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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

ifoeducation.bsky.social
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by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Simon Wiederhold

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🚨Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF) 16.-18. März 2026 in München‼️

Bin für Bildungsökonomik im Programmkommitee & freue mich über zahlreiche hervorragende bildungsökonomische Einreichungen!😊
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@henninghermes.com @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @lergetporer.bsky.social
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GEBF26 @gebf26.bsky.social · Jul 15
Und schon geht's los: Ab heute können Beiträge für die #GEBF26 eingereicht werden! Den Call mit allen Informationen gibt es auf unserer Website www.gebf2026.de, eingereicht wird hier: www.conftool.com/gebf2026/. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Beiträge! #EmpirischeBildungsforschung #TUM
Audimax der TU München
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by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Guido Heineck, Simon Wiederhold

woessmann.bsky.social
📢 Job alert: Postdoc position 🧑‍🎓 (up to 6 years, non-tenure track)

In our Center, @henninghermes.com is looking to fill a research position in the economics of education, particularly to join in major field experimental work on mentoring

Come join our team!
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · Jul 16
We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀

Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟

Please share widely 🙏🙏

Link below 👇
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

excinequality.bsky.social
Don't miss the last colloquium talk of the summer semester! @woessmann.bsky.social from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social will speak about “Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap.” Tuesday, 15 July | 11:45 | Y213 @uni-konstanz.de or online: t1p.de/z6cff
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

ifoeducation.bsky.social
🔍 We are looking for a student assistant! 🔎

If you...
▶️ are interested in empirical research
▶️ are enrolled in a Bachelor’s/ Master's program in economics, data or social sciences (or similar)
▶️ have knowledge in econometrics, scraping & Stata/R

...please apply!

👉 www.ifo.de/en/stellenan...
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

steffenaltmann.bsky.social
📌📆 We are thrilled that Ludger Wößmann (@woessmann.bsky.social) from @ifoeducation.bsky.social & @lmumuenchen.bsky.social will deliver this year’s IEP Lecture @uni-wuerzburg.de!

Join us on 07 July! Further info 👇🏽

www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...
Vortrag: Bildung als Schlüssel der Zukunftsfähigkeit
Der renommierte Bildungsexperte Ludger Wößmann vom ifo-Institut hält am Montag, 7. Juli, einen öffentlichen Vortrag an der JMU: „Wissen und Wohlstand: Bildung als Schlüssel unserer Zukunftsfähigkeit“.
www.uni-wuerzburg.de
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann, Giacomo Pasini

ifoeducation.bsky.social
💌The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out!

Topics:
🔹 Working-memory training and children's skills
🔹Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
🔹 Negative mental health effects of working from home
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👉 bit.ly/44rvTI2
Homeoffice with cat
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

leibnizbildung.bsky.social
❗️Save the Date: Bildungspolitisches Forum 2025❗️
„Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel“
1. Oktober 2025, Landesvertretung NRW, Berlin & via Livestream

📣 Anmeldung ab 30. Juni unter 👉 www.leibniz-bildung.de/bpf25

Ausgerichtet von IAB, ifo und RWI. #BPF25
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

financialtimes.com
Who are you calling over-the-hill? The truth about cognitive peaks | Opinion

https://www.ft.com/content/5d479f78-b7fe-4a2d-87be-831ce628310e
Who are you calling over-the-hill? The truth about cognitive peaks | Opinion
It’s not necessarily correct that our brains struggle more as we age
www.ft.com
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

ifoeducation.bsky.social
🎉We are part of the Cluster of Excellence “TransforM”, funded by @dfg.de!🎉

Jointly with @tum.de, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, @zew.de & @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social, the aim is to better understand how new technologies transform society & economy 🧑‍💻

More: transform-cluster.de
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

cesifo.org
Kicking off day 1 of the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Great start with a sunny poster session🌞

#EconomicsOfEducation #Econsky
@ifoeducation.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @henninghermes.com
Postersession
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann, Colin Green

astridsandsor.bsky.social
‼️3rd Workshop on Education Economics and Policy WEEP: Call for papers‼️

Oslo, Oct. 13-14, 2025.

