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Felix Rusche
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PhD Candidate in Economics at Uni Mannheim | Labor, Development, Political Economy | felixrusche.github.io
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Dec 3
Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 10d
Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs
AI and the Future of Work
In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27d
Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing.

There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation.

Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...
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Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · Jun 18
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CDSE doctoral graduate @felixrusche.bsky.social has been awarded the FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how access to media can serve as a trans­formative tool in advancing gender equality. Congratulations, Felix! 👏 (1/2)
Felix Rusche Wins FBK-IRVAPP 2025 Best Paper Award |
Felix Rusche has been awarded the prestigious FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how community radio in India can empower women and reduce gender inequality.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Jun 11
Thank you so much @mircotonin.bsky.social! I am very honoured to receive the award.
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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Jun 11
Congratulations to @felixrusche.bsky.social‬ for winning the FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social 2025 award for the best paper on the #evaluation of public policies with the paper "Broadcasting Change: India’s Community Radio Policy and Women’s Empowerment" magazine.fbk.eu/en/news/the-...
The media as an effective tool to counter gender inequality
Felix Rusche wins the FBK-IRVAPP 2025 award for the best article on the evaluation of public policies
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · May 16
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, Daniel Deisenroth, Haritz Garro, Daley Kutzman, Asad Liaqat, and Nils Wernerfelt. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
(Forthcoming Article) - Research on the effects of online advertising on consumer welfare is limited due to challenges in running large-scale field experiments. We analyze a long-running field experim...
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · May 12
The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is because of 2 main factors: journalists tend to focus on major events, and the daily performance of indices is negatively skewed.
Antonio Ciccone, @felixrusche.bsky.social
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Graph of the actual DAX stock market index and media-reported DAX, 2017-2024. The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is. This column argues that this negative news bias arises from two factors: (1) journalists tend to focus on major events, and (2) the daily performance of stock market indices is negatively skewed. It shows that about half of the negativity bias in news can be explained by the distribution of stock returns, even when the negative reporting bias is not explicitly present. Media consumers should be aware of the big news bias and look beyond the daily news cycle to stay informed.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
Please find the paper and short summaries on my website: felixrusche.github.io
We are happy about any feedback.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
If progress is characterised by many small, incremental improvements with few yet larger setbacks, news reporting will focus on the latter. We also generalise these findings to other indices.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
The remaining half is explained by a focus on large events in combination with negative skewness in daily changes. As such, we quantify what Rosling et al., @hannahritchie.bsky.social, and @ourworldindata.org have argued for in the past:
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
We decompose this 20-point difference by simulating news reporting with and without negative reporting bias. We find that even when muting the negative reporting bias half of the gap remains.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
ZDF journalists mention daily changes in Germany’s DAX on 29% of days. While the DAX increased by a daily avg. of 4 index points from 2017-24, it fell by 10 points when mentioned on the news and increased by 10 points when not mentioned. Adding this up results in the above figure.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
A case in point is Germany’s most-watched nightly news – the ZDF heute Journal. The nightly news include a 1:30 min segment reporting economic and financial news from the stock market in Frankfurt.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
To motivate: From 2017 to 2024, the main national stock market indices rose in the US and the five largest European economies. Yet, the average daily performance of all six indices turns from positive to negative when weighted by coverage of the countries’ ten most-read outlets.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Apr 10
Do the media focus on the negative? If so, why? We study this in the context of stock market reporting and identify and quantify an overlooked bias. A thread:
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Apr 2
Once again, I must stress that there is a pretty obvious answer to this madness, which is to have a big, fat tariff on US oligarchs and their multinationals!

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America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
The best thing that countries targeted by Trump's punitive tariffs can do is condition market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires on fair taxation.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Mar 26
This is absolutely horrifying. Turkish graduate at Tufts student is picked up and removed to undisclosed destination by ICE, apparently because she wrote a pro-Palestinian oped.
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Mar 26
RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO

Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.

Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Mar 23
"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Mar 21
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Mar 21
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Mar 15
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · Mar 13
More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity.

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LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*
Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Mar 10
Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547
Competition and Consumer Discrimination
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Mar 7
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Mar 3
Barring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow

What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · Mar 4
This is massive
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · Mar 4
MASSIVE FISCAL PACKAGE OUT OF BERLIN: 12-20%+ of GDP.

- 500 billion fund for public investment
- All defence spending above 1% of GDP not counted for debt brake.
- Federal states can borrow 0.35% p.y. for investment.

Germany is back - economically and militarily.

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