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Essen Health Conference @eshconference.bsky.social · 7d

The Call for Papers for Essen Health Conference 2026 is out now, with an excellent line-up of keynote speakers Melanie Wasserman @uclaanderson.bsky.social and Stephanie Von Hinke @bristoluni.bsky.social
🗓️Deadline for paper submissions is 31 January 2026 🚨
Details here - udue.de/ehc26

The Essen Health Conference 2026 will take place on 3-5 June 2026 in Essen, Germany. We accept papers on topics of Health, Education and Labour. We only accept full paper submissions. Please submit before the deadline of 31st January 2026, at the following link - https://bit.ly/submit-ehc26

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Royal Holloway Psychology @rhulpsychology.bsky.social · Aug 12

📢 We are recruiting Clinical Psychologists to join the Royal Holloway Doctorate in Clinical Psychology as Lecturers (Professional Practice).
📍 Egham | £49,325–£58,345 + £8,588 supplement | PT or FT | Permanent. Apply by 2 Sept 2025.
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Psychology (Professional Practice)

Full-Time or Part-Time, PermanentSalary is £49,325 to £58,345 per annum including London Allowance (Pro-rata if offered on a part-time basis). A Clinical Lecturer supplement of £8,588 (Pro-rata if par...

jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk

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Bastian Schulz @bsecon.bsky.social · Aug 12

The 1st Aarhus Workshop on Labor Markets (AWLM 2025) happens from Oct 22-24 at Aarhus University, Denmark.

We are excited to receive papers that focus on understanding and analyzing labor market dynamics, policies, and outcomes. Both empirical research and structural work is highly welcome!

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jul 15

A new award for young scholars in the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics.

Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Jul 15

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August.
cepr.org/events/ghaza...
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To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Department of Economics of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name.

Ghazala made important contributions in a large number of fields, spanning the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics. The award will promote work in those fields by young scholars.

The first edition of this award will consist of a 5,000 euro prize for the best paper in this set of fields by junior researchers. The selection of the laureate will be carried out by a scientific committee composed of Pierre Cahuc, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo.

Eligibility for the prize requires that all authors have obtained their PhD after 1 September 2018. Papers written jointly with more senior researchers will not be considered.

The prize will be awarded at SciencesPo during the event organised in memory of Ghazala on 10 December 2025. One of the authors of the prize winning paper will present the work at this event.

Applications must be submitted by 31 August 2025.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 Sanitation Infrastructure

On Thursday July 10th, Britta Augsburg @theifs.bsky.social, Molly Lipscomb ‪@uvabatten.bsky.social‬ & ‪@afosterri.org‬ will outline key takeaways for policy from their forthcoming #VoxDevLit at our launch event.

Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Sanitation Infrastructure: VoxDevLit Launch Event. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Sanitation infrastructure plays a critical role in improving public health and wellbeing, yet nearly one in five people globally still lack access to basic services. At this VoxDevLit launch event, B...

cepr-org.zoom.us

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Economics. For Society. @ubscenter.uzh.ch · Jun 27

Jetzt anmelden zum Vortrag der deutschen «Wirtschaftsweisen» @monika-schnitzer.com an der Universität Zürich. Sie ist Vorsitzende des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social und Professorin an der @lmumuenchen.bsky.social.

www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/de/news_even...

#EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS
@econ.uzh.ch

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Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Jun 30

New paper out!
We evaluate the effectiveness of a sanitation marketing intervention aimed at increasing the supply of improved toilet products by local businesses and the household demand for toilets in rural Nigeria. More here: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Jun 26

NEW PODCAST: The policy that changed childhood in the UK

@pjtheeconomist.bsky.social is joined by @ckfarquharson.bsky.social and @officialedballs.bsky.social to explore the impact and legacy of Sure Start.

🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/pol...

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Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics @pennchibe.bsky.social · Jun 26

CHIBE researchers Christina Roberto and Alyssa Moran are cited in a TIME essay by Arianna Huffington advocating that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps not allow the purchase of sugary drinks or soda. time.com/7297603/snap...

