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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📢 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! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Our first 2026 newsletter is out📬 Topics: 🧒 Effects of age at school entry 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Children’s preferences & parental mental health 🎓 Relative feedback & university completion ⬆️ Role models & students’ educ. aspirations 💡 Information framing & university dropout & more! 👉 www.sendlx.com/admin/index....
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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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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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Raphael Brade @raphaelbrade.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New WP! We study whether telling first-year students about the earnings they forgo by delaying graduation changes their choices. Framing salaries as opportunity costs does not speed up progress but increases early dropout among students who are likely to exit eventually. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
Paper Title: Information Framing and Student Decisions: Evidence from an Opportunity Cost Intervention
Authors: Lars Behlen, Raphael Brade, Oliver Himmler, Robert Jäckle
Abstract: Opportunity costs are central to economic decision-making but often neglected. In a pre-registered experiment with 2,222 German university freshmen, one treatment provides salary information; another additionally frames it as the opportunity cost of delayed graduation. Only the opportunity cost framing causes students to update salary expectations. We find no effect on academic progress but a 2.8 percentage points increase in first-semester dropout (p=0.080), concentrated among high-dropout-probability students (5.9 pp, p=0.025). For these marginal students, dropping out instead of progressing faster is the actionable margin. By semester three, dropout rates converge, suggesting acceleration of eventual exits rather than additional dropouts.
Keywords: natural field experiment, opportunity cost neglect, earnings expectations, academic achievement
JEL Codes: C93, D84, D91, I21, I23
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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 · 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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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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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 · 07/01/2026
🚨 Deadline on Sunday: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 👇
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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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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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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎅🎁Our last newsletter of 2025 is out! ✨What Facebook data reveal about patience & educational achievement ✨Religious education has long-term effects ✨Good schools help disadvantaged children ...& more! 👉 sendlx.com/display.php?M=111332033&C=ff6ce63f422bb23d840c4ce5648c1c70&S=201333&L=1198&N=111605
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Raphael Brade @raphaelbrade.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I'm very happy that this paper has found a home and has been published just in time for the holidays. Free access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mI6Bc24bB...
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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
1/ 📣 BIG News! It’s finally official: I’m starting a new job – and it’s the BEST! 🥳 I’ve joined the ifo Institute Munich as Deputy Director of the @ifoeducation.bsky.social (tenured) and have been appointed Associate Professor (tenure-track) at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social / @econmunich.bsky.social.
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our fantastic workshop with @davidautor.bsky.social on Skills, Tasks & Technologies in the AI Era has come to a close. What a blast of outstanding research, new insights & lively discussion! Tremendous thanks to all contributors! Check out the exciting program: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
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The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Can schools change faith? Benjamin Arold, @woessmann.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow find that ending mandatory #ReligiousEducation reduces adult #religiosity by 7%. Students earn more, work longer hours, but pray less and skip church. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education
Benjamin W. Arold, Ludger Woessmann and Larissa Zierow
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that a reform abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced the religiosity of affected students in adulthood. It also reduced the religious actions of personal prayer, church-going, and church membership. Beyond religious attitudes, and consistent with a shift towards worldly norms and economic activities, the reform led to higher labor-market participation and earnings. By contrast, the reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes.
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🆕Working Paper🚨 Training or Retiring? How Labor Markets Adjust to Trade and Technology Shocks📒 w/ A.Bertermann, @dauthecon.bsky.social & @suedekum.bsky.social 🤖 Robots ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬆️early retirement 🌏 Imports ➡️ ⬇️training & ⬆️early r. 🌎 Exports ➡️ ⬆️training & ⬇️e.r. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo... 🧵1/9
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 10/11/2025
🎙️ Check out the ifo podcast on childcare shortages in Germany, where I was a guest. Grateful to research this topic with Marina Krauß, @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social, @simonwiederhold.bsky.social, Fabian Mierisch & Guido Schwerdt. Link 👇 1/2
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 24/10/2025
📢 New working paper alert! 📢 Super happy to share our new working paper, „The Demand for Economic Narratives“, with my great co-authors Sebastian Blesse, Klaus Gründler, and @philippheil.bsky.social. Check out the summary thread by Philipp below👇🏻🧵 @ifoeducation.bsky.social @cesifo.org
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Bildung ist die Grundlage unseres Wohlstands. Wie Nationen dieses Kapital vermehren können: Mein Interview zu meinem Vortrag bei der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften @oeaw.bsky.social (ÖAW-/Statistik Austria-Lecture) www.oeaw.ac.at/news/wie-hae...
