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b-eichengreen.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social · Jun 17

"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Opinion | This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos

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Bernhard Kasberger @b-kasberger.bsky.social · Jun 18

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🚨 Job Opening: Join us at Johannes Kepler University Linz! I'm hiring a Pre-Doc / PhD-track Research Assistant in microeconomic theory with a focus on market design & game theory.
Perfect for those considering a PhD or looking for a 1–2 year RA position.
👇

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 11

A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter

A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

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Stefan Bruckbauer @sbruckbauer.bsky.social · May 22

Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA

Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students

on.ft.com/4kq1bW4 Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students

Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students

Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university

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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · May 16

Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social

Based on the evidence of the pilot initiated by @svenhergovich.bsky.social and our evaluation with @maxkasy.bsky.social

www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/austria...

Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job…

Programme pioneered by INET Oxford's Lukas Lehner and Max Kasy receives green light for further roll-out.

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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JKU Department of Economics @jku-economics.bsky.social · May 8

📢 Come and work with us!

The Department of Economics at JKU Linz invites applications for a full 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀.

Apply by June 18, 2025.

Details: www.jku.at/en/the-jku/w...

Please share with your network!

#Econsky #Academicjobs

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Apr 30

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community

Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...

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René Böheim @rboheim.bsky.social · Apr 30

"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap
with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"

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Pay Transparency and Gender Equality

(May 2025) - Since 2018, UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time, we sh...

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · Apr 29

Quite the quote.

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Apr 18

Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments

This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen

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René Böheim @rboheim.bsky.social · Apr 16

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds

Data visionary Hans Rosling looks back at the encounters that shaped his world view.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · Mar 25

“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · Mar 11

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria"

By @kbekhtiar.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

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WIFO @wifo.bsky.social · Mar 6

#WIFO Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%. #InternationalWomensDay @rboheim.bsky.social @jku-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at buff.ly/iv9fsCP

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꓄ꃅꍟꂦ ꋪꍟꌗꀤꌗ꓄ꍏꈤꉓꍟ @theo-bakes-bread.bsky.social · Mar 4

Time to buy some Neil Young music.

Neil Young to Play Free Concert in Ukraine Ahead of European Tour

Neil Young will play a free show in Ukraine with the Chrome Hearts before kicking off his European summer tour.

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · Mar 1

Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow.

He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.

#EconSky #Germany

@kfzimmermann.bsky.social

a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle

ALT: a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · Mar 1

It was time to donate again to the 🇺🇦 Kyiv School of Economics led by the amazing @tymofiibrik.bsky.social and @mylovanov.bsky.social 🇺🇦

If you want to support KSE in these tough times 👇

foundation.kse.ua/en

Home - KSE Charitable Foundation

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · Feb 28

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Slava Ukraini.

Donate to Ukraine’s defenders

The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 28

Decent people thank Ukraine.

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ProMarket @promarket.bsky.social · Jan 30

NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that #Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with @zingales.bsky.social and @bethanymclean.bsky.social on the #Capitalisnt podcast.

Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket

Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...

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René Böheim @rboheim.bsky.social · Jan 30

„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

FPÖ-Chef Kickl will Einigung zu Bankenabgabe

Herbert Kickl verhandelt an der zuständigen Gruppe vorbei mit ÖVP-Chef Stocker. Differenzen gibt es auch bei der Landesverteidigung abseits von Sky Shield

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 17

A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.

I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?

Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the...

We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...

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JKU Department of Economics @jku-economics.bsky.social · Dec 12

📢 Job opening:
Paid position in our PhD program (4 years fixed-term) with a very manageable teaching load.

Fields: Applied microeconomics, particularly labor economics.

Deadline 2025 Jan 29. Please share with your students and RT. #EconSky

Details:
karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexcha...

Graduate Teaching Assistant (must hold a Diploma/Master's degree)

karriere.jku.at

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René Böheim @rboheim.bsky.social · Dec 10

Is a transfer that requires recipients to have "annual incomes < 220% of poverty line, ages 23--57, and not receiving Social Security" with amounts "depending on family size" (footnote 1) really "unconditional"?

René Böheim @rboheim.bsky.social · Dec 1

make sure you update your affiliations/handles from time to time #repec

Grow Bluesky @growbluesky.bsky.social · Nov 30

There are now 278 RePEc-registered Economists on Bluesky.

It willl be interesting to see how this grows over time.

#econsky

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