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ivanboldyrev.bsky.social
A couple of funny quotes from Al Roth on psychology and economics
monika-schnitzer.com
Unser Beitrag in der @faznet.bsky.social :
In den 🇺🇸 werden Wissenschaftlern die Mittel gekürzt. Das ist der richtige Moment, um
US-Spitzenforscher nach 🇩🇪 zu holen!
@arieldora.bsky.social & @martin-watzinger.com & ich
in FAZ Wirtschaft/Der Volkswirt: „Deutschlands Chance“

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itaisher.bsky.social
Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.
jbecker.bsky.social
Yes, and now I'm exhausted and will rest for a couple of months.
jbecker.bsky.social
Thanks a lot, that is very helpful! If I may ask: Which study/ies do you think should I (and my students) read to get an appropriate picture of the welfare magnet hypothesis?

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rlandersoe.bsky.social
1/3 The conclusions on the Danish welfare reforms (Agersnap et al.) - which look very neat in the paper - are driven by focussing on annual measures. Once monthly data on asylum applications are considered (see figure below with vertical lines indicating the reform announcements), it is clear that:
jbecker.bsky.social
I've seen this article in today's Sonntagsfaz, HT @chrisbreu.bsky.social, that suggests there is no real evidence for the welfare magnet (except for "this one study from Princeton" :-)), but I did not find this particularly helpful with regard to my question.

zeitung.faz.net/fas/politik/...
jbecker.bsky.social
This study concludes: "We find limited evidence that
immigrants systematically move to localities with higher benefits. The lack of significant welfare migration (...) suggests that the prevalence of this phenomenon
may be overstated."
jbecker.bsky.social
Next to the Agersnap et al. (2020) paper, there is this paper by Dellinger and Huber that finds substantial migration induced by welfare benefits. Is there more?
jbecker.bsky.social
I am preparing a session on the welfare magnet hypothesis (for my Intl Pub Ec lecture).

The studies I found show mixed results. Can anybody point me to a discussion how to reconcile the contradictory findings in the existing studies?

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