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Andreas Beerli

@andreasbeerli.bsky.social
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Economist and social science aficionado using experiments and data to find what works in public and social policy @ KOF Swiss Economic Institute ETH Zurich www.andreasbeerli.com

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A group of crime economists is launching an Association for Crime Economics. It's about time this field got the official structure it deserves! Huge thanks to Amanda Agan and others for doing this. Want to stay in the loop? Sign up for updates here: rhahn-niskanen.github.io/Association-...
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Association for Crime Economics
A proposed professional organization advancing the economic analysis of crime, criminal justice, and public safety. Join our mailing list.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy
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Andreas Beerli @andreasbeerli.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
🚨 Hiring alert 🚨 Last days to submit your applications for the two open positions in our team! We‘re looking forward to hearing from you! Please note that German is a requirement since we‘re in frequent contact with our local stakeholders
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Andreas Beerli @andreasbeerli.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
🚨 Hiring alert 🚨 Last days to submit your applications for the two open positions in our team! We‘re looking forward to hearing from you! Please note that German is a requirement since we‘re in frequent contact with our local stakeholders
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Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Was würde eine Annahme der "10-Millionen-Initiative" bedeuten? Die erfrischend differenzierte Sicht von @andreasbeerli.bsky.social und Michael Siegenthaler, zwei Ökonomen, die schon lange und auf hohem Niveau zu solchen Fragen forschen 👇 kof.ethz.ch/publikatione...
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«Die Personenfreizügigkeit war ein Wachstumsmotor – mit Nebenwirkungen»
Ein Gespräch mit den KOF Ökonomen Michael Siegenthaler und Andreas Beerli über die Bilanz der Zuwanderung für den Arbeitsmarkt – und die möglichen Folgen einer «10-Millionen-Schweiz».
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Michel Maréchal @michelmarechal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Unser Team am Department of Economics der UZH sucht gemeinsam mit @andreasbeerli.bsky.social (ETH Zürich) Verstärkung zur Evaluation innovativer Politikmassnahmen: Research Manager:in (60%-80%): jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Predoctoral Research Fellow: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...
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UZH: Research Manager:in
Das Department of Economics der Universität Zürich sucht eine engagierte Person als Research Manager:in. Der Beschäftigungsgrad ist flexibel (60–80 %), sollte jedoch auf mindestens vier Tage pro Woche...
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Andreas Beerli @andreasbeerli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🚨 Hiring alert 🚨 We‘re looking two positions a predoc/junior researcher a research manager in our team at UZH and ETH designing innovative social and health policies in collaboration policy makers and evaluating their economic impact using large-scale RCTs Please spread the word and apply 🙏
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Daniel Mangrum @danielmangrum.com · 28/04/2026
Issues with spatial spillovers in staggered DD designs: Exhibit A
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/03/2026
Cumulative total issuances of F-1 student visas to the United States for each calendar year, by month. August 2025 is the latest month available. A wall against the brightest young people from around the world harms all Conservative & Liberal Americans, impoverishing our shared future.
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
medical training has become less desirable in states with abortion restrictions, especially in abortion-related specialties, including obstetrics and gynecology, family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine. #econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/medi...
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Medical training becomes less desirable in abortion-restricting states
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Department of Economics @Universität Zürich🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 21/02/2026
Imagine 48 hours in jail. Would it change how you see prison, or criminal justice itself? A new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and @kofeth.bsky.social at @ethz.ch shows that firsthand incarceration can directly shift public opinion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0F...
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Standing in Prisonersʼ Shoes
YouTube video by UZH Department of Economics
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Michel Maréchal @michelmarechal.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
New RCT: What happens when citizens experience incarceration firsthand? With Arto Arman, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social Working paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hispanics are now the largest ethnic group in Texas, making up 40% of the population. Trump carried Latinos in 2024, a massive swing from earlier elections but Texas Democrats eye an opportunity to pull those voters back in. “They are leaving in droves and going in the opposite direction”
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The Economist @economist.com · 31/01/2026
As so often, the best medicine against online hysteria is a dose of fresh air—maybe a leisurely walk along the Thames
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London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe
Contrary to social-media lore, it is one of the safest cities in the world
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...
