ifo Education

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Deadline: August 17 ⏲️

IMPORTANT: The position requires fluent German skills 🧑‍🏫

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Der Artikel ist eine Zusammenfassung von

👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927537124000654

von Florian Schoner, @lukasmergele.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

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von Florian Schoner, Larissa Zierow & Vera Freundl

💡Verhaltensnoten in der Schule (sog. „Kopfnoten“) sind...
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➡️kosten jährlich ca. 206 Mio. € 💸

www.ifo.de/publikatione...

📢 Job alert: Postdoc position 🧑‍🎓 (up to 6 years, non-tenure track)

In our Center, @henninghermes.com is looking to fill a research position in the economics of education, particularly to join in major field experimental work on mentoring

Come join our team!
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🔍 We are looking for a student assistant! 🔎

If you...
▶️ are interested in empirical research
▶️ are enrolled in a Bachelor’s/ Master's program in economics, data or social sciences (or similar)
▶️ have knowledge in econometrics, scraping & Stata/R

...please apply!

👉 www.ifo.de/en/stellenan...

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French?

➡️ New Working Paper:

Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills
w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek

www.nber.org/papers/w33984

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Homeoffice with cat

💌The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out!

Topics:
🔹 Working-memory training and children's skills
🔹Technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
🔹 Negative mental health effects of working from home
🔹...
👉 bit.ly/44rvTI2

Regionalfinale Süd-Ost 2025 Bis auf den letzten Platz gefüllt war der Saal im ifo Institut für das Regionalfinale Süd-Ost. Elf Teams präsentierten, diskutierten und wählten am Schluss die Teams des Gabrieli-Gymnasiums Eichstätt ...

Ein großes Dankeschön an alle Teilnehmenden, das YES!-Team und unsere ifo-Kolleg*innen für ihren Einsatz!

👉 Weitere Infos zum Projekt am ifo: young-economic-solutions.org

👉 Bericht zum Regionalfinale Süd-Ost: young-economic-solutions.org/regionalfina...

Lösungen zum Lehrkräftemangel entwickelte das Team des Robert-Schuman-Gymnasiums Cham, betreut von @ifoeducation.bsky.social – und sicherte sich den Einzug in das Bundesfinale in Hamburg vom 23.-25.09.! 👏🍀 Herzlichen Glückwunsch, auch an das zweite Siegerteam des Gabrieli-Gymnasiums Eichstätt! 🏆

Was für ein spannender Tag gestern am ifo Institut! 💫

Beim Regionalfinale Süd-Ost von YES! - Young Economic Solutions präsentierten Schulteams ihre Lösungsansätze zu drängenden gesellschaftlichen & wirtschaftlichen Fragen – begleitet von engagierten Forschenden, u. a. aus dem ifo Institut 💡

📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):

👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries

Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience

academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

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Over the moon to see our paper on "Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment" out in the June 2025 issue of @jeeanews.bsky.social today! 🤩🥳🥳🥳

What a journey – huge thanks to @lergetporer.bsky.social, @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social 🙂

❗️Save the Date: Bildungspolitisches Forum 2025❗️
„Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel“
1. Oktober 2025, Landesvertretung NRW, Berlin & via Livestream

📣 Anmeldung ab 30. Juni unter 👉 www.leibniz-bildung.de/bpf25

Ausgerichtet von IAB, ifo und RWI. #BPF25

YES! 2025 Willkommen beim YES! 2025 Wir danken an dieser Stelle auch den Wissenschaftler:innen unserer Partnerinstutionen für ihre Unterstützung und die vielfältigen Themen, die sie für den Wettbewerb eingerei...

Das Projekt entstand im Rahmen des Schulwettbewerbs "YES! - Young Economic Solutions" - mehr Infos hier:
young-economic-solutions.org/yes_2025

‼️Support gesucht
Begleitet vom ifo Zentrum für Bildungsökonomik entwickelte das Ortenburg-Gymnasium Oberviechtach
✨Edyoumaps✨, um Bildungsgerechtigkeit zu verbessern.

