Kai Barron
@kaibarron.bsky.social
Behavioural Economist, WZB Berlin | sites.google.com/site/kaibarron/
Research: Narratives, Belief Formation, Discrimination, Child Development, Gender.
Research: Narratives, Belief Formation, Discrimination, Child Development, Gender.
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If you are hiring this year, check out Charlotte's profile! She is a great young researcher and a big plus to every team!
#EconJobMarket💼
Meet Charlotte Cordes, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social
🎓JMP: Motivated memory and favoritism
🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/charlot...
Meet Charlotte Cordes, JM-candidate @econmunich.bsky.social
🎓JMP: Motivated memory and favoritism
🔍Research topics: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
🌐 Website: sites.google.com/view/charlot...
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If you are hiring this year, check out Charlotte's profile! She is a great young researcher and a big plus to every team!
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Join us at UCT for our 2-day December Workshop co-hosted with ERSA, discussing frontier research in applied economics for developing countries!
2 keynotes: Taryn Dinkelman & Joseph Kaboski.
12 presenters from 7 international & 4 local universities, & PhD student panels.
2 keynotes: Taryn Dinkelman & Joseph Kaboski.
12 presenters from 7 international & 4 local universities, & PhD student panels.
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Join us at UCT for our 2-day December Workshop co-hosted with ERSA, discussing frontier research in applied economics for developing countries!
2 keynotes: Taryn Dinkelman & Joseph Kaboski.
12 presenters from 7 international & 4 local universities, & PhD student panels.
2 keynotes: Taryn Dinkelman & Joseph Kaboski.
12 presenters from 7 international & 4 local universities, & PhD student panels.
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Great news on @malengo.org: With a new large investment from The Shapiro Foundation (theshapirofoundation.org), we'll be able to bring several hundred vocational training and university students from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda to Europe over the coming years!
More here: malengo.org/malengo-secu...
More here: malengo.org/malengo-secu...
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Great news on @malengo.org: With a new large investment from The Shapiro Foundation (theshapirofoundation.org), we'll be able to bring several hundred vocational training and university students from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda to Europe over the coming years!
More here: malengo.org/malengo-secu...
More here: malengo.org/malengo-secu...
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🚨Job Opportunity at WZB Berlin Social Science Center
WZB’s Markets and Choice department is hiring Student Research Assistants for two major projects:
- Lab^2 (@leventneyse.bsky.social)
- Mental Models and Discrimination (@kaibarron.bsky.social)
🔗Learn more & apply: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398...
WZB’s Markets and Choice department is hiring Student Research Assistants for two major projects:
- Lab^2 (@leventneyse.bsky.social)
- Mental Models and Discrimination (@kaibarron.bsky.social)
🔗Learn more & apply: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398...
Student Research Assistants (ID 350)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading-edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...
https://wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398/student-research-assistants?page_lang=enæ
July 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🚨Job Opportunity at WZB Berlin Social Science Center
WZB’s Markets and Choice department is hiring Student Research Assistants for two major projects:
- Lab^2 (@leventneyse.bsky.social)
- Mental Models and Discrimination (@kaibarron.bsky.social)
🔗Learn more & apply: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398...
WZB’s Markets and Choice department is hiring Student Research Assistants for two major projects:
- Lab^2 (@leventneyse.bsky.social)
- Mental Models and Discrimination (@kaibarron.bsky.social)
🔗Learn more & apply: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/398...
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Please share! We have FIVE openings for student assistants to work on a range of projects at our group at @wzb.bsky.social (must be a Berlin based student)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/384...
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/384...
Five Student Assistants (ID 337)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social s...
wzb.hr4you.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Please share! We have FIVE openings for student assistants to work on a range of projects at our group at @wzb.bsky.social (must be a Berlin based student)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/384...
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/384...
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In the German system, the professor is
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In the German system, the professor is
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
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A relevant property of the German system: few professors.
Only professor can examine students, apply for certain grants, sit on certain committees, ... (with minor exceptions). Privilege, sense of entitlement - and multitasking, which they're not good at, so they delegate many things to juniors.
Only professor can examine students, apply for certain grants, sit on certain committees, ... (with minor exceptions). Privilege, sense of entitlement - and multitasking, which they're not good at, so they delegate many things to juniors.
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A relevant property of the German system: few professors.
Only professor can examine students, apply for certain grants, sit on certain committees, ... (with minor exceptions). Privilege, sense of entitlement - and multitasking, which they're not good at, so they delegate many things to juniors.
Only professor can examine students, apply for certain grants, sit on certain committees, ... (with minor exceptions). Privilege, sense of entitlement - and multitasking, which they're not good at, so they delegate many things to juniors.
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After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…
If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1.
