simon heß
@hesss.org
econ assistant prof at wu vienna
causal inference, networks, and development
hesss.org
causal inference, networks, and development
hesss.org
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New paper out in @science.org!
“Brain drain” or “brain gain”?
Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
“Brain drain” or “brain gain”?
Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
May 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
New paper out in @science.org!
“Brain drain” or “brain gain”?
Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
“Brain drain” or “brain gain”?
Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
is openai running the model's in javascript in my browser? otherwise I cannot understand how the interface can be this laggy
May 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
is openai running the model's in javascript in my browser? otherwise I cannot understand how the interface can be this laggy
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i am genuinely curious to see if the asteroid that is about to hit the american economy can actually separate trump from his base
April 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
i am genuinely curious to see if the asteroid that is about to hit the american economy can actually separate trump from his base
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Researcher @meyting.bsky.social has been published in Nature!🎉
His study with @minxiesci.bsky.social, Felix Michalik, @hesss.org, Seunghun Chung & @pascalge.bsky.social finds a 20% lower dementia risk after shingles vaccination using economic methods.
👉 safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/... #EconSky
His study with @minxiesci.bsky.social, Felix Michalik, @hesss.org, Seunghun Chung & @pascalge.bsky.social finds a 20% lower dementia risk after shingles vaccination using economic methods.
👉 safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/... #EconSky
April 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Researcher @meyting.bsky.social has been published in Nature!🎉
His study with @minxiesci.bsky.social, Felix Michalik, @hesss.org, Seunghun Chung & @pascalge.bsky.social finds a 20% lower dementia risk after shingles vaccination using economic methods.
👉 safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/... #EconSky
His study with @minxiesci.bsky.social, Felix Michalik, @hesss.org, Seunghun Chung & @pascalge.bsky.social finds a 20% lower dementia risk after shingles vaccination using economic methods.
👉 safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/... #EconSky
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Our paper on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia is now out in Nature! 🎉
Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung, @pascalge.bsky.social and especially Min Xie (@minxiesci.bsky.social) & Simon Heß (@hesss.org) making the analysis so much fun!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung, @pascalge.bsky.social and especially Min Xie (@minxiesci.bsky.social) & Simon Heß (@hesss.org) making the analysis so much fun!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our paper on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia is now out in Nature! 🎉
Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung, @pascalge.bsky.social and especially Min Xie (@minxiesci.bsky.social) & Simon Heß (@hesss.org) making the analysis so much fun!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung, @pascalge.bsky.social and especially Min Xie (@minxiesci.bsky.social) & Simon Heß (@hesss.org) making the analysis so much fun!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Die deutsche Innenministerin wollte nach Damaskus reisen, um Abschiebungen nach Syrien zu verhandeln – weil das Land ja angeblich sicher genug sei. Die Reise fiel aus. Grund: *checks notes* Sicherheitsbedenken.
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
Syrien: Faeser sagt Reise wegen Terrorwarnung ab
Bundesinnenministerin Faeser hat ihre geplante Reise nach Syrien abgesagt. Es gebe Hinweise "auf eine terroristische Bedrohung".
www.zdf.de
March 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Die deutsche Innenministerin wollte nach Damaskus reisen, um Abschiebungen nach Syrien zu verhandeln – weil das Land ja angeblich sicher genug sei. Die Reise fiel aus. Grund: *checks notes* Sicherheitsbedenken.
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
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Schon Arendt wusste: ohne Staatsangehörigkeit verliert der Mensch seinen "Platz in der Welt."
Gerdes zu den gefährlichen deutschen Tendenzen in Richtung Loyalitätsstaatsbürgerschaft.
Gerdes zu den gefährlichen deutschen Tendenzen in Richtung Loyalitätsstaatsbürgerschaft.
Könnten „Terrorunterstützer, Antisemiten und Extremisten" bald die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit verlieren?
Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...
Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...
March 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Schon Arendt wusste: ohne Staatsangehörigkeit verliert der Mensch seinen "Platz in der Welt."
Gerdes zu den gefährlichen deutschen Tendenzen in Richtung Loyalitätsstaatsbürgerschaft.
Gerdes zu den gefährlichen deutschen Tendenzen in Richtung Loyalitätsstaatsbürgerschaft.
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Könnten „Terrorunterstützer, Antisemiten und Extremisten" bald die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit verlieren?
Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...
Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...
March 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Könnten „Terrorunterstützer, Antisemiten und Extremisten" bald die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit verlieren?
Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...
Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.
verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...
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Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉
@science.org
We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡
Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!
Details ⤵️
@science.org
We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡
Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!
Details ⤵️
🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org
💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧵A thread
1/7
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org
💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
🧵A thread
1/7
March 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉
@science.org
We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡
Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!
Details ⤵️
@science.org
We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡
Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!
Details ⤵️
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[PA system stutters alive] attention moderates. this is your final warning. anti-trans backlash is in fact backlash against gender nonconformity in general, including homosexuality, and it seeks to roll back all related forms of progress. this is your final warning, places please
Republican support for same-sex marriage down 31pts, from 55% to 24%, in four years according to new poll from YouGov.
Yikes.
Yikes.
March 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
[PA system stutters alive] attention moderates. this is your final warning. anti-trans backlash is in fact backlash against gender nonconformity in general, including homosexuality, and it seeks to roll back all related forms of progress. this is your final warning, places please
Sorry to ask, but was IZA affiliation only merit-based or mostly network-based?
February 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Sorry to ask, but was IZA affiliation only merit-based or mostly network-based?
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It's midterm season. If you're giving a paper exam, consider using this LaTeX shell to write the exam. It adds up all of the points for you and it compiles a solution booklet for you, too.
github.com/talgross-bu/...
github.com/talgross-bu/...
GitHub - talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams: A template to create paper exams with LaTeX
A template to create paper exams with LaTeX. Contribute to talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's midterm season. If you're giving a paper exam, consider using this LaTeX shell to write the exam. It adds up all of the points for you and it compiles a solution booklet for you, too.
github.com/talgross-bu/...
github.com/talgross-bu/...
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1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
February 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
PhD positions in Vienna for research-minded students.
5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
February 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
PhD positions in Vienna for research-minded students.
5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Wenn Merz Politik macht, die nur mit der AfD Mehrheiten hat, ist dann auch völlig egal ob die AfD dadurch schrumpft oder nicht.
January 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Wenn Merz Politik macht, die nur mit der AfD Mehrheiten hat, ist dann auch völlig egal ob die AfD dadurch schrumpft oder nicht.
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"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
"Then they came for the trade unionists
…
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/pres...
"Then they came for the trade unionists
…
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/pres...
Presidential memo shuts down all government grants (now including NSF)
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
"Then they came for the trade unionists
…
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/pres...
"Then they came for the trade unionists
…
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
—Martin Niemöller
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/01/pres...
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Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the
😀😀
American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )
😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
😀😀
American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )
😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
This paper experimentally documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. We created fictitious human-like bot acc
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January 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the
😀😀
American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )
😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
😀😀
American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )
😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
DeepSeek is a much better writing assistant than GPT currently is.
January 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
DeepSeek is a much better writing assistant than GPT currently is.
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An agile EU would offer grants to US-based academics.
January 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An agile EU would offer grants to US-based academics.
I'm in the UK since 3 weeks and haven't seen a single pound of cash.
Grüße gehen raus nach Österreich und Deutschland.
Grüße gehen raus nach Österreich und Deutschland.
January 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm in the UK since 3 weeks and haven't seen a single pound of cash.
Grüße gehen raus nach Österreich und Deutschland.
Grüße gehen raus nach Österreich und Deutschland.
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Point of no return.
Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird.
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Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird.
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Merz gibt deutliche Botschaft: „Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft“
Merz zeigt sich unzufrieden mit den Einbürgerungsrichtlinien der Ampel. Bei einem Sieg bei der Bundestagswahl hat der CDU-Chef vor, einiges grundlegend zu verändern.
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January 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Point of no return.
Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird.
search.app/kscX74bMF3Qj...
Diesen Tag und diese Nachricht werde ich den Rest meines Lebens nicht vergessen. Denn heute habe ich eingesehen, dass man mir und meinesgleichen in meinem Geburts- und Heimatland niemals eine sichere Heimat bieten wird.
search.app/kscX74bMF3Qj...
can someone with a better understanding of Austrian politics tell me if it's already time to look for jobs abroad?
Nicht zu vergessen: Johanna Mikl- Leitner völlig losgelöst. Will keine Neuwahlen, weil wir jetzt den Kampf gegen den Islam führen müssen. Gibt es eine Steigerung von jenseitig?
January 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
can someone with a better understanding of Austrian politics tell me if it's already time to look for jobs abroad?
I'm visiting Oxford for the next 2 months. If you're around, let's meet!
January 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'm visiting Oxford for the next 2 months. If you're around, let's meet!