bildungspolitisches Forum 2025❗️
„Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel“
1. Oktober 2025, Landesvertretung NRW, Berlin & via Livestream

📣 Anmeldung ab 30. Juni unter 👉 www.leibniz-bildung.de/bpf25

Ausgerichtet von IAB, ifo und RWI. #BPF25
June 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Who are you calling over-the-hill? The truth about cognitive peaks | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/5d479f78-b7fe-4a2d-87be-831ce628310e
Who are you calling over-the-hill? The truth about cognitive peaks | Opinion
It’s not necessarily correct that our brains struggle more as we age
www.ft.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
🎉We are part of the Cluster of Excellence “TransforM”, funded by @dfg.de!🎉

Jointly with @tum.de, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, @zew.de & @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social, the aim is to better understand how new technologies transform society & economy 🧑‍💻

More: transform-cluster.de
June 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Kicking off day 1 of the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Great start with a sunny poster session🌞

#EconomicsOfEducation #Econsky
@ifoeducation.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @henninghermes.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
‼️3rd Workshop on Education Economics and Policy WEEP: Call for papers‼️

Oslo, Oct. 13-14, 2025.

Keynotes: @woessmann.bsky.social & @cohodes.bsky.social .

Deadline May 30.

sites.google.com/site/astrids...

PS. Booking ocean side sauna 😉

@uio.no @nifu.bsky.social @ntnu-econ.bsky.social #econsky
April 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I am very excited to share that my paper "Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends? Freshman Orientation Peers and Academic Performance" is now forthcoming @j-humanresources.bsky.social: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... #econsky
Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends?
How does the formation of social connections at the beginning of college shape individuals’ subsequent academic performance? Exploiting quasi-random assignment to groups of a two-day freshman orientat...
jhr.uwpress.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Cognitive skill decline with age is not as strong as previous studies suggest. Skills decline in old age only for those with below-average skill usage - use it or lose it.
Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social, Frauke Witthoeft, @woessmann.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
April 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Working with the great Ludger @woessmann.bsky.social has been a pleasure for close to 20 years.

Our humble little paper on Protestantism and suicide in RESTAT has now reached 100 citations on Google Scholar 🙏

doi.org/10.1162/rest...
April 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
✉️The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out!

Topics:
🔹Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
🔹Personality traits and academic achievement
🔹Data release: ifo Education Survey 2022-2024
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👉 www.ifo.de/ifo/newslett...
April 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚨New Working Paper:

The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu

We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights.

👉 nber.org/papers/w33605

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March 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM

Reposted by Ludger Wößmann

@henninghermes.com and I are looking for two PhD students for the ifo Center for the Economics of Education
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‼️We are hiring‼️

🧑‍🎓PhD position at ifo Center for Economics of Education

➡️Research on education, labor & behavioral econ
➡️Focus on field experiments & RCTs
➡ PhD program @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social & MGSE
➡️Starting Oct 1, 2025 or earlier

⏰Apply by Apr 20, 2025 (link below)
March 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🚨Data publication alert🚨

We have published new waves of the ifo Education Survey (2022-2024) – our annual representative opinion survey of the German adult population

Topics: lifelong learning and refugees, quality of schools, basic skills on a federal-state level 🏫📖🧒

www.ifo.de/en/suche?f%5...
March 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier (University of Berkely, California) & Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline 15 May 🚨

#EconSky
March 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM

Reposted by Lorraine Dearden