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Johannes Becker

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Oekonom, Professor at University of Muenster, Director of Institute of Public Economics

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Ivan Boldyrev @ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · May 22

A couple of funny quotes from Al Roth on psychology and economics

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Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · Mar 10

Unser Beitrag in der @faznet.bsky.social :
In den 🇺🇸 werden Wissenschaftlern die Mittel gekürzt. Das ist der richtige Moment, um
US-Spitzenforscher nach 🇩🇪 zu holen!
@arieldora.bsky.social & @martin-watzinger.com & ich
in FAZ Wirtschaft/Der Volkswirt: „Deutschlands Chance“

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · Jan 6

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Nov 11

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"High Degree of Recognition, Appreciation, and Collegiality within the School"

Prof. Dr Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt received the SBE Research Prize for his distinguished publications in the field of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. This prize honours faculty members for their ...

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · Oct 30

Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Aug 14

Yes, and now I'm exhausted and will rest for a couple of months.

Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Gender Gaps – Reformoptionen der (Steuer-)Politik

Bundesfamilienministerin Lisa Paus betont, dass Wirtschaft wie Gesellschaft von einer ökonomischen Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern profitieren. Individuelle Potenziale könnten besser gehoben, wirtschaftliche Eigenständigkeit ermöglicht, Fachkräfte gesichert und Armutsrisiken von Frauen gemildert werden, wenn man sich an den unerfüllten Wünschen und Bedarfen der Menschen orientiere. Dabei setze die wirtschaftliche Eigenständigkeit eine substanzielle Erwerbstätigkeit und partnerschaftliche Aufgabenteilung voraus.

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · Feb 1

VWL Studis 2015--2021 ➡️ - 33% !

Quelle doi.org/10.57674/30g...

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Oct 8

Thanks a lot, that is very helpful! If I may ask: Which study/ies do you think should I (and my students) read to get an appropriate picture of the welfare magnet hypothesis?

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Rasmus Landersø @rlandersoe.bsky.social · Oct 8

1/3 The conclusions on the Danish welfare reforms (Agersnap et al.) - which look very neat in the paper - are driven by focussing on annual measures. Once monthly data on asylum applications are considered (see figure below with vertical lines indicating the reform announcements), it is clear that:

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Oct 8

I've seen this article in today's Sonntagsfaz, HT @chrisbreu.bsky.social, that suggests there is no real evidence for the welfare magnet (except for "this one study from Princeton" :-)), but I did not find this particularly helpful with regard to my question.

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Oct 8

This study concludes: "We find limited evidence that
immigrants systematically move to localities with higher benefits. The lack of significant welfare migration (...) suggests that the prevalence of this phenomenon
may be overstated."

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Oct 8

Next to the Agersnap et al. (2020) paper, there is this paper by Dellinger and Huber that finds substantial migration induced by welfare benefits. Is there more?

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Johannes Becker @jbecker.bsky.social · Oct 8

I am preparing a session on the welfare magnet hypothesis (for my Intl Pub Ec lecture).

The studies I found show mixed results. Can anybody point me to a discussion how to reconcile the contradictory findings in the existing studies?

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