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
Your Contribution Squared
yourcontributionsquared.eu
March 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
After Trump´s disgraceful behavior last week, we thought we need to do something to help Ukraine directly. And you can help too…
Reposted by Kai Barron
If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1.
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
Your Contribution Squared
yourcontributionsquared.eu
March 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If one person gives a euro to Ukraine, the result is €1.
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
If two people give 2 each, it is €4.
If 3,000 give 3,000 each, it is 9 million.
Let’s coordinate, here 👇
and please re-post to spread the word.
yourcontributionsquared.eu/en/
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How has the return to education evolved in post-Apartheid SA?🇿🇦
Happy to share a new working paper where I use reliable earnings data not publicly available to provide a more precise analysis than previously possible.
🔗: tinyurl.com/educ-returns...
5 key findings below!
Happy to share a new working paper where I use reliable earnings data not publicly available to provide a more precise analysis than previously possible.
🔗: tinyurl.com/educ-returns...
5 key findings below!
March 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
How has the return to education evolved in post-Apartheid SA?🇿🇦
Happy to share a new working paper where I use reliable earnings data not publicly available to provide a more precise analysis than previously possible.
🔗: tinyurl.com/educ-returns...
5 key findings below!
Happy to share a new working paper where I use reliable earnings data not publicly available to provide a more precise analysis than previously possible.
🔗: tinyurl.com/educ-returns...
5 key findings below!
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🚨Save the date: September 3 - 6, 2025
I'm happy to announce the 2025 European Meeting of Economic Science Association to be held at @econmuni.bsky.social in Brno🇨🇿
Keynote speakers:
• Anna Dreber Almenberg
• George Loewenstein
• @mbigoni.bsky.social
• Michal Bauer
More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz
I'm happy to announce the 2025 European Meeting of Economic Science Association to be held at @econmuni.bsky.social in Brno🇨🇿
Keynote speakers:
• Anna Dreber Almenberg
• George Loewenstein
• @mbigoni.bsky.social
• Michal Bauer
More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz
2025 European Meeting of the Economic Science Association | 2025 ESA European Meeting
2025 European Meeting of the Economic Science Association
esa2025.econ.muni.cz
February 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨Save the date: September 3 - 6, 2025
I'm happy to announce the 2025 European Meeting of Economic Science Association to be held at @econmuni.bsky.social in Brno🇨🇿
Keynote speakers:
• Anna Dreber Almenberg
• George Loewenstein
• @mbigoni.bsky.social
• Michal Bauer
More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz
I'm happy to announce the 2025 European Meeting of Economic Science Association to be held at @econmuni.bsky.social in Brno🇨🇿
Keynote speakers:
• Anna Dreber Almenberg
• George Loewenstein
• @mbigoni.bsky.social
• Michal Bauer
More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz
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Will repeat this forever, but if there's a US foreign policy program that deserves unambiguous support from a global health/humanitarian/economic/political/every angle you can think of perspective, it's PEPFAR. Sharing the economists letter of support here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Econsky
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Will repeat this forever, but if there's a US foreign policy program that deserves unambiguous support from a global health/humanitarian/economic/political/every angle you can think of perspective, it's PEPFAR. Sharing the economists letter of support here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Econsky
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I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
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Thousands of people, mostly kids, will die for no reason because of this
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/...
February 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Thousands of people, mostly kids, will die for no reason because of this
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/...
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Thrilled to share this paper based on my MPH research!
Before-after analysis of suicide rates in South Africa:
-no evidence of increase in overall rates during pandemic cf 2017
-significantly decreased rates when alcohol was fully banned, especially among men
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
Before-after analysis of suicide rates in South Africa:
-no evidence of increase in overall rates during pandemic cf 2017
-significantly decreased rates when alcohol was fully banned, especially among men
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment
Background Alcohol use is a well-established potentially modifiable risk factor for suicide, yet few studies have investigated the impact of alcohol restrictions on suicide rates, particularly in low-...
gh.bmj.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Thrilled to share this paper based on my MPH research!
Before-after analysis of suicide rates in South Africa:
-no evidence of increase in overall rates during pandemic cf 2017
-significantly decreased rates when alcohol was fully banned, especially among men
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
Before-after analysis of suicide rates in South Africa:
-no evidence of increase in overall rates during pandemic cf 2017
-significantly decreased rates when alcohol was fully banned, especially among men
gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
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A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Do experimental asset market results replicate? High-powered preregistered replications of 17 claims
Experimental asset markets provide a controlled approach to studying financial markets. We attempt to replicate 17 key results from four prominent studies, coll
doi.org
December 14, 2024 at 4:03 PM
A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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Role model way to respond to replications:
A group of researchers has attempted to replicate our work on self-control and asset market prices published in the Review of Financial Studies (doi.org/10.1093/rfs/...) and not been able confirm our findings. See doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Do experimental asset market results replicate? High-powered preregistered replications of 17 claims
Experimental asset markets provide a controlled approach to studying financial markets. We attempt to replicate 17 key results from four prominent studies, coll
doi.org
December 14, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Role model way to respond to replications:
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🎬 INSIGHTS Video: Narrative Persuasion 🌍
How do narratives shape economic decision-making? 💡 In our interview, @kaibarron.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social b.bsky.social) discusses how narratives influence investors' interpretations of objective information. Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowZ...
