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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · 9d

Nice add-on — they also reported on the workshop on local television: www.rainews.it/tgr/marche/n... (from around -10:30).

Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · 9d

Link to paper, joint with Eric A. Hanushek, Frauke Baumeister (née Witthöft), and @woessmann.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

Cognitive skills do not decline with age for those who use math and reading throughout their life.

www.science.org

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · 9d

Hosts: Germana Giombini (Urbino), Francesco Venturini (Urbino), Michela Vecchi (Kingston University London), and Mary O‘Mahony (King‘s College London).

Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · 9d

First time presenting a research paper in a church! ⛪️📄

Presented our paper on aging & cognitive skills at the workshop on „Skills and Demographic Transitions: Labour Markets, Productivity and Welfare" in Urbino last week. Thanks to the great hosts!

Link to paper and tv coverage in the comments.

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · Jul 21

[email protected] & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full).

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Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here.

Deadline: Sep 30, 2025

Please share widely! #EconSky

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Nikki Shure @nikkishure.bsky.social · Sep 1

Come join us at QSS @sriucl.bsky.social! We have the best colleagues ♥️

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Sep 1

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Kamila Cygan-Rehm @cyganrehm.bsky.social · Aug 15

One-year visiting position for advanced female postdocs in Dresden. I am happy to host anyone broadly interested in applied micro. Salary within the German public sector's pay scale (TV-L, E13-E15). Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. Please share widely! 👇

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Aug 11

Attention Berlin-based PhDs & early-career researchers!

On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market.

Apply by 15 August: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Jul 16

Are you into statistics and econ/business applications?

Come work with us in Berlin, on a tenure-track professorship. We have a great athmosphere at the department, and want to learn about your research.

Please pass it on to friends, too.

#Econsky

www.academics.de/jobs/juniorp...

Juniorprofessur für "Angewandte Statistik und Data Science", JP/004/25 - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als Juniorprofessur für "Angewandte Statistik und Data Science", JP/004/25 in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

www.academics.de

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Jul 16

We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀

Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟

Please share widely 🙏🙏

Link below 👇

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · Jun 23

🎉Our paper on within-country variation in student achievement and patience is now out in The Economic Journal!

🆕We use Facebook data to predict patience on a subnational level and validate this method extensively.

More info👇in the thread by my fantastic co-author @woessmann.bsky.social:

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):

👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries

Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience

academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

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Anna Bindler @annabindler.bsky.social · May 22

Are you a PhD student or Postdoc working on topics in Empirical Economics? Please apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop 👇

⏰ Deadline to apply: June 30, 2025.

CEPA @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social · May 22

We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...

Other Events

www.uni-potsdam.de

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · Jun 16

It was great to have you, thanks for coming to Berlin!

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Jun 16

My lovely hosts here at DIW Berlin provisioned me with cake and coffee in my visitor office 🥮 ☕️

Future hosts you have been alerted to this new norm

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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · Jun 12

‼️Support gesucht
Begleitet vom ifo Zentrum für Bildungsökonomik entwickelte das Ortenburg-Gymnasium Oberviechtach
✨Edyoumaps✨, um Bildungsgerechtigkeit zu verbessern.

Über den Wettbewerb Startup Teens kann man dafür voten & unterstützen (Impact Entrepreneurship):
www.startupteens.de/challenge-20...

Voting

www.startupteens.de

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DIW Berlin @diw.de · May 15

Landläufig herrscht die Meinung: ab dem 30. Lebensjahr baut man mental ab. Eine DIW-Studie hat allerdings ergeben, dass die kognitiven Fähigkeiten viel länger erhalten bleiben, nämlich mindestens bis 40. Das ist auch für das Wirtschaftswachstum von Bedeutung. Mehr dazu:
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · Apr 29

Really cool paper and a fantastic outcome for a single-authored project, congrats! 🥳

Raphael Brade @raphaelbrade.bsky.social · Apr 14

I am very excited to share that my paper "Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends? Freshman Orientation Peers and Academic Performance" is now forthcoming @j-humanresources.bsky.social: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... #econsky

Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends?

How does the formation of social connections at the beginning of college shape individuals’ subsequent academic performance? Exploiting quasi-random assignment to groups of a two-day freshman orientat...

jhr.uwpress.org

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics:

👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings

@annualreviews.bsky.social
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Apr 14

Cognitive skill decline with age is not as strong as previous studies suggest. Skills decline in old age only for those with below-average skill usage - use it or lose it.
Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social, Frauke Witthoeft, @woessmann.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for rapidly ageing populations. But this assumption relies largely on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between ageing patterns and cohort differences. Using German longitudinal data, this column finds that skills, on average, increase markedly into one’s 40s before decreasing slightly in literacy and more severely in numeracy. In addition, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage, outlining a clear policy pathway for avoiding skill declines.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Apr 14

New on @voxeu.org:

"Use it or lose it: How cognitive skills change with age"

w/ Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social + Frauke Witthöft

🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/column...

👉Skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage

Use it or lose it: How cognitive skills change with age

Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for rapidly ageing populations. But this assumption relies largely on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between ageing patterns and cohort differences. Using German longitudinal data, this column finds that skills, on average, increase markedly into one’s 40s before decreasing slightly in literacy and more severely in numeracy. In addition, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage, outlining a clear policy pathway for avoiding skill declines.

cepr.org

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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · Mar 27

I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested!

#EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Mar 21

@henninghermes.com and I are looking for two PhD students for the ifo Center for the Economics of Education
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · Mar 21

‼️We are hiring‼️

🧑‍🎓PhD position at ifo Center for Economics of Education

➡️Research on education, labor & behavioral econ
➡️Focus on field experiments & RCTs
➡ PhD program @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social & MGSE
➡️Starting Oct 1, 2025 or earlier

⏰Apply by Apr 20, 2025 (link below)

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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Mar 7

📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier (University of Berkely, California) & Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline 15 May 🚨

#EconSky

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · Mar 7

📢 In a new @diw.de weekly report, we show that there are (average) differences in math and reading competencies between men and women, but they don’t explain much of the gender pay gap.

For more details, read below (in German) 💡

Joint work with @jonasjessen.bsky.social and Frauke Witthöft.

DIW Berlin @diw.de · Mar 6

Die Gründe für den #GenderPayGap sind vielfältig. DIW-Forscherin @kinnelavinia.bsky.social hat zusammen mit @jonasjessen.bsky.social und Frauke Witthöft erforscht, ob unterschiedliche Kompetenzen von Männern und Frauen einen Beitrag leisten.
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....

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Lavinia Kinne @kinnelavinia.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉
@science.org

We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡

Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!

Details ⤵️

Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Mar 6

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org

💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🧵A thread
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