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Wohlstand durch Bildung
Wissen ist die Grundlage unseres Wohlstands. Wie Nationen dieses Kapital vermehren können, stellte Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Ludger Wößmann im Rahmen einer gemeinsamen Vorlesung von ÖAW und Statistik...
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources: ⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow 👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... A 🧵 1/6
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📢 Call for papers: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Check out the current edition of our newsletter. Topics: 🔷What adolescents and adults think about social media 🔷Socioeconomic gap in child care 🔷Peers at college entry improve performance ... 👉http://sendlx.com/display.php?M=111124773&C=71415e53f9fcb9e9f5c8facfea005ae8&S=198827&L=2481&N=109616
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 12/09/2025
Looking back to a wonderful 4th edition of our Workshop on Field Experiments earlier this week – what an amazing crowd 😍 Thank you all for coming and making this event possible – special shoutout to our keynotes, Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🙏 To a 5th edition in 2026! 🚀
Group picture from the Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business 2025 at TUM Campus Heilbronn
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Ich freue mich schon riesig auf das 🚨Bildungspolitische Forum 2025🚨 in das ich in diesem Jahr einführen darf! Es geht um ➡️Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel⬅️ Im Video reiße ich schon mal die Themen an, um die es geht: 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuA... 1/2
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LERNBPF25 - Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel - Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann
YouTube video by Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Bildungspotenziale
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Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Digitale Welt, geteilte Meinungen Das ifo-Bildungsbarometer zeigt: Erwachsene wollen strenge Regeln, Jugendliche sind gespalten. Politik und Wissenschaft suchen derweil nach einer Balance zwischen Schutz und Chancen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...
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bildungsklick @bildungsklick.de · 09/09/2025
85 Prozent der Erwachsenen wünschen sich ein #Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für die Einrichtung eines eigenen Social-Media-Accounts, so die Ergebnisse des repräsentativen #Bildungsbarometers 2025 des @ifoeducation.bsky.social. bildungsklick.de/schule/detai...
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ifo-Institut: Mehrheit will Mindestalter für Social-Media-Nutzung
Eine deutliche Mehrheit der deutschen Bevölkerung spricht sich für eine stärkere Altersbeschränkung bei der Nutzung von Social Media aus: 85 Prozent der Erwachsenen wünschen sich ein Mindestalter von ...
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
66% der Jugendlichen und 46% der Erwachsenen sind dafür, dass der Umgang mit KI im Unterricht gelehrt wird. 7/7
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
82% der Jugendlichen und 50% der Erwachsenen nutzen Künstliche Intelligenz für schulische bzw. berufliche Zwecke. 6/7
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🚨 85% (!) der Erwachsenen sind für ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social Media. Selbst unter den Jugendlichen ist eine relative Mehrheit dafür. 👉 Dies und mehr im neuen ifo Bildungsbarometer 2025: www.ifo.de/fakten/2025-... 1/7
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 06/09/2025
Day 2 of our 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, the 16th edition, has started. Great presentations, lively discussaions and many familiar faces. Looking forward to @raffasadun.bsky.social keynote speech this afternoon! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... @ifoeducation.bsky.social
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LERN @leibnizbildung.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
#LERNBPF25: „Bildung in Zeiten von #Transformation und beruflichem #Wandel“ 📣 Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann (ifo Institut): „Bildung muss zur Anpassung und Gestaltung befähigen – Basiskompetenzen sind entscheidend.“ Am 1.10. führt er in Berlin ins Thema ein. 🔗 Anmeldung: www.leibniz-bildung.de/bpf25
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 04/08/2025
⌛️ REMINDER: Two weeks left to apply for this fantastic postdoc position at @ifoeducation.bsky.social 🙂 Deadline: August 17 ⏲️ IMPORTANT: The position requires fluent German skills 🧑‍🏫 @woessmann.bsky.social @cesifo.org
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
‼️Neuer ifo Schnelldienst-Artikel‼️ von Florian Schoner, Larissa Zierow & Vera Freundl 💡Verhaltensnoten in der Schule (sog. „Kopfnoten“) sind... ➡️bedeutungslos für Bildungserfolg und Berufseinstieg 📚❌ ➡️kosten jährlich ca. 206 Mio. € 💸 www.ifo.de/publikatione...
