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Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The goal of this session is to democratize information about the application process so that everyone has a better chance to put their best foot forward. Link to register: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PhD position? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @markuskollberg.bsky.social in #STATEWORK at Humboldt University and join our @dynamics.bsky.social PhD programme Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 13 October 2026

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Three quarters of managers at a major European manufacturer acknowledge hoarding their most talented workers. We spoke with Ingrid Haegele of @lmu.de about how to measure hoarding, what it costs workers, and what firms might do about it #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/tal...

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When managers try to keep their best workers from moving into other departments

Ingrid Haegele discusses the costs of talent hoarding.

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Applications are open for EuroWEPS Berlin.👇There is also some change in the EuroWEPS organising committee. @pavisuri.bsky.social is taking a step back, while @aalrababah.bsky.social & @ewirsching.bsky.social are joining starting with this edition. A big thank you to Pavi & welcome to Ala and Elisa!

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Thinking about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statement that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven

"I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place," Archbishop Tutu said at the launch of the Free and Equal campaign in Cape Town.

"I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this."

Archbishop Tutu said the campaign against homophobia was similar to the campaign waged against racism in South Africa.

"I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level," he added.

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Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE @safefrankfurt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Application reminder! Join us as a Research Assistant / Doctoral Student (f/m/d) – Macro Finance 📅 Start date: 1 October 2026 ⏳ Fixed-term for 1 year (70% position) 📩 Deadline: 3 July 2026 👉 Application: career.safe-frankfurt.de/jobposting/b... #EconSky #MacroFinance #DoctoralStudent

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Finally out! Read about our research on the optimal design of severance pay schemes. Using a field experiment after a trade-induced layoff shock in Ethiopia, we show that paying severance as a lump sum reduces reemployment rates relative to paying monthly tranches.

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 22/05/2026

📆 One week left to apply! We are still looking for excellent PhD students and postdocs to join us at the TUM Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC).

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We're #hiring a CSAE Projects Officer Provide financial & administrative support for the Economic Policy Network & Open Political Economy Anaylysis Programme, & other CSAE projects all at the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social ⏰Deadline: 20 May 2026, 12:00 BST ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

We're hiring graphic on grey background. We're #hiring a CSAE Projects Officer

Provide financial & administrative support for the Economic Policy Network & Open Political Economy Anaylysis Programme, & other CSAE projects all at the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

⏰Deadline: 20 May 2026, 12:00 BST
ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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srgitter @sethgitter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If you teach intro to Econ and would be interested in being part of an RCT on AI homework tutor I have a good lead on funding. Participating faculty will get $500 to $1000. DM me or email sgitter@towson.edu Please repost! Repost and I'll buy you a drink at ASSA 2027 or future conference

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Marc Witte @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

10 more days to get the early bird 🐦 discount for our @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social summer school in development economics!

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Economics Department J.-F.-Kennedy Institute @jfki-econ.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

📢 We are hiring a PhD student @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Join the team of @steinhardt.bsky.social and contribute to research in labor economics, migration, political economy & gender economics. 🗓️ Deadline: 13 April Details in the call www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

One advantage of jet lag, it’s easier to get up for an early morning run. #OxCSAE2026

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Tune in to learn more about industrial parks and policy in Ethiopia and beyond. #OxCSAE2026

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Next up, @Mahreen Kahn @ox.ac.uk on the effects of soft skill training for students in Bangladesh. Skill and employment increase even in the medium term (6-12months), in particular for women. The program was very cost effective at less than 4USD per participant. #OxCSAE2026

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Now, @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social presents on the direct and indirect impact of a nursing training program for women. The training increases both participants’ and connect individuals’ employment and earning. Spillovers likely emerge due information spillovers. #OxCSAE2026

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The next presentation is by Lea Rouanet at the World Bank on whether information on earnings can reduce the gender gap in the impact of TVET training in the Republic of Congo. Short run results show reduced gender gaps but effects dissipate over time as women leave jobs at higher rates. #OxCSAE2026

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

My first session at #OxCSAE2026 is on female employment. First up is by Nissi Moses @rug.nl on the impact of fast internet on employment rates by gender. She find that access to internet leads aggregate employment to decrease but she observes a narrowing of gender gaps.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So good to be back @oxfordcsae.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk for the 2026 CSAE conference on development economics. I will post on Bluesky about the papers I see over the next days. Stay tuned. #OxCSAE2026

