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Henning Hermes

@henninghermes.com
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Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Munich & Deputy Director of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education www.henninghermes.com

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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 📢 How can field experiments help us understand and reduce inequality? Read the Introduction to a Special Issue in the European Economic Review: 👉 lmy.de/WbNTc
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 16/09/2026
Fantastic choice — congrats, Chris!!! 🥳🥳🥳
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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚀 On 7–8 September 2026, the 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 brought together researchers to discuss exciting developments and exchange ideas in the field. 📸 Maximilian Föll
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Dan Goldhaber @cedr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Job Alert! And a great opportunity to work with @woessmann.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! If you are interested in doing great… | Lud...
📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! If you are interested in doing great resear...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 26/06/2026
📣 We're hiring! 💪🏻🚀 Amazing working conditions for postdocs at the ifo Institute + a fantastic team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social 🫶 Please reach out if you have any questions! Deadline is July 22 ⏰
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 18/05/2026
Time to close the socioeconomic gap in access to childcare
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Time to close the socioeconomic gap in access to childcare
Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 18 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02479-4Socioeconomic inequalities shape who accesses early childcare, even in countries that claim universal provision. This entrenched inequality limits child development, women’s employment and gender equality — but governments have clear tools to close the gap.
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 26/05/2026
Joint work with @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🙂 Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated version: rdcu.be/fji4V
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Time to close the socioeconomic gap in access to childcare - Nature Human Behaviour
Socioeconomic inequalities shape who accesses early childcare, even in countries that claim universal provision. This entrenched inequality limits child development, women’s employment and gender equa...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 26/05/2026
🚨 New piece in @nathumbehav.nature.com: We show that socioeconomic gaps in childcare access across the OECD are not mainly about lower demand. Many disadvantaged families want childcare but face barriers such as scarcity, costs, and complex procedures. Main takeaway: make access easier 📣
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12/05/2026
Please help us spread the word: @robertdur.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @ingoisphording.bsky.social @sriedm.bsky.social @jonasradbruch.bsky.social @econmill.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social @rmetcalfe.bsky.social @sjroth.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12/05/2026
Please help us spread the word: @econmunich.bsky.social @rlalive.bsky.social @econmpi.bsky.social @heckmanequation.bsky.social @fair-cele.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @ifoeducation.bsky.social @sandroecon.bsky.social @iwh-halle.bsky.social @vincentsomville.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12/05/2026
Please help us spread the word: @sdellavi.bsky.social @pschneider.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @rlandersoe.bsky.social @sbauernschuster.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @mathiashuebener.bsky.social @voxeu.org @cesifo.org @jonasjessen.bsky.social @clemensfuest.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12/05/2026
Co-organized with @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🤝 Find all infos at www.field-experiments.eu
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12/05/2026
🚨 FINAL REMINDER: THREE more days to submit, deadline 15th of May 🚨 We're looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🙏 All infos 👇 #FieldExperiments
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/04/2026
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 29/04/2026
Co-organized with @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🤝 Find all infos at www.field-experiments.eu
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 29/04/2026
REMINDER: Less than three weeks left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Please send your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇 #AcademicConference #CallForPapers #ResearchCommunity #EconResearch
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 06/03/2026
Great to meet so many of you! 🎉 @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org @judithsaurer.bsky.social @katharinawedel.bsky.social @cacilialipowski.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @mathiashuebener.bsky.social @lergetporer.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social and many more!
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 06/03/2026
I spent the past two days at the Annual Meeting of the Education Economics Committee (@vfsecon.bsky.social) at @bibb.de in Bonn🤓🙏 Inspiring discussions on #AIinEducation — from mentoring & skills to digital education. Fantastic keynote by @susanna-loeb.bsky.social! 💪 #EducationEconomics
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 27/02/2026
Two days of fun and great discussions at the Workshop on Microeconomics @leuphana.bsky.social 🤓 I presented our ongoing work “Paternalism across the World”, with B. Bartling, A. W. Cappelen, A. Moorthy, M. Skivenes & B. Tungodden Thanks so much for organizing B. Hirsch, J. Lohse & M. Mechtel 🥳
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 19/02/2026
Perhaps interesting? @cesifo.org @cepr.org @unikassel.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @lergetporer.bsky.social @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social @manuelmenkhoff.bsky.social @apeichl.bsky.social @clemensfuest.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 19/02/2026
Link to the policy brief [German]: www.ifo.de/publikatione... 4/4
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 19/02/2026
👥 Who values narratives most? ⬆ Higher-income, more educated, female, and more uncertain respondents ⬇️ Older and more impatient individuals ➡️ Takeaway: Economic narratives matter – and should be central to research and policy communication. 3/4
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 19/02/2026
💵 Avg. WTP for an expert narrative: $4.23 (compared to avg. WTP for a numerical Fed forecast: $3.61) 🎯 Demand is driven mainly by intrinsic motives – people want to understand the economy. 🔬 Based on a large-scale, incentivized online experiment with > 9,000 representative U.S. households. 2/4
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 19/02/2026
🆕 Policy Paper 🚨 The Demand for Economic Narratives 📘 w/ Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler & Philipp Heil 🧠 Do people actually value economic narratives — or just numbers? 💸 Turns out: households are willing to pay for narratives. 1/4 #Narratives #BehavioralEconomics @ifoeducation.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 13/02/2026
