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Nils Braakmann

@nilsbraakmann.bsky.social
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Economics Prof, Newcastle University. Dad to 2 humans and 3 cats. St Pauli supporter. All posts in personal capacity. Causal inference, geocoded crime data, labour & urban econ. Work: www.ncl.ac.uk/business/people/profi…

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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We have another job: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS382/l... Closes end of March! #EconSky
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Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University
An academic position as a Lecturer in Economics is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@nilsbraakmann.bsky.social , @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social, and I form the program committee. More info here: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...
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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Time to submit a paper to the Fifth Annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Micro! Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. 5-7 May, submit papers here: www.tinyurl.com/FifthSaNESub...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Now in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (with Wednesday Croft): We consider the introduction of private security measures in supermarkets and their role in preventing shoplifting using a well-publicised change at Tesco. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #CrimSky #Econsky #WeAreNCL
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Crime Prevention Through Private Actors: Evidence From a Policy Change at a Large UK Supermarket Chain
This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well-publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and t...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚨Jobs! Come and work with us - we’re a nice department and it’s mostly not grim up north either! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ343/l... #WeAreNCL #EconSky
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Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Economics is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In the grimness of the north birds scavenge for food #GrimUpNorth
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
People in London (and elsewhere with internet access as it's also online) - if you ever wanted to hear me talk about geocoded crime data and causal inference - here's your chance (June 10th at 4 at the Met). Free but ticketed: www.ticketsource.co.uk/mps-research... #WeAreNCL #CrimSky #EconSky
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Always nice to see your government carefully engaging with evidence and coming up with nuanced takes that do a complex topic justice 🙄...
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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Good morning, Crieff! Looking forward to the second day of the Fourth SaNE conference in applied micro— the first was great. Thanks to @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social for their work on the program and @ludogazze.bsky.social for last night’s keynote.
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
@scoteconsociety.bsky.social conference day 2. Featuring an organised session on crime (and yours truly) at 11. #ses2025
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
First keynote at the @scoteconsociety.bsky.social annual conference #econsky #ses2025
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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Welcome to the #SES2025 annual conference! Blue skies here in Glasgow
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New paper with Barbara Eberth out in Industrial Relations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky #EconSky #WeAreNCL We study the effects of strikes in higher education on student-and research-related outcomes using the last few years of strikes in UK HE.
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Grim up north in the winter… #GrimUpNorth
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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Just a little over one more week to submit to the Fourth Annual SaNE conference in Scotland. The deadline is 31 January. Join us up north!
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Not a specialist on automotive industries - but I’ve got a feeling that sick leave rules might not be the main reason for their current crisis…
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#WeAreNCL ⬇️
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
School projects are surprisingly fun…
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Send us your best papers! It's nice up North... #Econsky
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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
No such disparities between the most left-wing and the most right-wing members of other disciplines
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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Me, an economist who wrote one of TIE papers, shaken to his core: how can I live with the fact that "going from the most left-wing authored estimate of the taxable top income elasticity to the most right-wing authored estimate decreases the optimal tax rate *checks notes* from 77% to 60%."
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Annette @annettebramley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today's blog in our #N8ResearchCulture series is from @newcastleuni.bsky.social and Dr Sara Zaemdar @candyrowe.bsky.social www.n8research.org.uk/a-creative-a...
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A Creative Approach to Fostering a Healthy Research Culture with Dr Sara Zaeemdar - N8 Research Partnership
In a recent interview with Dr Sara Zaeemdar, a lecturer in Organisation Studies at Newcastle University's Business School, the discussion explored aspects of fostering a healthy research culture withi...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New working paper: Temperature, crime and policing: Evidence from UK geocoded data Short thread below, paper available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf... #Econsky #Criminology #WeAreNCL
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Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We're proud to announce we'll be leading the North East England Doctoral Landscape in Biosciences bringing 100 PhD studentships to the region, with funding for at least another 45 PhD students here at Newcastle 🎓 🎉 Find out more about the schemes 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL
Promotional image stating funding available for over 145 doctoral researchers
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing
Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2011 with the headline "University in talks with Egypt over future of ancient mummy"Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2003 with the headline "UCC keeping 2.3 tonnes of uranium in basement store"
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price
NBER Working Paper No. 33164
November 2024
JEL No. 123, 124, N32
ABSTRACT
We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Available open access online #Econsky #criminology #WeAreNCL academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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Racial Disparities in Civilian Response to Police Use of Force: Evidence From London
Abstract. This study explores the impact of police use of force on civilian interactions with the police, focussing on neighbourhoods with different ethnic
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now that I’ve figured out tagging… recently out in print. www.aeaweb.org/articles.php... #econsky #criminology #WeAreNCL
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Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location
(October 2024) - We provide first evidence that variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely held perception in t...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Now with tags after I remembered how Bluesky works… #econsky #WeAreNCL #criminology
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
#OddSocksDay #AntiBullyingWeek
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
PhD funding for next year ⬇️ www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
The sort of stuff your kid randomly finds on a Sunday… paper shark assembly set…
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
New paper with Bahadir Dursun and Diego Zambiasi: doi.org/10.1111/jors...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Back home from a conference. Nice sunrise while on ferry.
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Very happy to see this www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... out in print at AEJ: Applied
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Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location
(October 2024) - We provide first evidence that variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely held perception in t...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,048,062!
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Are you interested in studying for a PhD in Economics? Funded Lomas Scholarships for PhD study in Economics are available at Newcastle University: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate... #phdeconomics #newcastleuniversity #NCLBusiness #economics #EconSky #WeAreNCL
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Out for a few days now, but very happy to announce results from our Nuffield-funded project on the effects headteachers have on their schools - joint work with the Education Policy Institute. Available here: epi.org.uk/publications.... #EconSky #WeAreNCL
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The influence of headteachers on their schools - Education Policy Institute
This report assesses the impact of headteachers on school performance in England, and the mechanisms through which headteachers influence performance. In addition, the study explores whether a headtea...
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Another grim autumn day up north…
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
#Econsky 📉📈 I remember that there was a recent paper comparing TWFE and differential-timing DiD in political science papers - the one that found that sign reversal was rare. Does anyone remember the reference?
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Lots of really sad-looking people from Paris today. Something must have happened…
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Lots of people from Paris near the office today. Must be something going on in town 😉
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
One interesting change to Twitter - people seem to have aged quite a bit. Updated profile pics or the stress of switching? 😉
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Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Hello Bluesky, we're Newcastle University 👋 We're based in the North East (ie best bit) of England. From 1834 to the current day we exist to advance education & research & to help society tackle the many challenges it faces. Follow us for updates on our research, student life & the world around us.
Newcastle University's red brick arches with thick green trees in the foreground
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
#GrimUpNorth
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
We are searching for an Associate or Full Professor of Computational Social Science (broadly defined) to join our department at LSE If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me. Polisky
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Associate Professor/Professor in Computational Social Science
http:jobs.lse.ac.uk Vacancies
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
1951 Alice in Wonderland in 18th century stables.
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Nils Braakmann @nilsbraakmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Drop something blue from your gallery (great north run edition)
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