Imagine 48 hours in jail. Would it change how you see prison, or criminal justice itself?
A new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and @kofeth.bsky.social at @ethz.ch shows that firsthand incarceration can directly shift public opinion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0F...
New RCT: What happens when citizens experience incarceration firsthand?
With Arto Arman, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social
Working paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Hispanics are now the largest ethnic group in Texas, making up 40% of the population. Trump carried Latinos in 2024, a massive swing from earlier elections but Texas Democrats eye an opportunity to pull those voters back in.
“They are leaving in droves and going in the opposite direction”
As so often, the best medicine against online hysteria is a dose of fresh air—maybe a leisurely walk along the Thames
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#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd
Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...
Als direkte Demokratie braucht die Schweiz vielfältige und unabhängige Medien. Professorinnen und Professoren aus allen Sprachregionen und Disziplinen setzen sich ein für einen starken medialen Service public und sagen Nein zur Halbierungsinitiative.
www.wissenschaft-fuer-den-service-public.ch
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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New Paper Alert!📢
"From Moderates to Extremes: How Immigration Polarizes American Politics" 🗽
by @matzat.bsky.social @adreher.bsky.social @langlotzsarah.bsky.social & Christopher Parsons
Insights on how immigration reshapes American politics:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Die NZZ - und mehr noch ihre Leserinnen und Leser - erleiden einen sehr bedauerlichen Verlust: Hansueli Schöchli verlässt die Redaktion.
Wenn ich nichts übersehen habe, hat die Chefredaktion noch nicht darüber informiert und ihn noch nicht verabschiedet.
www.kleinreport.ch/news/nach-fo...
It is possible that the relationship recession will not correct itself. A striking 7% of singletons say they would consider a robo-romance with an AI companion.
AI is patient, AI is kind and it won’t ask you to clean the bathroom or get a better job
Evidence for a detrimental causal effect of social isolation on cognitive function in older adults
academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
Woah.
Argentina's 1990s preschool expansion program appears to have been a smashing success.
The program increased high school completion by a whole 11.9 percentage points.
The authors estimate that for every $1 spent, the preschool expansion generated about $11 in benefits.
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
🚨 New working paper!
How well do people predict the results of studies?
@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇
Some surveys are starting to show a fall in America’s obesity rates. But as with all surveys, these findings come with caveats
22.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0„Even if the plan falls apart, this arrogant and confusing ultimatum […] will do permanent damage to America’s reputation as a reliable ally, not only in Europe but around the world.“
22.11.2025 12:23 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Haha, that‘s cool! curious for the slides too, keep us posted
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Ultraprocessed food intake and early-onset colon adenomas (pre-cancer) in a large cohort of >29,000 women followed for >24 years
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
www.nber.org/bh/20253/pai...
In an ongoing project, we ask which countries citizens prefer as benchmarks for policy decisions.
Pilot data from the UK show that Denmark is ranked as one of the most preferred reference countries, particularly in relation to migration policy.
China is changing the clean-energy game. If its solar panels, EVs and wind turbines are not gifts to the world in themselves, their ever-shrinking prices are an undoubted, and most welcome, boon
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Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 2:
Please meet Violet Nampala from Uganda, who is studying Energy Systems Engineering at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru9R...
Some lovely first reviews of "The Means of Prediction" are out:
www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.p...
(by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social)
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🚨Next time you hire, don’t take it easy! In a new working paper, @elliottash.bsky.social, Jason Sockin, and I show the difficulty of the interview signals to workers whether the job is a good fit. 🚨
Paper link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs† By James Lake and Ding Liu* President George W. Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market’s reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. The tariffs did not boost local steel employment but substantially depressed local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed them. The tariffs also led to a persistent exit of steel-intensive manufacturing establishments, suggesting a role for plant-level fixed entry costs in translating the temporary shock into persistent outcomes
The large increase in steel tariffs under GW Bush did not cause an increase in steel-industry employment.
But it did hurt the US industries that use steel to make things, reducing employment there long after the tariffs were gone.
New in @aeajournals.bsky.social —> doi.org/10.1257/pol....
🚨A new AI model can forecast malnutrition rates in Kenya with 89% accuracy one month in advance and provide up to 6 months of lead time for intervention.
This could save countless lives by getting resources to at-risk areas before crisis hits.
How it works 👉 bit.ly/4n1oer6 via Conversation UK
Bei der @isdh.ch ist noch bis zum 26. Oktober eine Stelle für eine studentische Hilfskraft ausgeschrieben; eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, einen ersten Schritt zu einer Karriere im Bereich der Menschenrechte zu gehen.
www.isdh.ch/de/aktiv-wer...