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ulrichgut.bsky.social @ulrichgut.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Als direkte Demokratie braucht die Schweiz vielfältige und unabhängige Medien. Professorinnen und Professoren aus allen Sprachregionen und Disziplinen setzen sich ein für einen starken medialen Service public und sagen Nein zur Halbierungsinitiative. www.wissenschaft-fuer-den-service-public.ch
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Professorinnen und Professoren gegen die Halbierungsinitiative – Warum wir Professorinnen und Professoren uns für einen starken Service public einsetzen und die SRG-Halbierungsinitiative ablehnen
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 22/01/2026
New Paper Alert!📢 "From Moderates to Extremes: How Immigration Polarizes American Politics" 🗽 by @matzat.bsky.social @adreher.bsky.social @langlotzsarah.bsky.social & Christopher Parsons Insights on how immigration reshapes American politics: 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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ulrichgut.bsky.social @ulrichgut.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Die NZZ - und mehr noch ihre Leserinnen und Leser - erleiden einen sehr bedauerlichen Verlust: Hansueli Schöchli verlässt die Redaktion. Wenn ich nichts übersehen habe, hat die Chefredaktion noch nicht darüber informiert und ihn noch nicht verabschiedet. www.kleinreport.ch/news/nach-fo...
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Nach Fontana NZZ-Interview: Wirtschaftsjournalist Hansueli Schöchli geht
Bei der «Neuen Zürcher Zeitung» hats geknallt: Der langjährige Wirtschaftsjournalist Hansueli Schöchli hat gekündigt. Schöchli hat sich mit dem libertären ...
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The Economist @economist.com · 25/12/2025
It is possible that the relationship recession will not correct itself. A striking 7% of singletons say they would consider a robo-romance with an AI companion. AI is patient, AI is kind and it won’t ask you to clean the bathroom or get a better job
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The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world
In good ways and bad
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Evidence for a detrimental causal effect of social isolation on cognitive function in older adults academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Woah. Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success. The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points. The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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The Economist @economist.com · 25/11/2025
Standard health tests may miss those at most risk
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There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”
Standard health tests may miss those at most risk
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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
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Stephan Maurer @stephanmaurer.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Economist Philippe Aghion: ‘Macron’s legacy will be better than people think’
France’s new Nobel laureate on stimulating growth, the power of creative destruction — and why Karl Lagerfeld helped him with his homework
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The Economist @economist.com · 22/11/2025
Some surveys are starting to show a fall in America’s obesity rates. But as with all surveys, these findings come with caveats
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Don’t cheer the end of America’s obesity crisis just yet
The evidence so far is weak
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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
„Even if the plan falls apart, this arrogant and confusing ultimatum […] will do permanent damage to America’s reputation as a reliable ally, not only in Europe but around the world.“
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ultraprocessed food intake and early-onset colon adenomas (pre-cancer) in a large cohort of >29,000 women followed for >24 years jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Ultraprocessed Food and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Precursors Among Women
This study evaluates the association of the consumption of ultraprocessed foods and the risk of early-onset colorectal cancer (<50 years) in participants of the Nurses’ Health Study II.
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NBER @nber.org · 13/11/2025
Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic www.nber.org/bh/20253/pai...
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In an ongoing project, we ask which countries citizens prefer as benchmarks for policy decisions. Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.
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The Economist @economist.com · 06/11/2025
China is changing the clean-energy game. If its solar panels, EVs and wind turbines are not gifts to the world in themselves, their ever-shrinking prices are an undoubted, and most welcome, boon
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Solar in China has become too big to fail
No other country could have done it
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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 05/11/2025
Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 2: Please meet Violet Nampala from Uganda, who is studying Energy Systems Engineering at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru9R...
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Malengo Scholar Profiles: Violet Nampala, Uganda–Germany University Scholar
YouTube video by Malengo Inc.
