Please, RT: FBK-IRVAPP in Trento welcomes experienced researchers at academic institutions or #research centers working on public #policy or related fields as #visiting research fellows irvapp.fbk.eu/visiting-resea… #sabbatical

"Genetic dispositions towards noncognitive skills become increasingly predictive of academic achievement. By adolescence, they explain as much variance in achievement as do genetic dispositions towards cognitive skills in TEDS - led by Dr. Margherita Malanchini & Andrea Allegrini

#IIPF2024 was a blast, three inspiring days full of high-quality talks! Humbled and grateful to the scientific committee for this award! Special thanks to Dominika Langenmayr and Daniel Reck for the incredible program and congrats also to Giuseppe Ippedico David Leite Sébastien Laffitte

Is a student or colleague of yours approaching Stata for the first time, and in need of a clear, concise, free introduction-from-zero? I was impressed by the quality "Stata Training" by Gaia Gaudenzi of Becker Friedman Institute for Economics —> gaiagaudenzi-lab.github.io/gaiagaudenzi.i…

Last week The Atlantic featured an article on the rising popularity of race/IQ science on the right (theatlantic.com/technology/arc…). The obvious point that "intelligence is not like height" sparked an unusual amount of whinging. I wrote about how this is now more true than ever. 🧵

Hi friends who study fertility! Excited to share that our team received NSF funding to create a US Human Fertility Database. We'll be generating state-specific (since 1959) & county-specific (since 1982) period & cohort fertility indicators that will be easy to access.

Excited to share that Clara will present our research on the mental health of students and professors in European Economics departments at #EEAESEM24. Don’t miss it—this is an important conversation to have. Valentin Bolotnyy🇺🇸🇺🇦 Clara Sievert EEA

Now that I no longer have the option of logging in thru a university's library, I feel non-academics' pain more fully and am *begging you all* to please post non-paywalled versions of your academic papers on your websites.

Welcome to being a PI

🚨 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 👇🏻

🚨🚨We (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy) are hiring up to two new faculty members (Assistant Professors) in #HealthPolicy! We are specifically looking for researchers interested in #populationhealth (highlighted below) -- a key growth area for us. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/152931

Fascinating data analysis from the Economist looking at 7.5m US car crashes The chart below shows likelihood of you dying in a car crash by weight of your car (grey line) and weight of other car (red line) So it’s in our own self interest to get a heavier car (slight reduction

This now out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po…

In summary: listen to the normies! Normie intuitions are often pretty good... ... and perhaps better than what some economists wrote 100 years ago!

According to this map, more Roman coins were found in India than in Puglia. 🤔

Save the date! Next Monday: Marina della Giusta presents "Trading Sex: A General Theory of Gender Norms and Sexual Exchange" at the VERB online seminar series healtheconomics.org/event/monthly-… Marina Della Giusta, EconProf@Unito, European EuHEA Manisha Shah scott cunningham DSE - Università di Bologna Università di Bologna Nicolas R. Ziebarth John Cawley

I’m very happy to introduce our new WP with Yves Zenou, Bhagya Gunawardena and Sofoklis Goulas, Ph.D.! We study the impact of being randomly assigned to a classroom with a same-gender top-performing student on short- & long-term educational outcomes. #EconTwitter Monash Business School

Paper "Harm reduction for addictive consumption: when does it hurt and when does It backfire?" with the great and only John Cawley, just accepted at JHE! Cheers!

🌟 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🌟 Join our team to research health inequalities at the end of life: 🔍 How do health trajectories at the end of life differ across socioeconomic groups? 🔍 Do resources of adult children & partners matter? Apply now! eur.nl/en/vacancies/p…

One-year post-doc position in the Economics of Crime at the University of Turin, Italy Economics UniTO. Collegio Carlo Alberto Flexible starting date, deadline in one week! PhD needed. Email me if you have any questions. bandi.mur.gov.it/bandi.php/publ…