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Alain Cohn

@acohn.bsky.social

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Associate Professor @ University of Michigan Behavioral Economist || alaincohn.com

Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Big thanks to Jingyi Qiu, @yanchenl.bsky.social & Al Roth, and to every senior economist who participated!! Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Al's blog post: marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/soci...

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Social media promotion improves job market outcomes | PNAS

Social media has transformed how academics disseminate research, but its effect on academic job outcomes remains unclear. Previous research has sho...

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On ethics (debated when the WP dropped): the worry was that econ job market is constant-sum, so promoting some hurts others. But it's likely not. Many positions go unfilled yearly (hence the JOE scramble). Reducing interview-matching congestion can expand the pie

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Mechanisms: effects are stronger when the quote-tweeter is a highly cited scholar, and stronger for candidates from top institutions. Reputation is doing real work - it's not just being seen, it's WHO signals you're worth seeing

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

But views are cheap. Did this translate to better job market outcomes? YES. - Treated candidates got 1 more flyout (vs control mean of 5.4) - Women in treatment got 0.9 more offers (vs control mean of 3) That's a ~30% bump in offers for women 👀

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Visibility effects are LARGE: - 441% more views - 303% more likes on treated papers vs control

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

w/ Jingyi Qiu, @yanchenl.bsky.social & Al Roth, we randomly assigned 519 econ JMPs to be quote-tweeted by prominent economists (treatment) vs tweeted from our research account alone (control).

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Out in PNAS! Senior economists routinely quote-tweet their advisees' job market papers on X. Does this actually help candidates - or is it just noise? We ran a field experiment to find out. Turns out: it matters. And women tend to benefit more

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Exciting opportunity at @umich! The School of Information is recruiting a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. These are postdoc positions which almost always convert to TT positions. Deadline: Sept 26 Apply here 👉 careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... (Economists are under social sciences) #econsky

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UMSI Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship | U-M Careers

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Very excited to see my (first!!!) publication with @acohn.bsky.social, @rfisman.bsky.social, and Michel Maréchal in print!🎉 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Whose Preferences Matter for Redistribution? Cross-Country Evidence | Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics: Vol 3, No 1

Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent ...

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Field experiment by @acohn.bsky.social & Stoop suggests a relatively high willingness among online workers to engage in unethical tasks, with the ethical compromise in the unethical task having a similar impact on job acceptance as a 25% wage reduction: buff.ly/49M1CWC

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/11/2024

Folks: we hate doing these posts, but now is the time to rebuild our pro-democracy community right here on BlueSky. No more leaving our future in the hands of Elon Musk. If you are able, please follow, repost this, and let your followers know we are here. Let's do this!

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Alain Cohn @acohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

🚨Job Alert🚨 We're hiring for a faculty position (any rank) at the University of Michigan's School of Information. Great for those doing work on Online Platforms with background in econ, market design, and causal inference. Come work with us! Deadline is Nov 30. apply.interfolio.com/133785 📈📉

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