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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s seminar: Our super PhD student (on the market this year 😉) @a-calder.bsky.social presenting her work uncovering the effects of the US civil war on the timing and geographical spread of the social and political movement for women suffrage.

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 13d

PhD candidate Sharunya Gnanasubramaniam presented today on her design for a field experiment which will consider tank-irrigated farming as a 'coupled-commons system' and test whether the erosion of one public good (extent of cultivation) crowds out contributions to another (public good maintenance)

Slide titled "This paper": "Identifies whether restraint in cultivation crowds out canal maintenance contributions: a field experiment with simulating rainfall shocks and upstream complaince. Tests for location-specific responses under repeated shocks. Examines whether systems revert to cooperation after shocks or settle into a low-cooperation equilibrium." a beautiful but frankly indescribable graphic follows below these bullet points.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 22d

Nice framework. And the normative complement would be that it is OK for majorities in power to delegate to technocratic bodies when they fear their future selves (the usual time inconsistency argument), but not OK when they want to lock in policy because the opposition might rule in the future.

Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 22d

Interested in a take that situates the Cook saga -- and concerns about the erosion of Fed independence -- in a broader theoretical framework? Then, check out the updated version of this working paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. gratton.org/papers/Techn...

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ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social · 22d

🦘Join us in Sydney, Australia - Conference registrations now open!

The UNSW Centre for Applied Economic Research and ESCoE will hold a conference on 8-9 December 2025 at UNSW Sydney, Australia.

Register by 24 November 2025: tinyurl.com/5y7ks9c3

@unswecon.bsky.social @kevinfoxecon.bsky.social

UNSW-ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2025 - Registration open - ESCoE

The UNSW Centre for Applied Economic Research and ESCoE will hold a joint conference on 8-9 December 2025 at UNSW Sydney, Australia.

tinyurl.com

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 6

no.... no sydney.... ? 😢 no ... that's okay .....

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 6

we appreciate you joey

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Sep 5

Was just called a "wallaboo" for how much I talk positively about Australia

This is perhaps the most devastating insult ever levied against me, and also a word I will immediately be appropriating.

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 6

Incredible talk by our wonderful lecturer Sasha Balyanova with all you need to know about Econ at UNSW — it was standing room only!

Will be happening again at 1pm, Mathews Theatre A !

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 5

The whole gang or at least a representative sample of the gang is here for Open Day 2025 !! Stop by the Tyree room, top floor of the Scientia building, Kensington campus. We’re here all day!

Even more chaotic selfie with jazz hands

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Richard Holden @profholden.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm advertising for 2 full-time pre-docs at the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics at UNSW. If you've got a strong honors degree in economics or computer science check us out at cognitiveeconomics.com. external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5346…. @cognitiveeconomics.bsky.social

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Steven Callander (Stanford) revealing the secrets of the strategic interaction between seeking expert advice and accumulating own experience.

Steve is a frequent visitor to our school and one of our most outstanding honours alumni (class of 1996 🎓)

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Announcing the 2025

Australian Political Economy Workshop (APEN 2025)

18 November, @unswecon.bsky.social

‪@lalthoff.bsky.social‬, @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social, P Bhattacharya, R Dahis, @anjaprummer.bsky.social , D Strömberg, L Welnner

REGISTER AT sites.google.com/view/apenetw...

Home

Australian Political Economy Network

sites.google.com

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hyping!

2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop

@unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November

Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Sep 1

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Graph showing a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and unequal gender role norms.

While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms – the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviours of boys and men – remain underexplored. This column reviews how such norms can shape economic outcomes in labour markets, health, education, households, and politics. Drawing on new survey data from 87,000 individuals across 70 countries, the authors show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you! We will pass this on to those responsible.

UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Big congratulations to our friends @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @leoiacovone.bsky.social and our own @economeager.bsky.social for this writeup in UNSW's Business Think!

Click below for an accessible walk-through of their forthcoming paper in Econometrica ->

www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/col...

Lessons from consulting programs for export competitiveness

Research on Colombia’s export program reveals why consulting outcomes often differ from expectations, offering lessons for future program design

www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)

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Richard Holden @profholden.bsky.social · Aug 21

A couple of weeks ago we launched the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics here @UNSW. I'm proud to serve as Director. Our mission is to understand the limits of human computational capacity and the individual reasoning process. Check out what we’re doing at cognitiveeconomics.com

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Richard Holden @profholden.bsky.social · Aug 24

My latest AFR column. We need: “To rely on youth–not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.” Are you up for that PM? www.afr.com/policy/econo...

What Chalmers should do this week to go ‘full abundance agenda’

The treasurer’s “slowly, slowly catches the monkey” stuff is not going to solve the profound productivity and standard-of-living problems Australia faces.

www.afr.com

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 24

Here we go! First plenary event at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025 in Sydney.

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Daniela Scur @danielascur.bsky.social · Aug 24

Me: "YAY conference in Australia!!"

Silly people: "Oh but that's so far..."

Counterpoint:

#SIOE2025 @unswecon.bsky.social

Bird flying with Sydney skyline in the background on a sunny day

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 23

Welcome to Sydney, @sioecon.bsky.social!

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 23

we like Boats (wide) or Crane

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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Daniel Robbins presented his research on the US college wage premium, which found that larger firms now pay a significantly higher premium than their smaller counterparts due to a shift in labour market sorting patterns.

UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 22

What a pleasure hosting Antonio Nicolò (Padova) presenting his work exploring the frontier of our understanding of dynamic matching markets!

UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · Aug 21

this is our favourite quote

Dobrescu and Motta began working on the prototype for PlayConomics more than a decade ago. After years teaching large first-year economics classes, they became frustrated with the conventional wisdom that education couldn’t be delivered to a mass audience without the quality declining.

“[According to the literature] if you wanted to have stellar education, then you need to shrink the size of a class, or hire better teachers or offer intensive one-to-one tutoring … which is basically saying that we cannot scale education because all of this is very expensive,” Motta says.

“We just didn’t believe it.”

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