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US science funding shutdown:

📢EEA and @jeeanews.bsky.social are delighted to announce that Jessica Pan will join the JEEA Editorial Board.

Full announcement: eeassoc.org/news/jeea-an...

Fantastic news, for @xshan.bsky.social and for @cesifo.org !

New Paper 📝📢
"The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida"
✍️ David N. Figlio @uozek.bsky.social

The study highlights that cellphone bans have a greater effect in middle and high schools, where smartphone ownership is more common.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Come visit us in Singapore 🇸🇬
www.asiaone.com/singapore/ul...

Ökonom zum Systemwechsel Liegenschaftssteuern: «Steuerausfall entspricht 500 Franken pro Haushalt» Für Ökonom Marius Brülhart ist klar: Vom Systemwechsel der Wohneigentumsbesteuerung profitieren vor allem reiche Eigentümer:innen.

Für Ökonom Marius Brülhart ist klar: Vom Systemwechsel bei den Liegenschaftssteuern profitieren vor allem reiche Eigentümer:innen. Zudem erklärt er im Interview, wieso der Eigenmietwert eine gerechtfertigte Steuer ist.

Does gender diversity in peer groups benefit performance?

I ran a 7-year field experiment with 3,000+ students to find out.

Key findings: As gender diversity increases
– Course grades in short & longer run ⬆️
– Dropout rates ⬇️
– Performance inequality in groups ⬇️

Details below🧵

Happy birthday, and hopefully not too many returns 🙃

Switzerland Is Stunned by 39% U.S. Tariff, Among the Highest in the World

Switzerland Is Stunned by 39% U.S. Tariff, Among the Highest in the World. And the announcement comes on our national holiday 🇨🇭… www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Egon needs a Bluesky account, @hertieschool.bsky.social :)

A must-read open letter from Fields Medalists working in Switzerland.

Cutting annual budgets for education and research is always a short-sighted mistake. Even a bigger mistake now when there is a unique opportunity to attract top global talent from the US.

science-under-threat.com

Y’all, I wrote a book!

www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

GATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid.

@mediaitenews.bsky.social
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📢 @profdaviddorn.bsky.social ’s research on the China Shock is making waves!

Featured in @nytimes.com & more news outlets, the study (with @davidautor.bsky.social & Gordon Hanson) shows how China’s rise disrupted U.S. labor markets.

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/mr3rtsxx

#UZHeconomics #TradeShock

Facts and good advice matter! Thank you SVGS and especially @kurtschmidheiny.bsky.social and @markschelker.bsky.social for this public service.

Nächste Woche! Es hat noch Platz. See you there?

As a Swiss national, I am opposed to people wearing cheese hats opportunistically. Glad it didn't work in this case :)

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

Als Teil seines "Entlastungspakets 27" will der Bund das Budget des SNF @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social um 10% kürzen.
Wäre das wirklich klug, ausgerchnet in dem Moment, wo uns die US-Regierung das Feld freimacht im internationalen Wettbewerb um Top-Talente (👇)?
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Solaranlagen produzieren entgegen den Behauptungen auch im Winterhalbjahr ordentlich! Im Q1 2025 hat PV schon 8% zur CH-Stromproduktion beigetragen, bis Ende 2025 erwarten wir, dass #Solarstrom 14% des CH-Stromverbrauches decken wird. @swissolar.bsky.social energiedashboard.admin.ch/strom/produk...

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#EconSky

Data-for-good rapid response team I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Only 23 more days until Hate The Game is released. Did you pre-order yours yet? 📖✨

This is extremely concerning.

Well deserved promotion!Congrats, Dina 🤗 Since @dinapomeranz.bsky.social promotes causes rather than herself, I thought I’d jump in to spread the good news 🎉🎈

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

The Federal Reserve is not as independent from the executive branch as we’d like to think. The NY Fed just cancelled this Thursday’s @aeacswep.bsky.social reception at #EEA2025 and withdrew from our summer fellowship program. Both support women and underrepresented groups in economics. #EconSky

Not a random paper! This is a classic 💪🏻

An IPA or whatever Captain Haddock ordered 🙂

The title of tweet of the day goes, again, to @khoavuumn.bsky.social 🙈 (I’m Snowy in this picture)