👏 Congratulations to Patricia Funk on being elected to the @eeanews.bsky.social Council (2026–2031)!
We are proud as @usiidep.bsky.social to celebrate our faculty’s excellence and leadership in economics.
Discover more about her profile here: usi.to/ubk.
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🔍New research highlight!
A new paper by our graduates @g-digiacomo.bsky.social (ifo Institute) and Benjamin Lerch (FFA) is finally out on ILR Review.
They investigate how displaced workers adjusted to the introduction of #robots in local #labor markets in the US.
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🎓 Apply for the Master in Economics at USI – Deadline: 30 June 2025!
👇 See program highlights & links below.
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Today, Matthias Weber presented a joint work with his @unisg.ch colleague I. Lampe: “Prospect Theory for Intertemporal Choice.” In a pre-registered experiment on a representative sample, they find decisions are best predicted by probability-weighted discounted utilities.
#econbluesky #USIEcon
Today, Federica Meluzzi (CREST Paris) presented “The College Melting Pot: Peers, Culture and Women’s Job Search” at our junior seminar series. The study shows that exposure to college peers coming from more egalitarian areas shifts job preferences reducing early-career gender earnings gap.
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📢 Join our labor team!
I am looking for two #predocs to work with me and my coauthors on applied labor economics projects in Switzerland!
Job Ad: bit.ly/PredocLaborLugano
Apply here: bit.ly/PredocLLCApply
#econra #USIecon #predoc
The first edition of the Workshop IdEP in Sustainable Economics #WISE2025 is officially starting at #Casadellasostenibilità in Airolo!
Stay tuned for insights and discussions: follow this and the next threads for updates.👇
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@ludogazze.bsky.social will be our keynote speaker tomorrow in occasion of the #WISE2025 conference at #Casadellasostenibilità in Airolo!
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Today we launched our Junior Seminars with Luca Bagnato (University of Milan).
He presented a joint work with @venturinimiri.bsky.social (@ucriverside.bsky.social) and Yu Pan (UZH) on the long-term impact of rice weeders' historical presence on female political-economic empowerment in Italy
#USIEcon
We are happy to launch our new Junior Seminar Series! This term, we’ll host promising young researchers presenting their original work to the #USIEcon department.
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Check the full schedule below and join us in person in Lugano if interested!👇
Congratulations to @floramarchioro.bsky.social & Tai Lo Yeung, IdEP 4th yr PhD candidates, awarded the USI Doc-Mobility grant for a research stay abroad.
They just left Lugano to spend this spring term at The Wharton School & Barcelona School of Economics.
More on their visits 👇🏻
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The new semester is approaching, and we are thrilled to welcome the speakers for the Econ Spring 2025 Seminar Series in Lugano!
📅 Check out the full schedule below and join us if you're interested: idep.usi.ch/storage/app/...
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⏳ Deadline Approaching! Last days to apply to fully funded positions in our PhD in #Economics and to join our team at USI_IDEP in Lugano. 🎓
👉 inomics.com/job/fully-fu...
Deadline: January 15, 2025
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Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University) presented "Climate Change in the Classroom". With P.Giustinelli & M.Veronesi, he examines how #ClimateEducation in Italy's secondary schools can represent a scalable solution to address knowledge gaps & biased beliefs, promoting decarbonization.
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Today @osea.bsky.social (University of Pittsburgh & @nberpubs.bsky.social) presented "Enclaves and Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration".
This joint work with R. Abramitzky & L. Boustan examines the long-term effects of ethnic #Catholic churches on #immigrant assimilation in the U.S.🇺🇸
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📄 #CallforPapers
#NBER/CEPRA 2025 Workshop on Ageing and Health will take place on June 14-16, in Lugano (🇨🇭) at USI_IDEP.
Submission deadline: January 7th, 2025 at 11:59pm (EST,US)
Submissions are welcomed from non-NBER affiliates.
Please share!
Info: dropbox.com/scl/fi/xguvt...
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Cloé Garnache (@uio.no) presented on #StickyPrices after unexpected changes in Norway's electricity prices. The joint work with M. Schmalz (Oxford Uni) & D.E. Sommervoll (NMBU) highlights downward price stickiness & household heterogeneity due to #liquidityconstraints.
#econbluesky #USIEcon
📢 Last days to apply to #WISE2025 Workshop IdEP for junior applied researchers in #Econ!
Submit your research by Sunday December 1st, 2024 ⛷️
🏔️Don't miss the chance to present your work surrounded by the Swiss Alps.
🔗 More info: dropbox.com/scl/fi/k4xqs...
#econbluesky #USIEcon
We have now introduced all this year’s #EconJobMarket candidates from the Department of Economics (IDEP) of USI Lugano!
To learn more about our #JMC, their #JMPs and research agendas, take a look at our website: idep.usi.ch/job-market
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🎓We are excited to introduce Nicole Venus, our USI IDEP Ph.D. candidate in Economics! Nicole is on the 2024/25 #EconJobMarket, specializing in #GenderEconomics, #LabourEconomics, Household Economics, and the Economics of Science.
👉Check her website: nicolevenus.github.io
#econbluesky #USIEcon
Meet our #Econjobmarket candidates! Felix Schönenberger is a Post-Doc at USI IDEP and he will be on the Job Market this year. He is an applied #microeconomist focusing on empirical #PoliticalEconomy.
#econbluesky #USIEcon
👉 Check his personal website: sites.google.com/view/felix-s...
Dario Pozzoli (from CBS) presented today on offshoring and skills segregation. Dario and his coauthors G. Kim
(UCSC) and D. Lee analyse how offshoring impacts wages & workers relocation to low productivity firms. #Offshoring mitigates skill inequality and reduces domestic income. #USIEcon
Meet our #Econjobmarket candidate! Giuseppe Di Giacomo
is a PhD candidate at USI Department of Economics and he will be on the Job Market this year. He is an applied #microeconomist specializing in #labor economics.
#econbluesky #USIEcon
👉 Check out his website: sites.google.com/view/giusepp...
Today, @christinafelfe.bsky.social (@unikonstanz.bsky.social) presented her research on students' occupational aspirations. This joint work with L. Cassar, D. Feigl (@uniregensburg.bsky.social) and M. Müller (TSE), shows that parental pressure increases the gender gap in #STEM aspirations. #USIEcon
Introducing our #EconJobMarket Ph.D. Candidate in Economics! Mattia Albertini will be in the Job Market this year. He specializes in applied #LaborEconomics, #UrbanEconomics and #Microeconometrics.
#econbluesky #USIEcon
👉 Learn more about him here: sites.google.com/view/mattiaa...
This year, 5 of our PhD candidates will be on the #EconJobMarket! Their research spans from #labor economics with topics on #migration, #tourism, #gender and #development, to #political economy.
Find out more about our #Candidates: idep.usi.ch/job-market
#econbluesky #USIEcon
📑 Check out his @reveconstudies.bsky.social recently accepted paper on how a campaign forbidding gender preferences in job ads impacted hiring practices and workplace diversity (with David Card & Rafael Lalive).
Read more 👉 nber.org/papers/w29350
#USIEcon #EconTwitter
💼 Raphaël published papers on Local Taxation dynamics and #PublicPolicy in the @jpolecon.bsky.social , the @aeajournals.bsky.social, Economic Policy, and the
Journal of Public Economics, among others. In particular, his papers on Tax Competition won different international awards.
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