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🧨 New draft dropped:🧨
"Cash Transfers,
Mental Health and Agency:
Evidence from an RCT in Germany"
maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...

Companion paper to our paper on basic income and labor supply.
Corresponding author Freddie Schwerter (@freddieschwerter.bsky.social).
#basicincome #UBI
July 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Do we hold others responsible for their choices even when these choices have been shaped by unfair unequal circumstances?

Yes, we do, suggests "Shallow Meritocracy" from Peter Andre @peterandre.bsky.social, recently accepted at REStud.

www.restud.com/shallow-meri...
April 10, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Interview: Why global support for climate action is ‘systematically underestimated’ | @drsimevans.bsky.social
w/comment from @peterandre.bsky.social Teodora Boneva @felixchopra.bsky.social Armin Falk

Read here: bit.ly/3SNthhV
February 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Hello world! We can share some good news today.

🌍 Support for climate action is widespread across the globe and much larger than it is perceived. 🌍

Our new article is out in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
w/ Teodora Boneva, @felixchopra.bsky.social, Armin Falk
February 9, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Come to Zurich and work with me.
I am hiring a predoc.

More info is here:
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January 5, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Thank you, ERC for the chance to study sexual harassment prevention with a consolidator grant! Yay!! Looking forward to working with wonderful colleagues on this important topic.
November 23, 2023 at 12:40 PM
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JMP alert 🎉

What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities?

Gender role attitudes!

We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ Tim Mensinger)

🧵👇
November 21, 2023 at 9:48 AM
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So great to see this published online at the #JDE 🥳

👉 RCT to curb water demand in Namibia during severe #waterscarcity.
👉 Providing a short list of actionable and specific saving tips reduces consumption by 5%.

#Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #boost
Get the paper here (OA) 👉tinyurl.com/23fxufzs
November 20, 2023 at 9:56 AM
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Really incredible JMP by Nina Buchmann, Carl Meyer + Colin Sullivan.

Nina + co run ingenious field study documenting “paternalistic discrimination”, where employers discriminate w/ intention to help employees because of disparities outside of the job, here the potential for gender-based violence
November 20, 2023 at 12:28 PM
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🚨New paper in #PsychologicalScience🚨

Can vaccine nationalism be explained by a belief among policymakers that citizens will mistrust leaders who prioritize global needs over domestic protection.

Short answer: Yes.

Find out more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 14, 2023 at 8:58 AM
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Hier - mit (fast) allen aus dem Stab & der Geschäftsstelle des @SVR_Wirtschaft - bei der Übergabe unseres Jahresgutachtens am 9.11. im Kanzleramt.
Ein großes DANKESCHÖN an alle, die mit unglaublichem Engagement & immenser Expertise dieses tolle Gutachten möglich gemacht haben!
November 10, 2023 at 8:58 AM
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I cannot believe what I'm reading here...

The current CEO of IZA, Simon Jäger, has decided to depart from his leadership role at IZA by the end of 2023 [...]
Effective January 1, 2024, Armin Falk, the current CEO of briq Institute, will take over the leadership of IZA

www.iza.org/wc/files/pre...
www.iza.org
November 10, 2023 at 8:52 AM
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www.iza.org
November 10, 2023 at 9:19 AM
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What makes a conversation successful?

📣 The new book by our spokesperson @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social, "Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication," examines the #BehavioralEconomics of human conversations.

OpenAccess: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

#EconSky
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Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication
What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit o...
www.openbookpublishers.com
November 8, 2023 at 11:01 AM
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Hope you will tune in!
November 6, 2023 at 1:56 PM
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RECRUITING: Post-Doc position (2 years) in Public/Urban/Labor Economics at @WiSoUniCologne / @ECON_tribute, no teaching.

@ERC_Research project: Housing, Inequality and Public Policy (HIPPO)

CGN Team: @Sigginho, @RaoulMaarseveen, Löffler, Gharbi, Reiners + many int'l colleagues
November 3, 2023 at 8:09 AM
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Großartige neue Podcast Folge mit ECONtribute Mitglied @trfetzer.com zum #Brexit

Wie kam es eigentlich zum Ausstieg aus der EU? Was haben Sparpolitik & Populismus damit zu tun?

Jetzt verfügbar bei Spotify, Apple etc.
econtribute.de/de/populismu...
November 2, 2023 at 9:02 AM
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🚨Are you doing a PhD in Economics? Do you want to get feedback on your latest research? Connect with other PhD students and learn more about their work? Attend a keynote by the great Uwe Sunde (LMU & @rationalitycrc.bsky.social)? Then this👇is the right conference for you! Further info: t.ly/e7z6d
Call for Papers: The 17th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics will be held on site on February 27-28, 2024 in Essen. The headline topic is “Health and Demography”. Submissions by early-career researchers in all areas of Economics are welcome. Submission deadline: December 17, 2023.
October 26, 2023 at 4:22 PM
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Goldins Forschung nutzt wirtschaftshistorische und empirische Methoden, um Arbeitsmärkte - insbesondere Geschlechterunterschiede - besser zu verstehen.
October 9, 2023 at 3:32 PM
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📚First day of school! I am excited to begin my new role as professor of economics and director of the #ELFE lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Thanks to all coauthors & friends for your support! Looking forward to teaching the next generation and being a part of the vibrant Ruhr econ community
October 9, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023.

Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED!

We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n
October 7, 2023 at 10:50 AM