The Case Against Using SNAP to Subsidize Soda

Arianna Huffington makes a case against using SNAP benefits to subsidize soda.

time.com

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Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Jun 14

Having a great time at ESPE2025- inspiring programme! #espe2025

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Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Jun 12

My co-author Grigory Aleksin presenting our work (with Arnaud Chevalier) showing that small community youth projects cause short-run reductions in crime, especially anti- social behaviour. #espe2025 #econ #rhul

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · Sep 22

Nearly a decade ago, IZA World of Labor ("bridges the gap between research and policy") asked me to write a short intro to Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation. Now teamed up with the great Grigory Aleksin (RHUL) for an update. Enjoyed the team work a lot!

wol.iza.org/articles/usi...

Using instrumental variables to establish causality

Even with observational data, causality can be recovered with the help of instrumental variables estimation

wol.iza.org

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Ines Helm @ineshelmecon.bsky.social · May 8

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz!

Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ.

Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor

Please help us spread the word and RT.

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Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · Feb 25

We just released our paper using a field experiment to reveal indoor air pollution (IAP) in London: It’s worse than you think!

🧵with six main results👇

With @sjroth.bsky.social.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Apr 4

🆕 Calling all parents: Boosting early childhood outcomes in Uruguay

Today on VoxDev, Juanita Bloomfield (Universidad de Montevideo), Ana Balsa, Alejandro Cid & Philip Oreopoulos (University of Toronto) demonstrate how behavioural insights can enhance parenting practices: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Calling all parents: Boosting early childhood outcomes in Uruguay

A phone-based intervention in Uruguay, which included access to an AI chatbot, demonstrates how behavioural insights can enhance parenting practices and improve early childhood development at scale.

voxdev.org

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CINCH @cinchessen.bsky.social · Apr 4

Call for Applications: DAAD Guest Professorship in Health Economics Spend winter term 2025/26 at CINCH in Essen – collaborate, teach, and enjoy a vibrant research environment.

Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions? Contact @danielkuehnle.bsky.social
#healtheconomics
#econsky
#teachecon

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Daniel Kuehnle @danielkuehnle.bsky.social · Apr 4

🔈 Call for Papers 🔈

Join us for the first

NU-DE Workshop on Applied Microeconomics

📍Nuremberg | 🗓️ Oct 1–2, 2025

For more information, see the call for papers.

Interested? Submit your paper!

We are looking forward to seeing you in October!

#econsky #healtheconomics

Thanks for sharing widely!

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Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · Mar 29

75% of US scientists who answered @nature.com poll consider leaving.
More than 1,600 readers answered their poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com

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Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Mar 28

No pressure then!

Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Mar 24

Fabulous news!
ifs.org.uk/news/helen-m...

Helen Miller appointed as new Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies | Institute for Fiscal Studies

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is delighted to announce that Helen Miller has been appointed as its next Director.

ifs.org.uk

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Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian

Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

www.reuters.com

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John Eric Humphries @johneric.bsky.social · Feb 24

Jason Abaluck and I are organizing the Cowles Labor and Public Economics Conference at Yale, June 2-3. Submit your papers by March 24: cowles.yale.edu/conferences/...

@jabaluck.bsky.social

Cowles Summer Conference Paper Submission Form

cowles.yale.edu

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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · Feb 1

🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down.

Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here:

data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

County-level data on U.S. opioid distributions, demographics, healthcare supply, and healthcare access

This repository includes data from the Health Resources & Services Administration's Area Health Resources Files (years 2000-2001, 2004-2022), CDC Wonder, National Conference of State Legislatures, and...

data.mendeley.com

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Gema Zamarro @gzamarro.bsky.social · Mar 11

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NBER @nber.org · Mar 10

A persistent and large gender difference in academic promotion for female economists is found. However, no significant differences in promotion by race is found, from Donna K. Ginther, Shulamit Kahn, and Daria Milakhina https://www.nber.org/papers/w33538

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Melanie Luhrmann @luhrmann.bsky.social · Feb 26

#EconSky