Über den Wettbewerb Startup Teens kann man dafür voten & unterstützen (Impact Entrepreneurship):
www.startupteens.de/challenge-20...

@woessmann.bsky.social & Oliver Falck from the ifo Institute focus on these questions:

💡How do transformative technologies affect the labor market?
💡Which new challenges arise for skills & qualifications?
💡How can we detect transformative technologies at an early stage – e. g. by using big data?

🎉We are part of the Cluster of Excellence “TransforM”, funded by @dfg.de!🎉

Jointly with @tum.de, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, @zew.de & @mpi-inno-comp.bsky.social, the aim is to better understand how new technologies transform society & economy 🧑‍💻

More: transform-cluster.de

What your professional skills on LinkedIn reveal about human capital and inequality ### A new working paper by UBS Foundation Professor David Dorn and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human ...

Recent research by @profdaviddorn.bsky.social and co-authors finds that self-reported skills on LinkedIn reveal more about earnings and gender gaps than traditional measures of human capital like education or work experience.

www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even...

#EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS

We've wrapped up the 2025 #CESifo/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
🙏Thank you to @alexeble.bsky.social and Alexander Willen for their inspiring keynotes!
👏to @stnavdeev.com for winning the Best Paper Award for 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘰𝘵: 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘌𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

"Bildungsleistung durch Verbindlichkeit"
Das neue Gutachten des Aktionsrat Bildung
www.aktionsrat-bildung.de/fileadmin/Bi...

Postersession

Kicking off day 1 of the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼/𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Great start with a sunny poster session🌞

#EconomicsOfEducation #Econsky
@ifoeducation.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @henninghermes.com

REMINDER: Less than a week to submit to our Workshop on Field Experiments. Please send your best papers and spread the word 🙂🙏🏻💪🏻🚀

@simonwiederhold.bsky.social
@lergetporer.bsky.social
@fpeter.bsky.social
@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org
@woessmann.bsky.social
@johnlist.bsky.social

👇 See the program of our

📢 3rd CESifo/ifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education

🚀 Starting on Monday!

Keynotes: Alexander Willén & @alexeble.bsky.social

What a tough choice from 160 submissions

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @cesifo.org @ifoeducation.bsky.social

🆕🔥
"Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles:
Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap"

w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon

🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul...

🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns!

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I am very excited to share that my paper "Short-Term Events, Long-Term Friends? Freshman Orientation Peers and Academic Performance" is now forthcoming @j-humanresources.bsky.social: jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl... #econsky

🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics:

👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings

@annualreviews.bsky.social
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„Versetzungsgefährdet: Deutschland in der Bildungskrise“

Wirklich sehenswerte Doku 📺 im Ersten, jetzt in der #ARDMediathek

Mein Part 1️⃣: über Bildung und Wirtschaftswachstum (ab min 9:06)

www.ardmediathek.de/video/story/...

#ARDStory @ifoeducation.bsky.social

New on @voxeu.org:

"Use it or lose it: How cognitive skills change with age"

w/ Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social + Frauke Witthöft

🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/column...

👉Skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage

Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for rapidly ageing populations. But this assumption relies largely on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between ageing patterns and cohort differences. Using German longitudinal data, this column finds that skills, on average, increase markedly into one’s 40s before decreasing slightly in literacy and more severely in numeracy. In addition, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage, outlining a clear policy pathway for avoiding skill declines.

Cognitive skill decline with age is not as strong as previous studies suggest. Skills decline in old age only for those with below-average skill usage - use it or lose it.
Eric Hanushek, @kinnelavinia.bsky.social, Frauke Witthoeft, @woessmann.bsky.social
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

✉️The newsletter of the ifo Center for the Economics of Education is out!

Topics:
🔹Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
🔹Personality traits and academic achievement
🔹Data release: ifo Education Survey 2022-2024
🔹...

👉 www.ifo.de/ifo/newslett...