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Dietmar Fehr
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Professor of Economics @unistuttgart.bsky.social
Inequality // Political Economy // Economics & Psychology // Development Economics

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 4d
Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 5d
A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧵 Thread—>

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 7d
Imagine how much good those funds could have done to advance research integrity instead.

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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 14d
"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”
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40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted
Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.
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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 15d
Das ganze Kommissionsgespräch ist doch cheap talk. Die Kommission hat Erwartungen u. die Bewerber sollten versuchen sie zu erfüllen. Ein komisches Spiel, weil jeder weiß, dass Gesagtes kein Wert hat. Wer nicht mitspielt, dh nicht strategisch ist, offenbart sich und verliert.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 15d
Doch muss man. Gerade bei solchen Frage offenbaren sich überraschend viele. Die will man dann auch nicht unbedingt als Kollegin/en.

Sie dürfen nur keine Entscheidungsgrundlage sein. Aber da finden sich dann andere Gründe.

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City St George’s Economics @cityeconomics.bsky.social · 20d
🚨 Job alert

We’re hiring 5 permanent faculty positions at Assistant Professor level:

• 3 x Open field
• Health Economics
• IO

Come work in a large, research-intensive department!

⏰ Applications reviewed on a rolling basis (deadline 18 Jan 2026)

#econjobs

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 22d
Wäre mir neu dass JPs 6 Jahre die gl. Bezüge bekommen u. die gleiche Arbeit wie W3s machen, aber vll sind da die GeiWi‘s ausbeuterischer als Ökonomen.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 22d
Wieso Unfug? Sicher nicht immer sinnvoll, aber in manchen Konstellationen schon, zB bei W1-Profs mit tenure track oder in der Theorie mit W1-Profs o. tt / Akad. Räten, mit anschließender Entfristung.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 22d
Beamte zahlen nicht in die ALV ein, daher keinen Anspruch auf ALG. Beamte, die entlassen werden bzw. Beamte auf Zeit, haben in der Regel Anspruch auf Übergangsgeld.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Dec 12
I was also bored and pulled up the replication package.

The results are quite sensitive in aggregate to needing the controls. Here's the replication of Figure 3, including the case w/o controls:

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Dec 10
Super Henning! Freut mich total für dich. 🎉🎉🎉 well deserved.

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Dec 10
In today's JMP blog, Chiman Cheung looks at how local leader incentives & public vs leader only info affect collective action against environmental threats with an experiment around information on the risks of mercury from artisanal mining of gold in Ghana blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Consensus or polarization in environmental action? How local leader incentives shape the power of information. Guest post by Chiman Cheung
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · Dec 6
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could reliably distinguish AI generated from human generated text?

Well it seems we can, research using a wide selection of shirt and longer txts suggests, with false positive/negative rates respectively zero % and around 2-4%:

buff.ly/R4zb2jC

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · Dec 4
Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Nov 29
Warum sollte man nicht wieder einreichen können? Ein paar Sachen umschreiben und weg damit. Die meisten Anträge sind erst bei Wiedervorlage erfolgreich. Im Zweifel bei der zuständigen fachlichen DFG Person nachfragen.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Nov 26
Forthcoming in the AER: "Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences" by Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences
(Forthcoming Article) - We investigate the origins and implications of zero-sum thinking -- the belief that gains for one individual or group come at the cost of others. Using a new survey of 20,400 U...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 18
From a co-author of Larry Summers

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Harvard, It's Time to Say Goodbye to Larry Summers
Larry Summers is not fit to continue serving as a professor at Harvard.
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Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · Nov 17
„The Targeting of the Palestinian Academy“ sollte eine wissenschaftliche Konferenz an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social heissen. Die Universität hat beschlossen, dieses Targeting selbst aktiv zu unterstützen. Ein Skandal. 1/

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Steven Durlauf @durlauf.bsky.social · Nov 15
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Nov 14
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for diamonds significantly reduced armed conflict, suggesting it was successful in limiting rebel groups' ability to finance violent activities.
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Natural resources, including alluvial minerals such as diamonds, have been at the centre of brutal wars in Africa. This column evaluates one of the first schemes aimed at preventing the illicit exploitation of natural resources to promote peace: the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The introduction of the diamond certification scheme significantly reduced armed conflict. Rebel groups were less likely to engage in armed conflict, and their operations became geographically more concentrated. This suggests that the certification scheme was successful in limiting rebel groups’ ability to finance violent activities.

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Ben Bushong @benbushong.com · Nov 12
GPT 5.1 is based.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Nov 4
Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Nov 3
just....enjoy this

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Nov 3
Förderinitiative zur Sicherung gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur #Datenresilienz: Die DFG stellt bis 2027 Mittel für Maßnahmen bereit, durch die Datensätze und Forschungsergebnisse aus Repositorien im Ausland für die deutsche/europäische Forschung gesichert werden können. www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
Förderinitiative zum Sichern gefährdeter Datenbestände und zur Datenresilienz 2025 bis 2027
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Nov 1
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
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Paul Hufe @paulhufe.net · Oct 31
📢 CfP Alert!

We’re excited to announce the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM).
🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol

Three focused workshops in applied economics: Development, Migration & Fairness.

🔗 www.baem.info

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · Oct 28
‪haha, at our workshop you were more economical with it. 🤪
Congrats!

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Charlotte Bartels @charlottebartels.bsky.social · Oct 28
Out in the European Economic Review after many years of datawork with @sbachtax.bsky.social and Theresa Neef: The distribution of national income in Germany, 1992-2019. We document 1) high income concentration at the top in Germany - similar to the US

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Diego Marino Fages @diegomarinofages.bsky.social · Oct 27
Submissions open for Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries 2026 in Durham (June 11th and 12th)❗

Anandi Mani and Pedro Carneiro will be our keynote speakers!

⏳ Registration deadline: Feb 28th

www.durham.ac.uk/business/new...

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SEEDEC 2026 - Durham University Business School
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