Luca Fumarco

I see some optimist in "new stable equilibrium"

Mediation analyses indicate that part of this effect operates through educational pathways: older students are less likely to experience delays and more likely to have student jobs. These factors explain some—but not all—of the relative age advantage.

Being almost one year older within a cohort increases the probability of employment one year after graduation by 3.5 p.p., and raises the likelihood of obtaining a permanent (+5.1 p.p.) or full‑time (+6.5 p.p.) contract.

Using rich Flemish survey data and a 2SLS strategy, we study whether being older than one’s classmates due to school entry rules affects the transition from school to work.

Does Month of Birth Affect Speed and Quality of Transition from School to Work? - De Economist This study estimates the impact of relative age (i.e., the difference in classmates’ ages) on both the speed and quality of individuals’ transition from education to the labour market, and investigate...

🚨new pub!🚨
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
W/ S. Baert, L. Halewyck, E. Moens, A. Vandromme
We show that small differences in age at school entry can meaningfully shape early career outcomes. A short overview 👇

The findings highlight the importance of policies and interventions that address age-related disparities in schools, such as targeted nutritional programs, peer mentoring, and flexible grouping strategies, to promote healthier outcomes for all students.

These results are robust across macro-regions and countries, although they are mitigated in countries with universal school provision.

We find that younger within-class students are more likely to be objectively and subjectively overweight, and more likely to be on a diet. Plus, they eat more sweets and soft drinks, and less fruit and vegetables. They are also less likely to eat breakfast regularly on school days.

Influence of within-class age differences on adolescents’ eating behaviors This study examines within-class age differences as a novel determinant of adolescents’ dietary behaviors, isolating it from confounders such as absol…

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We study a novel education-based determinant of adolescents' dietary behaviors: the within-class age difference, referred to as relative age. w/ @svenahartmann.bsky.social & Francesco Principe. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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And here arxiv.org/abs/2601.04253 is the introductory paper posted by @sjgreenwood.bsky.social on arxiv.org

here is the intro post by Nikhil bsky.app/profile/nkga...

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These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified.

So they ran an experiment.

Hi lovely #econsky people!

📢 Call for Papers: YEM2026 – Young Economists’ Meeting, Brno (yem.econ.muni.cz).
Submit full papers or extended abstracts by Feb 28 for the conference on May 27–29, Brno, Czech Republic.

We can’t wait to see you there!

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I love bluesky. But...I am of the opinion that science communication should happen among as most people as possible. Maybe, one could use BlueSky and X with different purposes (in-field networking and communication vs science communication to laypeople -- especially those who disagree)

🧪 Some really important data points in here to share with others.

Over the past year, Bluesky has 5 million research posts (0.25% of the total traffic).

Compared to the 11.2 million research posts on Twitter (0.000006% of the total traffic).

Bluesky is punching above its weight!

#AcademicSky

I have just uploaded my #econ5k at @econ5k.bsky.social. It was on a Jan 1st. Looking back at the time, I can only guess that vitel tonnè, insalata russa, türtlin, bagna cauda, panetün of those days did not help much 🏃

For empirical applied micro, shouldn't "data acquisition" be a core methods course — on par with experimental methods in behavioral econ? If getting the data is half the battle, why do we treat it like an afterthought? 7/7

Meanwhile, our training is skewed. We teach econometrics in excruciating detail over multiple courses. But we rarely teach how to cold-email a ministry, how to negotiate an NDA, or how to scrape when everything else fails. 6/7

When hiring and tenure committees evaluate us, they think they’re observing "research skill" via publications. But part of what they’re really seeing is "had access to privileged data." 5/7

This creates a gap: data haves vs. data have-nots. Access to shiny, clean, cool data is often restricted and mediated by networks: location, supervisor, affiliation, language, etc. 4/7

If you don't, you pour months or years into scraping, merging, cleaning, and documentation. That work is essential but barely rewarded, and it crowds out time to build more "visible" econometric skills. 3/7

The existence of great, easily accessible, pre-packaged data shapes how we spend our research time. If you have an amazing, cleaned dataset, you can pour energy into identification, modelling, and robustness. 2/7

Once, a colleague told me: "Using a particular dataset is not, by itself, a contribution." I mostly agree. But I also feel that in many papers the main contribution is access to a particular dataset — and it’s often framed that way. 1/7

ya, that's for sure, a sort of union of researchers or other coordinating system at institutional level. utopia.

Economics and economists should be in a favourable position (understanding markets and so forth) and drive the change, but, again, ours is a sort of sectarian discipline under many respects...so, here we go, paying submission fees, publication fees, OA fees, journals subscriptions, etc...

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probably the best comment I have ever received in a referee report, it opens as this: "I decided that I hate referees who seem to ask for changes just so that they look like
they did something, and thus I would just send you this big thumbs up, with two very
small comments..."

Ya un article qui fait la différence entre les chercheurs étrangers aux US et les chercheurs américains aux US?