Peter Eibich
@peibich.bsky.social
Health economist with an interest in aging, retirement and preventive care. Professor of Economics, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, IZA & GLO
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Peter Eibich
@peibich.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Journal of Population Economics
link.springer.com
My paper with Emma Zai on the health consequences of caring for grandchildren has been selected for the Kuznets Prize for the best paper published in 2024 in the Journal of Population Economics! Let me use this opportunity for a short introduction. 🧵 1/12 #econsky
link.springer.com/journal/148/...
link.springer.com/journal/148/...
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Fungal Misadventure (a story in the form of a Bluesky thread)
"Have you ever wondered?" he asked, as they picked mushrooms in the forest near her house. "How many people died from fungal misadventure during prehistory before we found out which of these were safe to eat?"
"Have you ever wondered?" he asked, as they picked mushrooms in the forest near her house. "How many people died from fungal misadventure during prehistory before we found out which of these were safe to eat?"
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Fungal Misadventure (a story in the form of a Bluesky thread)
"Have you ever wondered?" he asked, as they picked mushrooms in the forest near her house. "How many people died from fungal misadventure during prehistory before we found out which of these were safe to eat?"
"Have you ever wondered?" he asked, as they picked mushrooms in the forest near her house. "How many people died from fungal misadventure during prehistory before we found out which of these were safe to eat?"
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You are welcome to join us in MU Economics for this week's seminar "Case for the defense: co-worker effects on pay in the National Football League" presented by afarnell.bsky.social
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/economics/ev...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/economics/ev...
"Case for the defense: co-worker effects on pay in the National
Our Seminar series continues on Friday the 28th of November when Alex Farnell, MU Department of Economics, will present: Title: "Case for the defense: co-worker effects on pay in the National
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November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
You are welcome to join us in MU Economics for this week's seminar "Case for the defense: co-worker effects on pay in the National Football League" presented by afarnell.bsky.social
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/economics/ev...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/economics/ev...
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If @theguardian.com who had 10.5 million followers on X can leave, so can you.
There's absolutely no excuse for staying.
I have huge admiration and respect for The Guardian for taking a stand and living up to their name.
If you're a good person you should follow their example and leave X.
There's absolutely no excuse for staying.
I have huge admiration and respect for The Guardian for taking a stand and living up to their name.
If you're a good person you should follow their example and leave X.
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If @theguardian.com who had 10.5 million followers on X can leave, so can you.
There's absolutely no excuse for staying.
I have huge admiration and respect for The Guardian for taking a stand and living up to their name.
If you're a good person you should follow their example and leave X.
There's absolutely no excuse for staying.
I have huge admiration and respect for The Guardian for taking a stand and living up to their name.
If you're a good person you should follow their example and leave X.
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I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
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I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
a hippopotamus is standing in a puddle of water next to two crocodiles
Alt: A crocodile doing his best to stay calm while a baby hippo noms on him.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."
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Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb... Unser Fachbereich hat eine unbefristete Stelle E13 in der VWL-Lehre zu besetzen. Gerne retweeten und bis 30.11. bewerben.
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Cheers, Karl Popper's crying now. Nice one.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Cheers, Karl Popper's crying now. Nice one.
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🚀 We’re hiring!
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
Doctoral Researcher (2 positions) in Health Economics
The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) is seeking, for the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the Essen campus, a
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🚀 We’re hiring!
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
CINCH is recruiting 2 Doctoral Researchers in Health Economics as part of the MSCA Doctoral Network HEPARD.
📍 Based in Essen, 🇩🇪
🔄 Two international secondments
🗓 Deadline: 19 Jan 2026
More info & how to apply:
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388435
#MSCA #HEPARD #econsky #AcademicJobs
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Interested in Economics at Maynooth?
The Department of Economics offers three undergraduate courses to choose from:
BSc Economics (MH415)
BA International Economics (MH416)
BA Economics (single major, double major, and minor) through BA Arts (MH101)
Join us 28th and 29th of Nov #OpenDay
The Department of Economics offers three undergraduate courses to choose from:
BSc Economics (MH415)
BA International Economics (MH416)
BA Economics (single major, double major, and minor) through BA Arts (MH101)
Join us 28th and 29th of Nov #OpenDay
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Interested in Economics at Maynooth?
