#MINTGipfel: Bettina Stark-Watzinger und Christine Streichert-Clivot diskutierten mit u. a. Ludger Woessmann, wie mehr Teilhabe durch eine verbesserte MINT-Bildung geschaffen werden kann. Michael Bröcker 💎, Chefredakteur von @Table_Media_, führte durch das moderierte Gespräch. #MINT #Bildung #Fachkräfte

Great paper on “Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom” now out in the QJE Shows the utter importance of what is taught in schools. Don't miss it! And congrats again, Benjamin, so well deserved!

Today in The Economist: Special report on Schooling’s stagnation "A mass of research shows that developing brainiacs is the most reliable and lasting way to stoke economic growth." economist.com/special-report… "Schools in rich countries … need to get back to basics"

Im Universität München Forschungsmagazin "Einsichten": Antworten auf den traurigen Smiley Was hilft den Schulen aus der Misere? Ein Gespräch über veraltete Strukturen – und Lehrkräfte, die etwas verändern wollen mit Uta Hauck-Thum Uta Hauck-Thum & Katja Scharenberg lmu-epaper.de/einsichten-202…

Excited that “Religion and Growth” will be out in the next issue of JEL! (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) Two threads on our survey: x.com/woessmann/stat… x.com/jaredcrubin/st…

🥳Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Ludger Woessmann. Unser Leiter des ifo Zentrums für Bildungsökonomik wurde von Table.Briefings zu einem der 100+10 entscheidenden Köpfe in der Bildungsszene ernannt! 🎉Zum Portrait👉 table.media/bildung/analys… ifo Bildung 👏👏👏 #Auszeichung

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨  Our paper on the impact of working memory training is now online and forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy! 🎉 Joint work w/ Eva Berger, Ernst Fehr, Daniel Schunk & Kirsten Winkel 🙏🏻 Check it out here: doi.org/10.1086/732884 Thread below 👇🏻

Welcome at ifo Institut, Cäcilia Lipowski ! And huge congrats for your successful defense!!! 👏

Policy Tensor The state of Chinese human capital is probably a bit more complex than the old numbers suggest. The problem is that they refer only to urban eastern provinces, and there is indication of HUGE discrepancies between urban and rural areas. Our most recent estimate puts average…

So great to see our little baby come out in the JEL just now 😇 Such a pleasure to work with Jared Rubin & Ludger Ludger Woessmann aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

You all should read this! I mean it

Does religion matters for economic growth? New evidence VoxEU 👉 “How, when, and where it matters is context specific, but economists disregard religion at their peril” cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… Sascha O. Becker CEPR Ludger Woessmann

Our VoxEU column summarizing our (Sascha O. Becker Ludger Woessmann) recent JEL piece “Religion and Growth” cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Bildungsbarometer: Deutsche Schulen nur Mittelmaß? dlvr.it/TD31yL