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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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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

(1) banger (2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

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Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

🎉 Teaching Milestone 🎉 This semester, I’m teaching my 10,000th student in Econ 101 (Micro 1). Over the past 8 years, it’s been a lot of fun and a privilege to teach the fundamentals of economics - scarcity, demand and supply, opportunity costs, game theory and externalities.

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Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Die UZH bietet dieses Jahr erneut das Modul «Mentoring für die nächste Generation» an. 54 Studierende begleiten ein Jahr lang je ein Primarschulkind als Mentor*in, nehmen an interdisziplinären Vorlesungen zur Kinder- und Jugendentwicklung teil und setzen Theorie in die Praxis um.

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @xshan.bsky.social, @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social, and Uschi Backes-Gellner provide first-time evidence that online instruction disproportionally harms the learning outcomes of women compared to men. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

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Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🚨 New working paper! 🚨 We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉 with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I appreciate the multiple hypothesis testing reason for indices. But think of a meta-analysis that can't use the study b/c disaggregated results aren't shown. I'd be fine if people just shared this post-publication. (My use case: an index that combines women's gender attitudes and employment.)

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Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A new paper by @xshan.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social presents evidence from a randomised field experiment showing that peer groups can influence students’ conscientiousness, openness, and competitiveness - but have no spillover effects on extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. Link👇

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Peers Affect Personality Development

Abstract. Do people around us influence our personality? We investigate this question through a field experiment where we randomly assign university students to study groups. We find personality spill...

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Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

When cleaning up I found this old business card of mine. During the 3 years I worked at IZA/briq as a postdoc I had an incredible productive time and terrific colleagues.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

📢 Call for papers: 🚀 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🥳 12-13 May 2025, Munich Keynote: Alexander Willen PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Deadline: 16 Feb 2025 Co-organizer: Caterina Pavese @cesifo.org #EconSky

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Alexandra de Gendre @adegendre.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Now heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

📢 We are hiring 📢 ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one 6-year Postdoc 👩‍🎓 to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! 👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131 Deadline: 24 Nov 2024 Please spread the word! #EconSky

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Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The Jacobscenter and Department of Economics is looking for an Assistant Professor specializing in the Economics of Child and Youth Development. 📅 Deadline: TOMORROW! Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10...

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Jan Feld @econfeld.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex? NO in primary education, YES in secondary education. A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...

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Ulf Zölitz @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Come to Zurich and work with me. I am hiring a predoc. More info is here: ulfzoelitz.com/wp-content/u...

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