The Department of Economics offers three undergraduate courses to choose from:
BSc Economics (MH415)
BA International Economics (MH416)
BA Economics (single major, double major, and minor) through BA Arts (MH101)
Join us 28th and 29th of Nov #OpenDay
The Department of Economics offers three undergraduate courses to choose from:
BSc Economics (MH415)
BA International Economics (MH416)
BA Economics (single major, double major, and minor) through BA Arts (MH101)
Join us 28th and 29th of Nov #OpenDay
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For all the search/hiring committees, my made from scratch jalapeño and cheddar cornbread. I can also make a killer burnt basque cheesecake…
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
For all the search/hiring committees, my made from scratch jalapeño and cheddar cornbread. I can also make a killer burnt basque cheesecake…
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Causal inference issues aside, I am confused by a lot of things here. Maybe here are machine learning/aging experts that can help me understand how this makes sense: As I understand the paper, they trained a model to predict age based on health factors and "protective" factors (1/3)
Doing non-causal inference (and being explicit about it), yet using a causal word as second word in the title.
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you pay Nature € 10.690, they will publish this in Nature Ageing.
I can tell you what I think of that for free.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Causal inference issues aside, I am confused by a lot of things here. Maybe here are machine learning/aging experts that can help me understand how this makes sense: As I understand the paper, they trained a model to predict age based on health factors and "protective" factors (1/3)
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In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
![Screenshot from the Epstein Document Search which reads: House_Oversight_029401
From: Donald Rubin
Sent: 1/22/2017 7:31:32 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Republican health care experts dismiss Donald Trump's ideas
Importance: High
https://www.statnews.com/20 1 6/03/04/trump -repub cans-health-care/? s camp aign=trendmd
Jeffrey,
This cannot be true, can it? This guy must be as dumb about this stuff as a tampon laced with arsenic!!
HELP!
Great meeting yesterday — really enjoyed it.
And happy birthday again, Don
Donald B. Rubin
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029401](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreiezajc6f2rgwxrdx2242izbelpumkgdruc52pzu236rhovlcyfmde@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
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We condemn the arson attack on a mosque in Deir Istiya in the #Westbank. The recent surge in violence by extremist settlers is deeply concerning. This violence must be halted, incidents must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible held accountable.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We condemn the arson attack on a mosque in Deir Istiya in the #Westbank. The recent surge in violence by extremist settlers is deeply concerning. This violence must be halted, incidents must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible held accountable.
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Has anyone seen a paper using regularization to manage noise in event studies? I’ve got an idea that I’ve been toying with that should reduce the point to point noise in event studies (and may yield more precise honest bounds on did estimates)
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Has anyone seen a paper using regularization to manage noise in event studies? I’ve got an idea that I’ve been toying with that should reduce the point to point noise in event studies (and may yield more precise honest bounds on did estimates)
The market will be tough this year. For our senior position, we had about 50% more applications than last year. While the number is still not massive (two digits), the quality of the shortlist is impressive (and I am glad not to be on the market!)
New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The market will be tough this year. For our senior position, we had about 50% more applications than last year. While the number is still not massive (two digits), the quality of the shortlist is impressive (and I am glad not to be on the market!)
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New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
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Life expectancy has increased at all ages
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Life expectancy has increased at all ages
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I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
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Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
#Published: "Does early timing of first birth lead to lower earnings in midlife in Britain?" by @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella & @peibich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
#Published: "Does early timing of first birth lead to lower earnings in midlife in Britain?" by @jessicanisen.bsky.social, Johanna Tassot, Francesco Iacoella & @peibich.bsky.social (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
Short summary in the thread below: 1/8
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Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.
that the upfront costs to come and do scientific research in the UK are too high is a well known terrible fact.
perhaps more surprising is that scientific excellence has persisted despite all these hurdles, but this limping cannot go on forever. Soon this fun immigration experiment will break.
perhaps more surprising is that scientific excellence has persisted despite all these hurdles, but this limping cannot go on forever. Soon this fun immigration experiment will break.
Scientists charged too much to come to work in UK, says Royal Society
Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Once more for the people in the back: you cannot ask people to pay many £1000s upfront for the *privilege* of *temporarily* coming to work and pay taxes in this country, give them nothing particularly unique in return, and expect that to be a sustainable situation.
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When I bring up the fact that most replications are uninformative and unjustifiable by design, hence we should instead do better research, I always get the same argument back and I'd like to think through this reasoning carefully.
It goes like this:
It goes like this:
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
When I bring up the fact that most replications are uninformative and unjustifiable by design, hence we should instead do better research, I always get the same argument back and I'd like to think through this reasoning carefully.
It goes like this:
It goes like this: