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Opinion | This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos

"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

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Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university

Schade um die ehemalige Demokratie USA

Trump administration moves to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students

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Austrian Government Announces €50 Million to Progress Guaranteed Job… Programme pioneered by INET Oxford's Lukas Lehner and Max Kasy receives green light for further roll-out.

Austrian government announces €50 million to expand the Job Guarantee scheme in new budget by Finance Minister @markusmarterbauer.bsky.social

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Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...

More than 80 Harvard faculty members have signed on to a pledge to donate 10% of their paycheck to support staff and students, as long as the University resists Trump's unlawful demands. I am so proud of my colleagues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pay Transparency and Gender Equality (May 2025) - Since 2018, UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time, we sh...

"transparency policies can reduce the gender pay gap
with limited costs for firms, but may not be suited to improving women’s outcomes. ... t transparency policies mainly generate pay compression by slowing down the pay growth of better-paid employees"

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Quite the quote.

Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling (Omnibus) - BBC Sounds Data visionary Hans Rosling looks back at the encounters that shaped his world view.

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European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

“Two weeks after the [Aix-Marseille University] programme was launched there have been about 100 applications, with researchers from Yale, Nasa and Stanford among those who have expressed interest. The university continues to receive about 10 applications a day” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria"

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#WIFO Research Brief: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied verringerte sich von 19,6% (2011) auf 13,9% (2023). Auch der bereinigte Lohnunterschied sank von 7,8% auf 6,3%. #InternationalWomensDay @rboheim.bsky.social @jku-economics.bsky.social @univie.ac.at buff.ly/iv9fsCP

Neil Young to Play Free Concert in Ukraine Ahead of European Tour Neil Young will play a free show in Ukraine with the Chrome Hearts before kicking off his European summer tour.

Time to buy some Neil Young music.

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Wonderful to see Klaus F Zimmermann is now on BlueSky! Please give him a follow.

He’s been one of Germany’s and Europe’s most influential economists for the last 30 years, a staunch European and the inaugural director of IZA-Bonn.

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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Slava Ukraini.

Decent people thank Ukraine.

Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...

NEW: Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that #Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade in conversation with @zingales.bsky.social and @bethanymclean.bsky.social on the #Capitalisnt podcast.

FPÖ-Chef Kickl will Einigung zu Bankenabgabe Herbert Kickl verhandelt an der zuständigen Gruppe vorbei mit ÖVP-Chef Stocker. Differenzen gibt es auch bei der Landesverteidigung abseits von Sky Shield

„Dass die FPÖ aber auch auf universitärer Ebene auf Deutsch besteht und vorgeschlagen hat, dass Forschungsarbeiten künftig nur mehr auf Deutsch und nicht in englischer Sprache verfasst werden sollen, geht für die ÖVP zu weit.“

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Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the... We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...

A new arXiv preprint from James Zou suggests that quite a few academics are also using ChatGPT to write their peer reviews.

I don't have to explain what an utter shitshow this is going to be, do I?

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Is a transfer that requires recipients to have "annual incomes < 220% of poverty line, ages 23--57, and not receiving Social Security" with amounts "depending on family size" (footnote 1) really "unconditional"?

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The keynote speakers for the Australian Gender Economics Workshop are Prof Paola Profeta (Bocconi) and Prof Doris Weichselbaumer (Linz). Also, the website is now live: t.ly/mWzth. Please join us in Wollongong next year!

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom Podcast-Folge · In Our Time · 14.11.2024 · 52 Min.

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A model of female labor supply illustrating how various forces discussed in the literature affect the gender earnings gap, from Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, and Barbara Petrongolo https://www.nber.org/papers/w33153

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