Nothing beats in-person meetings! Lucky me is spending some days at the DZHW in Hannover, working on a revision with my co-authors @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, and @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 📝🤓 Intensive discussions, getting things done, and lots of laughs – great team work 🤝🚀
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Von ganz unten an die Spitze · Ist sozialer Aufstieg möglich?" 📺 Spannende Doku im BR www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD... Auch mit kurzen Statements von mir (ab Min 10:00, 16:30, 24:30 und 27:15)
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mehr/wert: Von ganz unten an die Spitze · Ist sozialer Aufstieg möglich? - hier anschauen
Der Traum vom sozialen Aufstieg wird auch in Bayern geträumt. Doch kann er Wirklichkeit werden? Können es Kinder aus sozial schwachen Familien ganz nach oben schaffen? Immer wieder hört man, dass er ...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 09/02/2026
📢 Very excited to be selected for a Kickstart Fund (50 TEUR) by the Joachim Herz Stiftung (@jherzstiftung.bsky.social) 🎉 With this support, my team and I will further develop a digital mentoring platform 🙏🚀 #TechForGood #EducationalInnovation #Mentoring @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 02/02/2026
The project is generously funded by the @volkswagenstiftung.de 🙏🏻 Looking forward to working with this fantastic team! 🫶🏻 @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org [2/2]  #Mentoring #SocialMobility #RCT #EvidenceBasedPolicy
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 02/02/2026
🚀 KICK-OFF 🚀 Over the next five years, I’ll be working jointly with ROCK YOUR LIFE on a large randomized-controlled trial with disadvantaged adolescents to generate robust, policy-relevant evidence on how mentoring can be effectively scaled. [1/2]
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🚨 Now out in the Economic Journal: “Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests” w/ Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social ‪& Sancassani 💡 Patience accounts for ¾ of regional achievement diffs in Italy, ⅓ US 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
Please help us spread the word: @econmunich.bsky.social @rlalive.bsky.social @econmpi.bsky.social @heckmanequation.bsky.social @fair-cele.bsky.social @fair-thechoicelab.bsky.social @ifoeducation.bsky.social @sandroecon.bsky.social @iwh-halle.bsky.social @vincentsomville.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
Please help us spread the word: @dlangenmayr.bsky.social @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @apeichl.bsky.social @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @elizabethlinos.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @cepr.org @johnholbein1.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
Please help us spread the word: @sdellavi.bsky.social @pschneider.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @rlandersoe.bsky.social @sbauernschuster.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @mathiashuebener.bsky.social @voxeu.org @cesifo.org @jonasjessen.bsky.social @clemensfuest.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
And when you happen to be in Europe/Germany anyways, don't forget to submit to the @cesifo.org Area Conference on the Economics of Education, hosted by the wonderful @woessmann.bsky.social and Rick Hanuskek, feat. a keynote by @johnlist.bsky.social 🤩🤩🤩 👇 bsky.app/profile/woes...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
co-organized with the amazing @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social ☺️ All infos: www.field-experiments.eu
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford) 🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich 🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social 👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... ⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026 🖼️ Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 08/01/2026
Please help us spread the word: @fabiankosse.bsky.social @mathiashuebener.bsky.social @dlangenmayr.bsky.social @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @peterbergman.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social @apeichl.bsky.social @barbarabiasi.com @elizabethlinos.bsky.social @johnholbein1.bsky.social @cesifo.org
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 08/01/2026
🚨 Deadline this Sunday (11 Jan 2026)! 📢 Call for Papers – 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education PhD students & early postdocs: don’t miss this opportunity, apply now! 🚀 👇
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🚨 Deadline on Sunday: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 👇
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 23/12/2025
All infos: www.field-experiments.eu
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 23/12/2025
📄 Call for papers coming early 2026! Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Merry Christmas 🥳🎄🎊 @lergetporer.bsky.social @simonwiederhold.bsky.social @fpeter.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org @tumunich.bsky.social
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 23/12/2025
📣SAVE-THE-DATE 📣 Our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business celebrates its 5th anniversary with FANTASTIC keynote speakers: @peterbergman.bsky.social (UT Austin) and Esther Duflo (MIT) 🎉🙌 📍 Sept 7–8, 2026 at TUM Campus Heilbronn (pre-workshop get-together Sept 6).
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📢Our piece on @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's "After Babel" Substack: Strong public support to restrict social media for children in Germany www.afterbabel.com/p/strong-pub... A huge majority of adults favors a minimum age for social media – and even adolescents themselves see harm from social media
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Strong Public Support To Restrict Social Media for Children in Germany
A huge majority of adults favors a minimum age for social media – and even adolescents themselves see harm from social media.
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Economics LMU Munich @econmunich.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📢Call for Applications: Munich Graduate School of Economics (MGSE) @lmumuenchen.bsky.social is inviting applications for fully funded doctoral positions starting October 2026! ❗ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 Online application tool: lmy.de/SKRWv More info: lmy.de/ZLXgm
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🚨 Unsere neue Studie zeigt: 👉 Das Erreichen der Ziele „Bessere Bildung 2035“ würde rund 21 Billionen Euro an zusätzlicher Wirtschaftsleistung bringen "Volkswirtschaftliche Erträge besserer Bildung" mit Katia Werkmeister für die @bertelsmannst.bsky.social www.ifo.de/publikatione... 1/3
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 11/12/2025
Danke Dir, Paul! 🤩
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 11/12/2025
Absolutely thrilled to be joining this fantastic group of researchers 🤩 🥳 🤓 @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 10/12/2025
8/ Looking forward to all that is to come – and grateful for all that had to come together to make this reality. Still hard to believe… but now: time to celebrate! 🎉 Wishing everyone a merry Christmas season! 😉🥳🥂🎄
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 10/12/2025
7/ Last but not least, deep gratitude to my PhD supervisors Daniel Schunk & Ernst Fehr. This journey would never have even started without your guidance, support, and encouragement.
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