🎗 Moshe Hazan

We are thrilled to announce that Ro’ee Levy, Tel Aviv University School of Economics, is joining the Editorial Board of The Review of Economic Studies. We look forward to his valuable contributions to the journal’s future.
#econsky #REStud

We are honored to have Oren Danieli, Tel Aviv University School of Economics, join the Editorial Board of The Review of Economic Studies. His distinguished research will enrich the journal’s editorial vision.

#econsky #REStud

Growing up in Israel in the 70s, the Holocaust was ever-present. The question “How could the world know and stay silent?” was heard all the time. Today I understand. I see what Israel’s government does in Gaza. And we, Israelis — most of us — stay silent.

Australian Gender Economics Workshop 2026

The Australian Gender Economics Workshop will take place at Monash U next year 🚀
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The paper is available here:
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Takeaway. Intra-household distribution of resources is pivotal for fertility outcomes. Policies that ignore payee identity risk missing the key margin.

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Policy. Eligibility and payments were individual (not hh-level), akin to UBI debates. Results indicate that who receives the transfer matters for fertility, highlighting a potential tension between UBI-style transfers and pronatalist policy if the goal is to increase births.

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Why ‘young’? Wartime and immediate postwar displacement often delayed marriage into the late 1940s. Women already of childbearing age during the war faced atypical constraints; younger cohorts were less directly affected—making the early–late contrast more informative for them

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Main result. When the recipient is a young woman—first eligible in the 1950s while still in childbearing years—completed fertility is lower by ~0.25–0.40 children relative to the corresponding gender-by-timing comparisons.

Event study: For treated young women, pre-eligibility trends in cumulative children are comparable; after first eligibility, the treated path lies below late-eligible comparisons.

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Design. Triple-difference across: (1) women vs. men; (2) early-eligible (1950s) vs. late-eligible (1990s); (3) pre vs. post first eligibility. We allow heterogeneity by age at eligibility. Outcome: cumulative number of children (completed fertility).

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Context. Some survivors qualified for large, lifelong reparations in the 1950s; others only in the 1990s, after fertility choices were largely complete. The groups had similar WWII experience. This yields an early–late contrast relative to the reproductive window.

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Question. How does women’s control over resources affect household fertility? In “She Who Pays the Piper Calls the Number: Reparations and Gender Differences in Fertility Choice”, (CEPR DP 20629) Shay Tsur and I study this using a quasi-experiment among Holocaust survivors in Israel.

Australian Gender Economics Workshop 2026

Come & join us in summer (February) in beautiful Melbourne: Submit your paper to the Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW), 11–13 Feb 2026 organised at Monash University and Monash Business School.

Deadline to submit a paper: 17 Oct 2025

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Congrats Sascha 👏

Some exciting news: The Monash IP Observatory 2.0 is finally live!

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It's public-access, one of a kind capability world-wide that maps and visualizes global #internet anomalies over the last 90 days, drawn from our billions of #data points.

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We miss you Down Under ❤️

Hey @erc.europa.eu are you aware that Ben Gurion University suspended an academic staff member for criticizing IDF actions in the West Bank and Gaza? Seems like a worrying precedent for academic freedom

I can confirm that this is being reviewed by appropriate Monash authorities. I saw the dean of the Monash Business School report this matter to the university on the same afternoon this thread was posted (24.2.2025 AEST).

💥Freed hostage Eli Sharabi, who was starved and tortured, whose wife and daughters were murdered on October 7, describing how Itamar Ben Gvir's racist boasts provoked the Hamas terrorists to torture captive Israelis.
#BringThemHomeNow #עדהחטוףהאחרון

As a 7 yr old boy, I met one of Mengele's twins. He couldn't speak without a device he held against his throat. His image has stayed with me ever since. But he survived to tell his story, and it reminds us: no person should ever be harmed because of their origin or race

As a 7 yr old boy, I met one of Mengele's twins. He couldn't speak without a device he held against his throat. His image has stayed with me ever since. But he survived to tell his story, and it reminds us: no person should ever be harmed because of their origin or race

Economics is about storytelling. In our baby boom paper, we argued WWII was key for the rise in female LFP. A referee disagreed, citing Goldin (1991), who argued it wasn’t. But when the words turned into numbers, Goldin's estimate was slightly larger than our untargeted moment
@mdoepke.bsky.social

I've been saying this for years: Science advances when editors are bold: publish unpolished, controversial but valuable papers. Let debates unfold publicly through comments so everyone benefits, not just authors, editors, and referees in private

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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