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New paper out in @science.org!

“Brain drain” or “brain gain”?
Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

yeah, of course. I think this would be impossible. but something *very* computationally intensive is happening locally

is openai running the model's in javascript in my browser? otherwise I cannot understand how the interface can be this laggy

schnell 🦿

i am genuinely curious to see if the asteroid that is about to hit the american economy can actually separate trump from his base

Photo of and quote by Markus Eyting: "Our approach demonstrates how tools from economics can help establish causal relationships rather than mere correlations. This opens new avenues to evaluate public health interventions and enriches both fields with innovative analytical frameworks."

Researcher @meyting.bsky.social has been published in Nature!🎉

His study with @minxiesci.bsky.social, Felix Michalik, @hesss.org, Seunghun Chung & @pascalge.bsky.social finds a 20% lower dementia risk after shingles vaccination using economic methods.

👉 safe-frankfurt.de/news-latest/... #EconSky

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

Our paper on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia is now out in Nature! 🎉

Huge thanks to Felix Michalik, Seunghun Chung, @pascalge.bsky.social and especially Min Xie (@minxiesci.bsky.social) & Simon Heß (@hesss.org) making the analysis so much fun!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Syrien: Faeser sagt Reise wegen Terrorwarnung ab Bundesinnenministerin Faeser hat ihre geplante Reise nach Syrien abgesagt. Es gebe Hinweise "auf eine terroristische Bedrohung".

Die deutsche Innenministerin wollte nach Damaskus reisen, um Abschiebungen nach Syrien zu verhandeln – weil das Land ja angeblich sicher genug sei. Die Reise fiel aus. Grund: *checks notes* Sicherheitsbedenken.

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Schon Arendt wusste: ohne Staatsangehörigkeit verliert der Mensch seinen "Platz in der Welt."

Gerdes zu den gefährlichen deutschen Tendenzen in Richtung Loyalitätsstaatsbürgerschaft.

Zitatkachel der Autorin Maria Martha Gerdes mit dem Inhalt: "Aber auch Verlusttatbestände (mit Ausnahme des § 35 StAG) unterliegen in ihrer Systematik einer bestimmten Logik: Sie haben alle etwas mit Zuordnung zu tun"

Könnten „Terrorunterstützer, Antisemiten und Extremisten" bald die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit verlieren?

Warum dies ohne explizite Hinwendung zu einem anderen Staat völker- und verfassungswidrig wäre, erläutert MARIA MARTHA GERDES.

verfassungsblog.de/illoyalitat-...

Very excited to see our paper on aging&cognitive skills out in the neuroscience section of Science Advances 🎉
@science.org

We show that usage of skills seems to be the key to maintaining them 💡

Great collaboration with my co authors E.A. Hanushek, F. Witthöft and @woessmann.bsky.social!

Details ⤵️

[PA system stutters alive] attention moderates. this is your final warning. anti-trans backlash is in fact backlash against gender nonconformity in general, including homosexuality, and it seeks to roll back all related forms of progress. this is your final warning, places please

I don't know if it'd be more merit based in absolute terms, but it would certainly be less "need to know"-network based, and for fairness at least I think that'd be desirable.

I also acknowledge that network-based growth of groups has benefits (makes personal interactions more organic).

Oh yeah. Dev econ networks are a mystery to me.

I see. So you first need a network to tell you this and then someone to write a letter. Not saying the work of iza isnt great, just thinking there has to be a better way to run these things than these networks.

Sorry to ask, but was IZA affiliation only merit-based or mostly network-based?

GitHub - talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams: A template to create paper exams with LaTeX A template to create paper exams with LaTeX. Contribute to talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's midterm season. If you're giving a paper exam, consider using this LaTeX shell to write the exam. It adds up all of the points for you and it compiles a solution booklet for you, too.
github.com/talgross-bu/...

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

I'm wondering: If part of Berlin had to repeat the last election because too many people weren't able to cast their votes (due to admin chaos), what's going to happen if many of the postal votes are not going to arrive on time.

(German proficiency is not required)

The WU campus ail k

PhD positions in Vienna for research-minded students.

5 fully funded years to develop your research with our large and expanding econ department at WU Vienna.

econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Wenn Merz Politik macht, die nur mit der AfD Mehrheiten hat, ist dann auch völlig egal ob die AfD dadurch schrumpft oder nicht.

Is it "coil whining"? If so, processors vary massively in how much they do it.

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
"Then they came for the trade unionists
…
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

—Martin Niemöller
#econsky #academicsky

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Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the

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American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )

😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

DeepSeek-R1 was released a week ago and generated a lot of attention. I only started using deepseek last week

Can be, I'm running them in parallel with the same prompts at the moment and see me mostly going with deepseek's suggestions

DeepSeek is a much better writing assistant than GPT currently is.