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Jakob Schwerter
@jakobschwerter.bsky.social
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Educational Psychology, Economics of Education, Social Data Sciene

Star Wars & BvB Fan
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
...Thus, at the moment, I remain skeptical about the benefits of #GenAI in learning, outside of expert-in-the-loop uses (e.g., a teacher using it to craft personalized versions of lesson materials, which the teacher can critically evaluate and refine because of their expertise)... (6/n)
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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ifs-tudortmund.bsky.social
New research video: Discover the importance of students’ social resource factors for academic achievement and well-being in elementary school by @jakobschwerter.bsky.social on YouTube! #Education #Learning #EducationResearch #ElementarySchool www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLEE...
March 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Bundesliga Topspiel bis jetzt schon eher langweilig, oder? #bmgbvb
December 7, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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steveharoz.com
This is really handy. #stats #CausalInference
An explanation of confound, collider, and mediator
November 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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noahgreifer.bsky.social
I love this chapter by Felix Elwert, who writes for a sociology audience and is a very clear writer: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Graphical Causal Models
This chapter discusses the use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for causal inference in the observational social sciences. It focuses on DAGs’ main uses, discusses central principles, and gives...
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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jakobwegmann.bsky.social
Hello #EconSky!

📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢

It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation.

Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap.

Thread below👇🧵
To collect income taxes, almost all countries require employers to withhold monthly tax prepayments which are then fully credited against the final income tax liabilities of their employees. Despite being a fundamental component of income taxation systems worldwide, the impact of these withholding taxes on labor supply is poorly understood. We investigate their importance in the context of married couples in Germany where the withholding tax liability can be redistributed between spouses. We exploit a reform that reduced the withholding tax for some married women more than for others, while inducing no differences in income taxes. Using administrative data for the full population of German taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of labor income with respect to the withholding tax eight years after the reform of 0.14. Additional evidence from a self-conducted survey suggests imperfect understanding of the tax system and limited pooling of resources within the household as the main mechanisms. As the majority of couples shift parts of the withholding tax liability from the husband to the wife, our results suggest that the increased withholding tax liability of married women contributes to their low labor supply. This highlights the need for governments to be aware of the distortion of labor supply incentives when the design of withholding taxes does not match actual income tax incentives.
November 23, 2024 at 3:55 PM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
I am collecting data in university courses over 2-3 cohorts. So good to see that learning behaviour is mostly similar across cohorts with a similar effect on exam performance (stay tuned for specific results). But what a pain to explain differences in taking the first or second exam, etc.
November 23, 2024 at 11:34 AM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Is this only happening in econometrics or does something similar exist in #education #psychology ? I would be happy to try out something like this.
weidnerecon.bsky.social Martin Weidner @weidnerecon.bsky.social · May 16
Think the academic journal system is outdated? We do too. Let’s modernize it with sqare.org! Join our initiative in Econometrics by signing the support form. First, we revolutionize Econometrics; then, we tackle the rest. #ResearchInnovation #Econometrics”
November 21, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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koumurayama.bsky.social
My first postdoc @hkjach.bsky.social's main work has been finally published!! We assessed lots of curiosity personality traits and information-seeking task behaviors and examined the relationship. See what we found...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org
November 12, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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tillfuetterer.bsky.social
Exciting news! The @EARLI has funded our Emerging Field Group on “Automated Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness Using Multimodal Data.” We’re now entering the work phase and look forward to sharing insights. Check out our group: www.earli.org/efg-13 #EdResearch #AIinEducation
EFG - 13 - EARLI
www.earli.org
November 10, 2024 at 8:04 AM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Hi Learning Scholars! Which publication is currently everyone’s fav to link log-data to SRL behavior? Or that shows which log-data help to measure SRL behavior? Or an overview of which variables generated from clicks reflect SRL behavior? #SRL #Clicks #LearningScholars
October 21, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
I don't think anyone has started a Learning Scholars starter pack, so here we go! Let me know if you'd like to be added, removed, etc. Please share!
go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV
October 18, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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rasenfunk.social
Verteidigt Leverkusen seinen Titel? Stürzt Stuttgart ab? Rafft sich der FC Bayern? Beginnt beim BVB eine Ära? Wir blicken mit @evabohle.bsky.social und @kalorineki.bsky.social auf die Saison voraus – inklusive Tabellentipp: rasenfunk.de/bundesliga-m/468

