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Silke Forbes

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Economist at Tufts University. Industrial Organization and Org Econ. MIT and Uni Mannheim alum. Formerly at UCSD Econ and CWRU Econ.

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Matthew Gudgeon @matthewgudgeon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Tufts is hiring a postdoctoral fellow in Economics of Education. The postdoc would conduct research and teach courses in the economics of education, working under the mentorship of the wonderful Elizabeth Setren. You can read about the position here: main.hercjobs.org/jobs/2203818... #EconSky
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics of Education in Medford, for Tufts University
Exciting opportunity in Medford, for Tufts University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics of...
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Robin Sogalla @rsogalla.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New WP: "𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜: 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙀𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙀𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝘼𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨" 📄 www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... 👥 Till Köveker, Philipp Richter and Alexander Schiersch 🧵
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DIW Berlin: Clean Production, Dirty Sourcing: How Embodied Emissions Alter the Environmental Footprint of Exporters
This paper revisits the exporter’s environmental premium (EEP) by incorporating emissions embodied in domestically and internationally sourced intermediate inputs. Combining administrative firm-level ...
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Economic Inquiry @ei-sky.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Does digital competition hurt truthful reporting? Economists @ayushpan.bsky.social l & @icotrombetta.bsky.social construct a theoretical model to provide insights. For breaking news, speed can reduce accuracy, while for investigative work, reputation drives careful reporting. tinyurl.com/mryp99zr
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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If this stands, and if it spreads, it would be a crushing blow to higher education in America -- and also a major new contributor to our trade deficits. Higher ed is one of the most reliable surplus drivers that our country can offer. Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
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Tim 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
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Job postings in DC: (Chart from Goldman)
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Bernhard Ganglmair @ganglmair.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Subjektives Sicherheitsgefühl in D grad am Boden. 50m vor einer Polizeiwache wird auf offener Straße, vor unserer Kita, am hell-lichten Tag auf jemanden eingestochen. Wie erklär ich das meinem 7yo? #WeLoveMannheim???
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UMN Economics @umn-econ.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday. cla.umn.edu/economics/ne...
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Remembering Patrick L. Bajari (1969-2025)
Patrick L. Bajari was a pioneer spanning the academic and business worlds.
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Jörg Oechssler @oechssler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I have a postdoc position in Behavioral/Experimental Economics available for 6 years, at the oldest university in Germany in beautiful Heidelberg. Please forward to anyone who might be interested! #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #Economics #JobAlert
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:
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Martin Gaynor @martingaynor.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
@assumenormality.bsky.social has been kind enough to build and post an archive of AHRF data, which are a treasure trove of county level information on socio-economic-demographic characteristics, health care resources, health measures, … See below for the link.
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
China’s efforts to regulate its most energy-intensive firms led to reduced energy use at targeted firms, but largely because they shifted production to other firms in their conglomerate network, say researchers at FuDan, Stanford, and Duke University. #econsky. www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
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Regulation and conglomerate production
The response of major Chinese companies to stringent energy use regulations
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Daniel Raimi @danielraimi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Come intern with us at @rff.org! We are accepting applications for our annual PAID summer internship program in Washington, DC. And one position will be working with me on tax policy related to critical minerals development. Please share! www.rff.org/careers/summ...
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RFF Summer Research Internship Program
The RFF summer internship program provides an opportunity for students to prepare for careers that engage in academic and policy-relevant research.
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CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Based on feedback from past participants, potential applicants, and mentors, the CeMENT workshop will now be held June 30 - July 2, 2025, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. To apply, go to: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... Deadline to apply is March 15.
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CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Call for papers for this excellent IO/competition workshop 2-3 June in Cambridge, organised by my colleagues Flavio Toxvaerd & @cgenakos.bsky.social oligoworkshop2025.econ.cam.ac.uk
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Oligo Workshop 2025
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Economists are in the wilderness. Politicians and the public have rejected their advice on everything from trade to climate change. They held comparatively little sway under Biden, and stand to hold less under Trump. Can they find their way back to influence? #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...
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Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? (Gift Article)
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The SF Fed has a new data indicators page: Regional Indicators for Labor Markets and Prices. This page provides data on labor market conditions, prices, and earnings across US states. Thanks to economists Leila Bengali and Genya Duzhak for setting this up. www.frbsf.org/research-and...
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Igor Letina @igorletina.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Planning your 2025 economics conference schedule? I've updated my list of general interest, IO, and theory conferences: www.igorletina.com/conferences.... New this year: you can generate a calendar file 📅 to easily track dates and submission deadlines of selected conferences. #econsky
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Neale Mahoney @nealemahoney.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Thrilled to see the FTC finalize their junk fee rule. Markets work when consumers can easily observe the full price. Mandatory back-end fees make it hard to comparison shop, blunting the forces of competition. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees
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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9
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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is a really nice paper on how online ratings can be biased by selection, in particular if "experts" have both better ability to identify high quality products and have stricter rating criteria, this will punish high quality products. (1/3)
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Pauline Carry @paulinecarry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Send your labor papers and come present at Princeton! Deadline is Dec 22. irs.princeton.edu/news/2024/nl...
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Call for Papers: 2025 Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists
2025 Northeast Labor symposium seeks to build community among junior faculty working on labor economic topics. Deadline to submit proposals is December 22, 2024.
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Chris Barrett @cbb2cornell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Please share ... CIDER development economics pre-doc fellows program now accepting applications for a July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, John Hoddinott, Martina Occelli, Heather Schofield, Joanna Upton, @johanneshaushofer.com, and more cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
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Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER), Cornell University
CIDER: The Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER) is a new cross-campus venture at Cornell University encompassing 23 faculty from multiple units across the Cor...