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
📢 Job alert: Postdoc position 🧑‍🎓 (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) In our Center, @henninghermes.com is looking to fill a research position in the economics of education, particularly to join in major field experimental work on mentoring Come join our team! 👇
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🔍 We are looking for a student assistant! 🔎 If you... ▶️ are interested in empirical research ▶️ are enrolled in a Bachelor’s/ Master's program in economics, data or social sciences (or similar) ▶️ have knowledge in econometrics, scraping & Stata/R ...please apply! 👉 www.ifo.de/en/stellenan...
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
💌The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out! Topics: 🔹 Working-memory training and children's skills 🔹Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities 🔹 Negative mental health effects of working from home 🔹... 👉 bit.ly/44rvTI2
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Was für ein spannender Tag gestern am ifo Institut! 💫 Beim Regionalfinale Süd-Ost von YES! - Young Economic Solutions präsentierten Schulteams ihre Lösungsansätze zu drängenden gesellschaftlichen & wirtschaftlichen Fragen – begleitet von engagierten Forschenden, u. a. aus dem ifo Institut 💡
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social): 👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... A 🧵 1/9
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 18/06/2025
Over the moon to see our paper on "Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment" out in the June 2025 issue of @jeeanews.bsky.social today! 🤩🥳🥳🥳 What a journey – huge thanks to @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🙂
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LERN @leibnizbildung.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
❗️Save the Date: Bildungspolitisches Forum 2025❗️ „Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel“ 1. Oktober 2025, Landesvertretung NRW, Berlin & via Livestream 📣 Anmeldung ab 30. Juni unter 👉 www.leibniz-bildung.de/bpf25 Ausgerichtet von IAB, ifo und RWI. #BPF25
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
‼️Support gesucht Begleitet vom ifo Zentrum für Bildungsökonomik entwickelte das Ortenburg-Gymnasium Oberviechtach ✨Edyoumaps✨, um Bildungsgerechtigkeit zu verbessern. Über den Wettbewerb Startup Teens kann man dafür voten & unterstützen (Impact Entrepreneurship): www.startupteens.de/challenge-20...
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ifo Education @ifoeducation.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🎉We are part of the Cluster of Excellence “TransforM”, funded by @dfg.de!🎉 Jointly with @tum.de, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, @zew.de & @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social, the aim is to better understand how new technologies transform society & economy 🧑‍💻 More: transform-cluster.de
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Economics. For Society. @ubscenter.uzh.ch · 23/05/2025
Recent research by @profdaviddorn.bsky.social and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human capital like education or work experience. www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS
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What your professional skills on LinkedIn reveal about human capital and inequality
### A new working paper by UBS Foundation Professor David Dorn and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human ...
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 15/05/2025
We've wrapped up the 2025 #CESifo/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 🙏Thank you to @alexeble.bsky.social and Alexander Willen for their inspiring keynotes! 👏to @stnavdeev.com for winning the Best Paper Award for 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘰𝘵: 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Bildungsleistung durch Verbindlichkeit" Das neue Gutachten des Aktionsrat Bildung www.aktionsrat-bildung.de/fileadmin/Bi...
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 12/05/2025
Kicking off day 1 of the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! Great start with a sunny poster session🌞 #EconomicsOfEducation #Econsky @ifoeducation.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @henninghermes.com
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