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Felix Rusche

@felixrusche.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics | Labor, Development, Political Economy | felixrusche.github.io

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics @econmpi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
🏆 @felixrusche.bsky.social has received the 2025 Schmölders Foundation Prize! Together with @yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social & @econmill.bsky.social, they were awarded for their paper "LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation." 🎉 Congrats, Felix!
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Felix Rusche has been awarded the 2025 Schmölders Foundation Prize
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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs
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AI and the Future of Work
In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/09/2025
Demand for human-generated, trust-certified internet content is skyrocketing. There is a major business opportunity, in *every* country, for media firms to meet this rising demand with innovation. Fascinating new experiment by @filipecampante.bsky.social et al.—> filipecampante.org/wp-content/u...
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Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🎉 Cue the confetti, ... CDSE doctoral graduate @felixrusche.bsky.social has been awarded the FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how access to media can serve as a trans­formative tool in advancing gender equality. Congratulations, Felix! 👏 (1/2)
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Felix Rusche Wins FBK-IRVAPP 2025 Best Paper Award |
Felix Rusche has been awarded the prestigious FBK-IRVAPP Best Paper Award 2025 for his research showing how community radio in India can empower women and reduce gender inequality.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Thank you so much @mircotonin.bsky.social! I am very honoured to receive the award.
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment" by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, Daniel Deisenroth, Haritz Garro, Daley Kutzman, Asad Liaqat, and Nils Wernerfelt. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
(Forthcoming Article) - Research on the effects of online advertising on consumer welfare is limited due to challenges in running large-scale field experiments. We analyze a long-running field experim...
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 12/05/2025
The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is because of 2 main factors: journalists tend to focus on major events, and the daily performance of indices is negatively skewed. Antonio Ciccone, @felixrusche.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Graph of the actual DAX stock market index and media-reported DAX, 2017-2024.

