🗓️ Thursday, April 23
We are very happy to welcome Taylan Alpkaya (University of Mannheim) at the Research Seminar in Economics at Freie Universität Berlin.
He will present his work on: “Legacy of Servitude: Long-Run Intergenerational Mobility in the US”
sites.google.com/view/taylana...
At our institute, @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @steinhardt.bsky.social are organizing an interdisciplinary public lecture series this summer term, featuring speakers from economics, sociology, and more.
Feel free to drop by Thursdays 16:15–17:45!
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Happy start to the new term! Wishing all our students and colleagues an inspiring and successful semester at the @jfki-econ.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social.
🎉 Excited to share that our team member @freya-rubel.bsky.social will present a poster on “Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl” at the Annual Conference of the @echistsoc.bsky.social at the London School of Economics, April 10–12, 2026.
Interview zum Thema Wohnen in Deutschland in der @taz.de.
Entstanden im Kontext eines von der @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social geförderten Projekts zum Thema Wohnraummangel, gemeinsam mit @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social & @simonvoss.bsky.social.
📢 Research Colloquium
Our team member & PhD candidate @simonvoss.bsky.social (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) presents: Crowding (at) the Margins: Investigating the Unequal Distribution of Housing Space in Germany
🗓️ March 31, 14:30
📍 @hwwi-economics.bsky.social, Hamburg
📢 We are hiring a PhD student @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!
Join the team of @steinhardt.bsky.social and contribute to research in labor economics, migration, political economy & gender economics.
🗓️ Deadline: 13 April
Details in the call www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”
Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition.
My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
🎉Great news for Berlin’s research community. Proud to be part of Berlin’s vibrant research landscape and the next seven years of excellence with @berlinualliance.bsky.social, @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social.
Upcoming presentation 🎓
@steinhardt.bsky.social presents Environmental Shocks and Female Employment: Evidence from the Dust Bowl (with @freya-rubel.bsky.social & @yue-louise-hu.bsky.social) at the Economic History Seminar of the @uc3m.es.
Hosted locally by @juliazimmermann.bsky.social
📅 Feb 19
🗓️ Thursday, February 12:
We are very happy to welcome Maik T. Schneider at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Can Democracy Cope with Extreme Views“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
📢 Fully funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn)
Opportunity to work on the scientific evaluation of @malengo.org, an exciting RCT on international educational migration from Uganda to Germany, and join our great team.
www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/phd-...
We are very happy to have Hans-Peter Grüner at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Locally Optimal Transfer Free Mechanisms for Border Dispute Settlement“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
🗓️ Thursday, January 29:
We are very happy to welcome Thomas Triebs at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. He will present his work on „Switching to English to Attract Global Talent“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
🗓️ Thursday, January 22:
We are very happy to welcome Jana Mareckova at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „A Causal Machine Learning Analysis of Swiss Active Labor Market Policies“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
📢 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). Come join us!
🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi
👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides
⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås
👉 baem.info
🗓️ Thursday, January 15:
We are very happy to have Teresa Freitas Monteiro at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „Harsh Rhetoric and Cultural Identity: Backlash Effects of Denmark‘s Ghetto List“
#EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!
Exciting news from our team! 🎉
Research from our group is currently being shared at the Institute for @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social at the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.
PhD researcher @riawilken.bsky.social is there as a visiting researcher, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship 🌍✨
📑 🗣️ Berlin calling II: Interested in pursuing a PhD in Economics with a North American focus in Berlin? 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦
The Graduate School of North American Studies at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social is now accepting applications for its doctoral program.
⚠️Deadline: January 31, 2026
✨ As the year comes to a close, we send our warmest holiday wishes to our colleagues and students.
🙏 Thank you for your engagement, collaboration, and commitment throughout the year. We look forward to continuing our work together in the year ahead.
#HappyHolidays #BestWishes
📢 Call for papers 📢
Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on the Economics of Migration, May 6-7!
Invited talks by Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, and Caroline Theoharides.
Submit your paper by Jan 31. Some travel funding is available. baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf
💬 Can a welfare reform meant to weaken a political rival actually make it stronger?
A new study by @felixkersting.bsky.social on Bismarck’s famous health insurance reform offers historical answers
🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
@humboldtuni.bsky.social #socialpolicy #politicalecon
2nd PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics June 8/9, 2026 Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) University of Copenhagen Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026 Keynote Speakers Ingar Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics) Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley
sites.google.com/view/behavio...
#econsky
Happy that our research is covered in the @theguardian.com . Hopefully next time our names make it in too 😉.
We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter
🪙 First Internal Workshop of the DFG Research Unit “Labor Market Transformation: Scarcity, Mismatch, and Policy”
Topics 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
Research unit 🔗 www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/forschung/la...
@phaan.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#labormarkettransformation
Looking forward to hosting @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social from @hertieschool.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social this week. #EconSky