First meta paper by I4R is now out as an IZA DP, with 350+ coauthors & 110 reproductions/replications.

No time to read 250 pages? 😅 Get the key takeaways in the IZA Newsroom summary 👇
newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/res…

Just recalled an exchange with Daniel Kahneman.💔

Shane: 'What is the most important trait for becoming a successful academic?'

Danny: 'The ability to exaggerate the importance of your research.'

I guess the (apparently) world famous Bonn cherry blossom partly delivered 😉

Looking forward to our IZA research retreat today! 🦜

The 'Field Days - Experiments Outside the Lab' workshop is in Amsterdam this year! Check out the call for papers and submit your paper by May 31.

🗓️ Oct 17-18, 2024
📍 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
📄 CfP: tinbergen.nl/event/2024/10/…

``Data from high-stakes interview processes show that the quality of the previous candidate has a strong influence on hiring and admission decisions.' Recently accepted to REStud, from Jonas Radbruch and Amelie Schiprowski:

restud.com/interview-sequ…

Fostering a dynamic exchange of diverse perspectives, our guest researchers program makes IZA a vibrant center for scholarly collaboration.
In April we’re excited to welcome Cameron Peng, Ashley Wong, Hans Henrik Sievertsen & very happy to have Miriam Wüst staying with us for 4 months!

To explain away smoking & lung cancer link association, you need a confounder that:
- is associated with a 20x increase in lung cancer
- is 20x as prevalent among smokers
cran.r-project.org/web/packages/E…

What's the equivalent for social media & mental health?

A couple thoughts tangentially related to the EJ/JPopEcon replication discussion, both on how I learned to minimize mistakes and be a more careful reader of reduced form work. Maybe useful for early career people.

Great example on how models work by simplification and abstraction.

About that debate on assumptions in economic theory:

Very glad to see our paper 'Maternal Dengue and the Health of Children' with Lívia Menezes in this issue of the AEJ: Applied. Using matched admin data from Brazil, we find that maternal dengue infections reduce birth weight substantially, increase the chance for low Bweight (1/n)

Braindrain durch fehlenden Datenzugang in D, risikoaverse Verwaltung und mutlose Politik mit Hang zu Intransparenz.

I felt the need to express my frustration with German data in a meme

Five days left to apply for this great Postdoc opportunity!

Very excited about this paper and the line of work it will inspire! 🤩 'Meaning at Work' by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni, and Zingales. #ModernEconomics

Getting ready for the Easter break 🧳? Before your holidays, do not forget to submit your micro or macro labor papers to the CRC TR 224 EPoS Bonn-Mannheim labor workshop! Deadline: Easter Monday (April 1). Submissions to [email protected]

Andreas Gulyas Moritz Kuhn ZEW_en Department of Economics, University of Mannheim

One week left to apply! 👇

Das ARD Interview der Woche beginnt mit einer herausfordernden Schellfragerunde (😅😅). Danach geht es um die deutsche Wirtschaft und vor allem um die Chancen der jungen Menschen sowie den Mut zur Veränderung in Deutschland - der größer werden muss💪🥳

👉 swr.de/swraktuell/rad…

Apply apply apply! One of the best jobs for early-career researchers 👇

🚨Still 10 days to apply!🚨

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