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Max Steinhardt
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Professor of Economics
Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Faculty Member: @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, @bsoeberlin.bsky.social, @jfki-econ.bsky.social‬
Fellow: @iza.org
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/maxfriedrichsteinhardt/
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Max Steinhardt @steinhardt.bsky.social · Nov 10
🎉 Our study “Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving?” found a great home in Economics of Disasters and Climate Change!
After Germany’s 2002 flood, affected households saved less — generous disaster aid can ease hardship but also reduce precautionary saving.
doi.org/10.1007/s418...
Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving? Evidence From the August 2002 Flood in Germany - Economics of Disasters and Climate Change
Recently, there is a growing interest in understanding how individuals adapt to changing climate conditions and climate-induced extreme weather events. An underexplored question is whether and how cli...
doi.org
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tomanbarsbai.com
📢 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). Come join us!

🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi

👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides

⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås

👉 baem.info
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social
🗓️ Thursday, January 15:
We are very happy to have Teresa Freitas Monteiro at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Harsh Rhetoric and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark‘s Ghetto List“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
January 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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anjaprummer.bsky.social
Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!
January 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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jfki-econ.bsky.social
Exciting news from our team! 🎉

Research from our group is currently being shared at the Institute for @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social at the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.

PhD researcher @riawilken.bsky.social is there as a visiting researcher, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship 🌍✨
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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jfki-econ.bsky.social
📑 🗣️ Berlin calling II: Interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics with a North American focus in Berlin? 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

The Graduate School of North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its doctoral program.

⚠️Deadline: January 31, 2026
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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jfki-econ.bsky.social
✨ As the year comes to a close, we send our warmest holiday wishes to our colleagues and students.

🙏 Thank you for your engagement, collaboration, and commitment throughout the year. We look forward to continuing our work together in the year ahead.

#HappyHolidays #BestWishes
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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tomanbarsbai.com
📢 Call for papers 📢

Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on the Economics of Migration, May 6-7!

Invited talks by Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, and Caroline Theoharides.

Submit your paper by Jan 31. Some travel funding is available. baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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bsoeberlin.bsky.social
💬 Can a welfare reform meant to weaken a political rival actually make it stronger?

A new study by @felixkersting.bsky.social on Bismarck’s famous health insurance reform offers historical answers

🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

@humboldtuni.bsky.social #socialpolicy #politicalecon
December 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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#econsky
2nd PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics June 8/9, 2026 Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) University of Copenhagen Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026 Keynote Speakers Ingar Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics) Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
steinhardt.bsky.social
Happy that our research is covered in the @theguardian.com . Hopefully next time our names make it in too 😉.
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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plvezina.bsky.social
We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter
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December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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bsoeberlin.bsky.social
🪙 First Internal Workshop of the DFG Research Unit “Labor Market Transformation: Scarcity, Mismatch, and Policy”

Topics 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
Research unit 🔗 www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/forschung/la...

@phaan.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#labormarkettransformation
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Looking forward to hosting @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social from @hertieschool.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this week. #EconSky
fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social FU Berlin Economics @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social · Dec 1
🗓️ Thursday, December 4:
We are very happy to have Arianna Ornaghi at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Media Consolidation“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
steinhardt.bsky.social
In a new policy with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social, we spotlight an overlooked side of housing inequality: how living space is distributed. Both overcrowded and under-occupied homes have been rising in Germany in recent years.
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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freya-rubel.bsky.social
Happy to share that I just presented for the first time at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association. I’m grateful for everyone who offered comments and feedback in my session. Had a great time in Tampa☀️
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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simonvoss.bsky.social
It was great to be in Tampa for the SEA 2025 conference and to present in such an interesting session. Many thanks for all the valuable comments! #SEA2025 #Economics
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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joelmachado.eu
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With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the

4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration

on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain.

Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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simonvoss.bsky.social
Excited to be attending the 95th Meeting of the Southern Economic Association in Tampa, Florida, alongside @freya-rubel.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, and @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social from the Economics Department at Freie Universität Berlin.
#SEA2025 #Economics
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
steinhardt.bsky.social
Just arrived in Tampa for the 95th Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association! Looking forward to great discussions and new ideas.

If you’ll be here and want to meet up, feel free to send me a DM. Always happy to offer advice to early-career scholars and students.

#SEA2025
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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cepr.org Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Nov 20
📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration
CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome
Submit by 23 January
cepr.org/events/7th-w...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
steinhardt.bsky.social
Happy to share that our research brief on housing space inequality in Germany will soon be published by the Progressive Politics Research Network!
This work, a collaboration with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social , digs into who has access to space and how policy can address it.
tabouchadi.bsky.social Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Nov 18
Next week, with the Progressive Politics Research Network, we are going to publish 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. While housing has become a huge grievance across Europe, it is often absent from progressive parties‘ agendas. Our group of experts discusses different aspects of this
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social
🗓️ Thursday, November 20:
We are very happy to welcome Gregor Pfeifer at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Abortion Access and Long-Run Household Outcomes: Evidence from Population-Wide Administrative Data“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
steinhardt.bsky.social
🎉 Our study “Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving?” found a great home in Economics of Disasters and Climate Change!
After Germany’s 2002 flood, affected households saved less — generous disaster aid can ease hardship but also reduce precautionary saving.
doi.org/10.1007/s418...
Do Natural Disasters Affect Household Saving? Evidence From the August 2002 Flood in Germany - Economics of Disasters and Climate Change
Recently, there is a growing interest in understanding how individuals adapt to changing climate conditions and climate-induced extreme weather events. An underexplored question is whether and how cli...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM