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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-ai-bec...

As usual a thought-provoking post by @lugaricano.bsky.social

The AI Becker problem

Who will train the next generation?

www.siliconcontinent.com

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Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · May 16

Well I guess we won't be citing that paper anymore. Good for MIT for handling this proactively. economics.mit.edu/news/assurin...

Assuring an accurate research record | MIT Economics

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Cäcilia vom Baur (née Lipowski) @cacilialipowski.bsky.social · Apr 29

Love it!😍⬇️

Eduard Brüll @eduardbruell.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Screenshot of the "Semantic Paper Search" app. An abstract about competition in German primary care is entered on the left. On the right, the app returns highly similar papers from RePEc, including titles, authors, journals, years, abstracts, and similarity scores. Download links and a bibtex-export function are also available.

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Raphael Brade @raphaelbrade.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am very excited to share that my paper "Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends? Freshman Orientation Peers and Academic Performance" is now forthcoming @j-humanresources.bsky.social: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... #econsky

Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends?

How does the formation of social connections at the beginning of college shape individuals’ subsequent academic performance? Exploiting quasi-random assignment to groups of a two-day freshman orientat...

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Benjamin Arold @benjaminarold.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨New Working Paper:

The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu

We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights.

👉 nber.org/papers/w33605

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Emma Wiles @emmawiles.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market.

emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Mar 4

📢 Call for papers: 📢

@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)

5-6 Sept 2025, Munich

Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social

👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Submission deadline: 18 May 2025

Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Mar 3

The #CallforPapers for the @pse.bsky.social -CEPR Policy Forum 2025 closes in two weeks!
This year's focus is on The Future of Work:

📩 Apply here: cepr.org/events/event...
#EconSky

Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Feb 18

#CallforPapers for PhD students to present their research at the @pse.bsky.social -CEPR Policy Forum 2025. This year's focus is The Future of Work:

📅 Deadline: 16 March 2025, 6 PM CET
📩 Apply here: cepr.org/events/event...
#EconSky

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Sara Signorelli @sarasgnr.bsky.social · Mar 3

⚠️ Only one week left to apply to the CREST-IFAU workshop on evaluating labor market policies, which will take place in Paris this June!

Send us your work!

Sara Signorelli @sarasgnr.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚀 Call for Papers: CREST-IFAU Workshop on Labor Market Policy Evaluation 📊

🗓 June 12-13, 2025 – Paris (Palaiseau)
🎤 Keynote: Stéphane Bonhomme (University of Chicago)

📅 Submit by: March 10, 2025
📩 Send papers (PDF) to: [email protected]

crest.science/call-for-pap...

Call for papers: CREST – IFAU Workshop on Evaluating Labor Market Policies: Methods and Results - CREST

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Cäcilia vom Baur (née Lipowski) @cacilialipowski.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you, @henninghermes.com !!

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Cäcilia vom Baur (née Lipowski) @cacilialipowski.bsky.social · Feb 17

🥳🥇Super happy to have won the prize for the best dissertation in 2023/2024, awarded by the Bildungsökonomischer Ausschuss des VfS / German Economic Association - Committee for the Economics of Education.

Thank you for this honor!

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Feb 17

🥳 Congratulations to

@cacilialipowski.bsky.social

for winning the

Dissertation Award in the Economics of Education 🎉

Provided by the Committee for the Economics of Education of the German Economic Association

@vfs-econ.bsky.social

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jan 9

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳

12-13 May 2025, Munich

Keynote: Alexander Willen

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Deadline: 16 Feb 2025

Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky

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Valentin Kecht @vkecht.bsky.social · Jan 6

🚨 We are hosting the 1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics in Bonn (June 12-13, 2025)🚨

🗣️ Keynotes by @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) and Chris Roth (U Cologne)

👉 Submissions (Jan 31) conference.iza.org/PhD_LaborBeh...

Please share and apply!

1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics

conference.iza.org

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Martina Uccioli @martinauccioli.bsky.social · Dec 12

🌟Call for Papers!🌟

2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham

Who❓ You and amazing keynote speakers Josh Angrist (MIT) & Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD)
When❓ 17-18 June 2025
How❓Apply by 1 March

🏹 Info & submission: t.ly/e4dtL

#EconSky #EconConf

Workshop participants in front of the Robin Hood statue in Nottingham city center

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/documents/conferences/2024-25/2nd-labour-cfp.pdf

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CESifo @cesifo.org · Jan 2

📣 CfP: 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, 23 - 24 May 2025 (Munich)
⏳ Submit by 2 March 2024
Organizer: Gordon Dahl (@ucsandiego.bsky.social), Panu Poutvaara, Helmut Rainer (ifo Institute)

#econsky

www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

CESifo Area Conference on Labor Economics 2025

Scientific Organizer: Gordon Dahl, Helmut Rainer and Panu PoutvaaraThe 2025 CESifo Area Conference on Labor Economics aims to facilitate the discussion of ongoing research which studies policy relevan...

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Lukas Freund @lukasfreund.bsky.social · Dec 21

Great, topical paper by @cacilialipowski.bsky.social et al presented at German-Economists-Abroad2024:

👉 Innovative technologies spur acquisition of less routine, technology-complementing skills
👉Valuable addition to much research on task displacement

caecilial.github.io/ExpertiseAtW...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Dec 12

Reminder: deadline for applications for PhD positions in economics of education is on 15 December
👇

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Nov 26

📢We are hiring📢

Interested in pursuing a PhD in the economics of education?

Join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education & the MGSE at LMU Munich

👉https://www.ifo.de/en/about-us/ifo-careers

Deadline: 15 Dec 2024

Please spread the word!

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Eduard Brüll @eduardbruell.bsky.social · Nov 8

🚀 tidyllm 0.2.0 is now on CRAN! This release introduces batch request support, embedding models, enhanced error handling, and new API integrations with Mistral and Azure. Explore the updated use-case articles on the tidyllm website (edubruell.github.io/tidyllm/) to dive in! 🌟 #rstats

Tidy Integration of Large Language Models

A tidy interface for integrating large language model (LLM) APIs such as Claude, Openai, Groq,Mistral and local models via Ollama into R workflows. The package supports text and media-based interactio...

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Andreas Peichl @apeichl.bsky.social · Nov 3

We are hiring at @ifo_Institut:
4 6-year-Positions

"Big Data Economics": Researchers in any field of economics who leverage state-of-the-art machine learning or causal inference methods and/or use innovative (incl. large) datasets
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
#EconJobMarket
#EconSky

EJM - Econ Job Market

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Jakob Beuschlein @jakobbeu.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨 I’m on the job market! 🚨

Check out my JMP: Designing Debt Restructuring: The Adverse Effects on Labor Market Outcomes.

Bonus: fun insights on examiner/judge IV designs.
Very brief summary: 👇

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Cäcilia vom Baur (née Lipowski) @cacilialipowski.bsky.social · Nov 12

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Sven Hartmann @svenahartmann.bsky.social · Nov 12

📢🚨Attention labour economists, save the date! 17th Workshop on Labour Economics, April 3-4, 2025!
Submit your papers by January 8.
More info: tinyurl.com/WLE2025

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Cäcilia vom Baur (née Lipowski) @cacilialipowski.bsky.social · Oct 28

📯New WP📯

Firms in most developed countries currently face (young) worker shortages due to population aging. I show that the decreased supply of young workers – who are particularly adept at learning new skills required for new tech - reduces firms' technology adoption.

ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs...

ftp.zew.de

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Ingo E. Isphording @ingoisphording.bsky.social · Oct 28

🚀 IZA (soon on Bluesky) is hiring Postdoctoral Researchers! If you specialize in applied (labor, education, environmental) or behavioral economics, apply to our collaborative environent. Up to 3 y term, no teaching required. Apply by Nov 17, 2024 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/10...

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