Reposted by Jerry MontonenMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm reminded of one of my favorite passages in Banerjee and Duflo's "Good Economics for Hard Times". "The goal of social policy, in these times of change and anxiety, is to help people absorb the shocks that affect them without allowing those shocks to affect their sense of themselves.." 213223
Reposted by Jerry MontonenZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now. 501157156
Reposted by Jerry MontonenRahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seit Google automatisch KI-Zusammenfassungen anzeigt, haben "zero-click searches" um ≈70% zugenommen. Für die direkte Demokratie der Schweiz hat das grosse Folgen. Bei der #10MillionenSchweiz -Abstimmung (Bevölkerungsdeckel) tendierten die KI-Zusammenfassungen von Google mehrheitlich zur Ja-Seite 1187
Reposted by Jerry MontonenBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That’s good Bluesky 72120042228
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A fly just zipped into my mouth while gabbing on CNN. Next question was about the Fed, so I did what Kevin Warsh won't—I swallowed hard and kept talking. I figure folks deserve some clarity about the economy. (Postscript: The fly is dead. And I'm no longer a vegetarian.) 1371647154
Reposted by Jerry MontonenSteffen Ganghof @ganghof.bsky.social · 03/08/2026@pluggedchris.bsky.social zur 5%-Hürde: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...faz.net6,8 Millionen wertlose Stimmen: Die Fünfprozenthürde entmündigt WählerIst die Fünfprozenthürde noch zeitgemäß? Wenn immer mehr Stimmen von Bürgern verloren gehen, verlieren der Bundestag und die Landesparlamente an Legitimation. Reformen sind dringend geboten. Ein Vorsc... 023
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/20261996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone 2244391180
Reposted by Jerry MontonenLudger 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 03949
Reposted by Jerry MontonenLou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 09/06/2026"The US must respond to this attack" ... #foreverwar 4320543
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/04/2026This is also why universal demand subsidies in rich countries are immoral. 721250
Reposted by Jerry MontonenMonika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · 13/04/2026Eine Senkung des ⛽️ Preises für alle durch eine zeitlich befristete Aussetzung der Energiesteuer ist die schlechteste aller bisher diskutierten Optionen. Das ist eine Hilfe mit der Gießkanne, auch für Menschen, die den höheren Preis verkraften können. Es reduziert den Anreiz… 421375326
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/04/2026Live footage of German politicians 69215
Reposted by Jerry MontonenSvend Elberg Thomsen @lejesvend.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I stedet for at sænke afgift på benzin (5 mia. kr.) kunne staten: - Halvere prisen på offentlig transport (5 mia. kr.) eller - Give 33.000 lavindkomst-familier med langt til arbejde en gratis elbil (5 mia. kr.) Forskellen er, at billigere benzin ikke løser energikrisen. #dkpol 1213525
Reposted by Jerry MontonenClaas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Nun will Trump also die Europäer in seinen Krieg hineinziehen, den er ja nach eigener Aussage bereits gewonnen hat, und doht dafür erneut mit dem Ende der NATO. Die Konsequenz muss sein: Beschleunigter Ausbau regenerativer Energien und rascher Aufbau europäischer Verteidigungsstrukturen.deutschlandfunk.deIran-Krieg - Trump fordert Beteiligung der NATO in der Straße von Hormus und droht andernfalls mit "sehr schlechter Zukunft" für das BündnisUS-Präsident Trump hat die NATO aufgefordert, die USA dabei zu unterstützen, die Straße von Hormus wieder für die Schifffahrt zu öffnen. Andernfalls drohe der NATO eine - wie er der "Financial Times" ... 33420123
Reposted by Jerry MontonenPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026It's fascinating to me that Sweden, once global pariah for flouting lockdown consensus, seems to have come out better than even its Scandinavian neighbours 084
Reposted by Jerry Montonentaz @taz.de · 17/02/2026Die einen erben, andere nicht. Das ist ungerecht und daran ist nur schwer etwas zu ändern. Aber wie wäre es, Erbschaften als Einkommen zu besteuern?taz.deGerechte Erbschaftssteuer: Fairness gibt es nichtDie einen erben, andere nicht. Das ist ungerecht und daran ist nur schwer etwas zu ändern. Aber wie wäre es, Erbschaften als Einkommen zu besteuern? 610523
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023... 10411187
Reposted by Jerry MontonenChristoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp... 1117354
Reposted by Jerry MontonenStanislav Avdeev @stnavdeev.com · 26/11/2025New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition. In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social. 2166
Reposted by Jerry MontonenNBER @nber.org · 25/11/2025Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495 02911
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 17/10/2025Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them. 614557
Reposted by Jerry MontonenAlexandra de Gendre @adegendre.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added. 032
Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N) 14917
Reposted by Jerry MontonenKlaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 15/10/2025just a perfect paper, yet again with the power of scandinavian register data www.nber.org/papers/w34346nber.orgThe Impacts of Romantic Relationships with the BossFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 1112
Reposted by Jerry MontonenNye Cominetti @nyecominetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Can't believe someone a) had the data to write this paper b) wrote this paper www.nber.org/papers/w3434... 49330
Reposted by Jerry MontonenRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK? 1006112542235
Reposted by Jerry MontonenDer Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 26/08/2025Wenn der Faschismus wiederkehrt, wird er offenbar sagen: Ich bin der Faschismus. Aber Konservative werden sagen: Jetzt übertreibt aber nicht. 241091212
Reposted by Jerry MontonenDr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪 130224776670
Reposted by Jerry MontonenVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 13/06/2025Enforcing a single language without supporting bilingualism risks fragmenting the very markets such policies aim to unify. Economic gains arise not from linguistic uniformity, but from enabling shared fluency. T Gurevitch, P Herman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social, F Toubal cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky 083
Reposted by Jerry MontonenMaddie (delicious, nutritious) @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 12/06/2025See, the reason this wouldn't work is that people go to Wikipedia to know more about things instead of less. 11156
Reposted by Jerry MontonenGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 02/06/2025Some fun with fuel economy. The fuel cost of driving a given distance has rarely been cheaper relative to wages, thanks in part to higher fuel economy standards. 17712
Reposted by Jerry MontonenTim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 18/05/2025#econsky What do we know about “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” and about MIT's investigation of this paper, which apparently led to expulsion of its author? And what should we change in response. /1 35415
Reposted by Jerry MontonenPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Redistribution or govt spending don’t make equality, unionization does 15113
Reposted by Jerry MontonenIlko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Mit Kaja Kallas aus Estland hat Europa eine der stärksten und überzeugendsten Politiker*innen: standhaft, klar, eindeutig, solidarisch. Mit Martin Sonneborn hat Europa einen der dümmsten und niederträchtigsten Menschen: der Kremlknecht ist ein übler Sexist und Mansplainer. 72835160
Reposted by Jerry MontonenMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025people on the other site are doing "is living in denmark better than living in the us" discourse based on that one paper about wealth and mortality and all reasonable interpretations aside, if your metric of wellbeing says that living in mississippi is better than denmark then it's a stupid metric 619813
Reposted by Jerry MontonenJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.” 1409357199065
Reposted by Jerry MontonenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing. 518201284794
Reposted by Jerry MontonenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression. 17864602891
Reposted by Jerry Montonenchelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...lemonde.frEtats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q... 821637840
Reposted by Jerry MontonenInstitute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 24/02/2025After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵 313759
Reposted by Jerry Montonendoug @goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social · 16/01/2025why are you making me watch a video 552933721
Reposted by Jerry MontonenHeiner Salomon @heinersalomon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Das ist direkt wie aus 1984. Die Geschichte wird umgeschrieben während sie passiert. Der X-Account des Terroristen von #Magdeburg wurde wohl von #X selber „gereinigt“. Elon #Musk und X sind gefährlich, und wir sollten in Deutschland endlich aufwachen und diesem Anti-Demokraten etwas entgegensetzen! 0118
Jerry Montonen @montonenjerry.bsky.social · 09/12/2024For my fellow Scandinavian readers: @weekendavisen.dk just published an article based on my latest working paper "Dating and Breaking up With the Boss: Economic Benefits, Costs, and Spillovers", coauthored with @emilynix100.bsky.social and David MacDonald! www.weekendavisen.dk/2024-49/idee...weekendavisen.dkChefens kæresteMagtforhold. Mange finder deres kæreste på arbejdspladsen. Men ny forskning viser, at det kan være et farligt sted at lede efter den store kærlighed. 011
Reposted by Jerry MontonenPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 20/02/2024Taxing the rich has nearly no impact on business, mainly because the rich do not move. www.nber.org/papers/w32153nber.orgTaxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic ImplicationsFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 25027