🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc

- 3 years fully funded, no teaching
- 25K research budget
- fame and prestige

EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!)

sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

Teacher college students for a while took my course, because the course title was "Introduction to Health Economics". They didn't want to do math, they disliked English and had no prior knowledge of econ. After years we scratched Intro from the title, haven't seen one since 🙈

You speak like an economist ;)

👇Staggering results of expansion of early public children on female employment in Germany

You definitely can! Let me know if you can't. I would be flabbergasted.

As this seems to be #econgardening I find it far more annoying that basil tastes like crap (aka bitter) once it blossoms. I am too lazy to cut all the blossoms in time.

Chat, should I start a Tiktok channel dedicated to utilitymaxxing? I'd calling myself Concavular. "Take the hammer and smash your preferences bro."

😔😔😔Christoph M. Schmidt "Nicht nur, dass unsere Forscherinnen und Forscher ins Ausland gehen, oder die Daten aus dem Ausland nutzen, wir sind auch häufig drauf angewiesen, dass wir das, was wir dort lernen können, per Analogieschluss auf die deutsche Situation übertragen können."

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Regine Riphahn "Unsere Forscher bekommen eine Lupe, wo man international mit Mikroskopen arbeitet. Unsere Forscher bekommen ein Fernglas, wo international Observatorien eingesetzt werden." 🫳🎤

#econsky only about 2 weeks left to apply!

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

#econsky only about 2 weeks left to apply!

Like sesame ice-cream deep-fried with some good honey on top: Great! Yet, it could also easily go the wrong way.

A specialty in Scotland is/was deep fried mars bars. I know an Asian restaurant that does deep friend ice cream. First-time I thought it was a typo and ordered it. Yet, their deep fryer is so hot and their freezer so cold, they can coat and deep-fry an ice-cream scoop.

Dankeschön.

Meine Vermutung die -4,5% haben die 250 Leute neugierig gemacht, aber wenn deine Meinung konsensfähig ist, wird sich nicht viel tuen.

Wo drann würdest du denn den festmachen, dass die psyRENA Intervention erfolgreich war/ist? Die offiziellen Ziele kann ja kein Mensch überprüfen.

Had the same and then the authors were nonconstructive in their review (only responded to some comments, some of the ones they did not respond were fixed others not; some of the stuff they said was fixed wasn't).

Tell me more! Was sind aus deiner Sicht, außer der Vergütung, Vor/Nachteile in psyRENA im Vergleich zum Kassensystem? Ich hatte mal überlegt, ob psyRENA ein Forschungsprojekt wer ist, aber bin nie wirklich weit gekommen.

#econsky if you have used the did_multiplegt_dyn package by @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social et al. to produce an event-study that is publicly available, please report it to them here: credible-answers.github.io/eventstudy_p...

Also I had not spotted their website: credible-answers.github.io it looks 🔥

A happy update: My job market paper is now accepted at the Journal of Labor Economics. Since I never did a proper thread on it, here goes.

(Disclaimer: The views expressed in this paper are solely my own and do not reflect those of my employer, NYC IBO.)

📣 The 2026 #EinsteinFoundationAward is open for submissions until April 30: Researchers around the globe who advance quality, transparency, and reproducibility in research and #openscience are warmly invited to apply or to be nominated for the €150K Individual category.
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Du bist Astronaut?

First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers:

paulgp.com/replication-...

Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

How many people in your bubble post about dead pets?

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…

You could do that here to! Idk, whether you do, ofc.

I feel it is a bit of a: "It is what we make it" situation.

That's the opposite of my point! My point was: Be active. "Go out there." Follow people you find interesting. Ask to be added to starter packs or just make one of your own: "Health Economists in Asia", etc.

It does help to mute a bunch of words, follow less political posters, etc. At the same time, I understand people being "upset" with the state of the world.

You can ask to be added, you can follow the type of academics you are interested in and many will follow back.
I mean at least one Nobel prize winners follows me on here and I was like "Oh he is here, that's cool, I will follow him back!".