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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

On the 6th of October, I had 14 unread emails in my inbox. Since then I’ve sent 736 emails. Today, there are still 14 unread emails in my inbox.

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

300 applicants; no appointment

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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AREUEA @areuea.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Join us for the first talk in this academic year’s AREUEA Virtual Seminar Series! Jacob Sagi (UNC Chapel Hill) will present "The Importance of Being Earnest (in Search Markets)" tomorrow, August 27, at 11 AM (ET). Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Bastien Chabe-Ferret (he/his/him) @bastiencf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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Very happy that this paper has now been accepted for publication in BMC Public Health!

Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

TIL that Featherstonehaugh and Woolfordisworthy are two- and three-syllable words, respectively.

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Really gutted that a promising PhD candidate might not be able to start his PhD due to a huge funding gap. It’s a tough reminder of how financial barriers still block talent from the Global South

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AREUEA @areuea.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

That’s a wrap on the AREUEA International Conference 2025! A fantastic week of ideas, insights, and connections. Catch the highlights here: www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...

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Department of Land Economy @landeconomy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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📚🏠The Department's Dr @caroehoeltken.bsky.social has co-authored a new paper in the journal Housing Studies, which looks at the housing outcomes for immigrants to the UK. 🔗Read more on our website here: www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-caro...

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Dr Carolin Hoeltken co-authors new article in Housing Studies

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Excited to share our new paper just published in @housingjournal.bsky.social, "Age at arrival and immigrants' housing outcomes: evidence from the UK". In this study, we look at how the age at arrival (AAA) of immigrants in the UK affects their housing outcomes.

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Proud Director of Studies moment at @homertoncollege.bsky.social graduation—congratulations to all!

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Massively proud of all my students who are graduating this weekend @homertoncollege.bsky.social

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

That feeling when the paper you submitted 1,345 days ago has finally been accepted for publication

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Another beautiful English summer morning

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ah, the unmistakable charm of an English summer

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AREUEA @areuea.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Real Estate Economics (Volume 53, Issue 3, May 2025). Articles can be viewed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15406229...

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Meet AREUEA 2025 Junior Scholar Sowon Kim! #econsky Website: sites.google.com/view/sowon-kim

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Meet AREUEA 2025 Junior Scholar Gi Kim! #econsky Website: www.gi-kim.com

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Meet AREUEA 2025 Junior Scholar Mike Mei! #econsky Website: www.mikemei.com

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Announcing the AREUEA 2025 Junior Scholar Cohort. Meet Yifan Chen! #econsky Website: shidler.hawaii.edu/fin/director...

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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The UK is literally a nation of strangers. I know a miniscule fraction of you, only my friends, associates, family. The use of this term can only have racist interpretations. Strangers that are different from all the other strangers by virtue of being from somewhere else.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Slightly amended so I can fit this here:

I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame!

I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one.

I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country.

This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong.

Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues.

I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean?

Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way.

You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position.

Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces.

What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly.

The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy.

Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed.

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Richard Amlôt @richardamlot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Please re-post! We have THREE funded PhD studentship opportunities open, as part of a new NIHR-funded partnership on outbreak-related behaviours between @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, University of East Anglia and @ukhsa.bsky.social. The links are in this thread, closing date: 18th May 2025. 1/3

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

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AREUEA @areuea.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Join us next Wednesday, May 7, at 11:00 (ET), for our Virtual Seminar! #econsky Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The first draft is where you explain it to yourself. The second draft is where you explain it to your readers

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Josh Merfeld @merfeld.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Friendly reminder: there is basically no case in which we assume normality of VARIABLES. It is essentially always the normality of the error term (and that is often not required, though it sometimes is).

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Coefficient plots are in! You see them all over. A while back, I heard someone argue that we should use smoothed CIs in our coefficient plots, like below. This aligns with Gelman's principle: the difference between “significant” & “not significant” is not statistically significant. Thoughts?

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Just interviewed candidates for an RA position and I’d like to hire them all. So much talent!

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Jobs in beautiful St Andrews 👇 Bonus points if you enjoy playing golf

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Anyone know the best dataset for real estate auctions? Ideally one that includes bid activity _before_ the final result although that's not essential. #econsky

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Absolutely over the moon to learn that my former student received full funding to pursue his PhD under my supervision! Thanks, ESRC! 🥳

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John P de New 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @denewjohn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

A gathering of the leaders of non-fascist western countries who choose not to threaten their neighbours death and subjugation.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

UK Prime Minister Starmer hugs Zelensky as he welcomes him to 10 Downing Street. This is how you welcome the leader of the free world.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Credit to Starmer. This is good.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

When you can’t beat em, join em.

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Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I am looking for an RA for a very small project (50-70 hours, with a possibility of extension) on historical house prices. Please share widely with candidates you think might be interested, or get in touch if you'd like to know more! sites.google.com/view/carolin... #econsky

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Dr Carolin Hoeltken - RA jobs

Applications are invited for a short- and fixed-term, part-time Research Assistant (RA) to support a historical finance and housing research project. The RA will assist in preparing a dataset on histo...

Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Offer Holders Open Day at @homertoncollege.bsky.social today—such a pleasure to meet in person the students I interviewed in December!

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AREUEA @areuea.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are delighted to announce that the President's Letter 2025, written by our President Albert Saiz, is now available on our website. Read his reflections on the past year and thoughts for the future: areuea.memberclicks.net/president-s-... #econsky #realestate #urbaneconomics

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President's Letter | Winter 2025

Carolin Hoeltken @caroehoeltken.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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Look who finally made it here! Time to give this account a follow #econsky