The performance of stock markets often appears worse in the daily news than it actually is. This column argues that this negative news bias arises from two factors: (1) journalists tend to focus on major events, and (2) the daily performance of stock market indices is negatively skewed. It shows that about half of the negativity bias in news can be explained by the distribution of stock returns, even when the negative reporting bias is not explicitly present. Media consumers should be aware of the big news bias and look beyond the daily news cycle to stay informed.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Do the media focus on the negative? If so, why? We study this in the context of stock market reporting and identify and quantify an overlooked bias. A thread:
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Once again, I must stress that there is a pretty obvious answer to this madness, which is to have a big, fat tariff on US oligarchs and their multinationals! gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/americas-o...
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America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel
The best thing that countries targeted by Trump's punitive tariffs can do is condition market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires on fair taxation.
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025
The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
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LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*
Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547
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Competition and Consumer Discrimination
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Barring any last minute change, the 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going into effect tomorrow What should these countries (and, tomorrow, the European Union) do? 🧵
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Andreas Ortmann @impartialspectator.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It has been weirdly quiet on social media ever since the Institute4Replication dropped its first two of 15 reports about the questionable research practices of Asad Islam-GDRI and scores of his collaborators. Here is my take on what we know and need to know. a-ortmann.medium.com/the-asad-isl...
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The Asad Islam — GDRI saga
Understanding what we know and need to know
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.
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NBER @nber.org · 20/02/2025
New data from Facebook reveals interesting patterns of cross-gender social ties around the world, from Michael Bailey, Drew M. Johnston, Theresa Kuchler, Ayush Kumar, and Johannes Stroebel www.nber.org/papers/w33480
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Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski @sschneiderstraw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25 Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social) Deadline: 17 Mar '25
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
If you're looking to break from doomscrolling at end of week - check out this fascinating new special issue in @FeministEcon edited by @BilgeErten @DuvvuryN @bilgeerten.bsky.social + Ramnarain on perspectives on conflict, disaster + violence against women #econtwitter #econsky
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/01/2025
Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
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Ola Olsson @oolsson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My book "Paleoeconomics" is now available in online book stores. It offers a chronologically structured overview of the economics of prehistory from the first hominins to the rise of states in 3500 BCE. It builds on rapidly growing research in several fields. 1/6 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Paleoeconomics
This accessible and insightful textbook Paleoeconomics provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
#QJE Feb 2025, #6, “LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation,” by Evsyukova (@yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social), Rusche (@felixrusche.bsky.social), and Mill (@econmill.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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LinkedOut? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Job Network Formation*
Abstract. We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals’ job networks across the United States using a two-stage field experiment with 400+ f
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Wow.. this is concerning.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Mergers are followed by large and persistent increases in lobbying activity, both by individual firms and by industry trade associations, suggesting that firms with market power will also attempt to gain political power. www.nber.org/papers/w33255
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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...
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Econ That Matters @econthatmatters.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
JMP about community radio in India by @felixrusche.bsky.social highlights the “potential of community media as a scalable and cost-effective policy instrument to promote women empowerment” www.econthatmatters.com/2024/12/tuni...
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Tuning In to Equality: How Community Radio Empowers Women in India
This is our seventh blog post for our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025. Felix Rusche is a PhD student at the University of Mannheim. His research interests span labor, development, and po…
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Frank Schilbach @fschilbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Fantastic job market paper on the impact of radio on women's empowerment in India
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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This looks like a great paper. Wow.
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Patrick Schneider @pschneider.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Super cool JMP and given its results one can only imagine what Internet access does to women's empowerment.
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Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just published in the Journal of Public Economics: "Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones" By @jojoga.bsky.social, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, Tobias Seidel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #economics
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is a remarkable paper. Substantively, it convincingly argues that what looks like weak state capacity is often *captured* capacity. Methodologically, it’s a triumph of mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy" By @elliottash.bsky.social, Sergio Galletta, Matteo Pinna, & Christopher S. Warshaw. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 25/11/2024
🚨Finally online: Our paper on barriers to child care enrollment is now available @jeeanews.bsky.social 🤩🤩🤩 I'm over the moon 😁 Thanks to the most amazing team, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social – what a ride! 🫶 doi.org/10.1093/jeea... #EconSky
Preview of Accepted manuscript: "Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic GAP in Child Care Enrollment"
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5.”
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges in the United States over the last century. However, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. www.nber.org/papers/w33164
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price
NBER Working Paper No. 33164
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We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Fox News has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward. This shift has helped Republican candidates in elections across levels of U.S. government www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior …
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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
🚨Thrilled to share our new paper "Causal Claims in Economics"! 🚨 @fetzert and I analysed over 44,000 economics papers using AI to create a knowledge graph of economics and map out causal relationships. Here's what we found 🧵👇
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Yulia Evsyukova @yuliaevsyukova.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
This paper, joint with @felixrusche.bsky.social and @econmill.bsky.social, began as a project in one of the PhD courses, and has been recently accepted to the Quarterly Journal of Economics!
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Wladislaw Mill @econmill.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Very happy to see the paper out in the QJE. It was really a risky project but was totally worth it.
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Railroad network expansion in Germany increased creation of new ideas and formed specialized knowledge clusters. New ideas were formed by combining ideas from cities connected by railroad. But denser network meant that new ideas diffused less on average. www.caterinachiopris.com/_files/ugd/b...
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Short 🧵on a fascinating new paper by Ieda Matavelli (on the JMP!), Baranov, Grosjean + de Haas. . . tl;dr adherence to dominance masculinity norms varies across + within countries, predicting economic, political, health outcomes
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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
App usage is - contagious (sd increase of roommates’ in-college app usage raises own by 4.4%) - detrimental to academic performance and labor market outcomes (sd increase reduces GPAs by 36% and wages by 2.3%) App restriction policy would boost wages! nber.org/papers/w33054
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Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
#QJE Nov 2024, #3, “The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships,” by Adams, Huttunen, Nix (@emilynix100.bsky.social), and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships*
Abstract. Domestic abuse encompasses a range of damaging behaviors beyond physical violence, including economic and emotional abuse. We analyze the impact
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