@jschneebacher.bsky.social
Economist at the IFS (@theifs.bsky.social). Interested in firms, productivity, markets, management and growth. Previously at the CMA, ONS, Nuffield College Oxford. All views my own. www.jakobschneebacher.com
🚨Replication alert🚨
I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER.
I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems.
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New paper out with Amanda Starc on competition in health insurance markets, in particular on the complicated ways in which asymmetric information and competition interact (spoiler: things aren’t going so well). www.nber.org/papers/w34928
This paper has, for obvious reasons, become quite relevant again...
Context: https://x.com/fetzert/status/1838600691520037294
Intrinsically, I think
a) thinking up good questions and
b) executing on them with good approaches is HARD.
I have not seen evidence that LLMs do this without prompting and guidance from a human agent.
But I have friends who disagree!
This looks like a great tool for PAPs.
Next Thursday at 3pm we launch @benzaranko.bsky.social's major new report on the UK fiscal framework at our in-person and online event, with a panel including @chrisgiles.ft.com, Victoria Clarke and Rupert Harrison chaired by Gus O'Donnell.
➡️ Sign up to join here: ifs.org.uk/events/does-...
New JEP is out, with an excellent symposium on competition in labour markets:
www.aeaweb.org/issues/836?t...
New JEP is out, with an excellent symposium on competition in labour markets:
www.aeaweb.org/issues/836?t...
Nine days left to submit a paper to the first CEP-@theifs.bsky.social Labour Economics Conference!
#EconConf
📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026
We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK
Planning your summer conference schedule? I've updated my conference list for 2026, with deadlines, dates, locations, and links. You can also download calendar entries. Focus is on general conferences, IO, and theory. Let me know if I've missed something. Link: www.igorletina.com/conferences....
"...women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings... lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues..."
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
Are you an outstanding communicator who knows loads about the UK public finances? Are you attracted by the prospect of a public voice, and the chance to work alongside brilliant economists at the country's finest think tank?
We'd like to hear from you: app.beapplied.com/apply/4t6eys...
I made an IO starter pack a while ago that you might find helpful:
go.bsky.app/Rchu8QX
🚨Rare and exciting opportunity 🚨
We're looking to hire an exceptional economist to work on fiscal policy at the IFS. We don't do this often. It's a chance to shape, carry out and communicate research on some of the highest-profile topics in UK economic policy. [1/4]
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.
Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.
Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Best workshop, best keynote and best time to visit London! Submit your paper/abstract. Deadline Feb 1.
A consultation on UK govt proposals for "refining" the competition regime. The proposals would chip away at CMA independence, which - as John Fingleton has said on Linked In - businesses might like short term but creates longer term risks. Closing date to respond 31 March www.gov.uk/government/c...
Peter put together a starter pack of my colleagues at the IFS.
Follow them for high-quality, policy-relevant analysis on tax and spending, efficiency and equity, firms and workers, healthcare and education and much more.
Peter put together a starter pack of my colleagues at the IFS.
Follow them for high-quality, policy-relevant analysis on tax and spending, efficiency and equity, firms and workers, healthcare and education and much more.
There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right?
With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...
@jschneebacher.bsky.social has joined ESCoE’s Leadership Executive, with a focus on developing UK microdata.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/yhye8vk9
Last few days to apply to the annual @escoeorg.bsky.social conference on economic measurement taking place in London in May!
I am once again the topic lead for productivity, so please send all your papers on productivity (including public-sector), business dynamism and firm dynamics.
Studying automation when tasks are quality complements rather than separable, from @joshgans.bsky.social and Avi Goldfarb www.nber.org/papers/w34639
Accepted onto or working on an economics PhD? We're accepting applications until Friday 6 Feb for our PhD Studentship Awards and our PhD Enrichment Placements scheme.
📊 Find out more here: ifs.org.uk/jobs
Are you an economics student interested in how microeconomics can be applied to public policy issues?
📊 Apply for our Summer Student scheme offering paid placements in an IFS research term this summer– find out more and apply here by Sunday 11 January: app.beapplied.com/apply/xkr9pu...
Not sure about "the best", but some books I read this year that stuck with me are:
Mike Davis, City of Quartz
Helen Garner, How To End A Story
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Ed Conway, Material World
Alan Powers, Bauhaus Goes West
📣 We are hiring 📣 join our fast growing department, located in one the best areas of the best city in the world!
Reviewing how antitrust is beginning to be used in labor markets, the evidence for and against its use, and the remaining evidence gaps standing in the way of more effective use, from Elena Prager www.nber.org/papers/w34572
@amritakulka.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full time predoc to work with us on a project on land use regulation and market power in the housing market. If you're interested in (very) big data and applied econ please do apply! #econra #econ_ra
econjobmarket.org/positions/12...