Keynotes: @woessmann.bsky.social & @cohodes.bsky.social .

Deadline May 30.

sites.google.com/site/astrids...

PS. Booking ocean side sauna 😉

@uio.no @nifu.bsky.social @ntnu-econ.bsky.social #econsky
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

raphaelbrade.bsky.social
I am very excited to share that my paper "Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends? Freshman Orientation Peers and Academic Performance" is now forthcoming @j-humanresources.bsky.social: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... #econsky
Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends?
How does the formation of social connections at the beginning of college shape individuals’ subsequent academic performance? Exploiting quasi-random assignment to groups of a two-day freshman orientat...
jhr.uwpress.org
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann, Samuel Bentolila

voxeu.org
Cognitive skill decline with age is not as strong as previous studies suggest. Skills decline in old age only for those with below-average skill usage - use it or lose it.
Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social, Frauke Witthoeft, @woessmann.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for rapidly ageing populations. But this assumption relies largely on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between ageing patterns and cohort differences. Using German longitudinal data, this column finds that skills, on average, increase markedly into one’s 40s before decreasing slightly in literacy and more severely in numeracy. In addition, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage, outlining a clear policy pathway for avoiding skill declines.
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

essobecker.bsky.social
Working with the great Ludger @woessmann.bsky.social has been a pleasure for close to 20 years.

Our humble little paper on Protestantism and suicide in RESTAT has now reached 100 citations on Google Scholar 🙏

doi.org/10.1162/rest...
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

ifoeducation.bsky.social
✉️The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out!

Topics:
🔹Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
🔹Personality traits and academic achievement
🔹Data release: ifo Education Survey 2022-2024
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👉 www.ifo.de/ifo/newslett...
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann, Elliott Ash , and 1 more

benjaminarold.bsky.social
🚨New Working Paper:

The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining

w/ @elliottash.bsky.social , W. Bentley MacLeod & Suresh Naidu

We propose novel NLP methods applied to 30,000 collective bargaining agreements to quantify the value of worker rights.

👉 nber.org/papers/w33605

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by Ludger Woessmann — Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann

woessmann.bsky.social
@henninghermes.com and I are looking for two PhD students for the ifo Center for the Economics of Education
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ifoeducation.bsky.social
ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · Mar 21
‼️We are hiring‼️

🧑‍🎓PhD position at ifo Center for Economics of Education

➡️Research on education, labor & behavioral econ
➡️Focus on field experiments & RCTs
➡ PhD program @lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social & MGSE
➡️Starting Oct 1, 2025 or earlier

⏰Apply by Apr 20, 2025 (link below)
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann

ifoeducation.bsky.social
🚨Data publication alert🚨

We have published new waves of the ifo Education Survey (2022-2024) – our annual representative opinion survey of the German adult population

Topics: lifelong learning and refugees, quality of schools, basic skills on a federal-state level 🏫📖🧒

www.ifo.de/en/suche?f%5...
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Reposted by: Ludger Wößmann, Ludger Woessmann, Philipp Lergetporer , and 9 more

henninghermes.com
📣 Thrilled to announce our 4th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-9 Sept 2025, TU Munich @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: Ulrike Malmendier (University of Berkely, California) & Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline 15 May 🚨

#EconSky
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by Ludger Wößmann — Reposted by: Lorraine Dearden

woessmann.bsky.social
Munich conf 📢 spread the word! @dynarski.bsky.social @imbernomics.bsky.social @joshgoodmanbu.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.bsky.social @cohodes.bsky.social @instrumenthull.bsky.social @jeffdenning.bsky.social @peterbergman.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social @matthewakraft.bsky.social @ursina.bsky.social
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