#bundesliga
Tabellentipp von Eva, Karo, Max und den Hörer*innen. Gibt es im letzten Kapitel der verlinkten Folge auch zum Hören.
August 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Auf dem Weg zur #GEBF2024 ✌️
March 17, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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mattbernacki.bsky.social
It's out! 🔬📐🏗️🏦🔭👩‍⚕️ 6+ years of partnership building, STEM Career media production, design & full experiments: "The [+] effect of an intervention personalizing mathematics to students’ career and popular culture interests on mathematics interest and learning." psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
February 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Working with multiple imputation and wondering how tree-based methods compare to MICE PMM? Researchers from FAIR (fair.tu-dortmund.de/en/) and the RCTrust (rc-trust.ai) have just published a preprint that sheds light on this! 🌟 #DataScience #Statistics arxiv.org/abs/2401.09602
Evaluating tree-based imputation methods as an alternative to MICE...
Dealing with missing data is an important problem in statistical analysis that is often addressed with imputation procedures. The performance and validity of such methods are of great importance...
arxiv.org
January 23, 2024 at 8:45 AM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Brandt laut Sky auf der 6? #BVB
January 13, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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nickchk.com
not at all meaning this as a dunk, it's truly interesting how different empirical problems and methods can shift between uninterestingly basic in one field to novel and barely-appreciated in another. i saw this so many many many times in researching my book
A december 2021 article in Methods in Psychology called "Omitted Variable Bias: A threat to Estimating Causal Relationships" We aim to raise awareness of the omitted variable bias (i.e., one special form of endogeneity) and highlight its severity for causal claims. Firstly, we demonstrate via analytic proof that omitting a relevant variable from a model which explains the independent and dependent variable leads to biased estimates. Secondly, we offer an easy-to-understand visualization for the problem. Finally, we discuss two remedies, diminishing the risk of the omitted variable bias, namely the instrument variable or two-stage least squares estimator and the regression discontinuity design. We hope that our review will motivate researchers to use them more often in future research.
November 16, 2023 at 11:19 PM
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drbritwilliams.bsky.social
This one time on twitter years ago, @robertkelchen.com made me chuckle, BC he said he doesn’t deal with AERA much BC this distance between submission & presentation is so far the paper could just go under review. And I just had a paper accepted by a journal but not AERA and I can’t stop laughing.
November 11, 2023 at 3:24 PM
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violaangelini.bsky.social
📣📢 We are hiring an assistant professor (research career track) in #econometrics! Expertise in machine learning is especially welcome. Groningen is a great place to live and work! Sharing is caring. #EconSky 📈📉
inomics.com/job/career-t...
Career Track Assistant Professorship in Econometrics (1.0 FTE) | INOMICS
The Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance of the University of Groningen is looking for a Career Track Assistant Professor in Econometrics.
inomics.com
November 8, 2023 at 4:43 PM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Unpopular opinion, I guess, but I really like the touch bar of the MacBook and will miss it. Why is it so disliked?
November 4, 2023 at 9:37 AM
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
Self-regulation - where does it come from? How does it develop? How can we shape it positively? Check out my Substack to learn more!

#edusky #academicsky #PsychSciSky

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Control yourself! How self-regulation performance develops over time.
Wesarg-Menzel et al's (2023) meta-review reveals how social factors affect the development of self-regulation performance from ages 0-18.
open.substack.com
October 25, 2023 at 12:57 PM
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paulgp.com
Hard to top Florian’s thread:
October 25, 2023 at 4:22 PM
jakobschwerter.bsky.social
Das Spiel hätte der BvB auch 3:0 gewinnen dürfen. Aber hat Spaß gemacht. Brandt und Nmecha mit einer starken Leistung.
October 20, 2023 at 8:27 PM