Sebastian Will
swillecon.bsky.social
Sebastian Will
@swillecon.bsky.social
Economist, interested in housing affordability and well-being | Postdoc at the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and FReDA (Family Research and Demographic Analysis)
www.willsebastian.de
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🚨 #Hiring! 3yr #postdoc w/survey methodology experience to join the ERC-project SINGLE for its next stage of designing & launching a comparative multidisciplinary singlehood #survey in EU. Research area is open!

Application deadline: 12-Jan-2026 (12PM CET). Barcelona-based.
👉🏻 shorturl.at/CmY0F
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world.

If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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BiB.Monitor Wohlbefinden 2025: Wie zufrieden sind Ein- und Ausgewanderte?
In Deutschland hat jede vierte Person eine Einwanderungsgeschichte. Von diesen 21,2 Millionen Menschen sind rund drei Viertel selbst nach Deutschland zugewandert, ein weit...
weiterlesen
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy #PhDJobs #SurveyResearch #SocialSciences #AcademicJobs #DataPreparation

GESIS is hiring a PhD candidate in Data Preparation to join the #FReDA family panel team in Cologne or Mannheim!

👉 Start: Sept 2025
👉 Apply by July 24
🔗 gesis.org/en/institu...

July 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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📢 Don’t miss the free FReDA/GGS Autumn School at JGUMainz @unimainz.bsky.social Sept 10–12, 2025!
Learn to work with the #FReDA and GGS dataset in hands-on sessions & expert-led workshops.
🗓️ Register by July 15: sozialstruktur.sozio...
ℹ️ Info: freda-panel.de/EN/au...
July 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Today was another unusually hot day in Freiburg, with temperatures above 38°C. Our urban weather station network operated by @uni-freiburg.de and funded by @erc.europa.eu reveals intra-urban differences and where it was coolest (in a forest). Explore the map weather.uni-freiburg.de/map/freiburg...
July 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I am starting to look for a PhD student in (comparative) political economy, historical or computational sociology starting in October (4 years, 65%) at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Check out the announcement here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I am looking for a PhD student in #sociology or neighboring social sciences at Freie University Berlin (published soon), starting this October (4 years, 65%). | Sebastian Kohl
I am looking for a PhD student in #sociology or neighboring social sciences at Freie University Berlin (published soon), starting this October (4 years, 65%). Any research projects in political econom...
www.linkedin.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Interesting paper on effect of interviewer gender on gender gap in reported housework. "women tend to report significantly more hours of housework when interviewed by a woman rather than by a man" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
June 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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#PanelData #FredaAutumnSchool
📢 Join the 3-day #FReDA Autumn School at JGUMainz from September 10–12, 2025!

Enhance your #research skills by learning how to work with the FReDA dataset - a key resource for #family #demography studies.
June 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Gerne Weiterleiten: Promotionsstelle ab Herbst 2025 in meinem DFG-Projekt zu In-Work Benefits und Aufstockern im SGB II. Im schönen Wiesbaden am Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung: www.bib.bund.de/DE/Institut/...
www.bib.bund.de
June 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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In a recently published research article, we show that individuals who speak a language in which the same word is used for both (financial) debt and (moral) guilt have a statistically significant and economically meaningful lower likelihood of borrowing money. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VAXWZ...
Guiltily indebted? How a word is linked to individual borrowing
Using data from the World Values Survey, we show that individuals who speak a language in which the same word is used for both (financial) debt and (moral) guilt have a statistically significant an...
www.tandfonline.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Deadline extended❗You can submit abstracts for the FReDA User Conference until June 10.
📅 Conference Date: 20-21 October 2025
🔗 More information: www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/New...
FReDA User Conference
www.freda-panel.de
May 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Do you work with data from the German Family Demography Panel Study FReDA
and/or pairfam or GGS? Consider applying for the FReDA User Conferences until 9 May.
📅 Conference Date: 20-21 October 2025
🔗 More information: www.freda-panel.de/FReDA/EN/New...
FReDA User Conference
www.freda-panel.de
March 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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It’s finally out! People, I’ve been hearing about this paper for so many years, but I am grateful it is out.

Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham,
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna

www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

arxiv.org/abs/2503.13323
Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner's Guide
Difference-in-Differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well-understood. However, empirical practices c...
arxiv.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Zunehmend ungleiche Mietkostenbelastung

www.bib.bund.de/Publikation/...

• Mietkostenbelastung insbesondere für Personen mit Niedrigeinkommen angestiegen
• Ungleichheit der Mietkostenbelastung bei Zugewanderten stärker angestiegen
• Realeinkommensverluste bei Personen mit Niedrigeinkommen
February 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Special issue, CfP: Spatial mobility and subjective well-being

Short or extended abstracts by March 31st, and full articles by September 30th.

Details link.springer.com/collections/...
Spatial mobility and subjective well-being
Call for Papers Nicolai Netz (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies) & Nico Stawarz (Federal Institute for Population ...
link.springer.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I was busy yesterday and missed this one. Maybe others as well:

www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/k...
December 14, 2023 at 6:34 AM