Štěpán Mikula

🧵In a recent IZA Discussion Paper, @stepanmikula.bsky.social, @tommasoreggiani.bsky.social, and I exploit a unique historical experiment that unfolded in post–World War II Czechoslovakia to study the long-term drivers of the accumulation of social capital.
🔗 Download: docs.iza.org/dp17981.pdf

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Without executioners, there would be no executions.

Autocratic regimes rely on the legitimacy of their predecessors and the compliance of public employees at all levels.

Democracy may not die in applause, but it certainly perishes through (seemingly) minor compromises with evil.

Věří konspiracím a poté propadají pesimismu. Vědkyně popisuje, proč ji překvapily výsledky jejího výzkumu Lidé, kteří věří konspiračním teoriím, jsou často pesimističtější a propadají pocitům ekonomické nejistoty, říká výzkumnice Magdalena Adamus z Národního institutu SYRI a Masarykovy univerzity v Brně. ...

Lena Adamus z @econmuni.bsky.social

denikn.cz/1707148/veri...

High-frequency location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding Prior research on racial profiling has found that in encounters with law enforcement, minorities are punished more severely than white civilians. Less is known about the causes of these encounters and...

Careful research by @johnlist.bsky.social and colleagues:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Potřebujeme i lepší grantový systém, ale hlavně potřebujeme do vědy posílat více peněz přes institucionální financování kvalitních institucí.

Real photo of an econ seminar during the introduction slide:

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946!
www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com
with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

❔Jaká rizika přináší stárnutí populace? O tom diskutovali
🔹Ondřej Májek z ÚZIS
🔹ředitelka @recetox.bsky.social Jana Klánová
🔹vedoucí HEPII @jakubhlavka.bsky.social
🔹výzkumník trhu práce @stepanmikula.bsky.social
🔹vedoucí výzkumu CzechHTA ČVUT Aleš Tichopád
🔹MUDr. Hana Vaňková z @unikarlova.cuni.cz

I just don't recall Britain invading Czech lands (Czech Republic/ Bohemia/...).

inspektoři NAÚ trepky a svačinu a vyráží směrem Plzeň. Totéž bych čekal od rektora ZČÚ.

www.idnes.cz/plzen/zpravy...

A taktickou mělo být faktickou. Jej.

Baráky a studenti možná budou, ale kvalita stojí a padá s vyučujícími a ty jen tak přičarovat nelze - zvláště pokud budeme trvat na masové výuce v češtině.

Neznám taktickou situaci na ZČU, ale hádám, že po přečtení doporučení, že by si vyučující na univerzitě třeba mohli udělat i PhD balí

Takhle po dlouhé době otevřu článek na idnesu: "Důležité je, jak podpořit zájem pedagogů studovat PhD., což je pět let života." Fakulta zdravotnických studií Západočeské univerzity v Plzni.

Jedna se o hodnotný příspěvek do diskuse o zřizování a nafukování regionálních vysokých škol.

Naše národní opruzení zase tak moc nezůstává pozadu.

R Color Palette Finder The ultimate tool for finding the perfect color palette for data visualization with R and paletteer. Explore over 2000 palettes, see them in action on various charts, simulate color blindness, and exp...

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R:

r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

I am sure the bright people from StataCorp will do their best to keep the debate relevant.

Dovolil bych si jedno upřesnění. Navzdory zprávám o aktuálním dění v Brně stále platí to, že MUNI je univerzita, která jako přidruženou aktivitu provozovala kino. Opravdu to není naopak. Alespoň doufám.

What would the night sky look like at the edge of space?

Follow the arrows!

A mysterious murderer who never leaves a fingerprint and effortlessly climbs vertical glass surfaces? Sounds like A Nightmare on Wall Street.

Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap between Immigrants and the US-Born, 1870–2020† By Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres* We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants’ incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.

Panels plotting incarceration rates for immigrants and US-born men between 1870 and 2019. Data are restricted to males ages 18–40. Data spanning 1870–1940 are from the full-count decennial censuses. Data spanning 1950–1990 are from the largest available subsamples from the corresponding decennial censuses. Data from 2005 onward are from the annual ACS. Cross markers indicate that fewer than 10,000 immigrants were used to calculate the corresponding incarceration rate. Panel A compares US-born men to all immigrants. Panels B–F compare US-born men to immigrants from a particular country-of-origin group. “Old Europeans” are immigrants from countries in the north and west of Europe. “New Europeans” are immigrants from countries in eastern and southern Europe. The “Rest of the world” category includes immigrants from countries not included in panels B–F. Migrants typically show lower incarceration rates

accounting for individual-level characteristics, migrants as a group or by subgroups (old Europeans, new Europeans, Chinese, Mexicans and Central Americans, or Rest of the World) are incarcerated at lower rates

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.**
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Explore open positions | Faculty of Economics and Administration, MU

For the following 4 years we will work on projects on health/labour/environmental aspects of population ageing and geographic/social peripheries.

For these projects we are looking for multiple postdocs. Follow me and @econmuni.bsky.social here or check our website: www.econ.muni.cz/en/about-us/...

"A mathematical visualization resembling a glowing, symmetrical diamond shape against a black background. The image is composed of overlapping translucent curves in turquoise, coral pink, and golden yellow, creating a flowing, wavelike pattern. The structure has four-fold rotational symmetry, with each quarter section containing gentle curves that spiral outward, forming bulges at the corners. The curves appear to have a ghostly, luminescent quality, giving the impression of light passing through layers of delicate glass.

Roots of parametric polynomials weaving a mesmerizing dance. ✨ #MathArt #Mathematics #Sciart
Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy #sympy"

It would take courage to call Czechoslovakia a capitalist country - which was the point.

It is difficult for me to discuss non-existent communist projects. When I close my eyes to imagine one, all I see is a prison either for the body or for the mind.

https://www.rknowledge.org/

We recently launched rknowledge.org - an interactive platform that provides advanced Knowledge Space indicators for over 1,000 regional economies across Europe and North America; intro: youtu.be/C4r2n258O08 and @regionalstudies.bsky.social publication: doi.org/10.1080/0034... (1/5)

It is actually good news b/c you don't need to wait that long.

Another example here: Some parts of the communist Czechoslovakia used to be one of the worst-polluted regions in Europe. You certainly don't need capitalism to have environmental damage.

OSMnx 2.0.0 has been released! 🎉 This has been a massive effort over the past year to streamline the package's API, re-think its internal organization, and optimize its code. Today OSMnx is faster, more memory efficient, and fully type-annotated for a better user experience. 🧵

The number of Czech players in the WTA rankings is not that surprising anymore...

Received: 23 Sep 2024
Revised: 30 Oct 2024
Accepted: 1 Nov 2024
Published: 15 Nov 2024

To all PhD students at @econmuni.bsky.social This is NOT how decent (econ) journals work.

Maybe there are exceptions but this is not one of them.

a man in a green shirt is sitting at a table with the word agreed written on his face . ALT: a man in a green shirt is sitting at a table with the word agreed written on his face .

It is official. Michal Kvasnička from @econmuni.bsky.social is the best econ teacher in this quadrant.

msmt.gov.cz/vzdelavani/v...

Tak to je potom ještě dobrý ;-).