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Sebastian Königs @sebkoenigs.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨 We are hiring! The #OECD is looking to hire one or several Economists / Policy Analysts to work on labour market and social policy, including on #inequalities. The vacancy is open until 3 January 2025. Please spread the word, retweet and apply! #EconSky smrtr.io/pfCMb
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Economist(s) / Policy Analyst(s)
Company Description: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation of 38 member countries that works to build better policies for better lives. Our...
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Noam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
📣 Hiring alert! Multiple postdoc and RA opportunities with us at Oxford @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social #econsky
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Gina C. Pieters, PhD @ginapieters.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
1/3// #EconJMCs and Search Chairs: this year’s 3rd CSWEP News (@aeacswep.bsky.social) focused on the post-pandemic PhD job market. It highlights what has, and what hasn't, changed from the pre-COVID times, and provides corresponding resources and advice. #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/11/2024
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!" 1/ (Twitter rerun!)
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Forthcoming in AEJ: Microeconomics: "Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap" by Matteo Camboni and Michael Porcellacchia. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Transparency Trap
(Forthcoming Article) - In a model of moral hazard in teams, we demonstrate that firms’ concerns about low trust among teammates can justify two common but otherwise puzzling patterns: information was...
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Your electricity bill is likely dominated by delivery fees, not the energy itself. That won't be improving any time soon because they're payments for long-lived capital investments. Local utilities are enjoying a bonanza with very little oversight here. www.utilitydive.com/news/local-t...
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Local transmission spending soars nationwide amid ‘serious absence of cost containment’
In New England, Eversource and National Grid are advancing two local projects totaling $724 million as state utility regulators push for more oversight.
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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Econometrica is here! Any journals missing? Your friendly AEA ad hoc social media committee can nudge them to come.
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Shosh Vasserman @shoshievass.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The running list of IO job market candidates for 2024-2025 is live! Fill this out to add your info: forms.gle/upCQ4Ez7sBTP... Running list here: shoshanavasserman.com/io-jmc/
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Will Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Reupping this for 📈📉 and anyone interested in #food #agriculture or #nutrition
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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
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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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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨 Call for Papers: Economic Analysis of Regulation 🚨 We are delighted to have added Craig Garthwaite to the leadership team! Our 4th annual meeting will be on May 1, 2025 in Cambridge, MA. Submissions are due February 12, 2025. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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Submission: Economic Analysis of Regulation, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Cem Özdemir @oezdemir.de · 22/02/2024
Vor 81 Jahren wurden Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl und Christoph Probst ermordet. Sie hatten den Mut, die menschenverachtende Ideologie der Nationalsozialisten als solche zu benennen und Widerstand zu leisten. Ihr Andenken ist Auftrag, niemals zu schweigen, wenn Unrecht geschieht.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 22/02/2024
At the Dep. of Strategy & Innovation at Copenhagen Business School, we have an open call for a number of fully funded PhD scholarships. The application deadline is next week. 🚨 More info: www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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PhD in Department of Strategy and Innovation | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
PhD in Department of Strategy and Innovation Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a number of vacant PhD scholarships (2-3) at the Department of Strategy and Innovation. Expected starti...
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Igor Letina @igorletina.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Very happy to see this paper finally published. If you are interested in the innovation effects of startup acquisitions, check it out -- it's open access. #econsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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KILLER ACQUISITIONS AND BEYOND: POLICY EFFECTS ON INNOVATION STRATEGIES
This article provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that, in spite of counte...
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CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Wondering if 💰 incentives are effective in non-routine analytical teams? #EconSky Florian Englmaier, Stefan Grimm, Dominik Grothe, @david-schindler.de, & Simeon Schudy show that 👉YES, they are! Recent article in the Journal of Political Economy: www.journals.uchicag... 1/4
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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Call for papers for the 2024 Brookings/Brandeis/Chicago/Purdue Municipal Finance Conference! The submission deadline is March 1, and the conference is at the Brookings Institution in DC on July 17-18. www.brookings.edu/centers/the-...
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Municipal Finance Conference | Brookings
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Welcome to bsky, Gib Metcalf! @gibmetcalf.bsky.social
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Daniel Raimi @danielraimi.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
Applications are now open for RFF's 2024 summer (paid) internship program. Come work with us! www.rff.org/careers/summ...
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RFF Summer Research Internship Program
The RFF summer internship program provides an opportunity for students to prepare for careers that engage in academic and policy-relevant research.
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Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson @profericson.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
We have a spot market for hospital services (with largely inflexible prices when there is a demand surge). On the other hand, we desire to have capacity, but there is no institutional mechanism that pays to sustain capacity. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/19/b...
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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
This week's links include Abhijit and Esther on the problem of government jobs in India (+ the poverty debate), Dani Rodrik on industrial policy, a collection of posts using different causal methods in development, conference calls, and more blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...
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Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Ok folks, here is the job ad for our Empirical IO Assistant Professor position and how to apply: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange... We'll be moving fast so please encourage all of your students to apply quickly. 📈📉
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Assistant Professor of Economics at USC
Assistant Professor of Economics at USC
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Monika Schnitzer @monika-schnitzer.com · 08/01/2024
Ein Update zur Weitergabe der #CO2-Kostensteigerung ab Januar an den #Tankstellen. Die Preise in 🇩🇪 sind in der letzten Woche relativ zu 🇫🇷 kontinuierlich gestiegen. Aktuell liegt die Weitergaberate bei ca. 80-90%.
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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
My blog post today about our household's carbon footprint and my surprise at the degree to which air travel dominates our home energy usage. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/o...
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Our 2023 Carbon Footprint
A few calculations led to surprising conclusions about how to reduce our household's impact. The holiday break is a great time to catch up with friends, try out some new dishes on my fabulous inductio...
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