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Eduard Brüll
@eduardbruell.bsky.social
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Economist at ZEW Mannheim. Interested in labour, health and regional economics.
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Unser #Jahresbericht ist da! 2024 war geprägt von Stagnation, Krisen und Konflikten. Wir am #ZEW haben diese Entwicklungen mit Analysen begleitet und Orientierung geboten. Daher widmen wir unseren Jahresbericht dem Thema KRAFT. Viel Spaß bei der Lektüre! www.zew.de/WS372/?twt=1
Mock up ZEW-Jahresbericht (Titel und aufgeschlagenes Vorowort)
May 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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„Eine stärkere #Mindestlohnerhöhung wäre in der Boomphase wahrscheinlich kein Problem. Allerdings ist das in der aktuellen wirtschaftlichen Lage eventuell gefährlich“, kommentiert #ZEW-Ökonom @eduardbruell.bsky.social die laufende Debatte (ab Min. 6:00).
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Plusminus: Mindestlohnerhöhung und ihre Folgen - hier anschauen
15 Euro Mindestlohn sollen bis 2026 erreichbar sein. So steht es im Koalitionsvertrag. Doch welche Folgen hätte ein Anstieg des Mindestlohns auf 15 Euro für Wirtschaft und Verbraucher? PLUSMINUS hat n...
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May 13, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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analyst42.bsky.social
Git was 20 years old this week. Written by the creator of Linux as a tool to streamline his workflow - it shows the importance of making tools. If you have a better way of doing something, write and share it. It's possible that few others understand the problem, let alone have the solution you do!
thenewstack.io The New Stack @thenewstack.io · May 3
Linus Torvalds knew what developers wanted for their SCM: Performance, safeguards against data corruption and distributed workflow.
Linus Torvalds Reflects on 20 Years of Git
Linus Torvalds knew what developers wanted for their SCM: Performance, safeguards against data corruption and distributed workflow.
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May 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
eduardbruell.bsky.social
Paste your abstract.
Get semantically similar economic papers—instantly.
No keyword tweaking, no guessing jargon.

This is my new RePEc semantic search engine in action.

Try it now → econpapers.eduard-bruell.de
#EconSky #RePEc
Screenshot of the "Semantic Paper Search" app. An abstract about competition in German primary care is entered on the left. On the right, the app returns highly similar papers from RePEc, including titles, authors, journals, years, abstracts, and similarity scores. Download links and a bibtex-export function are also available.
April 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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chriskarbownik.bsky.social
New paper out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We study (using DiD) effects of 1968 Poor People's Campaign on election outcomes. Overall these peaceful protests had no effects on elections (contrasting prior civil rights era findings) but they hurt Ds in the South and helped them in the West.
Civil rights protests and election outcomes: Exploring the effects of the poor people’s campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United States. As part of the campaign, …
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April 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🚭 Publication alert!
Are smoking bans effective in shaping smoking behavior?

New paper w/ @paulapereda.bsky.social in the Journal of Development Economics explores Brazil’s experience with smoke-free policies, uncovering key mechanisms.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

#Econsky #PublicHealth #Brazil
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April 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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relatedly, there's a nice paper showing that when a company changes from a CEO without a business degree to a new CEO with a business degree, sales stay the same but wages fall

economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
Figure 3 from the linked paper showing that wages and labor share fall in response to a new CEO with a business degree A screenshot of the title page of the linked paper, which reads as follows: Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers’ Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark Daron Acemoglu, Alex Xi He, Daniel le Maire March 2022 Abstract This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree (“business managers”) reduce their employees’ wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter. Using manager retirements and deaths and an IV strategy based on the diffusion of the practice of appointing business managers within industry, region and size quartile cells, we provide additional evidence that these are causal effects. We establish that the proximate cause of these (relative) wage effects are changes in rent-sharing practices following the appointment of business managers. Exploiting exogenous export demand shocks, we show that non-business managers share profits with their workers, whereas business managers do not. But consistent with our first set of results, these business managers show no greater ability to increase sales or profits in response to exporting opportunities. Finally, we use the influence of role models on college major choice to instrument for the decision to enroll in a business degree in Denmark and show that our estimates correspond to causal effects of practices and values acquired in business education—rather than the differential selection into business education of individuals unlikely to share rents with workers.
April 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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dfeldman.org
The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again! About TARIFF is a fantastic tool that lets you impose import tariffs on Python packages. We're going to bring manufacturing BACK to your codebase by making foreign imports more EXPENSIVE! Installation pip install tariff Usage import tariff # Set your tariff rates (package_name: percentage) tariff.set({| "numpy": 50, "pandas": 200, "requests": 150 # 50% tariff on numpy # 200% tariff on pandas # 150% tariff on requests # Now when you import these packages, they'll be TARIFFED! import numpy # This will be 50% slower import pandas # This will be 200% slower
April 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.
April 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Good lesson:
vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social Koen Van den Eeckhout @vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social · Apr 17
Small multiples can save even the most complicated chart. And the best thing is, you can use this technique for almost any type of chart. A scatter plot, for example!