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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out: www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p... (by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social) 1/n
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The people’s AI? | The Enlightened Economist
The title of Maximilian Kasy’s new book The Means of Prediction cleverly riffs off Marx’s concept of the means of production for th age of AI. These means, Prof Kasy argues, are data, computational…
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Soumitra Shukla @soumitrashukla.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚨Next time you hire, don’t take it easy! In a new working paper, @elliottash.bsky.social, Jason Sockin, and I show the difficulty of the interview signals to workers whether the job is a good fit. 🚨 Paper link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 29/10/2025
The large increase in steel tariffs under GW Bush did not cause an increase in steel-industry employment. But it did hurt the US industries that use steel to make things, reducing employment there long after the tariffs were gone. New in @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/pol....
Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs†
By James Lake and Ding Liu*
President George W. Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel
in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized
difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor
market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local
labor market’s reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. The tariffs did not boost local steel employment but substantially depressed local employment in steel-consuming industries
for many years after Bush removed them. The tariffs also led to a
persistent exit of steel-intensive manufacturing establishments, suggesting a role for plant-level fixed entry costs in translating the temporary shock into persistent outcomes
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Gavi @gavi.org · 15/10/2025
🚨A new AI model can forecast malnutrition rates in Kenya with 89% accuracy one month in advance and provide up to 6 months of lead time for intervention. This could save countless lives by getting resources to at-risk areas before crisis hits. How it works 👉 bit.ly/4n1oer6 via Conversation UK
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Stefan Schlegel @stefanschlegel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Bei der @isdh.ch ist noch bis zum 26. Oktober eine Stelle für eine studentische Hilfskraft ausgeschrieben; eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, einen ersten Schritt zu einer Karriere im Bereich der Menschenrechte zu gehen. www.isdh.ch/de/aktiv-wer...
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Juristische*r Werkstudent*in (20–40 %)
Zur Verstärkung ihres Teams sucht die SMRI ab sofort eine*r juristische*r Werkstudent*in (20-40 %) an ihrem Standort in Freiburg.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 07/10/2025
The real value of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's budget has fallen for over a decade. The president is proposing deep cuts alongside other attacks on the agency. Progress requires Congress to re-establish BLS independence & support innovation & funding. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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NBER @nber.org · 02/10/2025
Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34296
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Constanze Ertl @constanzeertl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Wie Begleitung durch qualifizierte Assistent:innen das Leben von #taubblinden Menschen, die gar nicht oder kaum sehen und hören können, positiv verändert. Mein Beitrag in der #Zib1 1/2 on.orf.at/video/142930...
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Spezielle Assistenz für Taubblinde - ZIB 1 vom 27.09.2025
In Österreich werden erstmals speziell ausgebildete Assistentinnen und Assistenten für taub-blinde Menschen eingesetzt. Rund 2000 Betroffene können entweder kaum oder gar nicht hören und sehen. Um ihn...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 21/09/2025
Over the last century, many democracies have started down the road to autocracy. Some managed to turn around. What did these 'U-turns' have in common? Political economist @marinanord.bsky.social & colleagues' conclusions are clear and succinct. Full research summary: www.v-dem.net/media/public...
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The Economist @economist.com · 21/09/2025
Some researchers are calling on public-health experts to tone down the emphasis on avoiding the sun, and to acknowledge that the risks and benefits of exposure differ between those with lighter or darker skin
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The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer
More sun might improve your heart and immune system. Just don’t get sunburnt
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Reducing access to abortions ... - increases families' economic hardship, - increases families' debt, - increases income inequality, - increases housing insecurity, and - increases financially motivated crime rates.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Great chart from WaPo. Print it out. Next time someone says EU carmakers are doomed because Tesla was born in a garage and embodies US business acumen they can’t match, remind them the story is incomplete. Musk’s rise was fuelled by $38 billion in gov contracts, loans, subsidies & tax credits.
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is such a great idea/service!! Have Brendan-bot give you pre-submission comments on your paper!
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