simon heß @hesss.org · 01/02/2025PhD positions in Vienna for research-minded students. 5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna. econjobmarket.org/positions/11... 191
simon heß @hesss.org · 07/01/2025I'm visiting Oxford for the next 2 months. If you're around, let's meet! 1120
simon heß @hesss.org · 14/10/2024I updated my latex preamble. follow me for more productivity hacks. 030
simon heß @hesss.org · 16/11/2023Postdoc in Development Economics at Uni of Frankfurt with Matthias Schündeln. I had that job and can wholeheartedly recommend all aspects of it. econjobmarket.org/positions/10... 042
simon heß @hesss.org · 02/11/2023We (@cannoncloud.bsky.social @kasingerj.bsky.social) evaluated the effects of e-scooters on accidents. Combining city-level (staggered) rollout dates with data on police-reported accidents, we find that accidents involving personal injury increased by 8.2%. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 2295
simon heß @hesss.org · 19/10/2023got tired of doing academic CVs in TeX and made a simple and easy-to-use (r)markdown template. hope this might be useful to some #econtwitter JMCs. let me know if you have suggestions. github.com/simonheb/mar... 57223
simon heß @hesss.org · 20/09/2023What drugs do I have to take to have the confidence to explain to the Nobel Prize committee what a Nobel Prize is. 050
simon heß @hesss.org · 20/09/2023I don't know, at least in the range of small effects, it seems to me as if 1/3 of the studies get substantially different estimates with TWFE than with imputation 100
simon heß @hesss.org · 06/07/2023that's what DALL·E thinks "economists on blue sky" look like. who do you recognize? I love how it got the 📈📉 right 190
simon heß @hesss.org · 04/07/2023@bsky.app, I think I found a bug. I managed to follow myself, and now I cannot undo it :D 240