medium.com/p/3aa0b039410

(Post 4 out of 4 while I'm on holiday, sharing some highlights from previous years)
A scatter plot showing environmental impact score and nutrition impact score of different types of sausage. Below the scatter plot are 5 smaller plots, each highlighting one of the categories.
April 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Holy crap this sucks

“According to Onda’s attorney, the U.S. government asked him to leave due to his criminal history, which includes two speeding tickets and a catch-and-release fishing citation dismissed in 2019.”
April 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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dandrezner.bsky.social
Oh come on it can’t be that big of a drop in WHOA.
jeffasher.bsky.social Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · Apr 5
Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
April 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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sandertordoir.bsky.social
The Kiel Institute is on fire – they modelled the impact of Trump’s trade war.

Check out the chart. The numbers come with the usual uncertainty, but they give a good sense of the eye-popping inflation the US is now facing.

Via @davideoneglia.bsky.social
Paper here: www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/kiel-...
April 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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April 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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zew.de
💻 Die Mehrheit der Beschäftigten nutzt #KI – allerdings überwiegend informell. Für was sie genutzt wird und welche Auswirkungen das hat, zeigt die Studie von u.a. den #ZEW-Ökonomen @schlenkeroli.bsky.social und @eduardbruell.bsky.social. www.zew.de/PM9398/?twt=1
Pressemitteilung: Beschäftigte nutzen KI – auch ohne betriebliche Einführung
„Die Mehrheit der Beschäftigten möchte gerne KI nutzen und tut dies bereits, auch wenn sie nicht durch den Betrieb eingeführt wurde. Vor allem die Veröffentlichung generativer KI wie ChatGPT ...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden
March 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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jansauermann.bsky.social
EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome!
#EconSky 📉📈
March 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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simonpcouch.com
Since the release of Claude Code a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimenting with using the tool to develop R packages. Some notes on what that's been like on my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-03...
How I’m Using Claude Code to Develop R Packages | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch
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March 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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khoavuumn.bsky.social
You can write a whole econometrics textbook with this meme
March 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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terrygregory.bsky.social
🚀 Call for Papers – Deadline Near! 🚀

TASKS VII Conference on AI & Work on Sept 11-12, 2025 @liser.lu in Luxembourg!

📌 Deadline: March 1, 2025
🎤 Keynotes: David Autor (MIT), Lindsey Raymond (Harvard), Thijs Bol (Amsterdam)

📩 Submit: tasks@liser.lu

🔗 More info: www.liser.lu/Call-for-Pap...
Call for Papers: TASKS VII Conference
LISER's public research focuses on social and economic policies, including their spatial dimension. Its mission is to provide the scientific community and society with clear, relevant and solid answer...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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lstoetze.bsky.social
Wie gut war unsere zweistimme.org Vorhersage der Bundestagswahl 2025?

Zweitstimme: 0.78 Prozentpunkte im Mittel daneben.
Erststimme: 270/299 Wahlkreise korrekt vorhergesagt.

Unseren Blog-Post dazu:

zweitstimme.org/posts/blog/e...
February 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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For the full study www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Screenshot of the title and abstract to the linked study "Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs", by Manasi Deshpande and Yue Li. The abstract reads: "We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs. We identify these effects using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. Closings lead to a persistent 16 percent decline in the number of disability recipients in surrounding areas, with the largest effects for applicants with moderately severe conditions and low education levels. Disability applications fall by only 10 percent, implying that the closings reduce targeting efficiency based on current eligibility standards. Increased congestion at neighboring offices appears more important as a channel than higher travel or information costs."
February 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Feb 11, 1823 William Playfair died in London, England 🇬🇧

He created The Big Bang in data graphics --
1786: Invented the bar chart, line graphs of economic data
1801: Invented the pie chart, and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations
Playfair's (1796) first bar chart, showing imports and exports for Scotland with other countries. He made a bar chart because he did not have time series data for Scotland An 1805 pie chart by Playfair showing the sizes of states and territories of the US There is no known portrait of William Playfair, so this is here to counter the false portrait that is sometimes shown
February 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM