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Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Aus Sicht der Ökonomen hat die #Vermögenssteuer einen schweren Stand", behaupten heute zwei Juristen an prominenter Stelle. Ohne Quellenverweise. Ich behaupte das Gegenteil. Mit Quellenverweisen. Ein mini-🧵 1/ www.nzz.ch/meinung/waru...

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Bundesvermögenssteuer: warum der Vorschlag politisch und rechtlich problematisch ist

Finanzierung durch Vermögenssteuer: Vorteile und Nachteile im Überblick

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Prolific @joinprolific.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Independent research by Celebi, Exley, Harrs, Kivimaki, @martaserragarcia.bsky.social & @jyusof.bsky.social (2026) compares data quality across online participants, AI agents, & human subjects in the lab, with interesting platform variation. (1/4) 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu... #AcademicSky #EconSky

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Department of Economics @Universität Zürich🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 21/02/2026

Imagine 48 hours in jail. Would it change how you see prison, or criminal justice itself? A new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and @kofeth.bsky.social at @ethz.ch shows that firsthand incarceration can directly shift public opinion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0F...

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Standing in Prisonersʼ Shoes

YouTube video by UZH Department of Economics

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Dietmar Fehr @dietmarfehr.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We are very happy to welcome @fsberger.bsky.social and @jyusof.bsky.social to our Political Economy of Global Development Lab @unistuttgart.bsky.social l 🥳💪 Stay tuned for exciting research in political economy by Felix and on inequality and fairness by Jeffrey @pegdev.bsky.social

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Department of Economics @Universität Zürich🇨🇭 @econ.uzh.ch · 06/06/2025

🎉 Congratulations to @jyusof.bsky.social who has successfully defended his PhD Thesis: «Understanding Inequality and Redistribution: The Role of Perceptions and Preferences»! 🇩🇪 He will pursue a position as an assistant professor at the @unistuttgart.bsky.social

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Research (n=65k in 60 countries) by @ingvildalm et al reveals a rich picture of people’s views on inequality, shaped less by the cost of redistribution than by views on fairness, which vary across countries (eg does inequality stem from merit or luck?): buff.ly/zBQZNmm

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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 21/03/2025

Happy to attend the @cepr.org Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies workshop at St Gallen. I ll share some thoughts on this carefully curated workshop in this thread.

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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 21/03/2025

Next up, we have Jeff Yusof presenting joint work with Ricardo Perez-Truglia on Billionaire Superstar: Public Image and Demand for Taxation. They use an experiment where they used luxury queues -- pictures of their luxury homes -- in an informational experiment. Again, drawing links...

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Andre Meister @andre.netzpolitik.org · 03/02/2025

The German party AfD is suspected of being right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has analyzed the party and generated a detailed report. We are publishing this document in full. netzpolitik.org/2025/verdach...

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Verdachtsfall Rechtsextremismus: Wir veröffentlichen das 1.000-seitige Verfassungsschutz-Gutachten zur AfD

Die Alternative für Deutschland steht im Verdacht, rechtsextrem und verfassungsfeindlich zu sein. Der Verfassungsschutz beobachtet die Partei und hat ein ausführliches Gutachten erstellt. Wir veröffen...

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 28/01/2025

@belindaarch.bsky.social and I have written a letter from economists regarding PEPFAR. Please sign and share with your network. Only economist signatures right now (for more focused impact). Once signed, we will share with the administration, congress, + the media. #econsky forms.gle/C5roVX5sFF14...

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PEPFAR letter

January 28th, 2025 With news that Trump’s foreign aid executive order has halted distribution of life-saving HIV medications through PEPFAR, we write as concerned economists to express how crucial it ...

