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Applied economist at the University of Melbourne. www.jankabatek.com

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Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · Jul 23

A while ago I gave a talk on "Doing research with Australian population-level administrative data" (specifically, PLIDA).

The talk contained tips and tricks that may prove useful to both beginners and experts, and so I am sharing the slides here:

jankabatek.com/embed/plida/

PLIDA presentation | Jan Kabátek

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 6d

A really neat article on fertility:
ourworldindata.org/total-fertil...

Charts out the fertility dynamics and explains the complicated relationships between different statistical measures, such as TFR and CCFR.

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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨

Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.

Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!

#EconSky

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 11d

Rather than being singled out as the awful parent that exerts too much control over their children, parents who don't want their kids to spend all the time on social media will be simply following the law. This might work, perhaps?

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 11d

On the topic of social media ban: I'm really curious how it'll play out.

My Slav reference frame had me initially thinking that this will be a completely ineffective political gesture, but based on conversations with teachers, the ban might give parents more agency in saying "no" to social media.

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Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com · 13d

The Australian government to kids:

In the style of the piracy is a crime meme but with some fun new fonts in the mix because I’m lazy: ‘You wouldn’t git clone a repo’

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 13d

🤣

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 13d

👏 Bravi! 👏

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 13d

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

The list of social media platforms that Australia is considering to ban (under the new restrictions for Aussie teenagers) includes—yes, you read that right—GitHub.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

Let's lodge the PLIDA project!

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

Plus, any website that features the word "Hub" should be treated with utmost suspicion.

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

Come to think of it, GitHub *is* the problem.

❗The committed code is too curated. Nobody talks about their bad code.

❗People seek stars, forks and other forms of external validation

❗Peer pressure, FOMO, sedentary lifestyles... it checks all the boxes!

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

Fair play, tbh. Any website that features the word "Hub" should be treated with utmost suspicion.

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

At last, the new generations will be growing up without the constant need to compare themselves to the unattainable ideals of code quality and version control 🥰

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 14d

The list of social media platforms that Australia is considering to ban (under the new restrictions for Aussie teenagers) includes—yes, you read that right—GitHub.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Not just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teens

WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14d

Some important findings in this paper:
1) Working with AI boosts the performance of people solving math, science & ethics questions
2) The biggest boost is for the hardest problems
3) High performers remain highest performing, but low performers gain more
4) People who are good with AI gain most

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Jonathan Thong @jcht.bsky.social · 15d

Fellow econ folks! We are hiring! Come work with me and my delightful colleagues at The University of Melbourne!

Applications close November 23, 2025

Link: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 15d

Fair point. I did some digging, and it is worth acknowledging that our partner organization, Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Leadership, has been established partially through a donation made by BHP. My own department is not receiving any funding from fossil fuel industries.

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 16d

What a great photo of our campus!

University of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social · 22d

Hello 👋

We're the official #UniMelb account!

Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 16d

The applications close next week! 😊

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 23d

📢 We're hiring! 📢

Two tenure-track positions in empirical micro, no teaching obligations👇👇

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Emphasis: childhood development & indigenous outcomes

Come join us in beautiful Melbourne!

‼️𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩‼️

EJM - Econ Job Market

econjobmarket.org

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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 21d

Come joun us in Münster, it will be awesome😉😎

Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 21d

I4R Replication Games coming to Münster! @i4replication.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social @fialalenka.bsky.social

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · 23d

📢 We're hiring! 📢

Two tenure-track positions in empirical micro, no teaching obligations👇👇

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Emphasis: childhood development & indigenous outcomes

Come join us in beautiful Melbourne!

‼️𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩‼️

EJM - Econ Job Market

econjobmarket.org

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 24d

"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."

Remote policies helped women work. In-office mandates and child care costs are driving them back out.
Low flexibility and high child care costs are pushing mothers with young kids to the sidelines after they joined the workforce in record numbers during the pandemic.

Emma Nelson
The Minnesota Star Tribune
September 13th at 6:01 AM CDT

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · Sep 8

Thanks for the reply, Ilari. I reckon this boils down to semantics.

According to the internet, European countries tend to follow the Eurostat standard, which includes the 60% median measure, and a supplementary measure of material and social deprivation (AROPE).

Definitely better than Oz atm.

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · Sep 8

This indicator is extremely useful. One can easily track the latent drivers of poverty, and evaluate which ones are becoming more important over time 📈

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · Sep 8

🦘 Australia deviates from the rest of the OECD by not having an official poverty measure (❗)

Melbourne Institute's Melek Cigdem-Bayram proposes a comprehensive poverty indicator that tracks numerous aspects of socio-economic deprivation 👇

theconversation.com/we-cant-fix-...

We can’t fix what we don’t track. That’s why Australia needs an official poverty measure

Some estimates say up to one in seven people are living in poverty, but Australia doesn’t properly measure it. Here’s how we could.

theconversation.com

Jan Kabatek 🇺🇦 @jankabatek.com · Sep 5

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to know more.
Melbourne Institute is 100% awesome! 💗