Why do people prefer costly environmental standards over efficient market-based policies? Misunderstanding of tax incidence and cost-effectiveness. 3-min educational videos change policy preferences, from Jiang, Lauletta, Levy, @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social, and Taubinsky www.nber.org/papers/w35073
Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Economics – Buenos Aires (WBEE-BA) 2026
Keynote speakers:
George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)
Drazen Prelec (MIT Sloan)
Application Deadline: 27 April 2026
Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/02/14/w...
This online, PhD-level course in the economics of innovation is a huge opportunity.
Taught by some of the world's top scholars on this: @heidiwilliams.bsky.social, Chad Jones, Azoulay, van Reenen, many others! Co-sponsor @ifp.bsky.social
If you're admitted, it's free. Applications due January 9th!
📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢
I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
Noise pollution from electric passenger rail harms babies' health.
"I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion."
Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs.
This is such a cool paper!
Stata users: if you aren't already, definitely start using bookmarks to create headings and sub-headings in your .do files. Such a big help! **# in a .do file creates a heading; **## = subheading; **### = sub-subheading. Then double-click on them to jump right to that section 👍
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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In tomorrow's seminar at the @stone-lis.bsky.social I will be presenting my paper "The Good Council: Deliberating inequality in a field experiment" (w @frawin.bsky.social @lukaslehner.bsky.social @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and Martin Haselmayer). Join: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/programs/mul...
📣 Apply for Spring School 2026!
Spend a week in San Diego, learning from leading researchers in behavioral economics and connecting with peers from across the globe.
Here’s a glimpse of past Spring Schools — from beach walks to research talks 🌊☀️
www.nhh.no/en/calendar/...
The first session on Behavioral Econ was chaired by @robertoiacono.org and included presentations from @paulhufe.net (Just Cheap Talk), @franziskadbacher.bsky.social (The Good Council), and @krishnasrini.bsky.social (Who deserves a tax break and why).
Some perks of this conference.
🚨Publication alert🚨
What motivates citizens to support redistributive policy proposals?
Find out in our new paper just accepted in the @jpube.bsky.social (joint with @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social, T.Epper, E. Fehr).
Paper: tinyurl.com/9u45tcep
A thread🧵
Congratulations @s-stantcheva.bsky.social
I think your work has inspired many behavioral economists (including myself) to study important questions in public economics.
The #ifoFürth Annual Conference 2025 is officially underway! We dive deep into #SocialMarketEconomy and evidence-based policy-making.
Today = Day 1, we we’re lucky enough to listen to TWO keynotes, one by Massimo Morelli and one by @johannarickne.bsky.social 🤩🤩💪🏻🚀
@cesifo.org
Next up Francesco Capozza presents "Who Should Get Money? Estimating Welfare Weights in the U.S.". This paper performs experiments to elicit welfare weights. To me this is again very relevant to "Informational Boundaries of the State" where we explore this question in context of energy subsidies.
A huge thanks to all presenters, especially Area Director Claus T. Kreiner + keynote speaker @fixbierbrauer.bsky.social for a great 2025 edition of our Area Conference on Public Economics!
👏 Congratulations to Antoine Ferey (@sciencespo.bsky.social) for winning the 2025 CESifo Affiliate Award!
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
Super-duper happy that I've been promoted to the status of an IZA Research Fellow. Thanks to @ingoisphording.bsky.social and the entire @iza.org for this opportunity and your support.
Looking forward to contributing further and engaging with the IZA network 🙂🫶🚀
Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with @acohn.bsky.social, @rfisman.bsky.social, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Card explaining some of the benefits of working at CenTax as a Research Economist/pre-doc. These include co-authoring academic papers and policy briefings, getting media exposure, and a structured path into PhD programmes and other economics research careers
🚨PRE-DOC OPPORTUNITY🚨
If you are
🔸considering a future in #econ research, via a PhD or other paths (thinktanks, civil service);
🔸interested in studying Qs abt tax, growth & ineq;
then come work w/me, @andy-summers.bsky.social + @centaxuk.bsky.social team
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#econ_ra
Give people housing and they'll have kids!
Obtaining housing increases the average probability of having a child by 3.8% and the number of children by 3.2%.
For 20 to 25-year-olds, the corresponding effects are 32% and 33%.
Can you add me please 🙏
Forthcoming in the AER: "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment" by Mark Shepard and Myles Wagner. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
I am thinking of making my DiD materials that I used for teaching in the last 5 years available.
I am hoping these would find begineers in need of a step-by-step opinionated walkthrough of several developments
Let’s see if I find the energy to do this!
Japan town for the best ramen
📣 Final reminder: Don't forget to submit to our @cesifo.org conference at #ifo Fürth, March 27+28, 2025!
We have 3 amazing keynote speakers, @michelebelot.bsky.social, Massimo Morelli & @johannarickne.bsky.social 🚀🚀🚀
⏰ Deadline is TOMORROW, December 31!
Organized by S. Necker, S. Blesse & myself😊
I think that both sides of the debate are quick to conclude. I think whether gift giving (as opposed to cash) increases welfare is an empirical question. Deadweight loss is just one side of the equation. There's also search costs involved in finding a gift.
A study of the claiming of children on tax returns finds that 95 percent of insured children and 88–97 percent of all US children are claimed, from Geoffrey Gee, Jacob Goldin, Joseph Gray-Hancuch, Ithai Lurie, and Vedant Vohra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33277