Dietmar Fehr

Studying how the expectation of aid changes behavior in the context of cash transfers in Uganda, from Achyuta Adhvaryu, Jean-François Gauthier, Pamela Jakiela, and Dean Karlan www.nber.org/papers/w34857

Crazy funnel plot.

💯 but they don’t care.

It was a serious Q and I agree with you, but I guess the decision was made in the KA Haus and not the ministry. When I saw your initial post I updated my expectations and unfortunately in the right direction. Guess I am realist and too fed up w/ German poilitcs.

Ja, das steht ja da 😂

Are you surprised?

Ulrike Malmendier: Berkeley-Ökonomin scheidet als Wirtschaftsweise aus Nachrichten zur Konjunkturpolitik in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. Prognosen sowie Hintergründe und täglich Exklusivmeldungen.

So, now we know it‘s about party politics. Not too surprising given the nomination procedure. At least the potential successors are reputable economists, but far from Ulrike‘s scientific caliber.

www.handelsblatt.com/politik/konj...

Mit Blick auf die Landtagswahl am 8. März 2026 hat die Landesrektoratekonferenz Baden-Württemberg die Parteien gebeten, zu wichtigen hochschul- und wissenschaftspolitischen Fragen Stellung zu nehmen.
Die Antworten wurden hier gebündelt:
➡️ www.lrk-bw.de/landtagswahl...

It would be more honest to transform this advisory board into something like the CEA. Then the government could pick their favorites. Just like Reiche did it

I think the root problem is the (artificially) limited supply of slots in the extremely hierarchical “top 5” world. It’s not that reviewers are slow, but they expect papers to be so comprehensive in order to deserve “top 5” publication that what they ask for in the reviews is very time-consuming.

University of Texas regents OK limits on controversial subjects Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.

The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a rule requiring its universities to ensure students can graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects,” despite warnings it could leave them less prepared for the real world.

🔍 Does economic hardship increase cheating?

In a new #CEGAWorkingPaper, CEGA Faculty Co-Director @tedmiguel.bsky.social and colleagues find that people are more likely to cheat when facing economic hardship or large financial incentives to cheat.

📖 Learn more: go.cega.org/WPS256

Ja, sicher. Das Programm ist gut. Aber wenn die Unis nicht mitspielen, muss man sich was überlegen. Siehe EN u. Promotionsbetreuung. Daher würden mich mal Fakten interessieren.

Interessante Aspekte über die Flagship Einzelförderung von @dfg.de

Was sagt die Evidenz? Die geschilderten Aspekte kann man sich ja nur allzu gut vorstellen.

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."

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

Call for Papers Behavioral Economics

📢 The Call for Papers for the 𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗶𝗳𝗼 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, organized by @klaus-m-schmidt.bsky.social & Ernst Fehr is now open!
Keynotes: Supreet Kaur & @philippstrack.bsky.social
📆 𝟮𝟯 - 𝟮𝟰 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
ℹ️https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/f9G

In cooperation with @rationalitycrc.bsky.social

Ja, so habe ich das auch geschrieben :) Anyway, W1 Besoldung in BW ist top, auch ohne Zulage. Aber intrinsische Motivation hin oder her, monetäre Wertschätzung ist manchmal wichtig und oft billig zu bekommen.

Wikipedia-Eintrag ist nicht gut gealtert. Absenkungsbetrag in BW gibts lange nicht mehr und hatte auch nichts mit Evaluation etc zu tun (war reine Sparmaßnahme 👉 u.a. deswegen verfassungswidrig)

Jede W1 in BW hat 400 €/Monat als Zulage hinterlegt. Frage ist nur ob Uni das weitergibt. 👉LBesGBW

LHG §51(7) und Regelung in HabilO (wegen äquivalenz und so).

Neben der ZwiEval ist das das dümmste überhaupt an der JP mit und ohne tt. In BW wäre es übrigens möglich die ZwiEval in eine EndEval umzuwandeln (ohne deputatserhöhumg). Dazu müsste Uni nur Habilordnung anpassen. 👀 @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Glückwunsch🎉

Das leere Versprechen vom Bildungsaufstieg — Dr. Tanja Bhuiyan Über das leere Versprechen vom Bildungsaufstieg in das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem

Mein neuster Blog-Beitrag über meinen Bildungsweg in Schule und Hochschule, was das mit dem #WissZeitVG zu tun hat und warum Leistung nicht wirklich zählt, wenn sie von der "falschen" Person kommt.

#ichBinHanna #ichBinReyhan #Chancengerechtigkeit #firstgen

www.tanjabhuiyan.com/blog/das-lee...

Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes (Forthcoming Article) - We study social preferences in settings where someone who chooses on behalf of others knows how those individuals rank the available options but may lack cardinal information concerning those comparisons. Contrary to majoritarian principles, most people place more weight on pre- venting least-preferred outcomes for others than on enabling most-preferred outcomes. Ranks matter both intrinsically and because they provide a basis for inferring cardinal utility. Ordinal aggregation principles are stable across domains and countries with divergent political traditions. Designing attractive social choice mechanisms is challenging in practice partly because aggre- gation principles that make manipulation diffcult yield outcomes people consider normatively unappealing.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Social Preferences over Ordinal Outcomes" by Sandro Ambuehl and B. Douglas Bernheim.

Developing a behavioral development agenda showing how psychological constraints—alongside missing markets, volatility, and weak institutions—impede mobility and shape markets, from Emily Breza and Supreet Kaur www.nber.org/papers/w34753

Investigating whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty in Kenya, from Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Edward Miguel www.nber.org/papers/w34695

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

People's attitudes towards policy - a big modern research area

Please submit your best paper and join us for this workshop in beautiful Bavaria

#Econsky

Naja das ist aber überall so und wäre weniger relevant wenn der Partner seinen Teil beiträgt. In academia ist aber support von Chef*in und Kolleg*innen extrem wichtig, weil die Strukturen immer noch familienfeindlich sind.

Doppel-Prof-Paarhälfte mit 2 kids hier. In unserem Umfeld fallen mir mind. 5 Doppel-Prof Paare mit mind. 1 Kind ein u. keines ohne.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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