Birthright citizenship is a powerful tool for reducing youth crime, from Leander Andres, Stefan Bauernschuster, Gordon B. Dahl, Helmut Rainer, and Simone Schüller www.nber.org/papers/w35070

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Eine Senkung des ⛽️ Preises für alle durch eine zeitlich befristete Aussetzung der Energiesteuer ist die schlechteste aller bisher diskutierten Optionen. Das ist eine Hilfe mit der Gießkanne, auch für Menschen, die den höheren Preis verkraften können. Es reduziert den Anreiz…

#Spritpreise & #Spritsteuern in historischer Zeitreihe:
Rekordpreise – nominal, in Euro,
real waren sie früher schon hoch & ganz früher deutlich höher.
Die #Spritsteuern sind über die letzten 20 Jahre real deutlich gesunken, der Steueranteil entsprechend.
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I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."
open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

Two thoughtful essays about the impact of LLMs on graduate education:

ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

From personal experience I think the self-control problem mentioned in the first essay is very real.

Finally an example of a Giffen good?

Pinker writes about how Trivers introduced game-theoretic ideas into evolutionary biology (with genes as the players, and selection into subsequent generations as the payoffs). It's a well written tribute.
#econsky #academicsky #evolution
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/stev...

Welcome to the neighborhood!

Universität Heidelberg Defends its Status as a University of Excellence – Rector Frauke Melchior: “A fantastic joint effort led to success” www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

“Do Your Own Research” — How the Rabbit Hole Actually Works If you spend any time in American politics right now, you’ve heard the phrase:

Do your own research?

My latest on Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future

not a pretty outlook on research and publishing in the time of AI

Claude Code 27: Research and Publishing Are Now Two Different Things Some Claude Code fan fiction about the economics of publishing with AI agents set in the very near future

this is the correct link:

[133] Heterofriendly: The Intuition for Why You Always Need Robust Standard Errors - Data Colada When I taught my first PhD-level methods course, I invited students to submit questions about any topic in statistics or methodology. Six out of 10 students asked about the same topic: robust & cluste...

Answering the most popular question in a PhD methods course
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Thanks for the initiative! The AWI Lab in Heidelberg will support this.

Das wäre wie, wenn meine Autowerkstatt 100€ für die Reparatur will und ich es selbst für 5€ machen kann. Dann ist die Differenz auch keine Subvention.

"Der private Wert von Solarstrom beträgt also 30 Cent pro KWh. Der volkswirtschaftlich wahre Wert des Stroms bemisst sich dagegen am Marktwert, also dem Wert des Solarstroms an der Börse. Dieser beträgt aktuell weniger als 5C pro KWh. Die Differenz von 25C pro KWh sind versteckte Subventionen."

Vielen Dank für den Link. Aber da Hirth nutzt eine ziemlich ungewöhnliche Definition von Subventionen.

Exclusive: Unrest at Wiley journal whose EIC is cited in more than half of its papers Timothy Lee (center) of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. On Feb. 18, a researcher in Italy sent a disgr…

“Maybe, I would have been treated better if I had cited some of the editor in chief’s papers,” Bimonte, of the University of Siena, wrote in boldface in the email, which we have seen. Two days later, an unhappy editor at the journal quit, Retraction Watch has learned.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Many small delays that add up. But we can improve: here is an example from Magdeburg where they are completely transparent about the timing of all steps.

www.fww.ovgu.de/Fakult%C3%A4...

Fucking love this guy.

This is such a strong comment, published in 2022. It has 14 Google Scholar citations. The replicated paper has 65 citations in 2025 alone - and counting. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Price controls cause chaos Price controls are worse than you think

I'm super excited for my new paper with Alex Tabarrok
and Mark Whitmeyer.

tl;dr: price controls cause chaos. That chaos causes misallocation. We develop new tools to measure that misallocation, which is 1-9 the size of the Harberger triangle www.economicforces.xyz/p/price-cont...

A few years ago, I was on a commission here in the Max Planck Society that tried to motivate the society to stop wasting millions of Euros on Microsoft licenses for bad calendar and email software. That and Elsevier subscriptions are just wasteful use of public funds imo. >

Not sure but wouldn't these price controls protect (uninformed) consumers in many cases?

The Bundeskartellamt decided yesterday that Amazon cannot remove prices of third party sellers on their platform if these prices - check notes - are too high.

Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520...

Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡

Haha, I thought exactly the same when seeing this paper. It's a 1 in 6 chance, though.

Statement from Bill Clinton