Beate Thies
@beatethies.bsky.social
Economist at University of Vienna | environmental, labor, regional economics | PhD from Uni Mannheim
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Mein Mitgefühl gilt zB den Kolleg:innen aus Bosnien, die vor dem Krieg nach Ö flüchteten, hier seit Jahrzehnten als Leistungsträger:innen in Pflege, Spitälern, Handel oder Industrie arbeiten, Steuern zahlen, ihre Kinder großziehen und dann so etwas lesen müssen. Entschuldigung! Wir sind nicht so.
Das ist das Instagram-Profil der Kanzlerpartei in Österreich. Ihnen geht es längst nicht mehr um die (notwendige) Bekämpfung des Islamismus: Sie wollen absichtlich Ressentiments gegenüber allen Muslimen schüren.
Wann fusionieren sie endlich mit der FPÖ? #Rassismus
Wann fusionieren sie endlich mit der FPÖ? #Rassismus
December 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Mein Mitgefühl gilt zB den Kolleg:innen aus Bosnien, die vor dem Krieg nach Ö flüchteten, hier seit Jahrzehnten als Leistungsträger:innen in Pflege, Spitälern, Handel oder Industrie arbeiten, Steuern zahlen, ihre Kinder großziehen und dann so etwas lesen müssen. Entschuldigung! Wir sind nicht so.
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For someone who grew up in (the top decile of the income distribution of) a developing country, it is hilarious to see what Americans think is the bare minimum for a middle-class life. Kids sharing a bedroom? Oh, the indignity…
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
For someone who grew up in (the top decile of the income distribution of) a developing country, it is hilarious to see what Americans think is the bare minimum for a middle-class life. Kids sharing a bedroom? Oh, the indignity…
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December 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Our "Dodging Day Zero" paper is out in JEEA. We uncover how Cape Town avoided 2017's catastrophic drought. But in doing so, created longer term sustainability challenges and weakened the fiscal viability of public water. A lesson for the 1B living in drought vulnerable cities.
#climatesky #econsky
#climatesky #econsky
Forthcoming article "Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town" by Alexander Abajian, Cassandra Cole, B Kelsey Jack, @kylemeng.com and Martine Visser
@eeanews.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
@eeanews.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town
Abstract. A near-catastrophic drought in Cape Town, South Africa, illustrates three implications of climate change for publicly provided utility services.
doi.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Our "Dodging Day Zero" paper is out in JEEA. We uncover how Cape Town avoided 2017's catastrophic drought. But in doing so, created longer term sustainability challenges and weakened the fiscal viability of public water. A lesson for the 1B living in drought vulnerable cities.
#climatesky #econsky
#climatesky #econsky
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Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525
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This is wild!
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is wild!
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
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Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
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TOMORROW (19 Nov) AYEW Education Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT(9pm AEDT) to listen to Mincer Chou (UChicago), @stnavdeev.com(@uva.nl),@kaveendravasu.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) & @subarnabanerjee.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de).
Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...
Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
TOMORROW (19 Nov) AYEW Education Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT(9pm AEDT) to listen to Mincer Chou (UChicago), @stnavdeev.com(@uva.nl),@kaveendravasu.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) & @subarnabanerjee.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de).
Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...
Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...
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62 Prozent der Wähler haben sich für eine Olympia-Bewerbung von München ausgesprochen. Der Deutsche Sportbund wird 2026 entscheiden, ob er sich mit der Stadt bewirbt.
Referendum: Bürger in München stimmen für Olympia-Bewerbung
62 Prozent der Wähler haben sich für eine Olympia-Bewerbung von München ausgesprochen. Der Deutsche Sportbund wird 2026 entscheiden, ob er sich mit der Stadt bewirbt.
www.zeit.de
October 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
62 Prozent der Wähler haben sich für eine Olympia-Bewerbung von München ausgesprochen. Der Deutsche Sportbund wird 2026 entscheiden, ob er sich mit der Stadt bewirbt.
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🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇
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Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*
Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi
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October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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Reminder!
Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)
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SOLE 2026 Submissions Open
mailchi.mp
October 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reminder!
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Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313
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A research agenda for incorporating the effects of biodiversity loss and nature degradation into financial economics, from Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Olivier Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34286
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A research agenda for incorporating the effects of biodiversity loss and nature degradation into financial economics, from Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Olivier Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34286
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In Hessen scannen Mitarbeiter*innen des Kultusministeriums Social-Media-Accounts von Schulen, ob dort mit Sonderzeichen gegendert wird und weist die Schulen dann darauf hin, dass die verboten sei. Alles normal.
