🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
09.05.2025 09:29 — 👍 388 🔁 199 💬 7 📌 30
📣 Attention PhD-candidates & early postdocs!
We host the 2nd Freiburg PhD-Workshop on the
Economics of Criminal Behavior: 22-24/09 at csl.mpg.de.
👩🏫📊🎓 Discuss ideas, network with leading experts, and present your research.
Apply by 22/06 & spread the word! 🗣️👂
tinyurl.com/FRECB25
08.04.2025 08:51 — 👍 18 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 4
Want to become my new colleague? The University of Southampton is hiring lecturers (assistant professors) in Economics👩🏼🔬.
21.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 We're launching a special thematic focus on deforestation in the Global South! 🚨
Join us as we systematically assess research on deforestation, a key issue at the science-policy interface. 🧵👇
#OpenScience #Deforestation
17.03.2025 12:52 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
This gem is hidden in the response to the response. ”…within a few hours and under extreme time pressure 11,843 households were visited and 22,686 respondents interviewed (two spouses in each household).” Indeed hard to believe 🫠
15.03.2025 09:37 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 2
Delighted to host @zachporreca.bsky.social from Bocconi today as he presented his paper, "The Departed: Origins and Persistence of Organized Crime in the United States" joint with Massimo Anelli & Paolo Pinotti! #econresearch #econsky #econtwitter
12.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to have our colleague @monicabeeder.bsky.social presenting her new project on exploitation at today’s weekly internal seminar! #EconTwitter #econresearch #econsky
04.03.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We use both quantitative data analysis to find these patterns and qualitative interviews to better understand the mechanisms
28.02.2025 12:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Key finding: Women randomized to get a job are more likely to switch their self-reported ethnic identities, often for safety or instrumental reasons.
28.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
WEC Junior deadline has been extended to Feb 28 - this Friday.
Submit your papers! Looking forward to seeing you in Philly.
24.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
❗ Call for papers:
drive.google.com/file/d/16bOU...
📮Submit your papers here: bit.ly/4183vJ8
19.02.2025 21:50 — 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
Good opportunity for someone with a behavioral background and interest in crime and conflict to work with a great research group!
14.02.2025 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share that @annabindler.bsky.social & I will organize the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime in Berlin.
Save the date: 26-27 September 2025.
CfP follows next month #econsky
29.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 31 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 2
Exciting new working paper from @i4replication.bsky.social on assessing reproducibility with LLMs! I contributed as part of one of the AI-led teams—fascinating insights, but it’s clear we can’t let AI handle replication for us just yet. Worth a read! 🔍📄
23.01.2025 07:31 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Submit your crime paper by Feb 14.
🔸 4th Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars
🔸 29-30 May, 2025
🔸 Quattrone Center, UPenn
🔸 Keynote: @amandayagan.bsky.social
🔹 Send your paper to:
WEC.Jr.Econ@gmail.com
@emmarackstraw.bsky.social
16.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 13 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 5
Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...
22.11.2024 19:37 — 👍 37 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 3
Economics Conferences (Compiled by Anne M. Burton and Barton Willage)
Quick econ tip: here's a list of over 100 economics conferences: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Curated by @anne-m-burton.bsky.social and @bartonwillage.com.
18.11.2024 15:23 — 👍 212 🔁 91 💬 15 📌 10
I put together a quick starter pack of people working on crime! Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed!
13.11.2024 19:36 — 👍 28 🔁 19 💬 13 📌 4
Following up with the recent events in Ecuador @bergenglobal.bsky.social is organizing a breakfast together with @monicabeeder.bsky.social, @leivm.bsky.social and myself to further discuss the Ecuadorian situation. Come and join us 👇
12.01.2024 14:08 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Catholic U of Milan & CEP (LSE) || Econ AP studying Legal & Illegal Labour Markets || Married to Gayatri, Dog Dad of Samba & Baloo.
https://sites.google.com/view/matteo-sandi/home
Researching topics related to the media, artificial intelligence, and politics. Interested in structuring unstructured data for social science.
https://philinew.github.io/
Researcher at SNF, PhD from NHH and FAIR, interested in development economics.
https://sites.google.com/view/arnenasgowitz/home
Economist. Plotting ways to change the world. Talk about diversity, economics education, inequality (and craft beer - although is less niche now).
FAIR-The Choice Lab is part of a Centre of Excellence at NHH Norwegian School of Economics working to better understand economic and moral choices.
FAIR-CELE Centre for Empirical Labor Economics is part of a centre of excellence at NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Development microeconomist, mostly labour. Research Fellow @dpru-uct.bsky.social, UCT 🇿🇦 • Visiting Scholar @unu-wider.bsky.social 🇫🇮 • Consultant, World Bank • Research Associate, RESEP, Stellenbosch University • PhD, UCT
https://timothykohler.github.io
Pokémon Trainer and Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Copenhagen | PhD @nhhecon.bsky.social | applied micro on political economy, religion, history and many other things | devoted bass player and music nerd | I like volcanoes 🌋
🌐 pizzigolot.to
Social scientist in the making. PhDing at the University of Turin and the Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Interested in education, human capital and labor economics.
https://sites.google.com/carloalberto.org/agueda-solisalonso/about
Research scientist at the Institute for Replication (University of Ottawa). Amateur circus artist, DnD enthusiast.
http://www.lenkafiala.com/
Applied economist working on migration. Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
Personal page:
https://sites.google.com/view/valentina-di-iasio/home-page
Fellow with the Violence, Inequality and Power Lab in the Kroc Institute at USD | Previously Defense Analysis Postdoc at the Naval Postgraduate School | Political Science PhD, UCLA | https://www.frankwyer.com/
Official account for the Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop Series | https://vip-workshop.github.io/
Department of Economics at the University of Southampton
Lecturer in Economics at University of Southampton
https://sites.google.com/view/forestaalessandra/home
Political science prof. researching ⚖️law as political strategy @ Departement of Government & LawTransform, @unibergen.bsky.social
🚩Lawfare, autocratisation & resistance, human rights 🌈sexual & reproductive rights, child rights, climate, indigenous rights
The Institute for Replication (I4R) works to improve the credibility of science by promoting and conducting reproductions and replications.
i4replication.org
Freelance editor specializing in economics and justice policy (https://www.blueflowerediting) 🏊🏾♀️ 🚴🏾♀️
Wilfried Guth Professor of Constitutional Political Economy and Competition Policy @uni-freiburg.de. Mostly working on institutions, migration and/or conflict.
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/timkrieger/home
