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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 17d

This fall, 1,499 students are enrolled in Econ 101 - looking forward to the semester ahead. 🚀📚

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 17d

📦 The impact of unconditional cash transfers on poverty and consumption
🤖How the introduction of AI affects worker productivity
🌍The effectiveness of the European emissions trading system

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 17d

Over the years my Econ 101 class has become much more empirically grounded.
We now discuss:
💘Experimental evidence on supply shocks in dating markets
🗳️How social preferences for redistribution shape voting
💊Unintended consequences of price collusion in the pill market🤰

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 17d

🎉 Teaching Milestone 🎉
This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1).
Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 21d

Weitere Informationen: studentservices.uzh.ch/uzh/anonym/v...

studentservices.uzh.ch

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 21d

Die UZH bietet dieses Jahr erneut das Modul «Mentoring für die nächste Generation» an. 54 Studierende begleiten ein Jahr lang je ein Primarschulkind als Mentor*in, nehmen an interdisziplinären Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendentwicklung teil und setzen Theorie in die Praxis um.

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Jul 22

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @xshan.bsky.social, @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social, and Uschi Backes-Gellner provide first-time evidence that online instruction disproportionally harms the learning outcomes of women compared to men. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

You can read the full paper here:
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

Shan, Zölitz & Backes-Gellner (2025). "Disconnecting Women: Gender Disparities in the Impact of Online Instruction" CESifo Working Paper #11997.

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

Are these results new?
Our meta-analysis shows that we already knew that online instruction generally hurts performance (avg −0.20 SD), but with a median sample size of 491 observations, most prior work lacked the power to detect the hidden equity cost of online instruction.

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

Why does online instruction disproportionally harm women? Survey & zoom attendance data show that women more strongly prefer in-person lectures. When assigned more online lectures, they perceive the course as less enjoyable, less comprehensible, and instructors as less engaging.

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

The negative effect of online instruction on women is concentrated in math-intensive courses and lasting. Here, women exposed to more online earn fewer credits and become more likely to drop out of the program.
🚨🚨🚨

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

For the first paper documenting a gender gap in the impact of online instruction, we must worry about the possibility of a false positive. It’s not! The gap remains highly precise after multiple-testing corrections (Bonferroni p=0.0036).

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

More online instruction significantly lowers women’s performance, while leaving men’s unaffected. A 10 ppt shift toward online instruction decreases women’s exam score by 0.038 SD (p<0.001).

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 New working paper! 🚨
We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉

with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Jun 28

I appreciate the multiple hypothesis testing reason for indices. But think of a meta-analysis that can't use the study b/c disaggregated results aren't shown.

I'd be fine if people just shared this post-publication.

(My use case: an index that combines women's gender attitudes and employment.)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Jun 27

When studies report results on indices that combine many vars, they should also show results for each var in the appendix. This is prompted by writing a review article; some studies have an index where only a subset of the vars are on topic for me. Plus the original vars have interpretable units.

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Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · May 28

A new paper by @xshan.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social presents evidence from a randomised field experiment showing that peer groups can influence students’ conscientiousness, openness, and competitiveness - but have no spillover effects on extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism.
Link👇

Peers Affect Personality Development

Abstract. Do people around us influence our personality? We investigate this question through a field experiment where we randomly assign university students to study groups. We find personality spill...

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Mar 6

IZA has been a key player in shaping labor economics, fostering collaborations, and providing a valuable platform for Economists worldwide.

Hard to accept that IZA will simply vanish.

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Mar 6

When cleaning up I found this old business card of mine. During the 3 years I worked at IZA/briq as a postdoc I had an incredible productive time and terrific colleagues.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Jan 9

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳

12-13 May 2025, Munich

Keynote: Alexander Willen

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Deadline: 16 Feb 2025

Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Dec 19

We have have scheduled 3 flyouts taking place in the second half of January.

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Alexandra de Gendre @adegendre.bsky.social · Nov 24

Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Nov 25

We received many excellent applications and have scheduled 11 interviews with candidates that fit the position.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Oct 30

📢 We are hiring 📢

ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one

6-year Postdoc 👩‍🎓

to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!

👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131
Deadline: 24 Nov 2024

Please spread the word! #EconSky

Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · Nov 19

We received 255 applications and have started screening. 35% of applications came in on the last day. Number of applications is down 20% compared to previous years where we had positions with a similar focus.