Wenn deutsche Unis so weiterschlafen, haben wir AGI bevor auch nur eine Prüfungsordnung im KI-Zeitalter angekommen ist.
@elvirarosert.bsky.social, Eva Herschinger und ich mit einem konstruktiven Vorschlag, wie man das Problem löst statt es nur zu bewundern.
Danke an @taz.de - keine Paywall.
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A couple of funny quotes from Al Roth on psychology and economics
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“
This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.
Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.
Yes, and now I'm exhausted and will rest for a couple of months.
VWL Studis 2015--2021 ➡️ - 33% !
Quelle doi.org/10.57674/30g...
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?
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:
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/...
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."
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?
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?
