Before Rosa Parks, there were other women who refused to give up their seats. A THREAD!

Toni talks about overconfidence in life

Why Are Rich Countries So Unhappy? @freakonomics Osea Giuntella Nick Powdthavee Sally McManus Ahmed Tohamy freakonomics.com/podcast/why-ar…

The #MidLifeCrisis is real: unexplained misery of the middle-aged in rich countries remains a serious yet under-recognised phenomenon. Ahmed Tohamy Department of Economics, Oxford, Powdthavee NTU Singapore, Oswald Warwick Economics, Redzo Mujcic WBS, McManus, Osea Giuntella Pitt Economics ow.ly/sWxs50LAVen

New research suggests a midlife crisis is no laughing matter. Data collected from around half a million people showed ‘markers of distress’ peak at the ages of 45 to 55. Redzo Mujcic from WBS explains. #TheDrum

🗣️ "Seeing the successful results of attempts to implement a four-day week might convince business and policy leaders to redistribute some of the gains in GDP in terms of our most precious commodity: our time." More from Jan-Emmanuel De Neve via The Conversation 👇 theconversation.com/four-day-week-…

Hey #econtwitter, we just updated our working paper on the gender pay gap! In 2018, the UK introduced legislation that makes firms disclose their gender pay gaps. Unusually, information is made public rather than just being shared with employees’ reps. So what happened?

New Open Access publication in Journal of Health Economics with Matteo M Galizzi, Daniel Wiesen et al.: The formation of physician altruism sciencedirect.com/science/articl….

Happy to see our paper “The formation of physician altruism” published! Thanks a lot to all coauthors for their excellent contributions. Arthur Attema Matteo M Galizzi Uniklinik Köln Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn @EcoRennes1 WiSoFakultät_UniKöln sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Time piece on #WFH benefits for four groups 1) Employees: value WFH at about 8% higher salary 2) Firms: recruitment, diversity and productivity gains 3) Families: more space with suburban living 4) Environment: 6 billion driving miles saved weekly time.com/6243148/workin…

🥂Our paper "Gender and Willingness to Compete for High Stakes" has been published in JEBO. You can read the full paper (open access) here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…. Or you can read the thread below for a summary. 👇 The paper is joint work with Martijn J. van den Assem and Thomas Buser

Striking optical illusion. It illustrates that our peripheral visual system has a lower resolution and that our brain fills the gap with predictions.

Recently accepted short paper at EJ: ‘Welfare Cuts and Crime: Evidence from the New Poor Law,’ by Eric Melander & Martina Miotto doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Eric Melander Martina Miotto @OUPEconomics Royal Economic Society #EconTwitter #OpenAccess

Before this photograph, nobody had ever seen a picture of Stonehenge from above. The photo, taken by 2nd Lt Philip Henry Sharpe in 1906 from a tethered balloon, is the earliest known aerial photograph of any archaeological monument in Britain.

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research – and a worrying unwillingness to do anything about it economist.com/science-and-te…

📢Applications open now! 📢 Join us for the 9th annual WBS Behavioural Science Summer School on 'Human Emotions & Decision Making' in July 2023! 👉Speaker list & event registration information here: bit.ly/3LfHSA3

The midlife crisis is more than just a theory. Find out about how wellbeing and happiness drops across numerous measures during midlife: buff.ly/3C460Aq Warwick Economics

Super talk by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve on wellbeing in the workplace. youtu.be/K4OWg12Xl5E

I never did any study during my research career that led to benefit to human health and happiness. I am not proud of this. I wish I had.

A survey of 400,000 workers in Australia, the UK, and Germany finds that people feel increasing levels of autonomy in their jobs until about age 40, when their subjective sense of autonomy declines. The reasons why remain a puzzle. In PNAS: ow.ly/GOZB50WnRl2