Liebe Fahrgäste, aus aktuellem Anlass wurde die (H) Messe Ost/Gruga umbenannt. Wir sind bunt unterwegs und stehen für Vielfalt und Respekt! Ende der Durchsage. 📢 vielfalt.ruhrbahn.de 🌈

Das Bildungsministerium antwortete auf unsere IFG-Anfrage zur Fördermittelaffäre zu spät. Grund: Es konnte uns das 33 MB große PDF nicht per Mail zuschicken. Im Bundestag behauptete Ministerin Stark-Watzinger gestern, das läge an unserem Server. Das ist falsch! 3 Digital-Tipps:

Do you want to work with me/ my colleagues? Then apply for our CINCH fellowships! We have senior & junior tracks. If you have projects that might overlap with my interests, feel free to reach out. For general ?s contact [email protected]

Please RT: I'm super excited that the BREAD Conference on Development Economics is coming to Asia for the first time! Hosted in December by NUS in collaboration with partner organizations. More info at breadasia2024.com. Deadline August 16. Welcome to Singapore!

Are you an economist who wants to join Bluesky if others do? Let's make it happen! Fill out this survey to commit to moving to Bluesky for at least a month starting Sep. 1, ONLY IF ENOUGH OTHERS DO THE SAME. Please RT to reach as many ppl as possible. illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dc…

🎉We're thrilled to launch our new🎉 #MSc in #HealthEconomics at @UDE! 🌍📚 - 4-semesters, English-language - dive into critical global health issues - gain top-notch research skills - join a vibrant international community Learn more👉healthecon-master.de #EconTwitter

Want to study Health Economics in English to improve your employability or don't speak German, but would like to study in Germany? I can highly recommend the M.Sc. Health Economics at CINCH @UDE and Essen as a place to study and live. The group is fantastic 📚

📢CINCH's new working paper on the "Mental Health and Labor Market Effects of Anticipating Job Loss" by Kai R. Miele #CINCH #Jobloss #Mentalhealth 👉bit.ly/cinchwp202401

Does anyone have a successful NSF grant application they'd be willing to share that uses observational data? Several wonderful people have shared proposals using field experiments, but would love to see what an equivalent one looks like with secondary data!

Calling Phd students in #healtheconomics One spot for our amazing workshop in health economics has opened up, see below for details and get in touch asap if you would like to participate! #econtwitter International Health Economics Association (IHEA) Feel free to share, thanks!

Clearly not the best at taking selfies, but a massive thank you to this group of people for making me feel so welcome during my research stay at CINCH! I will miss the lunches at Limbecker Platz and the lively discussions during Wednesday meetings -see you all soon🤗

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Financial incentives are often used to promote healthy behavior, but do they create long-lasting habits? Can they for infrequent behaviors like screenings & vaccinations? We conducted a series of randomized experiments among ~5000 employees to find out. 1/🧵

Please RT: I'm very excited to launch Malengo Inc.'s new Kenya–Germany Vocational Training Program for Refugees! We provide one year of intensive language training in Kenya, followed by 1–3 years of vocational training in Germany to become e.g. a nurse. 1/3 malengo.org

The Journal of Development Economics invites scholars to contribute to a special issue on “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”. This special issue aims to delve into the relationship between mental health and broader socioeconomic outcomes. sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

Back from a wonďerful workshop in #Minneapolis. Many thanks to the organizers Christopher Kronenberg 🇪🇺 Ezra Golberstein and to my discussant Bryce Stanley. I learnt a lot and even visited #Minnehaha Falls!

I made a starter pack of some of my favorite academic, policy, and real-time economics poasters active on Bluesky. You can follow them all with one click. "bsky.app/starter-pack/a…"

For those of you who have been debating (or may have joined a while ago and let it idle), I recommend signing back in. Aaron's starter pack reduces the cost a little bit for #Econtwitter folks. I also just posted a thread with additional suggestions.

🚨 New pub alert 🚨 Jayani Jayawardhana and I use state level mortality data from 1959-2016 to ask the question “Are #suicides underreported?” Using a dif-in-dif approach we compare coroner states to medical examiner states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…