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.

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)

⏰ 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

Green Text on black ground. The letter "e" is missing. R s arch and ducation? Som cuts just don´t mak s ns .

From June 23 to June 29, 2025, Freie Universität Berlin will be cutting out the letter e from its communication.
Why? Because the university itself is facing cuts: around 37 million euros this year alone. Additional cuts are also planned for 2026 and 2027. (1/3)

Extremely interesting special issue on reproducibility and replicability in @ei-sky.bsky.social, featuring my article with @lukasfink.bsky.social on replication code availability over time and across disciplines.

🚨 New Special Issue Alert! 🚨

This special issue of Economic Inquiry on reproducibility & replicability in economics is co-edited by Farasat Bokhari, Michalis Drouvelis and our chair, Abel Brodeur.

This is Part I, focusing on methodological advances and key challenges. 🧵👇

🎓 Do tuition fees help or harm?

👥 New study co-authored by @janmarcus.de and @marcbachmeier.bsky.social on a crucial question: How do tuition fees impact not just who enrolls, but who actually graduates?

🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

@iza.org @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Unequal Access: How Public Library Closures Affect Educational Performance Local public institutions, such as public libraries, offer access to low-cost educational resources, potentially mitigating human capital investment disparities. However, from 2008 to 2019, 766 public...

Excited that my Job Market Paper "Unequal Access: How Public Library Closures Affect Educational Performance" joint with Greg Gilpin is now available as a working paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1140 💫

📢 I am looking for a new PhD student (Research Associate)📢

🔹 4 year position at FU Berlin (66% TV-L E13)
🔹 Research on causal effects in education, health, labour & family economics
🔹 2 hours teaching/week & statistical consulting

#EconSky

www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

New working paper! @i4replication.bsky.social does a good job detailing the experiment’s results, so for anyone who considers LLMs/AI as a (soon-to-be) solution to reproducibility in social science, let me walk you through the 🔥hell🔥 of trying to reproduce a paper on an "AI-led" team. 1/7

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

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Replication code availability over time and across fields: Evidence from the German Socio‐Economic Panel Providing replication code is an inexpensive way to facilitate reproducibility. However, little is known about the extent of replication code provision. Therefore, we examine the availability of repl....

🧵 Excited to share: "Replication Code Availability over Time and Across Fields", was just accepted by #EconomicInquiry! 🚀 Here's what @lukasfink.bsky.social and I uncovered about replication code availability for publications based on the German Socio-Economic Panel #SOEP 📈📉
doi.org/10.1111/ecin...