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 21/03/2026

🧵A thread on "AI one-shot papers". This has not been a focus on Bluesky, but on Twitter/X and LinkedIn, there has been a large discussion of the ability to "one-shot" policy evaluation, which David Yanagizawa-Drott has been pursuing in an interesting way: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/03/2026

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

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Stanislav Avdeev @stnavdeev.com · 19/03/2026

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am not right for it because I am neither smart nor innovative (and possibly also a bit older than 30), but if YOU are, this is a great opportunity. 👇

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Michael Wiebe @michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

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Toman Barsbai @tomanbarsbai.com · 12/03/2026

Last call for applications. Deadline is on March 15.

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Are you an African national thinking of applying for graduate study in Economics at the University of Oxford? ⏰ Deadline for 2026 entry is 27 Jan 2026 📽️ Watch our webinar round-up video to get expert advice from CSAE professors on how to make the best application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9j5...

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Graduate Study in Economics at Oxford: Scholarship Application Advice from CSAE Professors

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 14/01/2026

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic
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Abstract: Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Aleksander Molak @alxndrmlk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Causal Inference Meeting in Oxford? Here we go! This year's European Causal Inference Meeting (EuroCIM / @eurocim.bsky.social) will take place in Oxford, UK. What to expect? 1/ #CausalSky #EpiSky #EconSky #MLSky #StatSky

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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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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/01/2026

All three statements are true at the same time—

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/12/2025

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/LegalAdviceUK by user Fun-Blueberry-2147. The post describes that the user’s sister, who has schizophrenia, admitted herself to the hospital after believing someone was communicating with her through her smart fridge, which turned out to be an LED screen advertisement. The post explains that she spent two days under monitoring with medication adjustments and that the specific ad she saw included her name, making it especially distressing. The user questions the legality of such targeted or unsettling ads on smart appliances in the UK.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 10/11/2025

Here me out but have you considered an 8 computer garage lan with Warcraft 3 installed. We can save America one RTS at a time

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 06/11/2025

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🚨 2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ at Uni Copenhagen 🚨 Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀! Dedicated time for your own research. Reach out to hear more! ** PLEASE REPOST **🙏 Application deadline 🗓️: Nov 11 👉http://bit.ly/4q2Uehf #EconSky

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In the second half of the paper, we develop a model with a new mechanism to explain firms’ lack of wage posting. Firms do not include pay information as bargaining offers an insurance mechanism against not being able to hire profitably at the posted pay.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Why? Not because they don’t know which skills firms want. Rather, because job seekers in this context and other contexts have limited information about their own skills (two of my working papers provide evidence on this in Ethiopia and South Africa: docs.iza.org/dp17761.pdf, tinyurl.com/3wsydrv6).

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

2. Pay information does not increase sorting by skills as high wage salaries do not receive higher-quality applicants. So firms’ worries about under-qualified applicants do not bear out. However, there is also no positive assortative matching of applicants and vacancies.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

1. Pay information increase the wage elasticity of application numbers. That is, relatively high-wage postings attract more applicants, while low-wage postings attract fewer. . ➡️ Job seekers use pay information to decide where to direct their applications.

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We recruit a diverse set of 314 firms with a total of 447 vacancies who agree for us to randomize whether they job adverts include salary information. We then track all applications and screen applicants before forwarding applications to our partner firms. Key findings below:

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This project was motivated by a stark fact: only !4%! of job adverts in Addis Ababa had any information about the provided pay. We ask firms why: 68% say want to avoid attracting under-qualified applicants and 41% want to negotiate salaries. Can we support this empirically?

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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0... @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields. But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Grace @gracekind.net · 06/09/2025

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 02/09/2025

My 10-years old son is walking home from school alone for the first time. Kidnappers, drug dealers, strangers? Not worried. Other parents driving SUVs is what I am terrified of.

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Submission deadline for this PEDL young scholars workshop (to take place the day before the Oct 24-25 @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social ‬Firms/Trade/Development conference) is Sept 7 (soon!). For researchers post-PhD but untenured (or <=8 years out). Hope to see many of you there.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

From June 2025 - Political Activists are Not Driven by Instrumental Motives: Evidence from Two Natural Field Experiments - cup.org/4kfEt2h - @anselmhager.bsky.social, @lukashenselecon.bsky.social, Johannes Hermle & Christopher Roth #OpenAccess

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