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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CESifo @cesifo.org · 9d

📢 The Call for Papers for the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, organized by @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social & Ernst Fehr is now open!
Keynotes: Supreet Kaur & @philippstrack.bsky.social
📆 𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
ℹ️https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/f9G

In cooperation with @rationalitycrc.bsky.social

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 9d

Ja, so habe ich das auch geschrieben :) Anyway, W1 Besoldung in BW ist top, auch ohne Zulage. Aber intrinsische Motivation hin oder her, monetäre Wertschätzung ist manchmal wichtig und oft billig zu bekommen.

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 10d

Wikipedia-Eintrag ist nicht gut gealtert. Absenkungsbetrag in BW gibts lange nicht mehr und hatte auch nichts mit Evaluation etc zu tun (war reine Sparmaßnahme 👉 u.a. deswegen verfassungswidrig)

Jede W1 in BW hat 400 €/Monat als Zulage hinterlegt. Frage ist nur ob Uni das weitergibt. 👉LBesGBW

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 10d

LHG §51(7) und Regelung in HabilO (wegen äquivalenz und so).

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 10d

Neben der ZwiEval ist das das dümmste überhaupt an der JP mit und ohne tt. In BW wäre es übrigens möglich die ZwiEval in eine EndEval umzuwandeln (ohne deputatserhöhumg). Dazu müsste Uni nur Habilordnung anpassen. 👀 @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Glückwunsch🎉

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 11d

Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes" by Sandro Ambuehl and B. Douglas Bernheim.

Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes

(Forthcoming Article) - We study social preferences in settings where someone who chooses on behalf of others knows how those individuals rank the available options but may lack cardinal information concerning those comparisons. Contrary to majoritarian principles, most people place more weight on pre- venting least-preferred outcomes for others than on enabling most-preferred outcomes. Ranks matter both intrinsically and because they provide a basis for inferring cardinal utility. Ordinal aggregation principles are stable across domains and countries with divergent political traditions. Designing attractive social choice mechanisms is challenging in practice partly because aggre- gation principles that make manipulation diffcult yield outcomes people consider normatively unappealing.

www.aeaweb.org

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NBER @nber.org · 13d

Developing a behavioral development agenda showing how psychological constraints—alongside missing markets, volatility, and weak institutions—impede mobility and shape markets, from Emily Breza and Supreet Kaur www.nber.org/papers/w34753

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Tanja Bhuiyan @tanjabhuiyan.bsky.social · 13d

Mein neuster Blog-Beitrag über meinen Bildungsweg in Schule und Hochschule, was das mit dem #WissZeitVG zu tun hat und warum Leistung nicht wirklich zählt, wenn sie von der "falschen" Person kommt.

#ichBinHanna #ichBinReyhan #Chancengerechtigkeit #firstgen

www.tanjabhuiyan.com/blog/das-lee...

Das leere Versprechen vom Bildungsaufstieg — Dr. Tanja Bhuiyan

Über das leere Versprechen vom Bildungsaufstieg in das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem

www.tanjabhuiyan.com

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NBER @nber.org · 23d

Investigating whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty in Kenya, from Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel www.nber.org/papers/w34695

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Joanna Bryson, Marc Lynch , and 80 more Stephen M. Walt, Joanna Bryson, Marc Lynch, Tobias Bunde, Anupam Chander, Rebecca Solnit, Jennifer Bussell, Richard S.J. Tol, Dorothy Bishop, Brian J. Enquist, Richard E. Lenski, Andreas J. Bäumler, Tobias Kuemmerle, Will Jennings, Jon Pierre, Stefan Rahmstorf, Peter Thorne, Brendan Nyhan, Timon McPhearson, Linda J. Skitka, Du Toit, Julie L. Lockwood, Elena Litchman, Scott L. Greer, John Horgan, Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Michael A. Clemens, Matthias Doepke, Lewis R. Gordon, Michael J. Allen, Martin Tomko, David W. Kerstetter, Marianne Hundt, Juan Cole, Cathy N. Davidson, Gernot Wagner, Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Edgar Morgenroth, Tuomas Mattila, Michael Kevane, Devon Greyson, Smith, Jonathan Hopkin, Michael W. Kraus, Silvia Secchi, Aaron Sojourner, Vincent Noël, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, William A. Allen, Robert B. Reich, Michael D. McDonald, Craig R. McClain, Jason Lyall, Michael Müller, Michael Jones‐Correa, Mark Rice, Anthony Burke, Juanjo Medina, Arlene Stein, Jack Stilgoe, James Connelly, Georg Weizsäcker, Ted Temzelides, Richard M. Carpiano, Nathan Richardson, Guy Pe’er, Hisham Zerriffi, Tim Stephens, Blair Fix, Karen O’Leary, Taku Ito, Sylvain Genevois, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Dietmar Fehr, Karin Wulf, Juliet Johnson, Vincent Foucher, Jeannette Sutton, David R. Shumway, Elise Thomas, Carly D. Ziter

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25d

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 25d

People's attitudes towards policy - a big modern research area

Please submit your best paper and join us for this workshop in beautiful Bavaria

#Econsky

CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 25d

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies

We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

Workshop Homepage

econexperiments.eu

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 27d

Naja das ist aber überall so und wäre weniger relevant wenn der Partner seinen Teil beiträgt. In academia ist aber support von Chef*in und Kolleg*innen extrem wichtig, weil die Strukturen immer noch familienfeindlich sind.

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Jan 14

Doppel-Prof-Paarhälfte mit 2 kids hier. In unserem Umfeld fallen mir mind. 5 Doppel-Prof Paare mit mind. 1 Kind ein u. keines ohne.

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · Jan 7

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

dailynous.com

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jan 6

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧵 Thread—>

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Jan 4

Imagine how much good those funds could have done to advance research integrity instead.

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Olivier Corneille, Alexander Wuttke , and 4 more Linda J. Skitka, Olivier Corneille, Alexander Wuttke, Gernot Wagner, Jill A. Jacobson, Aleksandra Urman, Dietmar Fehr

Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · Dec 28

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted

Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

www.tum.de

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 27

Das ganze Kommissionsgespräch ist doch cheap talk. Die Kommission hat Erwartungen u. die Bewerber sollten versuchen sie zu erfüllen. Ein komisches Spiel, weil jeder weiß, dass Gesagtes kein Wert hat. Wer nicht mitspielt, dh nicht strategisch ist, offenbart sich und verliert.

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 27

Doch muss man. Gerade bei solchen Frage offenbaren sich überraschend viele. Die will man dann auch nicht unbedingt als Kollegin/en.

Sie dürfen nur keine Entscheidungsgrundlage sein. Aber da finden sich dann andere Gründe.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Nathan Nunn, Christian E. Weller , and 3 more Richard S.J. Tol, Nathan Nunn, Christian E. Weller, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Georg Weizsäcker, Dietmar Fehr

City St George’s Economics @cityeconomics.bsky.social · Dec 22

🚨 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

econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 20

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.

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 20

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.

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 20

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.

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, John Holbein, Kai Gehring , and 1 more Alexander Wuttke, John Holbein, Kai Gehring, Dietmar Fehr

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Dec 12

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:

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 10

Super Henning! Freut mich total für dich. 🎉🎉🎉 well deserved.

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Dec 10

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 · Dec 6

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

Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Steven Fielding, Dietmar Fehr

Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · Dec 4

Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.

Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Nov 29

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.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Dietmar Fehr

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Nov 26

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...

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