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Our 1st event of the year just finished, the Junior Workshop on Economics of Education. Hosted by @woessmann.bsky.social, @caterinapavese.bsky.social, @mtotarelli.bsky.social, we saw a fine selection of papers from young economists.
🙏 Michela Carlana, @harvard.edu for an inspiring keynote speech!
"Von ganz unten an die Spitze · Ist sozialer Aufstieg möglich?"
📺 Spannende Doku im BR
www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...
Auch mit kurzen Statements von mir (ab Min 10:00, 16:30, 24:30 und 27:15)
🚨 Now out in the Economic Journal:
“Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital:
Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests”
w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social & Sancassani
💡 Patience accounts for ¾ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, ⅓ US
👉 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn.
Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻
Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨
#EconSky
Munich in September, great colleagues, and a field that matters. If you're working on economics of education, please join us at the CESifo Economics of Education conference!
Rick and Ludger (woessmann.bsky.social) always put together a very stimulating conference.
👆 CESifo call for papers - please distribute @cesifo.org @dynarski.bsky.social @joshua-goodman.com @peterbergman.bsky.social @kirabojackson.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social @henninghermes.com @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @tomdee.bsky.social @rationalitycrc.bsky.social @ifoeducation.bsky.social
📢 Call for papers:
CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education
co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford)
🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich
🧑🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social
👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026
🖼️ Past programs:
sites.google.com/view/woessma...
In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵
Extremely saddened to learn about the passing of Jon Temple. He was a leading thinker on the economics of growth, and such a decent person.
Here’s a few fond memories of our interactions, for which I’ll always be profoundly grateful:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
R.I.P., dear Jon.
🚨 Deadline on Sunday:
🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩
👇
📣SAVE-THE-DATE 📣
Our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business celebrates its 5th anniversary with FANTASTIC keynote speakers: @peterbergman.bsky.social (UT Austin) and Esther Duflo (MIT) 🎉🙌
📍 Sept 7–8, 2026 at TUM Campus Heilbronn (pre-workshop get-together Sept 6).
🎅🎁Our last newsletter of 2025 is out!
✨What Facebook data reveal about patience & educational achievement
✨Religious education has long-term effects
✨Good schools help disadvantaged children
...& more!
👉 sendlx.com/display.php?M=111332033&C=ff6ce63f422bb23d840c4ce5648c1c70&S=201333&L=1198&N=111605
I'm very happy that this paper has found a home and has been published just in time for the holidays. Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mI6Bc24bB...
📢Our piece on @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's "After Babel" Substack:
Strong public support to restrict social media for children in Germany
www.afterbabel.com/p/strong-pub...
A huge majority of adults favors a minimum age for social media – and even adolescents themselves see harm from social media
Erreichen dieser Ziele erhöht volkswirtschaftliches Wachstum:
💶 20,9 Billionen Euro an zusätzlichem BIP bis 2105 (aktuelle Lebenserwartung)
≈ 5x derzeitiges BIP
≈ 10% des diskontierten BIP
➡️ So sehr lohnt es sich, Verbesserung der Bildungsleistungen zu priorisieren
3/3
Bildungsziele von Ministerinnen Hubig (SPD), Prien (CDU) & Schopper (Grüne) bis 2035:
1️⃣ 50% weniger Schüler:innen, die Mindeststandards in Deutsch & Mathematik nicht erreichen
2️⃣ 20% mehr, die Regelstandards erreichen
3️⃣ 30% mehr, die Optimalstandards erreichen
2/3
🚨 Unsere neue Studie zeigt:
👉 Das Erreichen der Ziele „Bessere Bildung 2035“ würde rund 21 Billionen Euro an zusätzlicher Wirtschaftsleistung bringen
"Volkswirtschaftliche Erträge besserer Bildung"
mit Katia Werkmeister für die @bertelsmannst.bsky.social
www.ifo.de/publikatione...
1/3
1/ 📣 BIG News!
It’s finally official: I’m starting a new job – and it’s the BEST! 🥳
I’ve joined the ifo Institute Munich as Deputy Director of the @ifoeducation.bsky.social (tenured) and have been appointed Associate Professor (tenure-track) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social / @econmunich.bsky.social.
Ich freue mich, wieder beim “Top of the Table” von Bildung.Table dabei zu sein!
"Bildungsökonomen, so sagt es zumindest der Soziologe Aladin El-Mafaalani, seien derzeit die lautesten Bildungsaktivisten."
table.media/heads/ludger...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
@table.media
Ein Video ist auf der Webpage verfügbar:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
und auf www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4P7...
The workshop was held in conjuntion with David’s outstanding Munich Lecture on
Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and Work of the Future
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
Our fantastic workshop with @davidautor.bsky.social on
Skills, Tasks & Technologies in the AI Era
has come to a close. What a blast of outstanding research, new insights & lively discussion! Tremendous thanks to all contributors!
Check out the exciting program:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
How much does out-of-school learning influence foreign-language acquisition? Our new analysis shows that historical national decisions to subtitle imported TV content systematically result in a large positive effect on English-language skills.
open.substack.com/pu...
📢 FYI: 🧵 on 🆕 paper on training & early retirement: @hhsievertsen.bsky.social @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social @marirege.bsky.social @ingoisphording.bsky.social @raphaelbrade.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social @rationalitycrc.bsky.social @cesifo.org @ifoeducation.bsky.social
📢 FYI: 🧵 on 🆕 paper on training & early retirement: @massimo-anelli.bsky.social @profdaviddorn.bsky.social @winterebmer.bsky.social @caspalh.bsky.social @simonjaeger.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @henninghermes.com @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @lergetporer.bsky.social
Finding that robot exposure led to labor market exit of elderly workers adds important nuance to literature on labor market effects of robots in Germany
Overall, findings highlight scope for policy to promote adjustment mechanisms conducive to aggregate productivity
9/9
➡️ Training & retiring are relevant adjustment mechanisms used by firms & workers in intricate ways to react to disruptions
➡️ Structural change induces both productivity-enhancing & -reducing responses
➡️ Challenges simple narratives of labor market adaptation
8/9
I.e., response to robot 🤖 adoption:
⬆️ training 🧠 in indirectly affected services 🏢 but
⬆️ early retirement 👴 in directly affected manufacturing 🏭
Response to import 🌏 competition:
⬇️ training 🧠
⬆️ early retirement 👴 in manufacturing 🏭
Opposite response to export expansion 🔁
7/9
4️⃣ Robot 🤖 exposure raises early retirement among manufacturing workers 🧑🏭🏖️
5️⃣ Same for import 🌏 exposure
6️⃣ Opposite for export exposure 🔁
6/9
Results:
1️⃣ Robot 🤖 exposure increases training 🧠—particularly in indirectly affected services 🧑💼
2️⃣ Import 🌏 exposure reduces training—particularly in manufacturing 🏭
3️⃣ Opposite for export exposure 🔁
5/9