Lukas Hensel
@lukashenselecon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He/him.
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Here me out but have you considered an 8 computer garage lan with Warcraft 3 installed.
We can save America one RTS at a time
We can save America one RTS at a time
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Here me out but have you considered an 8 computer garage lan with Warcraft 3 installed.
We can save America one RTS at a time
We can save America one RTS at a time
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Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨
Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!
Dedicated time for your own research.
Reach out to hear more!
** PLEASE REPOST **🙏
Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11
👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf
#EconSky
Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!
Dedicated time for your own research.
Reach out to hear more!
** PLEASE REPOST **🙏
Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11
👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf
#EconSky
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨
Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!
Dedicated time for your own research.
Reach out to hear more!
** PLEASE REPOST **🙏
Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11
👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf
#EconSky
Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀!
Dedicated time for your own research.
Reach out to hear more!
** PLEASE REPOST **🙏
Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11
👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf
#EconSky
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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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🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0...
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0...
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
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Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.
But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.
But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
September 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
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My 10-years old son is walking home from school alone for the first time. Kidnappers, drug dealers, strangers? Not worried. Other parents driving SUVs is what I am terrified of.
September 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My 10-years old son is walking home from school alone for the first time. Kidnappers, drug dealers, strangers? Not worried. Other parents driving SUVs is what I am terrified of.
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Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.
📥 PEDL will hold a 1-day workshop for young researchers on Oct 23, 2025, as part of the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center “Firms, Trade, and Development” conference on Oct 24-25. All events will take place in person @yaleeconomics.bsky.social. More details: www.theigc.org/call-papers-...
Call for papers: Young Researchers Workshop
Learn more about the Call for papers: Young Researchers Workshop for the IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development 2025
www.theigc.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.
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From June 2025 -
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h
- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth
#OpenAccess
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h
- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth
#OpenAccess
August 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
From June 2025 -
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h
- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth
#OpenAccess
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h
- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth
#OpenAccess
This is a great opportunity for any researcher based in Africa. Please share widely.
Are you an African national interested in presenting your #economics research at the CSAE Conference?
We have funding available for African presenters to attend #OxCSAE2026 & a pre-conference workshop in Addis Ababa (Dec 2025).
⏰Apply by 03 August
Find out more👇
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...
We have funding available for African presenters to attend #OxCSAE2026 & a pre-conference workshop in Addis Ababa (Dec 2025).
⏰Apply by 03 August
Find out more👇
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...
CSAE Conference Funding
CSAE Conference 2026 Funding Information
www.csae.ox.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is a great opportunity for any researcher based in Africa. Please share widely.
Read our VoxDev piece on how telling jobseekers about their comparative advantage in skills shapes their search decisions and earnings. The underlying paper just received an R&R at AEJ:Applied and an updated version will come out in a couple of months.
🆕 Helping jobseekers understand their skills boosted earnings in South Africa
Today on VoxDev w/ Andrea Kiss (@stanford.edu), Robert Garlick (Duke University), Kate Orkin (@ox.ac.uk) & @lukashenselecon.bsky.social (@pku1898.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Today on VoxDev w/ Andrea Kiss (@stanford.edu), Robert Garlick (Duke University), Kate Orkin (@ox.ac.uk) & @lukashenselecon.bsky.social (@pku1898.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Helping jobseekers understand their skills boosted earnings in South Africa
Short, low-cost workshops helped young South African jobseekers to learn about their skills, search for better-matched vacancies, and raise their earnings by 25%.
voxdev.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Read our VoxDev piece on how telling jobseekers about their comparative advantage in skills shapes their search decisions and earnings. The underlying paper just received an R&R at AEJ:Applied and an updated version will come out in a couple of months.
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Fascinating post about a new painkiller that targets a specific sodium channel in the damaged tissue (rather than the brain). Wouldn't it be amazing if we eventually could treat pain without the risk of addiction?
June 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fascinating post about a new painkiller that targets a specific sodium channel in the damaged tissue (rather than the brain). Wouldn't it be amazing if we eventually could treat pain without the risk of addiction?
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@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy
These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas
www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...
🚨Please share widely!
#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas
www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...
🚨Please share widely!
#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
wzb.eu
June 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy
These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas
www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...
🚨Please share widely!
#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas
www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...
🚨Please share widely!
#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
I am so happy that this is finally out! It was long process, but it feels great to also get null results published! Thank you to all the editors and referees involved.
NEW -
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h
- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth
#OpenAccess
Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h
- @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth
#OpenAccess
June 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I am so happy that this is finally out! It was long process, but it feels great to also get null results published! Thank you to all the editors and referees involved.
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🚨🚨 Vacancy alert 🚨🚨
Are you interested in doing a PhD 🎓🎓 in Economics 📈?
Then join us @tilburg-university.bsky.social! We have a vacancy for a PhD student in our department. Check it out here: tiu.nu/22836
Are you interested in doing a PhD 🎓🎓 in Economics 📈?
Then join us @tilburg-university.bsky.social! We have a vacancy for a PhD student in our department. Check it out here: tiu.nu/22836
Job opening: PhD Position in Economics at Tilburg School of Economics and Management (22836)
tiu.nu
June 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨🚨 Vacancy alert 🚨🚨
Are you interested in doing a PhD 🎓🎓 in Economics 📈?
Then join us @tilburg-university.bsky.social! We have a vacancy for a PhD student in our department. Check it out here: tiu.nu/22836
Are you interested in doing a PhD 🎓🎓 in Economics 📈?
Then join us @tilburg-university.bsky.social! We have a vacancy for a PhD student in our department. Check it out here: tiu.nu/22836
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions.
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
June 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
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Huge congratulations to @justsand.bsky.social and to Open Philanthropy. The perfect person for a historic challenge
Introducing the new leader of our Economic Growth in LMICs program | Open Philanthropy
In October 2024, we shared our plans to launch a new program in partnership with the Livelihood Impact Fund to help stimulate economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with at least...
www.openphilanthropy.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Huge congratulations to @justsand.bsky.social and to Open Philanthropy. The perfect person for a historic challenge
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🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
May 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
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Migration policy goes far beyond "more" (of the same) or "less" (of the same). It's about "how"—shaped by policy.
In 2012 I proposed a new channel for high-skill migration without 'brain drain'
An update on one such program. New from powerhouse @helen-dempster.bsky.social et al at @cgdev.org —>
In 2012 I proposed a new channel for high-skill migration without 'brain drain'
An update on one such program. New from powerhouse @helen-dempster.bsky.social et al at @cgdev.org —>
Hundreds of Nurses Trained Through Philippines-Germany Global Skill Partnership
In 2019, Germany and the Philippines established the world’s first nursing Global Skill Partnership (GSP). In a GSP, the destination country pays for the training of much-needed workers within the cou...
www.cgdev.org
May 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Migration policy goes far beyond "more" (of the same) or "less" (of the same). It's about "how"—shaped by policy.
In 2012 I proposed a new channel for high-skill migration without 'brain drain'
An update on one such program. New from powerhouse @helen-dempster.bsky.social et al at @cgdev.org —>
In 2012 I proposed a new channel for high-skill migration without 'brain drain'
An update on one such program. New from powerhouse @helen-dempster.bsky.social et al at @cgdev.org —>
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We are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD position in International Relations at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social.
Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science
Application deadline: 2 June 2025
For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby
#Polisky #poliscijobs
Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science
Application deadline: 2 June 2025
For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby
#Polisky #poliscijobs
May 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We are inviting applications for a 4-year PhD position in International Relations at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social.
Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science
Application deadline: 2 June 2025
For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby
#Polisky #poliscijobs
Requirement: MA in Political Science or a closely related social science
Application deadline: 2 June 2025
For more details, see tinyurl.com/5ew3auby
#Polisky #poliscijobs