Great to meet so many of you! 🎉
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@cesifo.org
@judithsaurer.bsky.social
@katharinawedel.bsky.social
@cacilialipowski.bsky.social
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@mathiashuebener.bsky.social
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@simonwiederhold.bsky.social
@fpeter.bsky.social
and many more!
I spent the past two days at the Annual Meeting of the Education Economics Committee (@vfsecon.bsky.social)
at @bibb.de in Bonn🤓🙏
Inspiring discussions on #AIinEducation — from mentoring & skills to digital education. Fantastic keynote by @susanna-loeb.bsky.social! 💪
#EducationEconomics
Two days of fun and great discussions at the Workshop on Microeconomics @leuphana.bsky.social 🤓
I presented our ongoing work “Paternalism across the World”, with B. Bartling, A. W. Cappelen, A. Moorthy, M. Skivenes & B. Tungodden
Thanks so much for organizing B. Hirsch, J. Lohse & M. Mechtel 🥳
Perhaps interesting?
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@cepr.org
@unikassel.bsky.social
@econmunich.bsky.social
@unileipzig.bsky.social
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@clemensfuest.bsky.social
👥 Who values narratives most?
⬆ Higher-income, more educated, female, and more uncertain respondents
⬇️ Older and more impatient individuals
➡️ Takeaway: Economic narratives matter – and should be central to research and policy communication.
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💵 Avg. WTP for an expert narrative: $4.23
(compared to avg. WTP for a numerical Fed forecast: $3.61)
🎯 Demand is driven mainly by intrinsic motives – people want to understand the economy.
🔬 Based on a large-scale, incentivized online experiment with > 9,000 representative U.S. households. 2/4
🆕 Policy Paper 🚨
The Demand for Economic Narratives 📘
w/ Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & Philipp Heil
🧠 Do people actually value economic narratives — or just numbers?
💸 Turns out: households are willing to pay for narratives.
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#Narratives #BehavioralEconomics
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Nothing beats in-person meetings! Lucky me is spending some days at the DZHW in Hannover, working on a revision with my co-authors @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, and @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 📝🤓
Intensive discussions, getting things done, and lots of laughs – great team work 🤝🚀
"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)
📢 Very excited to be selected for a Kickstart Fund (50 TEUR) by the Joachim Herz Stiftung (@jherzstiftung.bsky.social) 🎉
With this support, my team and I will further develop a digital mentoring platform 🙏🚀
#TechForGood #EducationalInnovation #Mentoring
@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org
The project is generously funded by the @volkswagenstiftung.de 🙏🏻
Looking forward to working with this fantastic team! 🫶🏻
@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org
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#Mentoring #SocialMobility #RCT #EvidenceBasedPolicy
🚀 KICK-OFF 🚀
Over the next five years, I’ll be working jointly with ROCK YOUR LIFE on a large randomized-controlled trial with disadvantaged adolescents to generate robust, policy-relevant evidence on how mentoring can be effectively scaled. [1/2]
🚨 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...
Please help us spread the word:
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@rlalive.bsky.social
@econmpi.bsky.social
@heckmanequation.bsky.social
@fair-cele.bsky.social
@fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social
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Please help us spread the word:
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@johnlist.bsky.social
@barbarabiasi.com
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@johnholbein1.bsky.social
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Please help us spread the word:
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@michelebelot.bsky.social
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@christinafelfe.bsky.social
@mathiashuebener.bsky.social
@voxeu.org
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And when you happen to be in Europe/Germany anyways, don't forget to submit to the @cesifo.org Area Conference on the Economics of Education, hosted by the wonderful @woessmann.bsky.social and Rick Hanuskek, feat. a keynote by @johnlist.bsky.social 🤩🤩🤩
👇
bsky.app/profile/woes...
co-organized with the amazing @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social ☺️
All infos: www.field-experiments.eu
📣 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
📢 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...
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🚨 Deadline this Sunday (11 Jan 2026)!
📢 Call for Papers – 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education
PhD students & early postdocs: don’t miss this opportunity, apply now! 🚀
👇
🚨 Deadline on Sunday:
🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩
👇
All infos: www.field-experiments.eu
📄 Call for papers coming early 2026!
Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Merry Christmas 🥳🎄🎊
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📣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 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
📢Call for Applications: Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is inviting applications for fully funded doctoral positions starting October 2026!
❗ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Online application tool: lmy.de/SKRWv
More info: lmy.de/ZLXgm
🚨 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...
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