Reposted by Felix RuscheAnna 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...🧵 514155
Reposted by Felix RuscheAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Auschwitz 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. 236119485849
Reposted by Felix RuscheMax 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!coll.mpg.deFelix Rusche has been awarded the 2025 Schmölders Foundation Prize© Katrin Glückler 121
Reposted by Felix RuscheCUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Join 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 #jobsgc.cuny.eduAI and the Future of WorkIn-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium 28419
Reposted by Felix RuscheMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 14/09/2025Demand 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... 07126
Reposted by Felix RuscheGraduate 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)uni-mannheim.deFelix 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. 121
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Thank you so much @mircotonin.bsky.social! I am very honoured to receive the award. 050
Reposted by Felix RuscheAEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Forthcoming 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=...aeaweb.orgThe 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... 092
Reposted by Felix RuscheVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 12/05/2025The 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 042
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Please find the paper and short summaries on my website: felixrusche.github.io We are happy about any feedback. 010
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025If progress is characterised by many small, incremental improvements with few yet larger setbacks, news reporting will focus on the latter. We also generalise these findings to other indices. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The remaining half is explained by a focus on large events in combination with negative skewness in daily changes. As such, we quantify what Rosling et al., @hannahritchie.bsky.social, and @ourworldindata.org have argued for in the past: 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025We decompose this 20-point difference by simulating news reporting with and without negative reporting bias. We find that even when muting the negative reporting bias half of the gap remains. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025ZDF journalists mention daily changes in Germany’s DAX on 29% of days. While the DAX increased by a daily avg. of 4 index points from 2017-24, it fell by 10 points when mentioned on the news and increased by 10 points when not mentioned. Adding this up results in the above figure. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025A case in point is Germany’s most-watched nightly news – the ZDF heute Journal. The nightly news include a 1:30 min segment reporting economic and financial news from the stock market in Frankfurt. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025To motivate: From 2017 to 2024, the main national stock market indices rose in the US and the five largest European economies. Yet, the average daily performance of all six indices turns from positive to negative when weighted by coverage of the countries’ ten most-read outlets. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Do 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: 2226
Reposted by Felix RuscheGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Once 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...gabrielzucman.substack.comAmerica’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ HeelThe best thing that countries targeted by Trump's punitive tariffs can do is condition market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires on fair taxation. 122479
Reposted by Felix RuscheKhoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..." 325830
Reposted by Felix RuscheAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/03/2025The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | 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. 12139831790
Reposted by Felix RuscheC. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025More high-quality evidence that the world is not blind to race... absent intervention, there is not equality of opportunity. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...academic.oup.comLinkedOut? 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 512237
Reposted by Felix RuscheTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Economists 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/w33547nber.orgCompetition and Consumer DiscriminationFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 27421
Reposted by Felix RuscheJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025NEW: 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... 12538931760
Reposted by Felix RuscheGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Barring 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? 🧵 9284106
Reposted by Felix RuscheAndreas Ortmann @impartialspectator.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It 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...a-ortmann.medium.comThe Asad Islam — GDRI sagaUnderstanding what we know and need to know 093
Reposted by Felix RuscheHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23/02/2025If 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. 24662174
Reposted by Felix RuscheNBER @nber.org · 20/02/2025New 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 095
Reposted by Felix RuscheSarah 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 1115
Reposted by Felix RuscheJessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 14/02/2025If 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 1115
Reposted by Felix RuscheChristian 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 11264107
Reposted by Felix RuscheDarby 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. 12652768815653
Reposted by Felix RuschePaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/01/2025Holy 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. " 6326154
Reposted by Felix RuscheOla Olsson @oolsson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My 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...link.springer.comPaleoeconomicsThis accessible and insightful textbook Paleoeconomics provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory. 23610
Reposted by Felix RuscheThe 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/...doi.orgLinkedOut? 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 23017
Reposted by Felix RuscheFlorian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Mergers 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 113649
Reposted by Felix RuschePeter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 15/12/2024We'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... 915744
Reposted by Felix RuscheEcon That Matters @econthatmatters.bsky.social · 05/12/2024JMP 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...econthatmatters.comTuning In to Equality: How Community Radio Empowers Women in IndiaThis 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… 141
Reposted by Felix RuscheFrank Schilbach @fschilbach.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Fantastic job market paper on the impact of radio on women's empowerment in India 041
Reposted by Felix RuscheAlex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024This looks like a great paper. Wow. 082
Reposted by Felix RuschePatrick Schneider @pschneider.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Super cool JMP and given its results one can only imagine what Internet access does to women's empowerment. 031
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Overall, the results are in line with a media-induced change in gender norms and highlight the potential of grassroots media as a policy instrument to affect the role of women. 000
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Finally, I compare my methodological innovation to the naive approach of relying on jittered coordinates. In line with solving the issue of attenuation bias, using my method increases point estimates by more than 50% on average. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Not least, I find no evidence of a male backlash. Rather, men report higher agreement with women's participation in household decisions, suggesting changes in their attitudes as well. 110
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I find strong effects of community radio on women's empowerment. Exposure to community radio 📚 Increases affected women’s education by 0.3 years 👰🏽♀️ Reduces child marriage by 22% 👶🏽 Lowers young women’s fertility by ~10%. 💪🏽 Boosts women’s autonomy in household decisions by 11pp 110
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I build on the displacement algorithm and external data to compute the PDF of original locations, conditional on observing a displaced location. I then compute the probability mass on the coverage area. This allows for clean identification of parameters despite the displacement. 100
Felix Rusche @felixrusche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024In addition, I solve an important issue of the underlying household survey data: To preserve respondents’ privacy, coordinates of survey locations are randomly displaced prior to being made available to researchers. This introduces substantial bias. 100