Many thanks to the outgoing board for their commitment to fostering exchange among applied economists in Berlin. 🙏
The new board is excited to shape the future of BeNA and has already started planning this year’s events — stay tuned! 🚀
The new BeNA board consists of:
• Maxi Schaller (maxischaller.bsky.social)
• Thomas Rieger (thorieger.bsky.social)
• Mareen Bastiaans (mareenbastiaans.bsky.social)
• Lukas Fink (lukasfink.bsky.social)
Welcome to the new BeNA board! 👋
After two years of dedicated service, the previous board— Aiko Schmeißer ( aikoschmeisser.com), Annica Gehlen (amageh.bsky.social), Felix Degenhardt, and Max Deter—hands over their responsibilities.
⏰ Deadline this Friday!
BeNA Labor Economics Workshop, May 29 in Berlin.
PhD students: submit an abstract or draft by March 27 → workshop@labor-research.net
Guest speakers: Benjamin Arold (Cambridge) & Iris Kesternich (Hamburg)
Early-stage work welcome!
#LaborEcon #EconTwitter #PhD #Workshop
We had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Peter Hull (Brown University) at DIW Berlin for this year’s BeNA Lecture Series! 🎓
Two days full of insights on shift-share instruments & recentered IV methods — great discussions and inspiration all around. 🙌
#Econ #BeNA
Bridging theory & practice in causal ML 🎯
The BeNA Skills Camp on Causal Machine Learning (Sept 10–11) brought together early-career researchers to explore double ML, sensitivity analyses & real-world applications under the guidance of Prof. Philipp Bach.
Thanks to everyone who joined! 🙌
📢 Save the date!
Join the BeNA Lecture Series with Peter Hull (Brown University) on Shift-Share & Recentered IV
📅 Oct 9–10, 2025
📍 DIW Berlin
Deep dive into modern econometric methods + a research talk + office hours.
Register by Sep 25, 2025!
labor-research.net/2025/08/29/b...
💡 Curious about Causal Machine Learning?
Join the BENA Skills Camp with Philipp Bach
📅 September 10–11, 2025
📍 FU Berlin
📝 Register by August 5
Details: labor-research.net/2025/06/19/b...
#ML #CausalInference #DataScience #BENA
🧠 BeNA Summer Workshop 2025 brought together junior labor economists for a full day of exchange, feedback & new ideas in Berlin!
Big congrats to Pablo Zárate for winning the BeNA Innovative Research Award 🎉
Thanks to keynotes Martina Uccioli & Lorenzo Navarini for sharing their work & insight!
BeNA is on Bluesky! Since 2004, we’ve been connecting early-career labor economists in and around #Berlin. Follow us to stay up to date with the network and our events! #BeNA #laborEcon #econsky