How do narratives shape economic decision-making? 💡 In our interview, @kaibarron.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social b.bsky.social) discusses how narratives influence investors' interpretations of objective information. Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowZ...
Narrative Persuasion - How one person may shape another's interpretation of objective information
YouTube video by WZBlive
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:34 PM
🎬 INSIGHTS Video: Narrative Persuasion 🌍
How do narratives shape economic decision-making? 💡 In our interview, @kaibarron.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social b.bsky.social) discusses how narratives influence investors' interpretations of objective information. Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowZ...
How do narratives shape economic decision-making? 💡 In our interview, @kaibarron.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social b.bsky.social) discusses how narratives influence investors' interpretations of objective information. Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowZ...
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We recently posted a new version of our paper
"Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks: A Natural
Language Approach" - with Boragan Aruoba
We use natural language processing techniques to identify monetary policy shocks!
Paper available here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...
"Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks: A Natural
Language Approach" - with Boragan Aruoba
We use natural language processing techniques to identify monetary policy shocks!
Paper available here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...
November 26, 2024 at 2:20 PM
We recently posted a new version of our paper
"Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks: A Natural
Language Approach" - with Boragan Aruoba
We use natural language processing techniques to identify monetary policy shocks!
Paper available here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...
"Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks: A Natural
Language Approach" - with Boragan Aruoba
We use natural language processing techniques to identify monetary policy shocks!
Paper available here: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pa...
Reposted by Kai Barron
🌍 Want to connect with experts in behavioral economics and other fields of economics tackling applied societal questions of high policy relevance?
📚 Follow the “Rationality & Competition” Starter Pack for the latest research and discussions from our CRC members! #EconSky
go.bsky.app/Uubbqcx
📚 Follow the “Rationality & Competition” Starter Pack for the latest research and discussions from our CRC members! #EconSky
go.bsky.app/Uubbqcx
Rationality & Competition
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
November 28, 2024 at 10:45 AM
🌍 Want to connect with experts in behavioral economics and other fields of economics tackling applied societal questions of high policy relevance?
📚 Follow the “Rationality & Competition” Starter Pack for the latest research and discussions from our CRC members! #EconSky
go.bsky.app/Uubbqcx
📚 Follow the “Rationality & Competition” Starter Pack for the latest research and discussions from our CRC members! #EconSky
go.bsky.app/Uubbqcx
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📢 Thrilled to announce that our CRC Rationality & Competition has been extended for the period 2025-2028! Huge thanks to the German Research Foundation (DFG), our incredible team, and especially our leads Klaus Schmidt & @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social! 🙌🚀
#EconSky
#EconSky
November 25, 2024 at 1:40 PM
📢 Thrilled to announce that our CRC Rationality & Competition has been extended for the period 2025-2028! Huge thanks to the German Research Foundation (DFG), our incredible team, and especially our leads Klaus Schmidt & @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social! 🙌🚀
#EconSky
#EconSky
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Hi everyone, I just recently signed up to Bluesky. I am mostly interested in macroeconomics and monetary economics, but also politics and history. Let’s connect! 🙂
November 14, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Hi everyone, I just recently signed up to Bluesky. I am mostly interested in macroeconomics and monetary economics, but also politics and history. Let’s connect! 🙂
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Join our group at WZB in Berlin
And if you don't do macro (gender/labor), check out the other positions within @bseberlin.bsky.social in micro - both theory and applied!
And if you don't do macro (gender/labor), check out the other positions within @bseberlin.bsky.social in micro - both theory and applied!
Our research group (Inequality, social mobiliy and growth) at
WZB is hiring a postdoc!
Field: quantitative macroeconomics (especially heterogeneous agent models) with research related to labor, inequality, intergenerational mobility, gender 📈
berlinschoolofeconomics.de/programs/res...
WZB is hiring a postdoc!
Field: quantitative macroeconomics (especially heterogeneous agent models) with research related to labor, inequality, intergenerational mobility, gender 📈
berlinschoolofeconomics.de/programs/res...
Call for Applications 2025
berlinschoolofeconomics.de
October 30, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Join our group at WZB in Berlin
And if you don't do macro (gender/labor), check out the other positions within @bseberlin.bsky.social in micro - both theory and applied!
And if you don't do macro (gender/labor), check out the other positions within @bseberlin.bsky.social in micro - both theory and applied!