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
In Hessen scannen Mitarbeiter*innen des Kultusministeriums Social-Media-Accounts von Schulen, ob dort mit Sonderzeichen gegendert wird und weist die Schulen dann darauf hin, dass die verboten sei. Alles normal.
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Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much
Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables
Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships
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Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables
Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships
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September 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much
Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables
Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships
🧵
Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables
Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships
🧵
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When individuals are induced to work from home, they spend less time with work associates and do not substitute toward more time with individuals outside of their household, from Benjamin W. Cowan and Todd R. Jones https://www.nber.org/papers/w34239
September 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When individuals are induced to work from home, they spend less time with work associates and do not substitute toward more time with individuals outside of their household, from Benjamin W. Cowan and Todd R. Jones https://www.nber.org/papers/w34239
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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election
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Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial
A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy.
Justice Cármen Lúcia Antunes Rocha ruled on Thursday that Bolsonaro – a former paratrooper who was elected president in 2018 – was guilty of seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing the 2022 election, meaning three of the five judges involved in the trial had found Brazil’s former leader guilty. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
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#Berlin transport policy is incredible.
The city implemented 30km/h limits on main roads where air quality was subpar and is now reversing it to 50km/h because ... it worked and the air is better.
The city implemented 30km/h limits on main roads where air quality was subpar and is now reversing it to 50km/h because ... it worked and the air is better.
a man wearing a blue hat that says sky
ALT: a man wearing a blue hat that says sky
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September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
#Berlin transport policy is incredible.
The city implemented 30km/h limits on main roads where air quality was subpar and is now reversing it to 50km/h because ... it worked and the air is better.
The city implemented 30km/h limits on main roads where air quality was subpar and is now reversing it to 50km/h because ... it worked and the air is better.
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Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, warum 1) so wenig von den Demokraten zu hoeren ist, und 2) warum es scheinbar so wenig gesellschaftlichen Widerstand gegen das Trumpregime gibt.
Ein Faden mit dem Versuch einer Erklaerung:
Ein Faden mit dem Versuch einer Erklaerung:
August 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, warum 1) so wenig von den Demokraten zu hoeren ist, und 2) warum es scheinbar so wenig gesellschaftlichen Widerstand gegen das Trumpregime gibt.
Ein Faden mit dem Versuch einer Erklaerung:
Ein Faden mit dem Versuch einer Erklaerung:
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Was darf Satire?
In Österreich offenbar immer weniger.
Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann über ein „lupenreines Skandalurteil“ gegen den Satiriker Florian Scheuba:
In Österreich offenbar immer weniger.
Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann über ein „lupenreines Skandalurteil“ gegen den Satiriker Florian Scheuba:
Starautor Daniel Kehlmann zum Scheuba-Urteil: Gerechtigkeitsverweigerung!
Der Satiriker Florian Scheuba wurde wegen Spott über einen Polizeichef verurteilt. Welch ein lupenreiner Skandal
www.falter.at
August 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Was darf Satire?
In Österreich offenbar immer weniger.
Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann über ein „lupenreines Skandalurteil“ gegen den Satiriker Florian Scheuba:
In Österreich offenbar immer weniger.
Schriftsteller Daniel Kehlmann über ein „lupenreines Skandalurteil“ gegen den Satiriker Florian Scheuba:
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Although the holo deck probably added unavoidable ads in later installments
August 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Although the holo deck probably added unavoidable ads in later installments
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New Paper Alert!📢
"Does Remote Work Reinforce Gender Gaps in (Un)Paid Labor?" by @jvali.bsky.social
Yes! Within-couple analyses confirm that the Big Shift to WFH intensifies gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, particularly caregiving.
Find out more:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
"Does Remote Work Reinforce Gender Gaps in (Un)Paid Labor?" by @jvali.bsky.social
Yes! Within-couple analyses confirm that the Big Shift to WFH intensifies gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, particularly caregiving.
Find out more:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
New Paper Alert!📢
"Does Remote Work Reinforce Gender Gaps in (Un)Paid Labor?" by @jvali.bsky.social
Yes! Within-couple analyses confirm that the Big Shift to WFH intensifies gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, particularly caregiving.
Find out more:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
"Does Remote Work Reinforce Gender Gaps in (Un)Paid Labor?" by @jvali.bsky.social
Yes! Within-couple analyses confirm that the Big Shift to WFH intensifies gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, particularly caregiving.
Find out more:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...