How are firms affected by parental leave absences?

Mathias Huebener (@bib_bund), Jonas Jessen (@iza_bonn), Daniel Kühnle (@UDE_econ), Michael Oberfichtner (@iab_news) find increased pre-leave hiring, short-term drop in employment, no long-term consequences. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/res…

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Ph.D. students in economics: How to organize your projects and not make the replication files a huge pain - a thread with a minimal working example with some potential extensions.

The latest issue of the Journal of Economic Literature has:
- an article on the productivity slowdown,
- an article on the productivity slowdown in economics publishing, and
- an article co-authored by the late Alberto Alesina who passed away 4 years ago.
aeaweb.org/issues/755

Legendary to put this in the JEL article 😂

'Mütter nehmen in der Regel deutlich längere Elternzeiten als Väter und übernehmen dann auch einen sehr viel größeren Anteil der Sorgearbeit,' Jonas Jessen über den GenderCareGap.

Explaining Selection-Bias.

'Wähle ein anschauliches Beispiel aus der Lebenswirklichkeit', hat die Hochschuldidaktik gesagt. 😉

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Thanks a lot to ⁦The Economist⁩ for featuring our research on the child penalty atlas and for the great visualisation work. How motherhood hurts careers economist.com/interactive/gr…

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Don't miss the online version of Martin Huber's book! It offers an insightful overview of quantitative methods for evaluating causal effects

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A great conference, usually the big themes relate to family economics, migration, crime, health, labor... One of the broadest 'applied micro' conferences we have in Europe.