Ulf Zölitz
@ulfzoelitz.bsky.social
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I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)
We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
October 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)
🎉 Teaching Milestone 🎉
This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1).
Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.
This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1).
Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.
September 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🎉 Teaching Milestone 🎉
This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1).
Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.
This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1).
Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.
Die UZH bietet dieses Jahr erneut das Modul «Mentoring für die nächste Generation» an. 54 Studierende begleiten ein Jahr lang je ein Primarschulkind als Mentor*in, nehmen an interdisziplinären Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendentwicklung teil und setzen Theorie in die Praxis um.
September 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Die UZH bietet dieses Jahr erneut das Modul «Mentoring für die nächste Generation» an. 54 Studierende begleiten ein Jahr lang je ein Primarschulkind als Mentor*in, nehmen an interdisziplinären Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendentwicklung teil und setzen Theorie in die Praxis um.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @xshan.bsky.social, @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social, and Uschi Backes-Gellner provide first-time evidence that online instruction disproportionally harms the learning outcomes of women compared to men. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
July 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @xshan.bsky.social, @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social, and Uschi Backes-Gellner provide first-time evidence that online instruction disproportionally harms the learning outcomes of women compared to men. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...
🚨 New working paper! 🚨
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉
with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉
with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
July 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨 New working paper! 🚨
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉
with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉
with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
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I appreciate the multiple hypothesis testing reason for indices. But think of a meta-analysis that can't use the study b/c disaggregated results aren't shown.
I'd be fine if people just shared this post-publication.
(My use case: an index that combines women's gender attitudes and employment.)
I'd be fine if people just shared this post-publication.
(My use case: an index that combines women's gender attitudes and employment.)
When studies report results on indices that combine many vars, they should also show results for each var in the appendix. This is prompted by writing a review article; some studies have an index where only a subset of the vars are on topic for me. Plus the original vars have interpretable units.
June 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I appreciate the multiple hypothesis testing reason for indices. But think of a meta-analysis that can't use the study b/c disaggregated results aren't shown.
I'd be fine if people just shared this post-publication.
(My use case: an index that combines women's gender attitudes and employment.)
I'd be fine if people just shared this post-publication.
(My use case: an index that combines women's gender attitudes and employment.)
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A new paper by @xshan.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social presents evidence from a randomised field experiment showing that peer groups can influence students’ conscientiousness, openness, and competitiveness - but have no spillover effects on extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism.
Link👇
Link👇
Peers Affect Personality Development
Abstract. Do people around us influence our personality? We investigate this question through a field experiment where we randomly assign university students to study groups. We find personality spill...
direct.mit.edu
May 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A new paper by @xshan.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social presents evidence from a randomised field experiment showing that peer groups can influence students’ conscientiousness, openness, and competitiveness - but have no spillover effects on extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism.
Link👇
Link👇
When cleaning up I found this old business card of mine. During the 3 years I worked at IZA/briq as a postdoc I had an incredible productive time and terrific colleagues.
March 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
When cleaning up I found this old business card of mine. During the 3 years I worked at IZA/briq as a postdoc I had an incredible productive time and terrific colleagues.
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📢 Call for papers:
🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳
12-13 May 2025, Munich
Keynote: Alexander Willen
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Deadline: 16 Feb 2025
Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky
🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳
12-13 May 2025, Munich
Keynote: Alexander Willen
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Deadline: 16 Feb 2025
Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky
January 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
📢 Call for papers:
🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳
12-13 May 2025, Munich
Keynote: Alexander Willen
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Deadline: 16 Feb 2025
Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky
🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳
12-13 May 2025, Munich
Keynote: Alexander Willen
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Deadline: 16 Feb 2025
Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky
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Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com
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📢 We are hiring 📢
ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one
6-year Postdoc 👩🎓
to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!
👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131
Deadline: 24 Nov 2024
Please spread the word! #EconSky
ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one
6-year Postdoc 👩🎓
to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!
👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131
Deadline: 24 Nov 2024
Please spread the word! #EconSky
October 30, 2024 at 6:03 AM
📢 We are hiring 📢
ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one
6-year Postdoc 👩🎓
to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!
👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131
Deadline: 24 Nov 2024
Please spread the word! #EconSky
ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one
6-year Postdoc 👩🎓
to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!
👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131
Deadline: 24 Nov 2024
Please spread the word! #EconSky
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
The Jacobscenter and Department of Economics is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in the Economics of Child and Youth Development.
📅 Deadline: TOMORROW!
Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10...
The Jacobscenter and Department of Economics is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in the Economics of Child and Youth Development.
📅 Deadline: TOMORROW!
Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10...
November 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
The Jacobscenter and Department of Economics is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in the Economics of Child and Youth Development.
📅 Deadline: TOMORROW!
Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10...
The Jacobscenter and Department of Economics is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in the Economics of Child and Youth Development.
📅 Deadline: TOMORROW!
Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10...
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Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
May 14, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex?
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
NO in primary education,
YES in secondary education.
A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects
www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
Come to Zurich and work with me.
I am hiring a predoc.
More info is here:
ulfzoelitz.com/wp-content/u...
I am hiring a predoc.
More info is here:
ulfzoelitz.com/wp-content/u...
January 5, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Come to Zurich and work with me.
I am hiring a predoc.
More info is here:
ulfzoelitz.com/wp-content/u...
I am hiring a predoc.
More info is here:
ulfzoelitz.com/wp-content/u...