Simon Wiederhold

WOW, terrific news for @econ.uzh.ch and the wider European community 🤩🤩🤩 Congrats!

🚨 Now out in Journal of Human Resources:

⛪️ Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes?
Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education

w/ @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow

👉 Religious education in school affects adult lives

🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...

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In Zeiten von ständigen Transformationen sollten wir Bildung als Befähigung zu stetigem Wandel verstehen.

Mein Einleitungsvortrag in das Bildungspolitische Forum 2025 des @leibnizbildung.bsky.social

Livestream: www.youtube.com/@Leibniz_bil...

www.leibniz-bildung.de/veranstaltun...

The decline of reading % of US teenagers who read in their leisure time... 50 Hardly ever 40 30 20 10 Almost every day 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Source: US National Assessment of Educational Progress Long-Term Trend Reading Assessments FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch OFT 2020

Problems now, bigger ones ahead.

Today I spent a wonderful day visiting the @iabnews.bsky.social, invited by Bernd Fitzenberger and Silke Anger 🤓🙏

Inspiring discussions and a very interactive seminar, lots of fun! 🫶

Thanks for organizing, @caspalh.bsky.social & @demirecon.bsky.social 💪🥳

@ifoeducation.bsky.social
@cesifo.org

Come to the #VfS panel on #OpenScience with Severine Toussaert, @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @larsvil.bsky.social . Looking forward to the discussion.

It was so great having you all at our workshop! Can't wait for the anniversary edition next year...

YouTube video by Leibniz-Forschungsnetzwerk Bildungspotenziale LERNBPF25 - Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel - Prof. Dr. Ludger Wößmann

Ich freue mich schon riesig auf das
🚨Bildungspolitische Forum 2025🚨
in das ich in diesem Jahr einführen darf!

Es geht um
➡️Bildung in Zeiten von Transformation und beruflichem Wandel⬅️

Im Video reiße ich schon mal die Themen an, um die es geht:
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuA...
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🚨 85% (!) der Erwachsenen sind für ein Mindestalter von 16 Jahren für Social Media.
Selbst unter den Jugendlichen ist eine relative Mehrheit dafür.

👉 Dies und mehr im neuen ifo Bildungsbarometer 2025:
www.ifo.de/fakten/2025-...
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📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩

This will be so exciting!!!🥳

🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025

@raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …

"Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital"

Final version now out in Vol. 17 of the Annual Review of Economics (Open Access):

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

#GDRI_rep Update 8a: Major updates coming up over the next few weeks.

1st update: We reproduced "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" some time ago. The paper was then retracted by the editors of the Euro Econ Rev.

Additional studies are connected (see diagram)
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I now too have a "professional announcement." I have known it for quite some time now, but only from today on this is really, legally official: I am now Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor campus), @umich.edu

If you'll be on the #EconJobMarket this coming year, you may want to join this webinar by @aereorg.bsky.social, titled, "Navigating Uncertain Waters: Advice for the Current Job Market," with Min Gong & @adrienneohler.bsky.social. 29 Sept 2025 @ 11am ET.

At Our World in Data, we spend much of our time counting deaths.

But it’s just as important to know the number of lives saved — even though it is harder to estimate and involves much larger uncertainty.

My Data Insight today includes this chart of some estimates.

We now have some data on the environmental impact per AI prompt:

Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water

ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL

...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year.

But...

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)

mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

⏰FINAL REMINDER⏰

Only two days left to apply for this fantastic postdoc position in the vibrant hub of Munich!🤩

Note that fluency in German is required for this position. Get in touch if you have any questions.🤓

@ifoeducation.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social @cesifo.org

Blah blah. If you'll teach undergrad or applied master #dataanalysis #methods #econometrics, with #rstats #python or #stata, have a look.
gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star....
Data. Code. Slides.

Just came across this practical, step-by-step guide to taking a project from idea to polished presentation. Really great tips on feedback loops, writing, and data work! I’m just not sure any introduction needs to be 8 pages long 😉

This looks potentially useful for junior scholars.

"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just to answer @erdaltekin.bsky.social‘s question: ESPE 2026 will be held at Aalto University in Helsinki on 11-13 June 2026. Looking forward to seeing your submissions!!

⌛️ REMINDER: Two weeks left to apply for this fantastic postdoc position at @ifoeducation.bsky.social 🙂

Deadline: August 17 ⏲️

IMPORTANT: The position requires fluent German skills 🧑‍🏫

@woessmann.bsky.social @cesifo.org

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm.

"The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

The initial estimate of job change for a month is based on the growth or loss of jobs at the businesses that have reported their data. Generally, BLS assumes that the employment situation at businesses that had reported is representative of the situation at those that had not yet reported. BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information. In 2012, the average collection rate at the time of the third estimate for a month was 94.6 percent. (See chart 1.)

Why do the jobs numbers get revised?

our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months

1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly

Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N

www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...

Thread of research relying on world-renowned data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Please contribute

So much of my own research has used BLS data

Growing income inequality in who gets a college education - from NLSY79/97

www.nber.org/system/files...

Wow.

Research findings with p-values marginally less than 0.05 attract 60 to 110% higher Altmetric scores than those with p-values marginally above 0.05.

p-hacking means more popular attention!

p-hacking FTW!

Many junior scholars struggle with managing a research pipeline.

So, academics: how do you do manage your pipeline?

How many projects are you working on at one time?

How do you know if you have too many/too few projects?

Other tips that you have?

Discussions of "brain drain" often neglect the many channel by which emigration can boost human capital in origin countries. I find this figure wonderfully enlightening.

Theoharides at #ABCDE2025.

Here's a recent overview of the work in Science: johanneshaushofer.com/publications....

Econ instructors: considering running an RCT but unsure where to start?

My new working paper (w/ @lizschroeder.bsky.social) can guide you.

We walk you through all the steps to run an RCT: design, setup, implementation & analysis, w/ many examples along the way. 1/2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....