Simon Wiederhold

@simonwiederhold.bsky.social

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Professor of Labor Economics at Halle University & Senior Research Advisor at Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
affiliated w/ ifo, CESifo, IZA & ROA

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/simonwiederhold

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Education 20%

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 2h

🆕Working Paper🚨

Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks📒
w/ A.Bertermann, @dauthecon.bsky.social & @suedekum.bsky.social

🤖 Robots ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬆️early retirement
🌏 Imports ➡️ ⬇️training & ⬆️early r.
🌎 Exports ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬇️e.r.

www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 21h

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 23h

🎙️ Check out the ifo podcast on childcare shortages in Germany, where I was a guest.

Grateful to research this topic with Marina Krauß, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, @simonwiederhold.bsky.social, Fabian Mierisch & Guido Schwerdt.

Link 👇

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Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata

CMFdata.org

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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

www.dfg.de

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 9d

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Economics Literature Search

Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 10d

🔍 Check out this video from the 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, co-organized with @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, and @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🫶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GW1...

📢 Next edition will take place on September 7-8, 2026 📆✏️

Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business 2025

YouTube video by TUM Campus Heilbronn

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 17d

🚨New publication alert🚨

I'm thrilled Economics of Education Review has just published my work w/ @abbyfrancis.bsky.social:

"School enrollment shifts five years after the pandemic"

Abstract below, but read the next few posts for the story told via a handful of graphs.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 17d

📢 New working paper alert! 📢

Super happy to share our new working paper, „The Demand for Economic Narratives“, with my great co-authors Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler, and @philippheil.bsky.social.

Check out the summary thread by Philipp below👇🏻🧵

@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org

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Rudi Bachmann @bachmannrudi.bsky.social · 18d

Toller Explainer von Pete Klenow zum diesjährigen Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften:

cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Sustained growth through creative destruction: Nobel laureates Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have been jointly awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Joel Mokyr ‘for having explained innovation-driven economic growth’. Aghion and Howitt were cited by the Nobel committee ‘for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction’. As this column explains, their work transformed creative destruction from an evocative metaphor into a rigorous analytical framework. The Nobel recognition honours research that has fundamentally reshaped how economists understand the engines of prosperity and technological progress.

cepr.org

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 25d

Unser wichtigster Gradmesser der bundeslandspezifischen Entwicklung. Leider nur alle 6 Jahre.

Extrem wichtige Zahlen. Sie sind ein Desaster.

Die Bildungsministerkonferenz dazu: „Licht und Schatten im IQB-Bildungstrend 2024“😯🤷
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Simon Wiederhold @simonwiederhold.bsky.social · 26d

Join us!

@iwh-halle.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de are hiring an AP in Labor Economics!

Focus: Effects of AI and new technologies on workers & firms.

No German required.

Enjoy an outstanding research environment in Magdeburg & Halle – come see for yourself!

🔗 Full ad: tinyurl.com/28ko5wty

Assistant Professor (W1) in Labor Economics

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EEA @eeanews.bsky.social · 27d

📢 #EJME virtual workshop II
Join @david-schindler.de
🗓️Thurs, Oct 16 @15:30 CEST
ℹ️ Pitching your paper, advice on behaviour, things to say during interviews, fly-outs & Negotiating offers, contracts PLUS exploding offers
Registration: bit.ly/42cS3gX
@eayeconomists.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 28d

Wie müssen sich Lernen und Unterrichten verändern in Zeiten von KI und Niedergang traditioneller Industrien?

🎙️ Mein Interview in der Welt darüber, was die aktuellen Transformationsprozesse für die Bildung bedeuten.

www.welt.de/politik/deut...

Zukunft des Lernens: „Testpersonen schneiden bei sprachlichen Aufgaben bereits ab Anfang 30 schlechter ab als Jüngere“ - WELT

Wie müssen sich das Lernen und das Unterrichten verändern in Zeiten von Künstlicher Intelligenz und dem Niedergang traditioneller Industrien? Ludger Wößmann ist Bildungsökonom am Ifo-Institut und erkl...

www.welt.de

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Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · Oct 10

We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Oct 10

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Oct 1

In Zeiten von ständigen Transformationen sollten wir Bildung als Befähigung zu stetigem Wandel verstehen.

Mein Einleitungsvortrag in das Bildungspolitische Forum 2025 des @leibnizbildung.bsky.social

Livestream: www.youtube.com/@Leibniz_bil...

www.leibniz-bildung.de/veranstaltun...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Sep 27

Problems now, bigger ones ahead.

The decline of reading
% of US teenagers who read in their leisure time...
50
Hardly ever
40
30
20
10
Almost every day
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
Source: US National Assessment of Educational Progress Long-Term Trend Reading Assessments
FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch
OFT
2020

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Sep 18

Today I spent a wonderful day visiting the @iabnews.bsky.social, invited by Bernd Fitzenberger and Silke Anger 🤓🙏

Inspiring discussions and a very interactive seminar, lots of fun! 🫶

Thanks for organizing, @caspalh.bsky.social & @demirecon.bsky.social 💪🥳

@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org

Simon Wiederhold @simonwiederhold.bsky.social · Sep 12

It was so great having you all at our workshop! Can't wait for the anniversary edition next year...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ich freue mich schon riesig auf das
🚨Bildungspolitische Forum 2025🚨
in das ich in diesem Jahr einführen darf!

Es geht um
➡️Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel⬅️

Im Video reiße ich schon mal die Themen an, um die es geht:
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuA...
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LERNBPF25 - Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel - Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann

YouTube video by Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Bildungspotenziale

www.youtube.com

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨 85% (!) der Erwachsenen sind für ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social Media.
Selbst unter den Jugendlichen ist eine relative Mehrheit dafür.

👉 Dies und mehr im neuen ifo Bildungsbarometer 2025:
www.ifo.de/fakten/2025-...
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Verein für Socialpolitik e.V. @vfsecon.bsky.social · Sep 5

[2] 15/09 | 5:00 PM — Panel: Open Science – Increasing Research Transparency in Economics
Featuring ZBW, Jörg Ankel-Peters, Jan Marcus, Severine Toussaert, Lars Villhuber, Levent Neyse
#OpenScience #VfS_Conf2025
@wisocologne.bsky.social

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩

This will be so exciting!!!🥳

🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025

@raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …

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