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In general, my work explores how people perceive inequality, how this shapes their preferences for redistribution, and their support for welfare policies. In other projects… [12/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Main take-away: Our results suggest that the conventional dichotomy of effort versus luck falls short of explaining redistributive preferences when market forces beyond individual control create inequality. Link to paper: bit.ly/40y8XGM [11/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

But how do fairness preferences influence people’s support for real-world welfare policies? We find that our experimental measures of fairness preferences are a strong predictor of support for welfare policies (controlling for SES and political affiliation). [10/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Does the market luck effect generalize to real-world market settings? In a complementary vignette study based on real-world scenarios, we again find that individuals perceive inequalities as fairer when caused by external market shocks rather than by brute luck. [9/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Do we see similar patterns across different cultural contexts? We ran additional experiments in France and China (N=3,500). The order of implemented inequality is consistent across all countries (bl<ml<ef), but the magnitude of the market luck effect varies. [8/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Additional treatments and analysis of open-ended answers show that: – Mere presence of the buyer alone cannot explain the market luck effect. – Workers’ deservingness increases when they generate a profit for the buyer. [7/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We find a substantial market luck effect: Spectators implement 50% more inequality (Gini coef) in the market luck treatment than in the brute luck treatment—about half of the effort treatment effect. This difference mirrors the inequality gap between Denmark and the U.S.! [6/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

To benchmark our main treatment effect, we also implement an *effort* treatment: Here, effort levels are no longer fixed; instead, relative performance on the task determines which worker receives the high income. [5/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In our control treatment, there are no buyers, and income is determined by a coin flip - *brute luck *. Key points: 1. In both treatments, which worker receives the high income is entirely random. 2. All workers provide the same level of effort. [4/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

How do people perceive these inequalities? How do they redistribute earnings between workers? Our main outcome variable is the redistributive choices of nearly 2,000 subjects from the general U.S. population, who act as third-party spectators. [3/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In this paper, co-authored with Simona Sartor, we design an experiment that creates income inequality between workers with different skills. By randomly matching workers with buyers who require specific skills, we generate income inequalities driven by *market luck*. [2/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨Job Market Paper Alert 🚨 A significant part of inequality stems from market forces beyond individual control - what we call *market luck*. In meritocratic societies, this raises a key question: Do people perceive these inequalities as fair? [1/14]

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Excited to see my job market paper with Simona Sartor featured in the German news! 🔥 Read the article here (in German): faz.net/aktuell/wirt... Time for a thread with more details about the paper. ⬇️

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Leistung und Glück: Wann wir Reichtum gerecht finden

Wenn jemand durch Zufall reich wird, gilt das als unfair. Wenn sich jemand sein Glück hart erarbeitet und der Wind zusätzlich günstig steht, sieht es anders aus.

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Thanks so much for posting our paper, Stephanie!

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Stephanie Wang @sweiwang.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#eeca Day 14: @jyusof.bsky.social JMP with Simone Sartor: "Market Luck: Skill-Biased Inequality and Redistributive Preferences" They find more willingness to accept inequality produced by market forces (cultural differences in France and China?) drive.google.com/file/d/1vVwB... #econsky #econjmp

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Jeffrey Yusof @jyusof.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Looks super interesting - thanks for sharing!

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Lukas Mergele @lukasmergele.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

As I am noticing some some momentum, here is a starter pack of 40+ profiles related to the Swiss 🇨🇭 economy 📈📉 go.bsky.app/9Hv8CCy 🐄🍫🧀🏔️⌚💡

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Hans Henrik Sievertsen @hhsievertsen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Spend 1$ on auditing >90th income percentile: get 12$ back <50th income percentile: get 5$ back

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Berlin School of Economics @bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

📯Call for Papers! 🔹1st Berlin Micro Theory and Behavioral Economics PhD Conference 📅July 7-9, 2025 at @WZB_Berlin ✍️Submission deadline: January 20, 2025 More information, and how to apply: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s... #EconTwitter #CfP

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/10/2024

The gun industry launched a secret project in the late 1990s. To elect gun-friendly politicians, manufacturers gave political operatives sensitive, intimate information on their customers without their consent. The story behind the data sharing and its impact has never been revealed. Until now.

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Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...

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